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"Not second screen enough" – Netflix dumbing down TV for phone usage

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jan/17/not-second-screen-enough-is-netflix-deliberately-dumbing-down-tv-so-people-can-watch-while-scrolling
16•satvikpendem•7h ago

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netsharc•5h ago
My new Netflix show is an endless loop of toasters with wings flying through space. There will also be bread doing some flying.
watwut•4h ago
Telenovelas were always the thing. They are what they are because they were designed to be watched while doing other things without feeling regret when the other thing requires attention.
rkomorn•4h ago
Are you writing this, or is it the evil twin you never knew you had, who was dead and buried but came back to life to take your place with the help of your spouse who was plotting behind your back?
aitchnyu•3h ago
My mum watches the art form of cliche plots of first person AI narration with AI generated imagery. She always watched movies in bits and pieces on TV (also watched Gone with the Wind and other long movies in one sitting) so she would have appreciated "LoFi tv" forever.
Takennickname•4h ago
The tiktok-ification of netflix is coming. Good. Let the internet burn so we can start over.
PeterStuer•3h ago
Binge the next season of "Ow! My balls!", now on Netflix!
thedailymail•1h ago
I just fell out a window and am on my way down! I sure hope I don't straddle that sawhorse when I land... Ow! My balls!!
Yeul•3h ago
When I was a child I looked down on my mom for watching crap.

Later I realised that as a therapist she just wanted to shut her brain off after dealing with incest stories all day long.

mrheosuper•2h ago
Soon Netflix will have Subway Surfers running alongside the movie.
dartharva•2h ago
So back to old TV? Pre-internet old TV series were always slow and clear enough to allow you to follow them even if you were paying half attention
prmoustache•1h ago
I found out recently that my partner was "listening" and half looking at a TV show while preparing herself for work. I was quite surprised and asked her if she had run out of podcasts but she told me that show was so addictive she preferred running it in the background than waiting for it. It obviously made her inefficient at everything, preparing herself and following the show.

I've often found most US TV shows were overexplaining everything already. Maybe I have an higher cultural, technical and medical knowledge than the baseline of US TV viewers but lots of dialogs are already filled with what feels to me as unneeded explanations in general that would feel completely weird in a real life dialog.

I am like the opposite of the binge watcher, after one, two episodes at the maximum, I just want to do something else. It works well with my habit of watching movies and TV shows on a projector as it has a kind of ritual to it, you shut off the blinders, turn on the projector and sit comfortably on the sofa. My partner often do not understand how I can I just say "that's it, let's do something else" and shut off the beamer when the show obviously make sure it ends the episode with a moment of uncertaincy/suspense.

Aipac Hall of Shame

https://www.trackaipac.com/shame
1•i_love_retros•7s ago•0 comments

A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Hackers

https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-digital-escorts-pentagon-defense-department-china-hackers
1•danso•3m ago•0 comments

I built Cursor for Word – its live and free

https://www.usescrutiny.com
1•manzodale•3m ago•1 comments

Essential and Accidental Configuration

https://jfmengels.net/essential-and-accidental-configuration/
1•jfmengels•4m ago•0 comments

Datacenter Industry Model – SemiAnalysis

https://semianalysis.com/datacenter-industry-model/
1•loongloong•5m ago•0 comments

Spencer for Mac – Save and restore your entire workspace – across all Spaces

https://macspencer.app/
2•kamil124523•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A multi-player browser that makes any web app Figma-like

https://tablbrowser.com/
1•yamatokaneko•5m ago•0 comments

Personal micro-app (recipes > GPT shopping list > To-do app) the future of apps?

1•pandora-health•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI Test User – simulate your customer experience

https://aitestuser.com/
2•jstanley•9m ago•0 comments

Ralph Wiggum as a "Software Engineer"

https://ghuntley.com/ralph/
1•arrowsmith•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Betterlytics – Cookieless, Privacy-First, Open Source Web Analytics

https://betterlytics.io
2•Lindharden•12m ago•0 comments

Script that counts how many times has cursor said you're "absolutely right"

https://gist.github.com/rogeriochaves/aa9a933f607914dbf65aaedde81ad3e6
1•jangletown•20m ago•1 comments

Snotel: Remote sensors that communicate by bouncing radio off meteor trails

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNOTEL
1•Luc•22m ago•0 comments

World record optical fiber transmission of 1.02 petabits per second over 1,808km

https://www.nict.go.jp/en/press/2025/05/29-1.html
1•breve•22m ago•0 comments

Secret UK Afghan relocation scheme after major data breach

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg8zy78787of
1•griffzhowl•24m ago•1 comments

Nvidia chips become the first GPUs to fall to Rowhammer bit-flip attacks

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/07/nvidia-chips-become-the-first-gpus-to-fall-to-rowhammer-bit-flip-attacks/
1•musha68k•26m ago•0 comments

Maxsim-CPU: Maximising Maxsim Efficiency

https://www.mixedbread.com/blog/maxsim-cpu
2•breadislove•28m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What are some Linux tools to diagnose a system which keeps hanging?

2•chbkall•28m ago•0 comments

The Lethal Trifecta

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/
1•jangletown•28m ago•0 comments

Latin America is building LatamGPT to rival ChatGPT

https://restofworld.org/2025/chatgpt-latin-america-alternative-latamgpt/
2•donohoe•33m ago•0 comments

UN report lists companies complicit in Israel's 'genocide'

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/1/un-report-lists-companies-complicit-in-israels-genocide-who-are-they
3•nojonestownpls•35m ago•0 comments

Critical CitrixBleed 2 vulnerability has been under active exploit for weeks

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/07/critical-citrixbleed-2-vulnerability-has-been-under-active-exploit-for-weeks/
1•PaulHoule•35m ago•0 comments

A Rust Shaped Hole

https://mnvr.in/rust
2•vishnumohandas•39m ago•0 comments

Looking for Resources on Agentic Coding for Game Development

1•MrPhilGames•39m ago•0 comments

PostgreSQL replication slots: preventing WAL bloat and other production issues

https://www.morling.dev/blog/mastering-postgres-replication-slots/
2•fanf2•39m ago•0 comments

NPM-based sandboxes for dev tools

https://endor.dev/blog/endor-dev-tools
1•ridruejo•41m ago•0 comments

The Secret Police Are Here

https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-secret-police-are-here
3•throw0101d•41m ago•1 comments

C++: zero-cost static initialization

https://cofault.com/zero-cost-static.html
2•oecumena•42m ago•0 comments

Never Stop Shipping

https://old.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics/comments/1lzzqeg/never_stop_shipping/
1•bravesoul2•43m ago•0 comments

RISC-V State of the Union: RISC-V Europe Summit 2025: Krste Asanovic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vThTOrV0brk
1•fork-bomber•44m ago•0 comments