Hacker News: conception

New comment by conception in "Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta)"

conception — Thu, 21 May 2026 07:52:12 +0000

I would say in this case dry is preferred. It’s a niche thing. Let it be niche :) we need less common denominator content in the world.

New comment by conception in "OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon"

conception — Thu, 21 May 2026 06:30:11 +0000

I can’t say I’ve tried this but the thought just came to me that generating such trades would be trivial to do monthly now.

New comment by conception in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

conception — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:13:47 +0000

Livelihoods and lives.

New comment by conception in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

conception — Tue, 19 May 2026 05:23:15 +0000

Claude in Office was a tipping point for nontechnical folks around me. Everyone’s slides decks are immaculate now. Finance isn’t needing nearly as much BI help. It’s pretty impressive.

New comment by conception in "Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS"

conception — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:58:44 +0000

Cog is a dated but pretty good winamp clone that supports mod and s3m like winamp did. Someone should bring that one back to life instead.

New comment by conception in "The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born"

conception — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:39:50 +0000

You can keep up even if you’re behind. If someone is running a race and you’re constantly two seconds behind their time, you are steps behind but keeping up.

New comment by conception in "Scorched Earth 2000 – Web"

conception — Thu, 14 May 2026 03:24:55 +0000

I feel like Mario 64 was another one of those and AAA never really left Doom or Mario 64.

New comment by conception in "Making the news available at no cost is a victory"

conception — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:18:18 +0000

Patreon is probably the closest successful model of this. A indie newspaper could maybe launch via it. That’s basically newsletters today in a way.

New comment by conception in "Intercom changes name to Fin"

conception — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:10:16 +0000

This is a weird comment as it’s the name of their AI virtual assistant. It’s the face of Intercom.

New comment by conception in "Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing"

conception — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:37:12 +0000

Backup data that’s important to you.

New comment by conception in "Making the news available at no cost is a victory"

conception — Wed, 13 May 2026 21:45:31 +0000

I never saw either as a purchase option on any major newspaper or site. It’s a chicken and egg problem. You need to be large enough to be able to get big name partners on board to seed the network.

Edit: in reality this already exists. Amazon/Apple Pay/Google Play already have reloadable gift cards/accounts. Just like using it on the web, click yes to pay ten cents with whatever. The accounts can still be used to buy whatever. Done. Just have to gate it to gift cards accounts.

New comment by conception in "MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble"

conception — Wed, 13 May 2026 21:38:13 +0000

I think the only gap I’ve come across is that trying to drive two monitors through a display link dock it doesn’t really have the GPU to not have that be laggy.

New comment by conception in "Making the news available at no cost is a victory"

conception — Wed, 13 May 2026 20:45:24 +0000

This is a different model though. This is a single site doing micro transactions which I agree doesn’t work. But a global/general one doesn’t exist and probably would be fine. It would have the same friction as adding moves on a phone game or whatever and reload minimums would handle the fees.

New comment by conception in "Making the news available at no cost is a victory"

conception — Wed, 13 May 2026 20:04:27 +0000

It’s unfortunate we haven’t solved the micro-payment problem. Crypto was an obvious solution but anything would require a hefty network effect. But imagine like a starbucks card or whatever you have your micropayment card, and it auto reloads when it hits zero with 20 bucks or whatever. When you visit the times, a modal pops up, “This article costs $0.02. Read it? y/n or $1 for a day pass”. Sure pirates will get around it but they already do. Just make it grandma easy and you’re done. It’s just the money probably isn’t good enough for VC dollars to roll something out with enough big players to jump in.

New comment by conception in "SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites"

conception — Wed, 13 May 2026 07:23:04 +0000

I think we agree but 300 seems too high to me. Maybe 250.

New comment by conception in "EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids"

conception — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:53:17 +0000

Lol. It’s the EU so CDA 230 doesn’t apply either. But I appreciate your position of wisdom.

New comment by conception in "Googlebook"

conception — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:29:00 +0000

There’s no way this scenario doesn’t get wall gardened off in some sort of way - as the AI SEO market will decimate current AI results in the next 3 to 6 months for sure. The slop is already making organic product hunting impossible.

New comment by conception in "EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids"

conception — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:07:53 +0000

This is pretty easy to solve. If you present data by algorithm, you are no longer an impartial common carrier and are liable for the content you present. If the user decides you don’t, ala social media 1.0.

New comment by conception in "SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites"

conception — Mon, 11 May 2026 04:12:48 +0000

I like that “not being able to use space for 25 years or more” is not a concern.

New comment by conception in "Why modern parents feel more sleep deprived than our ancestors did"

conception — Mon, 11 May 2026 00:05:21 +0000

Historically, the village 100% changed diaper, feed your children, nursed and generally helped out. Aunts, cousins, parents, friends all pitched in in the community to care for children.