I think it’s because BM has a cult following and part of that is because BMs software is notoriously high quality and they seem to be doing things the right way bg avoiding subscriptions and putting real resources into engineering effort for their cameras but also the software.
I, for one, was excited to see a BM product available on my iPhone now so I can see why others are just as excited. Google has made the front page for less noteworthy apps before I’m sure.
I don’t think that’s necessary for the system to work. If topics the community find interest in can reach the front page, and “toxic” subjects are contained well enough, then the system works.
It doesn’t really matter if upvoters are honest or not. If you can cheat in a way that makes your post reach and stay on the front page, it’s very likely that people are interested in discussing the topic.
So far HN system has been working pretty good. Not for all topics of course, some result in really toxic exchanges or annoy some people. But you almost never see spam or obviously astroturfed content in the front page (at least compared to Reddit and other places).
HN does apply negative weight to submissions that seem to be astroturfed. Part of it is automated, part of it is manual reports or admin actions. Similar to what is done for sensitive topics.
Blackmagic has great, mostly professional hardware (cameras and more) with high-quality, stable software again focused on pro-market. They also have amateur or entry-level stuff, but even those have excellent quality.
So Blackmagic deciding to create an app for iPhone might say they consider the iPhone camera good enough for them. And this is a message worth considering.
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
A lot of the world is creating content, and this includes hackers. My most recent TikTok was about password managers.
Timecode makes this a gamechanger, especially for the casual filmer.
I've been messing around with crappy action cams for things like recording my kids performances and the like. I've been using two cameras (it's nice to have a second PoV, especially when someone walks in front of the camera), but it is a world of pain on these cameras.
I came *this close* to buying a pair of GoPro Hero 12s this past week because they finally have fully baked timecode into the firmware, but it seems like they also have problems with overheating when recording for 25 minutes inside (let alone in the sun).
This release means I can use a couple old iPhones I have retired, and likely get pretty good timesync out of it, automatically, without having to go into the videos and spend literally hours syncing multiple camera angles and dealing with drift from different cameras.
Because once upon a time people made software instead of training models and some of those people still like to see what’s going on in the world of actual software development.
So many things on HN could be considered ads. People often post about even non-major releases of SaaS products. The launch of a brand new powerful app and the entry of a big company into a new market seems a lot more newsworthy than most of those.
