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New comment by nothercastle in "Kids Are Discovering the Joys–and Pains–Of the Landline"

nothercastle — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 03:58:57 +0000

Works great for kids yes there is a parent app and it’s missing features like caller id and missed call notifications on phone but it works well enough to plug a gap for smart phone free kids

New comment by nothercastle in "1 in 30 – Artemis, Greatness, and Risk"

nothercastle — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 03:49:46 +0000

Yeah but why? Artemis 2 didn’t need a human crew. It was all risk for no scientific gain. Just a bit risky pr stunt

New comment by nothercastle in "Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept"

nothercastle — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:46:50 +0000

This allows all sorts of normally illegal discrimination via ai pass through. Never hire pregnant women, sick people or employees over 30 again. Target for race and religion whatever you want. Basically everything that’s scary about chinas social credit score except private run with zero accountability.

New comment by nothercastle in "Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters"

nothercastle — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:40:25 +0000

Google of today would absolutely get steamrolled by any of the search engines it used to compete against. Now granted the web of today is mostly a toxic waste pile vs more of a cluttered basement back then.

New comment by nothercastle in "The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ"

nothercastle — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:16:55 +0000

Royalty reduction is where I think Spotify is putting in all their R&D dollars

New comment by nothercastle in "The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ"

nothercastle — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:15:19 +0000

It’s never been good though

New comment by nothercastle in "The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ"

nothercastle — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:14:54 +0000

How do you find it in the modern era that’s really the problem we’re asking to solve

New comment by nothercastle in "The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ"

nothercastle — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:13:11 +0000

Spotify is very anti music. They are just selling content the music part they are very indifferent on

New comment by nothercastle in "The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ"

nothercastle — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:10:26 +0000

But how do you find a good dj and then fight Spotify to listen to their set list?

New comment by nothercastle in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

nothercastle — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:19:00 +0000

The cpu is better but the software is worse and more bloated so they fight against each other

New comment by nothercastle in "Don't Cite Unsold eBay Listing Prices"

nothercastle — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 01:35:25 +0000

Ha this summarizes marketplace problems in one sentence. All items that are still available for sale are typically priced too high. The slices of market that actually moves a minuscule 1-5% of items and they don’t hang out for long

New comment by nothercastle in "Judge scolds Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial"

nothercastle — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 02:24:59 +0000

Mission success, they got free advertising

New comment by nothercastle in "Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans"

nothercastle — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 02:40:24 +0000

I kind of get it but it reality sucks in bumper to bumper. But why cut off at 25mph? Like I can’t use it in a camera zone to maintain snail speed below the camera threshold

New comment by nothercastle in "Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans"

nothercastle — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 03:54:53 +0000

For some reason many manufacturers intentionally disable it at low speeds or won’t let it restart from stop. Super annoying and entirely unnecessary

New comment by nothercastle in "AirPods Pro 4 Could Feature Cameras to 'See Around You'"

nothercastle — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:11:51 +0000

So you want to get AirPods banned everywhere… genius

New comment by nothercastle in "Child prodigies rarely become elite performers"

nothercastle — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 04:06:51 +0000

Being smart isn’t enough need resources and need to deal with people

New comment by nothercastle in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

nothercastle — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:19:33 +0000

They never made sense to have but I’m sure someone made a huge career and got lots of bonuses for this initiative

New comment by nothercastle in "Why there's no European Google? And why it is a good thing"

nothercastle — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:01:48 +0000

We need a Google replacement that’s actually regulated. Euro Google is the only way for that to happen

New comment by nothercastle in "RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives"

nothercastle — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:58:35 +0000

Just buy a MacBook. The value is far And above comparable windows computers

New comment by nothercastle in "The hunt for a stolen Jackson Pollock"

nothercastle — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 03:04:40 +0000

Seems like a huge waste of resources hunting down rich peoples art for little gain