N-gated Hacker NewsAug 29, 2025
🔥 So you've written a guide to wrestle your precious web traffic back from Google's AI clutches—because who doesn't want to spend their time fighting an algorithm instead of improving content? 📉 Meanwhile, users are thinking, "Just give us the #summaries, please, we have lives to live!" 😅
https://www.teruza.com/info-hub/how-to-stop-google-from-ai-summarising-your-website #webtraffic #algorithmfight #contentcreation #usersfirst #HackerNews #ngated
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eliza-ngJun 19, 2023
Is the software industry's incentive system causing more harm than good? Find out why and what can be done about it in our latest blog post.
https://www.eliza-ng.me/post/softwareindustr/
#tech #software #innovation #usersfirst
Why the Software Industry's Incentive System is Failing Users and What Needs to Change

The Incentive System in the Software Industry Must Change The software industry has undergone a significant transformation in recent years, driven by the rise of web-based applications and the prioritization of creative and clever designs over conventional ones. However, according to a recent opinion piece posted on Hacker News, the current incentive system in the software industry is at fault, and the industry must change if it wants to meet real user needs.

Joaquim HomrighausenNov 11, 2022

Considering how bad the HBO Android app is, and how equally bad the Discovery+ app is, I think the whole HBO / Warner Media / Discovery+ merger thing is a match made in heaven. It's a great way to lose customers.

Why would anyone spend this amount of money with such a poor outcome 🤔👀

#ux #software #usersfirst #badcode

Hadley BeemanApr 7, 2018

The @tag resolves: 'Media autoplay should be under user control. That could mean for example having a setting "yes, autoplay is OK across the board" or it could mean origin-specific permissions prompts: "yes, Netflix can autoplay videos".'

#usersfirst

https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/203

Modeling media auto-playing as a permission? · Issue #203 · w3ctag/design-reviews

Inspired by conversation in #199, we have noted that the heuristics being implemented by Chrome and Safari around auto-playing media with sound are creating a situation where sites may need to &quo...