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Even though, /u/dang is correct, but I agree with you. IMHO it's just more catchy and click-baity title, that's all (and you can down-vote me for this, but I g

by trymas 11y ago

Even though, /u/dang is correct, but I agree with you. IMHO it's just more catchy and click-baity title, that's all (and you can down-vote me for this, but I genuinely believe author's intention was to simply catch more attention with such title). We can not start calling every electric car 'Tesla clone', every smartphone 'iPhone clone' etc. To escalate this discussion more author, in a true click-baity fashion, could have added word 'hack' somewhere in the title. Just to rant, but lately in HN you can see rather a lot of articles, whose titles do not represent the content correctly (hopefully, like in this case, HN thread name is more correct than the article's title), which catch your eye by using some trendy trademark or word (like 'hack'). All in all, titles and use of words is a delicate discussion, which can be seen in many threads of HN.

blindfly 11y ago
That's exactly what it is. His previous ESP8266 related posts didn't get any love, and presumably because of all the recent Hue chatter decided to take advantage of the name by hinting of a cool new accessory joining the Hue lineup. I must admit it caught my attention but I knew something was off immediate after seeing ESP8266 and Hue in the same title.
adysan 11y ago
You're correct in accusing me of using Philips Hue as click bait. Just updated the post title. I was using 'Philips Hue' more like as adjective rather than a proper noun. My thoughts on this: Seeing ESP8266 in the title itself implies DIY or Hack to me. Practically everything using ESP8266 out there is a DIY project as of today. When your see things like 'OTA firmware updates for ESP8266' or 'HTTPS server' using ESP8266, doesn't mean those are secure in anyway. I'm not really trying to attack the Philips Hue lineup here. My intention is to get people to stop making proof of concept DIY IOT experiments and show them that with the HomeKit API this can be actually useful at home. And if the words 'Philips Hue' help me get some attention to this matter, why not?

by trymas 11y ago

blindfly 11y ago

That's exactly what it is. His previous ESP8266 related posts didn't get any love, and presumably because of all the recent Hue chatter decided to take advantage of the name by hinting of a cool new accessory joining the Hue lineup. I must admit it caught my attention but I knew something was off immediate after seeing ESP8266 and Hue in the same title.

adysan 11y ago

You're correct in accusing me of using Philips Hue as click bait. Just updated the post title. I was using 'Philips Hue' more like as adjective rather than a proper noun. My thoughts on this: Seeing ESP8266 in the title itself implies DIY or Hack to me. Practically everything using ESP8266 out there is a DIY project as of today. When your see things like 'OTA firmware updates for ESP8266' or 'HTTPS server' using ESP8266, doesn't mean those are secure in anyway. I'm not really trying to attack the Philips Hue lineup here. My intention is to get people to stop making proof of concept DIY IOT experiments and show them that with the HomeKit API this can be actually useful at home. And if the words 'Philips Hue' help me get some attention to this matter, why not?