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For those questioning viability, there's a startup called Starcloud https://www.starcloud.com/ with a public whitepaper explaining a bit their hardware and economics https://www.starcloud.com/wp. They've already had one small proof of concept launched. Not trying to promote, I just heard about them on the ycomb podcast

Same. The product page strategically has zero images of a hand holding it folded. https://www.apple.com/iphone-duo/

After looking one up... https://www.engadget.com/img/gallery/apple-iphone-duo-announ... It looks awkward to hold.

Curious how much replacement heads will cost if they're going to stick an RFID in every single one. Surely there's a cheaper solution to track when you switched heads.

This got a huge eyeroll from me. Very misleading product name.

I kept skimming to find what the "device" would be but it turns out there is no device. I still have to subscribe to their services and it's just cloud infrastructure with transparent hardware. Also, it sounds like _their_ orchestrator decides what to escalate to the cloud.

Was excited for a moment for a plug and play privacy focused hardware running an agent. Would have been interesting since Apple just announced new Mac Minis today.

This is neat. It's like a framework and language in one. Congrats on the launch! The tooling for it feels quite novel. I get the allure of having zero dependencies but... the reason why I have dependencies in the first place is because the ecosystem provides tons of functionality out of the box. Do you want the language/framework to provide all the functionality?

The landing page's main value prop is removing the dependency on JS. Thing is... I don't hate JS. Typescript has quite a lot of fans.

I feel like you should demonstrate performance metrics or app size or just some other value prop other than hating on Javascript.

Thank you for making this. Brings me back to Sid Meier's Pirates.

For some reason you are being downvoted but I wanted to echo your sentiment. As someone who tries to switch things up for every next task, the productivity of Claude Max is worth every penny.

And I actually read the output to fix what I don't like and ever since Opus 4.5, I've had to less and less. 4.6 had issues at the beginning but that's because you have to manually make sure you change the effort level.

How can you virtuously reminisce about the heydays of the open internet and then vaguely allude to gatekeeping the internet?

I'm sick and tired of seeing similar headlines and articles that reference the MIT report. It is incredible lazy journalism and borderline click bait.

The MIT report was created by project NANDA, a very pro-AI group. Read about them here: https://nanda.media.mit.edu/

The original Fortune article here: https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generat... cites specifically generative AI pilot programs.

From the article: "But for 95% of companies in the dataset, generative AI implementation is falling short. The core issue? Not the quality of the AI models, but the “learning gap” for both tools and organizations. While executives often blame regulation or model performance, MIT’s research points to flawed enterprise integration."

You could have a pile of cash and 95% of companies will fail to see zero return because they don't know how to pick up the money.

According to Genius, some fans believe the lyrics to reference when he toured in the Philippines and flew to Japan after. https://genius.com/14147648

The timing of the song being released in 2018 lines up.

Same, any existing study I've read follows abuse-level or Chronic usage. Would love to know affects of recreational usage.

I'd imagine such a study would be quite difficult because so many things could affect your results: sleep, diet, age, alcohol, covid, etc.

I know nothing about this but I feel like the technology exists to scan your brain before and after to see neuron damage. I just want to know if a single use causes permanent brain damage and to what extent.

Many find it hard to understand which is why affiliate networks create studies, write articles, and post reports with results, similar to the one I posted. Retailers don't go in blind. They test partnerships and continue only if there are positive results.

Yes, many retailers are struggling. Perhaps affiliate links and cash back are not the best way, but it's not the only way that retailers try to be successful.

If you were a suit working at a retailer with budget to spend with the goal of getting a return on investment, maybe you would personally avoid spending the money on affiliate links. But get this, the TOP, BIG, SUCCESSFUL retailers all have data showing that the affiliate system makes the numbers go up. Even if they don't understand the system, they just care about the numbers.

Yes, now this I wholeheartedly agree. The system itself is not right and you can definitely credit MegaLag to drawing industry-wide attention to this issue.

People are hating the player when really the majority of the outrage should be pointed towards hating the game.

Actually if you check wayback they've been telling us straight up since 2016 they make money off of commissions. https://web.archive.org/web/20180125135216/http://help.joinh...

Affiliate attribution wasn't explained in full but MegaLag with all his research still didn't accurately explain it since it's pretty complex. The user doesn't need to know this.

Doesn't make sense to explain all the nuts and bolts if it works the same way any other coupon website would.

That's fair.

But consider a retailer who has budget to spend with the goal of increasing sales. Here's a study one of the largest affiliate networks did on shopping extensions - https://junction.cj.com/article/cj-demystifies-shopping-brow...

