Does anyone have a canonical URL to the previous month's scan of the LEGO mini-figure? I didn't see any navigation on the site unless there's a magic spot I missed or am inadvertently adblocking: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29253441
This month's entry comes off way too much like advertising for my taste, with the flowery language like "magic features" instead of just "features", or the seemingly-unnecessary sales statistics in lieu of a technical description of the Airpods Pro: "In 2020, Apple sold 110,000,000 AirPod products. Talk about mass manufacturing."
Maybe it's just an unconscious tic when talking about Apple products. Even I have a hard time not saying "Boom" when showing off something cool :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx7v815bYUw
This is oddly infuriating. Such cool content, using the web medium in a novel way, yet they purposefully make it transient?
Only way it makes sense is they plan to offer a paid service where you can view a catalog of work. But the site is low on meta information, so that's just a wild guess.
I doubt that they are being paid by Apple. Would we mind expressions of enthusiasm for, say, works of art? If not, what's wrong with such statements for products as long as they are genuine?
The sales figures speak to a specific aspect the writer(s) want to highlight: that it's a difference to produce something like this a dozen times or a few million times.
This month's entry comes off way too much like advertising for my taste, with the flowery language like "magic features" instead of just "features", or the seemingly-unnecessary sales statistics in lieu of a technical description of the Airpods Pro: "In 2020, Apple sold 110,000,000 AirPod products. Talk about mass manufacturing."
Maybe it's just an unconscious tic when talking about Apple products. Even I have a hard time not saying "Boom" when showing off something cool :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx7v815bYUw