Readit Newsabhayhegde commented on Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf] nokia-apple-iphone-was-la... · Posted by u/late
Nokia correctly predicted that iPhone would stand for "coolness" factor. It's amazing how Apple carried that brand since its inception and precisely what allows it to levy "Apple tax".
The execs even noted that the downside of iPhone would be non-removable battery. It is commendable that Apple changed the industry standard to something worse without even being in the top 10 in 2008.
MinimalAction commented on I deleted my social media accounts asylumsquare.com/backstag... · Posted by u/joemanaco
I'm just not reading any of it - not interested. SM addiction is so 2015. I have technical accounts to be able to search for something (e.g. while training loras) or to watch without annoying popups when someone links me to it.
This dramatic deletion is overreaction, solve the underlying problem instead.
Rather than scrolling instagram and tiktok, visit /news and /newest, and then /ask, /show. If nothing interesting there, refresh the /newest until there is. You can be first in upvoting or commenting on it, and can get a good bump to your score if you say something that sounds smart before it hits the frontpage. Then you can re-read the quality content you produced and count how much is left to the round number, like it's only 40 to 9700, only 340 to 10000, etc. Much healthier than just scrolling endlessly and sharing memes.
While I agree that HN usually gathers much interesting content, I don't understand why getting more karma on HN matters anyway. Chasing points anywhere isn't healthy by the way. Say something interesting because it is interesting and sparks a conversation and not for the sake of saying something.
abhayhegde commented on A day in the life of a prolific voice phishing crew krebsonsecurity.com/2025/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
I have been receiving various spam texts under the pretext of USPS has lost my mails and would like to reaffirm my address to them. The scammers are pretty smart to build an identical looking to site USPS (pretty easy if they copy CSS but change the endpoint for form submissions). Those with the keenest eyes and a bit of commonsense can dodge these types of phishing.
abhayhegde commented on Fixing America's elevators is becoming a heavy lift axios.com/2025/01/05/elev... · Posted by u/ecliptik
The tech isn’t too hard.
Getting billions across many different cultures to trust you with money is hard.
They have numerous competitors, from American Express to PayPal. Even crypto could be a competitor. But they have trust problems, are too expensive, or provide no benefit to the purchasers.
Credit cards in general are hard to disrupt as they pay a substantial kickback to the people who would otherwise be adopters of a new technology.
As a high income, technologically savvy, globally mobile person, I am who a payment company would need to flip to drive broad global payment adoption. Unfortunately for them, credit cards are enormously valuable to me as is due to points and perks.
In other words, excessive regulation makes the trustworthiness hard.
abhayhegde commented on Engineer eats efficiently for $2.50 a day (2016) futureboy.us/blog/twofift... · Posted by u/hwayne
$3.37 per CPI Inflation Calculator, though it may be even higher given food has increased above the average.
Sure, but I'm not inclined to believe that number on its own. Practically, even the cheapest grocer like Aldi could turn out to be expensive than the quoted $3.37.
abhayhegde commented on Fixing America's elevators is becoming a heavy lift axios.com/2025/01/05/elev... · Posted by u/ecliptik
> Duopoly exists due to excessive regulation.
Or some things are simply hard.
Counterpoint: VISA and Mastercard.
abhayhegde commented on Engineer eats efficiently for $2.50 a day (2016) futureboy.us/blog/twofift... · Posted by u/hwayne
(2015) At the time (no comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9316050
Considering this is from 2015, I wonder how much does inflation bring $2.5 a day to.
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