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Comment #47091476
The exoskeleton analogy seems to be fitting where my work-mode is configurable: moving from tentative to trusting. But the AI needs to be explicitly set up to learn my every action…
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Show HN: LLM Politeness Study (hostile and effusive tones boost LLM creativity)
I ran 625 API calls across 5 frontier models to find out what makes LLMs produce better creative work. The answer surprised me: it's not about being rude or polite, it's about emot…
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Comment #45553918
Hmm, may be you're right about UX designers not wanting to explain. For instance, I certainly won't want that vertical bar for aesthetic reasons. It's just hard to defend objective…
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Comment #43583345
False. Read Oxfam's report on the topic: https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/takers-not-makers-unjust-p...
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Comment #41842847
Agree, except the product price could be right on the buy button. Now the analytics won't tell you whether I clicked on the buy button with an intent to buy, or did I just want to …
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Comment #39812546
There's a video about an octopus solving a maze: https://youtu.be/7__r4FVj-EI?si=FH2QsL7BxlJ4h7KF . You could call that reactionary too, but at some point we have to admit octopuse…
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Comment #36627490
https://adnankhan.space/ Just a couple of posts there atm, I write about usability, interaction design, service design and other things that sit on the UX spectrum of work!
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Comment #36208116
They're just advertising the tech and the platform. Probably so people could come up with some real use cases and apps for it... otherwise what's the point of introducing it a year…
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Comment #34045353
Elon now reminds me of the many characters talked about in 'Ego is the enemy' https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27036528-ego-is-the-enem...
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Comment #33769893
My biggest gripe with Youtube right now is how they've left channel subscription just as a long list. I have hundreds of subscriptions, and they are clearly around a few of my inte…
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Comment #31794643
Great. This is from 50 years ago, and many of the ideas shown have come true. What about the next 50 years? Any video suggesting what we'd be able to see around the house in 2070?
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Comment #29005585
I'd like to read a newsletter named MetaMuffin.
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Comment #28892197
Won't Spotify be able to tell dislikes by how quickly someone skips to the next song?
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Comment #28874463
It does more than export an image, see here: https://github.com/carbon-app/carbon#exporting--sharing
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Comment #27776859
In Pakistan, the Peshawar airport has a railway line crossing through the airport runway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEBgVEYjSq8
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Comment #27659955
How do you give multiple chances to say no? Is it like persisting with further offerings or different pricing etc?
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Comment #27577862
I have no affiliation with the author, but he's provided reasoning as to why he thinks the design doesn't work for him. You can window-dress the wording, but that's essentially wha…
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Comment #27560219
Did you even read the article? The whole article is about why the UI changes are thoughtless.
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Comment #25664726
This is the correct url: https://youtu.be/gjaH2iuoYWE
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Comment #25180846
Practically speaking, you end up using colours many more than 3. Even designing a button needs a base colour, a hover state colour, a clicked state colour and sometimes border colo…