Don't buy AR glasses
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Don't buy AR glasses was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Nov 10, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 8 checks on 1 different day. Its best position was #15 of 30, reached on Nov 10, 14:39 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 10, 15:09 UTC.
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I feel like you could retroactively apply this line of argumentation to smartphones: "don't buy a smartphone" But the truth is, there's too much utility in technology. If AR can do useful things that smartphones cannot, we're going to end up with mass proliferation of AR, regardless of what parasitic technologies…
>All this leads me to ask, what actual incentive (aside from short term conveniences) would I have to buy an AR device? There was a time, at least for myself and a lot of people in the AR wave, where we were trying to make computing integrated into everyday life such that they kind of disappear. The idea was that…
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Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Nov 10, 15:09 UTC, after 1 day of trending.
#15 on Hacker News · Front page, on Nov 10, 14:39 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
It was first seen on Nov 10, 2026 and has been on the list on 1 day (8 checks) since.
20 points and 10 comments; submitted by Bluestein on Nov 10, 2026.