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Elon Musk is currently worth more than the next 5 richest people combined

forbes.com
6 points·by iamben·24 days ago·6 comments

Pornhub to become accessible again for some UK users

bbc.co.uk
17 points·by iamben·2 months ago·5 comments

Trump's World Liberty Financial Sues Billionaire Justin Sun for Defamation

forbes.com
5 points·by iamben·2 months ago·0 comments

Fifth Element Star Milla Jovovich Reveals AI Memory Tool MemPalace

decrypt.co
9 points·by iamben·3 months ago·3 comments

A Mysterious Numbers Station Is Broadcasting Through the Iran War

wired.com
5 points·by iamben·4 months ago·2 comments

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1 points·by iamben·4 months ago·0 comments

1Password Raising Prices ~33%

85 points·by iamben·5 months ago·4 comments

eBay buys Depop for $1.2B in effort to lure younger shoppers

theguardian.com
13 points·by iamben·5 months ago·4 comments

Trump directs US govt to release files on 'alien and extraterrestrial life'

news.sky.com
5 points·by iamben·5 months ago·1 comments

Instagram breaks silence on mysterious password reset emails

indy100.com
2 points·by iamben·6 months ago·1 comments

Dina Powell McCormick Joins Meta as President and Vice Chairman

about.fb.com
10 points·by iamben·6 months ago·3 comments

An Instagram data breach reportedly exposed the personal info of 17.5M users

engadget.com
2 points·by iamben·6 months ago·0 comments

Crypto users forced to share account details with tax officials

bbc.co.uk
6 points·by iamben·6 months ago·1 comments

The great porn panic: Causal arguments rest on pseudo-science

unherd.com
3 points·by iamben·7 months ago·1 comments

Letterboxd Video Store (a curated rental platform)

letterboxd.com
3 points·by iamben·8 months ago·0 comments

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1 points·by iamben·8 months ago·0 comments

$10k Card Shufflers Hit the Spotlight After NBA Poker Scandal

bloomberg.com
3 points·by iamben·9 months ago·1 comments

Has your iPhone typing accuracy been getting worse? This video may vindicate you

phonearena.com
5 points·by iamben·9 months ago·2 comments

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17 points·by iamben·9 months ago·0 comments

Your nose gets colder when you're stressed. These thermal images show the change

bbc.co.uk
3 points·by iamben·9 months ago·0 comments

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iamben
·last month·discuss
Go to a lot of smaller shows, been using DICE for a long time - I think they dominate the smaller venues (in the UK at least). They've made tickets as easy as Amazon made ecom.

Alerts when for when tickets go on sale, (almost one click!) buy for friends and share, bans if you sell over face value, and (for a lot of places) you can return tickets to the pool to resell if you can't go (so there's often last minute waitlist tickets). It's all super smooth and a genuinely delightful experience.

Rooting for them too!
iamben
·2 months ago·discuss
Maybe just me, but two things -

1. You don't care about X until you do. Like, you can go for years without worrying cholesterol. And then you can have a reason to care about it and all of a sudden you do. The reason can come from something that forces your hand or just because you take an interest in a subject.

2. Altruism. Think less about care and more just doing without expecting anything back. People notice, especially with selfless conversation.
iamben
·4 months ago·discuss
https://archive.is/vIYTP

See also: https://priyom.org/number-stations/other/v32
iamben
·7 months ago·discuss
I'm interested. How does it differ from using:

[email protected] or [email protected]

...to figure out where the spam originated?
iamben
·7 months ago·discuss
https://archive.is/3uWV9
iamben
·8 months ago·discuss
To be fair, I think the fractured rights thing is a big thing a well. I can subscribe to one music service - Spotify, Amazon, Apple, Tidal - and pretty much every new release is available on all of them (or risk a terrible opening week/zero buzz if you go for the 'exclusive' - but ever then, available a week or so later).

The movie/TV companies sell their show to the SVOD platform that offers the most in the territory. Or it's developed by the service themselves. So if you have to subscribe to a handful of services to watch everything your friends recommend.

Most of us can afford one music service. If you're forced into 5 streaming services a lot of people will just pirate. And even for those that do pay - the "we'll show this in the UK a week later than the US" means unless you pirate it, it's spoiled on social media within a few days.
iamben
·9 months ago·discuss
https://archive.is/iWB3j
iamben
·10 months ago·discuss
"Turns your Slack & Email into living task list"

I think you need an 'a' in there? Or an 's' at the end? I'd also explain that ever so slightly more - something like:

"Turns your Slack & Email into a living task list. Weesp is an AI bot that works inside your existing Slack and Email apps to make sure you get things done."

Something like that. Set up the premise for the rest of the page without me scrolling, basically.

Congrats on the launch!
iamben
·10 months ago·discuss
This is great fun, congrats!

2 small requests that (I think) would help with the UX: consider moving (or duplicating) the play button - maybe directly in the middle below the editor, or on that panel itself. It took me a few confusing seconds to realise where it was. Also, could you consider making each fourth (or first) column a very slightly lighter grey? So if I want my kick on 1, 3, 10 and 11 it's really easy to see where to click without counting?
iamben
·10 months ago·discuss
Without hijacking the thread, may I ask what you took for better LDL? Always interested in heart health! Thanks!
iamben
·10 months ago·discuss
If you're near any of the cities they run events in, I highly recommend https://pitchblackplayback.com/

There's something deeply connecting (and often very moving) about listening to a record and having your attention forced on it. So much that I usually start by thinking "I hope they turn it up," and by the end, when it has your sole focus, it's almost deafening.
iamben
·2 years ago·discuss
I think it's similar to a well shared meme, or a self help book. Sometimes something (simple/banal(!)) just encapsulates the way a lot of people are thinking or feeling but haven't managed to verbalise. You read it and think "huh, that's very true," come back to HN and vote it up. The fact other people are doing the same is a nice justification that you're not alone in feeling that way, particularly in the midst of a crowd of high achievers.
iamben
·4 years ago·discuss
I wear a 39mm watch as my daily now. I agree - fantastic size!
iamben
·4 years ago·discuss
Agree with you so much. It still feels absolutely magical wearing one. The SKX007 was my first automatic watch and I wore it daily for 10 years. Incredible thing.
iamben
·6 years ago·discuss
Standby.

I'd get a week (at a push?) out of my phone at university in the late 90s/early 00s. I don't think 3-5 days was at all unreasonable back then - for me that would be multiple text messages, a few games of snake, and a handful of calls a day. I get a day (at very best) out of my phone now if I don't touch it at all.
iamben
·8 years ago·discuss
I feel like Facebook is getting more and more desperate.

There have been times I've loved it, but in the last year or two I've dialled back my usage to almost nothing. Now I get regular emails / (and when I log in a whole load of) red dot notifications - both things that used to be alerts about just _ME_ - that say things like "[friend name] just posted".

With an undeletable app, I wonder how far away we are from someone embedding Facebook notifications in the OS?
iamben
·8 years ago·discuss
Birth of the iPhone?! I remember using Shazam on my dumbphone driving home from university. That must have been 2002/3. Blew my mind. Pretty incredible really. Good for them!