It boils down to making numbers go up. Maybe for you, Honey doesn't do much. But add Honey to the picture, and retailers are seeing an increase in sales and a decrease in cart abandonment. So you choose to partner with a coupon company and pay them commission and for some percentage of users, seeing that popup pushed them over the edge to make the purchase.

In the attribution chain, when you compare an initial referral vs. the coupon app, it's fair to say that the initial referral has more impact. So maybe you want the initial referral to take most or all of the credit. But what about when there's no referral? Doesn't the coupon app deserve to be a part of the chain if it is ultimately driving positive return?

YouTubers have no idea how much money they are losing due to last click attribution. They're mad that it could be a lot but in reality it is more likely very little.

MegaLag posted a VPN example, which was an edge case, but it was enough to spark outrage. Ironically, there are many YouTubers who have only Amazon affiliate links which Honey never touches.

Many YouTubers that Honey sponsored also didn't have conflicting affiliate links at the time of promotion.

Also, if you work with affiliate links, you should probably know how they work. IMO it'd be condescending if Honey tried to explain to every YouTuber how last click attribution worked.

What do you feel like the lie was?

Sure, and in those cases those retailers may choose not to partner with Honey. However, Honey maintains an active partnership with quite a lot of happy retailers, even after PayPal took over.

The article I linked supports this but to put it simply, Honey delivers a return on ad spend. Your first point is true, but Honey and other extensions practice "stand down" where if detected, they'll not affiliate tag if there's one already there. It's not a perfect system and there are edge cases to prove the system is not perfect. It's ultimately up to the retailer to decide whether or not to partner with Honey. The data in the report shows that users with Honey have lower cart abandonment and higher purchase rate. Looking at the numbers, retailers like these two things so they choose to partner. Automatically applying coupons can decrease margin, but why have coupons at all? Retailers take this into account when putting out coupons. Users who use Honey are typically users who would look for a coupon elsewhere. Retailers would rather the user not leave their website. Honey keeps users on the checkout page.

In terms of being "great business partners". The affiliate space like other industries requires a team of people on the retailer side and Honey's side talking to each other and establishing a relationship. Here is a random article I just Google'd that sheds a bit of light about that relationship. https://www.advertisepurple.com/affiliate-spotlight-a-conver...

Retailers have budget to spend and have that spend deliver a return. It's just a simple return on investment. CJ, one of the biggest affiliate companies even encourages working with shopping extensions. https://junction.cj.com/cj-value-of-browser-extension-study-...

This is not true. In the affiliate marketing space, Honey won many awards for being great business partners. Yes, there are examples of retailers being impacted when Honey picked up on a coupon that was not supposed to be public, but Honey always cooperated at removing such codes whether you partnered with them or not.

What is he blatantly ignoring? He's actually in a comment right above directly addressing mitigating last-click with stand-down policies.

Sounds like you are taking MegaLags’ video without a grain of salt.

Honey does not touch Amazon affiliate links (you can test this) and yet many enraged influencers just use Amazon affiliate links.

Did you ever test for yourself to see that Honey was not finding you the best coupon? You can test this too. There’s a reason the second video is taking so long.

Yes, some codes are requested to be removed by merchants. You’ll find that these typically are of the friends and family variety with steep discounts. In my experience, if the coupon is public, Honey will try to use it.

Everything I've seen from Roblox just seems so rough across the board. Poor UI, poor graphics, poor gameplay. There's a sense of freedom that is quite refreshing kind of like Gary's mod. I'm just so surprised that with such high adoption, none of the money is going into make anything remotely polished.

Most useful would be to browse Discord in the web view and summarize all the noisy chats

Would also be cool to have the extension click into every link of search results and spit out an aggregate of the results

Good article, but I'm going to hard disagree on two-way data-binding. At scale, you're asking for a very bad time.

This is kind of a shame. I was hoping from the headline that it would be a PSP successor. Instead, they're coming out with something already accomplished by this: https://playbackbone.com/playstation I own this and it sucks because the connection always cuts out. I'm considering feeding a direct ethernet cable to my PS5 so that it could hopefully work? But improving your home network is a lot to ask of consumers IMO

If this gets added to Google Docs and made free for public, English teachers are going to have a hard time knowing if their students wrote anything

For the longest time I've wanted to join Google just so I could commit code that says

if (center 50% of screen)

   force show the street name

Maybe, but its articles have been replacing my search results.