on iOS, Chess Mini is build around Micro-Max: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chess-mini/id616424231

Despite the engine being 2000 chars and 133 lines, the GUI is expensive. From the program description:

    Size
    40.5 MB

Surprisingly good chess engine (ELO ~2000). Good resource for my kids, the younger learning chess and the older interested in programing.

I see the same problem. It is affecting all new users on iPhone since about an hour ago.

neat demo on the home page, and at the top right of every page.

http://feedly.com is the product home

The first thing I did before reading the post was look for a link to home, but was enraged when I found none. Still can't believe why sites do this.

not to be confused with http://www.feedly.com/ which does not work :)

:) It works for me, but it seems to be really slow right now.

It's a little long, but made me took my arduino board out of the closet to decode the tamagushi code :)

If anyone is interested, there is a great library to start from on Github: https://github.com/shirriff/Arduino-IRremote

Nice article, though I don't think Michael is boring. As both of you seem to agree, the problem is that the major tech blogs have been boring.

It is ironic at a time when tech has never been as exciting. Tech is a lot more than the latest mobile startup from a VC friend, or the latest samsung vs apple development. Maybe it is time for some new publications?

How much of this impression of "boring" might stem from your own expertise and superior knowledge? You might see a lot of pattern fulfillment that others, with different backgrounds, can read only as confusing (and seemingly novel) noise.

I know that I find a lot of gaming news, for example, more boring that other kinds due to my NES-era entry to the field. My brain can compress a genuinely innovative title down to "Old Game X + Old Game Y" even before my conscious brain realizes it, only to have a lot of the value-adding details tossed in the process. I suspect that a lot of people underestimated the iPad because their subconscious tossed out "just a better Newton (that device collecting dust in our garage, remember?)" as a cognitive shortcut and they stopped there.

In short: how much of the impression stems from HN growing less interesting versus us detecting patterns faster than new developments can break them?