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1•Ray_Casey•1m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a worldwide news app, because Apple doesn't want to

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/breaking-news-newsreadeck/id1593025917
1•bubudrc•1m ago•0 comments

Unfortunately We Are Not Living in a "Simulation"

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2022/02/unfortunately-we-are-not-living-in-a-simulation
1•Gooblebrai•3m ago•0 comments

Coeffects: Context-Aware Programming Languages

https://tomasp.net/coeffects/
1•dustingetz•4m ago•0 comments

Small Models, Big Wins: Agentic AI in Enterprise Explained

https://blog.premai.io/small-models-big-wins-agentic-ai-in-enterprise-explained/
2•prem_studio•5m ago•0 comments

Launch HN: Societies.io (YC W25) – AI simulations of your target audience

2•p-sharpe•5m ago•0 comments

The Untold Impact of Cancellation

https://pretty.direct/impact
2•cbeach•6m ago•2 comments

Build Privacy Tools, Go to Prison, Samourai Developers Change Pleas

https://www.sambent.com/build-privacy-tools-go-to-prison-samourai-developers-change-pleas/
1•cranberryturkey•7m ago•1 comments

Google rolls out Gemini Deep Think model that tests multiple ideas in parallel

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/01/google-rolls-out-gemini-deep-think-ai-a-reasoning-model-that-tests-multiple-ideas-in-parallel/
2•thm•20m ago•0 comments

Google Agentspace is GA now

https://cloud.google.com/agentspace/docs/release-notes
1•Cockbrand•20m ago•0 comments

Navy demonstrates multi-day solar UAS flight

https://www.navair.navy.mil/news/Navy-demonstrates-multi-day-solar-UAS-flight/Tue-07292025-1554
2•bookofjoe•21m ago•0 comments

How did Facebook intercept competitor's encrypted mobile app traffic? (2014)

https://haxrob.net/onavo-facebook-ssl-mitm-technical-analysis/
2•taubek•24m ago•3 comments

Platformize It Building a Unified and Extensible Platform Framework [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sx7oV25zYc
1•kvaps•26m ago•1 comments

Detecting Virtual Thread Pinning in Java

https://blog.blockingqueue.com/detecting-virtual-thread-pinning-in-java
1•liviu31•28m ago•0 comments

AI Act: Today, the European Commission Approved the GPAI Code of Practice

https://www.nicfab.eu/en/posts/ai-act-eucom-approves-code-of-practice/
1•nicfab•29m ago•1 comments

Show HN: CodeSwissKnife Bar – Dev tools in your macOS menu bar (offline)

https://codeswissknife.com/codeswissknifebar.html
1•8mobile•29m ago•0 comments

Caught in the Game: On the History and Evolution of Web Browser Gaming

https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/2304.14791
2•jicea•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Compress Image – Simple Lossless and Lossy Image Compression Tool

https://www.compressimagex.com/en
1•devxiyang•34m ago•0 comments

Full-body scans of 100k people could change medicine

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jul/15/full-body-scans-uk-biobank-project-diseases-detected-and-treated
3•PaulHoule•36m ago•0 comments

JSON is not a subset of YAML

https://john-millikin.com/json-is-not-a-yaml-subset
2•fanf2•36m ago•0 comments

Belgium Bans Internet Archive's 'Open Library' in Site Blocking Order

https://torrentfreak.com/belgium-bans-internet-archives-open-library-in-sweeping-site-blocking-order/
4•gslin•37m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Square Images – Make Any Image a Perfect Square in One Click

https://www.squareimages.co/en
1•devxiyang•38m ago•1 comments

Terence Tao's NSF grants suspended

https://bsky.app/profile/dangaristo.bsky.social/post/3lvc7ldavhk2o
65•xqcgrek2•39m ago•19 comments

Evolution – Mental Model: AI-Voiding Extinction

https://read.perspectiveship.com/p/evolution
4•dmp0x7c5•43m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Is there a way to see HN without all the posts about AI?

2•dotcoma•43m ago•2 comments

Ask HN: Startups, 0 Stability – Is It Time to Move on from Tech?

4•OulaX•45m ago•1 comments

SpaceX's Cellular Starlink Expands to Support IoT Devices

https://me.pcmag.com/en/networking/31452/spacexs-cellular-starlink-expands-to-support-iot-devices
1•teleforce•46m ago•0 comments

We Asked 100 AI Models to Write Code

https://www.veracode.com/blog/genai-code-security-report/
2•ygritte•46m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Will AIs soon conclude that all humans are philosophical zombies?

1•amichail•46m ago•1 comments

Exploiting vulnerabilities in the Blink video doorbell

https://jacksondonaldson.com/blink
2•metricbead•49m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Losing Money Is the Point

https://zachholman.com/posts/losing-money-is-the-point
14•pbardea•20h ago

Comments

zahlman•20h ago
This article seems to miss the point of the critique: the valuations (and increases thereof) are absurd given the visible fundamentals. The WNBA's loss doesn't look like an "investment" because it appears to result from declining sales, with no reason making itself apparent as to why sales should increase in the future.

Athletes wearing protest shirts makes me less interested in the sport, not more, no matter what they're protesting for.

As for Apple, the point of the article is that the streaming service was created in 2019 and is still in the red by this much. And it's still unclear (at least to me) why future users of streaming services would suddenly prefer Apple's to the competition, on a scale that would offset that previous loss.

For that matter, this is the first I've heard that Apple has a streaming service that has apparently existed since 2019. How much of that money went into advertising?

JohnFen•20h ago
I think the article also conflates the concepts of "investment" and "gambling".
toomuchtodo•20h ago
Speculation is gambling masquerading as investing.
magic_hamster•17h ago
I think gambling purely on luck (i.e. playing the roulette) is not exactly the same as speculation, and speculation may become less risky the more information you have.
afinlayson•18h ago
I don't think enough people think about how the current tax / economic system is made up, and we can change it if we collectively work together.
snthpy•5h ago
“the ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.”

David Graeber

cyanydeez•13h ago
The article is providing too much good faith.

Companies easily act on the Hollywood accounting. They pay their shell corps to do whatever inflated bills less they want and claim they're losing money.

Investing is just a angle when there might be growth.

Regardless, everyone treats corporations with more respect than they deserve.