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New comment by kn0where in "The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok"

kn0where — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:05:03 +0000

Specifically, VHS had both longer recording times and cheaper VCRs (due to Matsushita’s liberal licensing) than Betamax did. Beta only had slightly better picture quality if you were willing to sacrifice recording length per tape. Most Betamax users adopted the βII format which lowered picture quality to VHS levels in order to squeeze more recording time onto the tape. At that point Betamax’s only advantage was a slightly more compact cassette.

Also to correct another common myth, porn was widely available on both formats and was not the cause of VHS’s success over Betamax.

Myrient Is Shutting Down

kn0where — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:19:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2026/02/this-is-what-ai-and-greed-does-video-game-preservation-service-myrient-is-shutting-down

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47184400

Points: 7

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New comment by kn0where in "27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates"

kn0where — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 06:55:26 +0000

iBook G4, not G3, but yes.

New comment by kn0where in "Rivian R2: Electric Mid-Size SUV"

kn0where — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 22:45:11 +0000

Yes, weight alone is not that important for fuel economy at highway speeds. Aerodynamic efficiency of a vehicle is determined by the cross section area + drag coefficient. A 90s Honda Civic has a worse drag coefficient but a vastly smaller cross section than the Rivian, so it needs to move less air out of the way to drive forward. Smaller EVs can go farther with smaller batteries, but the American consumer has decided for one reason or another that cars must be tall, and therefore less aerodynamically efficient.

New comment by kn0where in "Recovering videos from my Sony camera that I stupidly deleted"

kn0where — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 20:41:21 +0000

Considering the amount of personal data on people’s phones, plus how commonly people lose them in public, I would say that encryption by default is unambiguously a good thing, and it’s incredible that it took Google until Android 10.

New comment by kn0where in "Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout"

kn0where — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 06:59:05 +0000

Google can be an excellent place to work, but most of the people working there are not contributing to the company’s profits. Whether or not you think that still has value, leadership is trying to “optimize” by squeezing everyone harder and demanding they show productivity gains using AI. Some teams will adapt and keep being a nice team to work on, but many employees are getting “optimized” out of the company and replaced with vendorization and consultants.

New comment by kn0where in "Google Ends Support for Lynx Browser"

kn0where — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 09:29:12 +0000

A lot of those individual googlers are longtimers who are now leaving after 15, 20 years. Google has been offering voluntary exit packages this year and I suspect the kind of people who would value Google.com working in Lynx are also the type who have made plenty of money and are disillusioned by what the company has become.

New comment by kn0where in "‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]"

kn0where — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 06:51:35 +0000

My concern is the politicians are suddenly flip flopping because they realize in the short term Israel is close to exterminating the entire population of Gaza. Perhaps they will let a pittance of food aid through to prolong the genocide so Netanyahu can stay in power. I have little confidence in US leadership actually having a change of heart now.

New comment by kn0where in "‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]"

kn0where — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 23:12:28 +0000

It’s fine to accept your mom or your neighbor changing their mind, but I think we should be skeptical of politicians changing their mind and consider what hidden, calculated motives they may have for changing it now, when they had plenty of information to reach the same conclusion over a year ago.

New comment by kn0where in "Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral"

kn0where — Fri, 02 May 2025 02:41:45 +0000

The return of Claris!

New comment by kn0where in "Why did Windows 7 log on slower for months if you had a solid color background?"

kn0where — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 05:58:53 +0000

Similar with google docs, if you share a link to a doc, even if the doc is restricted access, anyone can see the thumbnail icon with the contents of page 1.

New comment by kn0where in "Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency"

kn0where — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 10:37:34 +0000

Because any choice in a two party system is stupid to some degree, for most people. Most people’s beliefs don’t all line up exactly with one political party or the other. So every election is a compromise: which of your values must you prioritize? A whole lot of Americans aren’t doing well economically, they haven’t been doing well for decades, and under Biden they saw everything get more expensive. So they don’t like either side, and if you can convince them to vote, it’s only going to be for change. Kamala didn’t portray any change from Biden, so she lost.

New comment by kn0where in "OpenAI as we knew it is dead"

kn0where — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 06:06:59 +0000

And it works when leaders aren’t completely bought and paid for.

New comment by kn0where in "Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses"

kn0where — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 05:46:03 +0000

Plenty of US cities and towns have regulations prohibiting billboards.

New comment by kn0where in "FCC votes to limit prison telecom charges"

kn0where — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 18:28:07 +0000

So if you went to prison for 7 years, and your conviction wasn’t overturned but you served your time, it’s somehow ok for the government to send you a bill for $50 * 365 * 7 = $127750? When convicted felons usually struggle to find better than minimum wage jobs due to their records? What a perversion of “justice”. And if you get out early for good behavior or due to prison overcrowding (again, your sentence was valid) you still get charged for the full 7 years? How is that morally reasonable?

New comment by kn0where in "Comparing the Framework Laptop with the MacBook Air M2: A Detailed Review"

kn0where — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 03:39:51 +0000

The Framework touchpad is unfortunately a lot worse than the haptic touchpads on MacBooks. The click is just a little too mushy, and requires too much force as you click higher up the trackpad. I think there are finally some PC laptops with haptic touchpads, so if Framework starts offering one I’d definitely upgrade my FW13.

New comment by kn0where in "Sequoia is both more and less generous to Intel Macs, depending on the model"

kn0where — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 17:55:17 +0000

OCLP is great, but not parent-proof. I had to walk my mom over the phone through manually updating OCLP after she installed a macOS update without running the patcher first, which resulted in a machine with no working wifi. (OCLP did pop up a dialog letting her know she should update it, but she closed it without reading it as users typically do when given an unexpected random dialog)

New comment by kn0where in "The difference between Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads"

kn0where — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 03:40:47 +0000

Genuine question: is there any technological/scaling problem with Mastodon that actually needs solving, and that the AT protocol would fix? What reason is there to split different parts of their backend tech stack between different “operators” with different policies? Does this separation of concerns improve the performance (or other desirable attribute) of the decentralized network versus Mastodon’s approach?

New comment by kn0where in "NoTunes is a macOS application that will prevent Apple Music from launching"

kn0where — Tue, 21 May 2024 16:45:26 +0000

Yes, I had that issue too (years ago, when they first allowed deleting the Music app). I think it might not be a problem in newer cars, but my car radio only had iPod support, not iPhone, and it seemingly needed at least one song in the music library for the connectivity to work at all.

I actually bought this 10 minute long silent song on iTunes at the time, so my phone wouldn’t automatically play Weezer’s “Across the Sea” every time I connected my phone to the car: https://music.apple.com/us/album/a-a-a-a-a-very-good-song-si...

New comment by kn0where in "Melinda Gates Resigns from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation"

kn0where — Mon, 13 May 2024 20:02:27 +0000

Bill met with Epstein on multiple occasions, after Epstein already had a conviction, and Melinda has cited this as a contributing factor to the divorce: https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/03/melinda-gates-jeffr...