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> I'm scratching my head about why they would venture into an entirely different field like this

Never underestimate the audacity of a software engineer with a new toy

> It's like if LeBron announced he was switching to bowling and was going to revolutionize the sport, then rolled a gutter ball.

Well, if you replace LeBron with Jordan, and Bowling with Baseball ..

oliyoungon Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired

Brave of you to assume they had anyone running infosec by the sounds of it

oliyoungon 5 years of social media history required to enter the US

and I wonder why I can get flights to the US from Australia at historically low prices?

oliyoungon Brain scans reveal 3 ADHD subtypes

"Glad I wasn't just a weird, overly sensitive kid."

Oh we are, just we have neurological reasons for it :D

oliyoungon Books are not too expensive

> At some point you just have to move to Ebooks.

This is a parallel story for me to vinyl / streaming for music

There are some books and albums I want as physical artefacts, their aesthetic and tactile presence in my world means something more than just the content, you're right, the smell, the art, their feel

Then there are some that are _just_ content, they get streamed and bought as ebooks for just convienence and consumption

oliyoungon Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen

It's a very strange cultural thing too, Australians (and I presume other Commonwealth countries) default to paracetamol (acetaminophen) before ibuprofen

Paracetemol has always been seen as first thing you'd take for pain relief, and you'd "step up" ibuprofen as an escalation, but that might more to do with marketing of Panadol (paracetemol) vs Nurofen (ibuprofen).

We'd look on at the US where you were taking Advil like candy in confusion.

One great thing you learn as a parent, you can alternate acetaminophen and ibuprofen. Both of them are recommended every four hours, but you can stagger one by two hours to maintain consistency of pain-relief taking ibuprofen then paracetemol two hours later

oliyoungon SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

Cursor ($60b) being valued the same as Twitter ($51b inflation adjusted) is _willlld_

oliyoungon Zindex – Diagram Infrastructure for Agents

I get the want to define architectural relationships as a node & edge structure rather than just purely diagrams, which is an argument for D2 over Mermaid

but why not just use https://github.com/jsongraph?

oliyoungon Japanese man sentenced to prison for posting spoilers

Yeah, this seems more like a copyright issue than a "spoilers" issue

oliyoungon Figma's woes compound with Claude Design

But then that furthers the argument that Figma is dead-in-the-water

These are a design communication tools, in the same way FrontPage and Dreamweaver back in the day - they enable a designer to communicate intent to create solutions to UX design problems in a way that can be understood by downstream production.

Using Figma doesn't immediately make something aesthetic or useful, its just a tool. Claude Design enables the same thing, it enables someone to communicate design intent, with a much lower bar.

These AI tools like Loveable just do more of the groundwork than Figma does

oliyoungon All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027

From the article

> Replacement batteries for any model will have to remain available to users for at least five years after the last unit of the product is placed on the market, the regulation also states.

oliyoungon Lunar Flyby

I think they mean "consumer" or "off the shelf" as opposed to "custom build for the mission", we've seen iPhone and GoPro photos

oliyoungon Goodbye to Sora

So what died first? The Disney deal or the Sora app

oliyoungon Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls

> better off building a war chest and pulling a Valve

They tried, it's called the Epic Game Store

oliyoungon Can I hear a difference between MP3s and uncompressed audio?

As the author points out, it's not really a "MP3 vs Uncompressed" conversation, it's a "which encoder are you using" conversation ...

because any of us from the late 90s/early 2000s who used the early versions of LAME will tell you in a second how easy it was to pick MP3 over raw, even at 320kb/s

oliyoungon AirPods Max 2

> what happens at a company like Apple that leads them to not cancel this product and come up with something totally new

I'm in the suburbs of a middling Australian city, nothing special and not in particularly high socioeconomic areas

There is at least two people per bus wearing them (or at least very good comps), they're as common as Sony XM5 or XM6's and while they're not Airpods penetration, they're wildly popular for their pricepoint

oliyoungon Cannabinoids remove plaque-forming Alzheimer's proteins from brain cells (2016)

"reefer madness" has put legitimate research of that plant back immeasurably

oliyoungon Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI

wait, can you _see_ my desk right now?

oliyoungon Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model

> When I watch a movie, I don't care about the artist's life.

And here we come back to the aged old "can you seperate an artist from their art" because I'd argue when you watch a movie you are watching a product of their life

oliyoungon Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter

Not all VISA or Mastercard transactions are credit backed, I'd argue that the large majority aren't anymore they're more commonly debit VISA/Mastercard

oliyoungon 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March

For pure peace-of-mind managing a family and all our passwords and digtial security, it's value is far more than this monthly cost

oliyoungon Claude Sonnet 4.6

I'm in South Australia, the driest state on the driest continent, we have a backup desalination plant and water security is common on the political agenda - water is probably as expensive here than most places in the world

"The 2025-26 water use price for commercial customers is now $3.365/kL (or $0.003365 per litre)"

https://www.sawater.com.au/my-account/water-and-sewerage-pri...

oliyoungon My Grandma Was a Fed – Lessons from Digitizing Hours of Childhood

> Of course, the debugging techniques and the debugging and problem-solving techniques that you get from being a professional programmer helps a lot with taking what LLMs give you with a grain of salt, and knowing what they're good at and what they're not. But it is a superpower for sure.

I'm really coming around to the idea for the lucky of us (and I'm assuming a lot about the average HN poster) AI really is a force-multiplying tool

oliyoungon My Grandma Was a Fed – Lessons from Digitizing Hours of Childhood

This is SUCH a great story. Thanks for writing up both the human and technology parts with equal love and depth.

oliyoungon Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

> I don't understand why (mostly) young people put so much effort into remaining customers of a service that is actively hostile against them

The Network Effect.

That's it. Their friends are there so they're there.

oliyoungon Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord

You're using Discord to describe the same thing that could easily be applied to any social network.

Yes, it's borne of teenagers and gaming, but for all it's dark corners it's just the modern IRC. There are good servers, there are bad servers, there are servers full of idiots and there are servers full of very smart people.

(and we're way past monetisation kicking in, the first paid options launched almost 10 years ago)

oliyoungon CIA suddenly stops publishing, removes archives of The World Factbook

BNW has proven to be far more prescient, and insidiously so, than 1984

oliyoungon The Frutiger Aero Archive

I don't like that this is reminding me that I'm not in my mid 20s anymore

The aesthetic hasn't aged well, but the nostalgia hits great