Considering how many comments I regularly see on Hacker News from people who still love their M1 MacBooks, I’d say that’s not a particularly strong maxim.

It was clever that they used the reference point of a passport. I don't think I've ever heard of anyone complain about passports being unwieldy.

Personally I find passports slightly too large to comfortably fit in my pants pocket, and a passport is definitely thinner than this phone. Whenever I travel and have to have my passport in my pants pocket I’m always a bit uncomfortable about it, I usually prefer to keep it in my backpack or somewhere else. If you’re carrying this in a purse then it sounds great. The passport aspect ratio is pretty awesome on phones, I tried one shaped like this at a Chinese phone store last year and enjoyed it. But shoving a $2000 device the size of a thick passport into my pocket on a daily basis feels like a bad idea.

You hold your passport a few times a year, for maybe a few minutes. Probably less than 1 hour total per year. Many people will 5x that usage-time in just a day.

People don't try to type on their passport though.

They briefly showed the Duo opened partway like a laptop, and even had a keyboard displayed on the lower portion. Maybe it would be kind of like a smaller GPD Mini but with touchscreen instead of physical keys.

True, but passports are one of the few readable objects I can think of that regularly get used in both vertical and horizontal orientations.

Passport is also thinner than a pencil, not rigid, and will fold a little around your thigh in a tight pocket.

It will save people a lot of time because they don't have to go to the Apple store, they can use their own passport to discover that the phone is still too big in a different dimension to use with one hand.

Just like the iPod's "deck of cards".

you don't carry your passport in your pocket every day

They are so unwieldy that the US has a passport card because the passport is too big for frequent travellers. I also will complain about how my passport's ID page is the second, not the first page, so you open the passport, and then always have to flip to the second page (unless you use a tiny bit of tape).

The passport card is almost exclusively for people who go back and forth to Canada and want to keep it in their wallet. Nobody is complaining about the size of a passport.

What. No. A passport card is not the same as a passport book in its capabilities.

(Not the most groundbreaking website, but I've found it an especially useful reference guide when trying to describe a UI/interaction to an LLM.)

I've recently been watching these dev logs for an update to the Bodycam FPS game and was impressed by the attention to detail with building out core systems.

(The game is trying to portrait a very realistic combat environment, so if you're sensitive to that you may want to skip.)

Continuing to work on WorkspaceOS (https://tryworkspaceos.com) in semi-stealth.

Smaller recent side projects: (1) Backchannel (https://github.com/twalichiewicz/Backchannel) -- A userscript that adds Hacker News, Bluesky, Reddit, & other's discussions into a single blended discussion thread to any site you visit. I've added lots of features (including a new blended homepage) since the original post, nI've been working on turning it into a working example of Webmentions & Web Annotations. Original Show HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49090607

(2) Typing Tennis (https://typingtennis.com) -- Tennis, but typing. You type two words: one to reposition yourself and another to return a hit. Playable against CPUs or friends, as well as a daily challenge mode. Original Show HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46695492

I started working towards this goal in the latest release: you can now add Reddit as a source, so now when you visit a URL it will check across all subreddits where it's been posted and give you a blended discussion made up from everyone's comments.

Thanks for sharing this, instant add to my "unique artists" bookmarks folder.

Thanks again for the feedback everyone!

I've made quite a few improvements from the original version over the past few days, but unfortunately the OG version I released didn't specify the @updateURL or @downloadURL so you may not automatically get updated if you installed when I first posted this.

And as always, if you find any bugs or have any additional feedback, please report at https://github.com/twalichiewicz/HNewhere/issues

I've been working towards building out functionality close to what you're describing. As a first feature, I added annotations where the script looks for HN comments quoting parts of the article and adds a highlighter effect. It lets you instantly see what parts of the text people are actually interested in. It's still a rough beta, but I'm actively working toward that exact vision.

I feel similarly. That's actually why I started messing around with a feature where HN comments dynamically annotate the target website. It lets you read the article while seeing exactly where users commented on a particular aspect, sort of like GSuite or Google Docs comments.