HN debate: a blogger on living for years without a smartphone
speckx · hn · 2026-09-03
Ploum's essay "I Don't Have a Smartphone" hit the Hacker News front page, recounting the author's long-term experience living without a smartphone. The piece explores how to work, socialize, and navigate modern life without one, and the freedoms and frictions that come with opting out of the attention economy.
More from Apps
- Perplexity adds hybrid compute to Mac app: local models for sensitive data — AravSrinivas · 2026-09-03
- Layers Growth MCP Gives Coding Agents 27 Tools to Automate Growth Marketing Loop — SimplyAnnisa · 2026-09-03
- Every opens beta of Slack agent that turns recurring work into workflows — every · 2026-09-03
- Google AI Overviews now swaps anchor links for free product carousels, hurting SEO — gaganghotra_ · 2026-09-03
- Firefox 155's AI kill switch works, but telemetry keeps flowing anyway — speckx · 2026-09-03
- Y Combinator-backed startup launches Clad, an AI tool for support teams — ycombinator · 2026-09-03