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Why the Metaverse Failed

https://josh.earth/posts/metaverse-failed
4•joshmarinacci•1h ago

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rolph•1h ago
VR is a niche, one of the reasons social media took off is the social acceleration aspect. VR is pretty antisocial.

Augmented Reality [AR] is where you should lay some hefty chips. not only can you socialize, if the glasses dont creep people out, you can easily doff the glasses [but if phones are any predictor ..]

social aspects aside, go for AR glasses, with optional, or procedural AR/VR mode. practical aspects arise, glasses are a small patch of real estate to fit optronics, maybe a sunvisor may fit into the fold, definately want to avoid looking like master chief at large in a public social setting, leave that hard core look to seriously purposeful task, like piloting an aircraft to drop groceries.

Self-Destructing Graphics Cards

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/melting-power-connectors-and-how-to-safeguard-aga...
1•TEHERET•2m ago•0 comments

Using Home Assistant in a botanical garden

https://vooijs.eu/posts/why-is-there-smoke-from-the-boiler-room/
1•wildekek•4m ago•0 comments

Ha-Joon Chang on the Future of India's Industrialization

https://frontline.thehindu.com/interviews/india-industrialisation-ha-joon-chang-interview/article...
1•pessimizer•8m ago•0 comments

Reading Is the Ultimate Cognitive Enhancer

https://neurosciencenews.com/literacy-reshapes-cognition-30955/
3•bookofjoe•8m ago•1 comments

Uyuni Joins OpenSUSE Project Ahead of Annual Conference

https://news.opensuse.org/2026/06/22/uyuni-joins-opensuse/
2•ferryth•9m ago•0 comments

The 'Two Ships' Theory of American History

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/08/the-slave-ship-and-the-mayflower/687628/
1•paulpauper•9m ago•0 comments

New Manager Guide Series

https://yusufaytas.com/series/new-manager-guide
7•yusufaytas•11m ago•1 comments

Living Codegraph

https://rlmlocal.com
2•fortsignal•12m ago•0 comments

I Added TurboQuant to Pgvector

https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector/pull/989
1•mxfeinberg•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a "living proof-of-work" for builders (Show HN that persists)

https://kritive.com
1•sonOfHades•13m ago•0 comments

Give AI-built websites a real design with DESIGN.md

https://getdesign.md/
1•spking•13m ago•0 comments

Unfathomable bugs #10: The Broken Windows Build

https://algassert.com/post/2603
1•fanf2•14m ago•0 comments

Free and Private Bookmarking Tool / Browser Start Page

https://vectorization.eu/start-page/
1•alsusart•14m ago•1 comments

30-Year Sentence for Transporting Zines Is a Five-Alarm Fire for Free Speech

https://theintercept.com/2026/06/26/daniel-sanchez-estrada-zines-prairieland-free-speech/
1•xrd•16m ago•0 comments

New mathematical operator just dropped – reality's kernel just got an upgrade

https://zenodo.org/records/20976243
2•CarloLoopTheory•22m ago•1 comments

Code responsibly, don't drink and vibecode

https://usama.leaflet.pub/3mpdjez6cz22g
2•iarchetype•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Rendering Markdown with LaTeX in the Terminal

https://mil.ad/blog/2026/latex-in-markdown.html
2•playnext•30m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Looped Whisper (FOSS) – Voice transcription menubar app for macOS

https://github.com/loopedautomation/whisper
1•RatulMaharaj•31m ago•0 comments

Build System Improvements, Centralized Overview, etc.

https://gist.github.com/rcalixte/0afb119cbcc130c21063839f65b53ab7
2•rcalixte•36m ago•0 comments

How information theory saved my word game

https://motplot.app/helloworld
1•jamwise•36m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Adipoli: a hand-wired keyboard for opposable thumbs

https://codeberg.org/sudobangbang/adipoli
2•sudo_bangbang•44m ago•0 comments

Jimmy is a tool to convert your notes from different formats to Markdown

https://marph91.github.io/jimmy/
3•CTOSian•50m ago•0 comments

Microsoft Bought a Nuclear Plant

https://moai.studio/blog/posts/microsoft-bought-a-nuke-plant.html
2•ionwake•52m ago•2 comments

France Is Too Hot for Shutters and Ceiling Fans

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/france-air-conditioning-failure/687723/
4•paulpauper•52m ago•1 comments

Higher Ed Is Sorry

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/higher-education-universities-public-trust/687714/
2•paulpauper•53m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Drift, write LLM agents in English and transpile to async Python

https://github.com/rileyq7/drift
2•rileyq12•55m ago•0 comments

The Memory Tax

https://bycig.substack.com/p/the-memory-tax
2•paulpauper•55m ago•0 comments

Token Capital Efficiency

https://kmad.ai/Token-Capital-Efficiency
2•kmad•57m ago•0 comments

Utility boss warns US faces blackouts due to power supply shortfall

https://www.ft.com/content/14d2e591-7cd5-4456-904f-1b7fdc5cbc1a
3•Geekette•58m ago•2 comments

Mel Brooks is 100 today

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/06/long-live-mel-brooks/687730/
11•shellback3•59m ago•0 comments