[#111] Google Timer, gone and back again

We discuss touchscreens in cars, text to speech, and gail.com. A rant about cross platform libraries is included free of charge. Study finds that buttons in cars are safer and quicker to use than touchscreens Lottie 4.0 for iOS: new render engine with significant performance improvements Building an internet-scale meme search engine Text to Speech: VALLE Text to Speech: Apple Books Text to Speech: This voice does not exist Gail dot com

September 15, 2022 Patreon lays off 17% of Staff https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32826610 Twilio to lay off 11% of workforce https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32837802 Don’t be spooky https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32863175 Increase https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32828669 Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32884467 Uber investigating breach of its computer systems https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32860728 Ask HN: How do you find the weird parts of the web? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32804832 Gen Z never learned to read cursive https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32884213 Dark Sky shutting down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32817555

Queen Elizabeth has died https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32768834 dang's "royalist" comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32769925 The rise of workplace surveillance [audio] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32603565 An HN profile worth perusing https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=kennethfriedman AirPods Pro 2nd Gen https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32754440 Globalstar SEC filing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32754963 I Got Banned for Life from Airbnb (2018) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32761930 Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32746922 Steve Jobs emails himself (2010) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32761060

Links covered: Reflections on my time in Y Combinator Removal of Heroku free product plans Google Timer is back Design the next iPhone Shazam turns 20 Fakery: An odd discovery on Spotify  Fakery: Fake IMDB credits Fakery: More content by people, for people in Search Fakery: The coming tsunami of fakery

Engineering Festivus Dotfiles being hidden is a UNIXv2 mistake (2012) Is there a spiritual successor to delicious Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds Logistics American Airlines agrees to purchase Boom Supersonic Overture aircraft ~~~~~~~~~ Leave a Review @colinhacks @futurekennysf

Articles covered: Things I Have Drawn is a site in which the things kids draw are real  Dalle-2 Prompt Book  Part of my code makes Copilot crash  Robinhood lays off 23% of staff  Y Combinator narrows current cohort size by 40%, citing downturn and funding  MIT invents $4 solar desalination device  Put down devices, let your mind wander, study suggests

Spotify table of songs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31618092  Apple Music is the most buggy and annoying software I use https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31618746 GitHub user sends notification to 400k users https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31627061 Coinbase “Update on hiring plans” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31600505 1x Engineer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31568895 Show HN: Can you lose at Wordle if you tried? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31572258 Spotify podcasters are making $18k a month with nothing but white noise https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31630148

We discuss whether the metaverse is bullshit, is the internet, or is minecraft. What's Sam Altman up to today? And how much money can you lose from automating home sales? Links Physics Student Earns PhD at Age 89 The metaverse is bullshit The metaverse is already here, it's called the internet The metaverse is already here – it's Minecraft Review: The 14-inch MacBook Pro Resets the Timeline Google's infamous internal 2010 “I just want to serve 5TB” video now public Now you can (try to) serve five terabytes, too Backblaze S-1 IPO The 3-2-1 Backup Strategy HashiCorp – S1 IPO Zillow to stop flipping homes, loses more than $550M, lays off 25% of staff Keith Rabois's Twitter Helion

This Word Does Not Exist macOS Monterey Ask HN: Is the Great Resignation in tech real? If so, why? Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years? Edward Snowden on Sam Altman's Worldcoin Greatest single trade of all time Architect Resigns in Protest over UCSB Mega-Dorm Facebook Renames to Meta

MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch Building an ULTRA-BRIGHT water-cooled TV Willingness to look stupid Beyond Smart Facebook chooses profits over people Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand