Vote for politicians that want to address monopolies in big tech, so someday we have real alternatives to Apple and Google that I can consider switching to.
Are you confused about the stock market? I know I am. I'm a data nerd who is putting together free analytics for people who want to track and understand what's going on in financial markets.
I'd love to have some beta testers if any HN readers are interested in this.
do you feel like the 20% of your submissions that go to the top are your best submissions?
for me, my submissions that get attention are not my best submissions, IMO.
i can spend a long time on a really thoughtful idea or product, and get zero clicks from a hacker news submission, whereas sharing a poorly researched press article with a clickbaity headline goes to the front page.
it's subjective, but i think most would agree that "best" doesn't mean "requires a voting ring to get actual consideration" or "requires a super-clickbaity title" (like the title of this post)
Imagine if Hacker News was whitelisted to a set of people you trust & respect (so only their votes count), and it queued up the top links so you don't miss anything, even if you take a day or two off. That's what we're trying to build.
Isn't shopping/consumerism deeply entwined with a distorted notion of the "self" ? I am what I have, what I wear, where I fall on the status-totempole.
An alternative would be a community-outlook. I am part of a greater whole. I don't really own anything. We are living a story, together.
Have you read the book "Stand Firm" ? It was a best-seller in Denmark, with the idea that our new religion is "find yourself inside." The author advises that most who look inside won't find anything, and that we should look outward instead.
Ultimately, the author is making a case for a modern version of Stoicism.
Tom and I decided that the way we consume information on the internet is broken – what we're seeing is being determined by algorithms we don't understand, and anonymous curators we don't know. We wanted to change that; we wanted to choose who puts ideas in front of us. So we built Mendo!
It's an iOS app, but if you don't have iOS, look for the "Get the digest" link in the lower right, and you can still signup for a daily email digest of the things being shared by people you follow.
Today we use a Twitter integration to get people started, but our plan is to open up to everyone soon.
sometimes qualitative information precedes quantitative. that's why speculative prices move ahead of fundamentals. it's definitely subjective, but that doesn't mean it might not be valuable or indicative of an noteworthy change.
(this was meant to be snarky. i'm just a developer with a calendar app that requests location data to humbly provide location place recommendations... no monetization, no sharing of this data, and it's essential to being able to fill out the "location" field accurately. this constant stream of negative attacks against apps not built by FAANG is destroying trust in independent apps, due to the actions of a few bad actors. ironically, this is just driving people back to a handful of monopolies who monetize user data in-house. the winner here is google (and, let's be honest, they are probably already doing something with the location data we're sending them to get the nearest place ids).)