Hey, it took courage to remove that headphone jack.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/07/courage/

This is 2026. iPhones use standard USB C headphones, you can charge your phone at the same time while using your wired headphones using MagSafe and you can even by low end $59 Beats Flex headphones that have all of the Apple magic.

I’m going to need HN geeks to get over analog headphones from the 60s

In my experience, USB-C ports are more fragile than 3.5mm audio jacks for repeated plugging in / unplugging cycles.

As soon as those headphones sound better than the analog alternatives, sure.

But they don't. And won't.

Why do they need to sound better? Also, in a lot of instances, they do sound better because they can offer powered functionality such as ANC. Can’t get that with a truly analog headphone. I’d never use analog headphones on a plane, for instance.

I can’t think of an instance where analog headphones would sound better than USB C headphones using the same hardware.

So USB headphones sound worse than analog ones? Does vinyl sound better to you to than CDs?

Low-end wired earbuds come in packages with dozens of units. I buy cheap earbuds because my kids love breaking them. Not everyone optimizes for the same thing. Analog remains the bees knees in certain settings.

Just a quick search on Amazon shows a two pack of USB C headphones for $10

What’s MTE? I couldn’t find a reference to this anywhere in the press release or spec comparisons.

Thanks!

Also, I think for a good number of people, their first job out of college is oftentimes one they will look fondly back on because they've just finished ~17 years of school, have financial independence with a salary, and are still bright-eyed about all the possibilities.

The same Sam Altman that brought us Worldcoin + The Orb?

Too bad they took VC funding and have to be a "global leader in identity security" instead of just making a damn good password manager.

https://1password.com/press/2025/nov/1password-strengthens-l...

"AI-powered item naming" is literally one of their new features. Not sure which is more embarrassing: releasing this feature, or using it.

VC and PE money always there ruining the good things. Taking money from the devil.

The Americans is an easier watch in general because of its themes, but H+CF is worth viewing for anyone in tech.

There's only four seasons and they're all solid.

I thought this was about a global outage regarding actual trains, but it looks like Railway is a Heroku replacement.

Any news is good marketing if you're unknown.

It's probably a mispelling of a French domain registrar known for its nonviolent resistance.

I'm not familiar with this slang: what's a big plate?

It's a slang for somebody fat. 子 does not carry a specific meaning it is more a character with grammatical function to nominative

the commenter's username (i'm guessing they mean 大胖子, feel free to google translate)

This is the correct.

I was first called this by a Chinese classmate from Beijing with a biting sense of humor, when I was at university in Tokyo.

We got on really well, to be clear. :)

Hanging out with him was actually how I got started with Mandarin, probably why I chose this username.

I remember when first learning Mandarin coming across a phrase '你发福了' which literally compliments someone on blessings (i.e. having become more wealthy) but idiomatically means you gained weight.

I really like this one. It's delightfully cheeky. :)

胖 (pàng) means fat, vs 盘 (pán), which means plate.

Quite alright! We have to make mistakes to learn!

The poster you're responding to might be from the Indian subcontinent and not Native/Indigenous American.

In US Native/Indigenous usually call themselves either by their tribe or "Indian." White people are the ones that generally use native/indigenous more even though natives call themselves Indian more.

Since the context was US civil rights you can see how I came to the conclusion, since it didn't make any sense someone could simply declare their heritage is from an extra-continental nationality and thus I was wrong.

In any case in the context of US civil rights, the Indians (native) are a far more reasonable conclusion than Indian (Asian) so at best it is a shared failure of communication.

> In any case in the context of US civil rights, the Indians (native) are a far more reasonable conclusion than Indian (Asian)

Why? There's a very direct link between India and the US civil rights movement led by Martin Luther King Jr.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_visit_by_Martin_Luther_Ki...

I understand your confusion and I didn't downvote you. But the answer to "Which Indian?" is at the very least a coin flip in this context.