I am getting Phillips CDI vibes. It takes me back to a mid 90s infomercial where products will built by marketing departments and companies with cash to splash. There is just no bottom up cool factor. At all.
The wrist thing is kind of cool but he has to set his arm down to type 30wpm so maybe in a few iterations it’ll be more compelling.
The glasses seem pointless to me for now. I’m surprised he didn’t add a booty zoom in view. We thought of that idea way back in middle school. Seems like something he’d vibe with.
I grew up on the internet, I know what the CD-i is. Smart glasses are cool. For $800, I'd get one tomorrow if someone had a reproducible jailbreak. I own an Oculus Quest that was worth every dime.
Too often HN threads devolve into the same tired comparisons about laserdisks and Palm Pilots. The only precedent we have for a product like this failing is Vision Pro, and this is nothing like that. Your comment was jumping to a conclusion that I think many would disagree with.
Even if it doesn't get a jailbreak it will still be a gamechanger. It's far more of an open platform than iOS ever was. Sideloading Android apps on the Meta Quest doesn't require any hax, I imagine it will be the same on the Meta Display. An SSH client on this thing will be a huge boost in productivity for me. Can just randomly sit on a park bench and write some code w/ my pocket bluetooth keyboard. This will reduce 90% of my need to bring my laptop out of the house.
The browser is the OS that wraps the user not the machine. Just as Linux or Windows or Android wrap the machine and manage its resources, the browser should wrap the user and manage their resources (data, time/focus etc). In this regard nobody has succeeded. The browser isn’t finished until it achieves this
The browser is an application that renders webpages. It doesn't need any mystical vague purpose. Further, the OS doesn't wrap the machine, that's not even a good analogy. When you wrap something you've protected it or hidden it, or even ended it.
I don't need a browser to manage my time or focus. I need it to render websites efficiently so I can interact with them.
The problem is Amazon is usually Apples non competitive cloud partner. They can’t both sit this out. AWS needs to learn in a hurry whether they should be in the model business to supply Apple with Siri LLMs. Bc if not Apple is going to Google (and Google cloud). Thats not good for AWS. Amazon is in a bit of a bind bc they should be acquiring Anthropic but not at bubble prices.
I don't understand why AWS needs to be in the model business. They didn't develop databases, they didn't develop Kubernetes, they didn't develop Linux, and the list goes on and on.
Not a whole lot in their portfolio actually has a lot of Amazon technology behind it. They've got some mild forks here and there, and they've got some stuff like Fargate that has AWS R&D work behind it but piggybacks concepts/tech stacks that definitely didn't originate from Amazon.
A lot of their value has really nothing to do with developing the underlying technology.
Is Apple really going to shovel a bunch of money to a direct competitor (Android) in a way that is likely to result in less differentiation for Apple mobile devices?
Android isn’t really a competitor it’s an ecosystem. Google Pixel is a competitor. And would Apple start funding Google’s Pixel market penetration in exchange for AI? Perhaps. Google was funding Apple with default search money for a long time. I think the 20B payment flow is about to reverse direction, not disappear.
This is a sad reality. I see 2 paths forward 1) we somehow build the right layers into the internet that we can withstand open hardware. 2) open hardware running any software becomes an education use and hobbyist market only. I could see an edu slice to every corporate entity deploying open and free stuff just as onboarding to paid. Hackable hardware with kiddyflix.
I spend most of my days wading through the web. When i come across something that excites me I share the link to apple
Notes. I dont write anything. Its just a bookmark. In February I spent a week sorting 5000 links into folders. It was quite satisfying to guess why i saved things, find patterns, create an organizational structure etc. the activity yielded both motivation and direction for my personal projects.
Are you a student of Robert Fritz? He says this exactly. The only two things you need is 1) a vision and 2) ability to see present reality clearly. Beyond this it’s all about the skill to nudge a creation towards the vision without being prescribed to a process. The art is knowing when to just use the status quo tool or try something new at any point during the nudging is key. Based on his teachings I can easily see vibe coding fitting into creation process quite easily. Where it becomes tricky is “seeing current reality clearly”. If you have been vibe coding for two weeks and perhaps a weak programmer or worse no technical ability, can you actually see reality at that point? Probably not. It requires understanding the software structure. Maybe. Its all up in the air right now. But I truly believe that LLMs make software creation more like creating art.
