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A "Message Echo" textbox that makes it look like you can get a response to a prompt without logging in, only to redirect to the sign-up page. Such a classic dark pattern - and such…

Even worse, I've seen the JetBrains AI auto-complete insert hard-to-spot bugs, like two nested for loops with i and j for loop index variables, where the inner loop was fairly comp…

> The first class passengers are effectively paying 3x as much 3x? If only! If we're talking international first class (not US domestic "first"), it's typically 10-12x the price of…

GMail disagrees with you, because GMail users disagree with you. They are clicking "report spam" on your emails. Whether or not you think what you're sending is spam, the recipient…

Perhaps a stupid question, but why do notifications need to be stored in a database in persistent storage at all? OK, maybe they can be stored until they're dismissed in case the b…

> Ironically, the good clients pay within 2-3 days normally, and the difficult ones are very “long tail”. Why ironically? Isn't that exactly what you'd expect?

There have been so many cases of Apple, Google, etc. doing this that it's hard to have any sympathy for them at this point. If it was some grandma who didn't know better that would…

The number of monsters on the screen doesn't seem to affect playing speed for me, but when the wall of fire appears it slows down the game very noticeably. (Using Firefox on deskto…

The paper: https://sci-hub.st/https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1040830.10... (Agree that the title is awesome, by the way!)

Just tried it and, apart from the UI being highly confusing (you just get a blank workspace basically, and it's unclear how to see other DBs and objects in them) it seems to have n…

Right, I didn't notice the end date, sorry. So that was ~5.7% return for ~15 months (not 26) and the remaining ~28.7% was in the last 11 months.

> since launching Grizzly Bulls ( https://grizzlybulls.com ) in January 2022, 6 of our 7 models have outperformed the market on an unleveraged basis: > VIX-TA-Macro Advanced: +34.3…

> This is a pay-per-call work and we need you to join as a interviewee (not interview candidates) for technical calls. > Are you strong enough to pass technical interview? > We wil…

I like the brevity of it, but I don't like the assumption that every good candidate will have everything that they want to share with a prospective employer on their LinkedIn page.…

That is the second-shortest job application form I've ever seen. (The shortest one asked for a name, email and LinkedIn without a free-text field. I think "who are you" is more imp…

Ah yes, that actually explains a lot! Thanks.

I see, thanks. I guess that answers one question, but raises another: why have his packages depend on more of his packages? If his goal was to be included in as many node_modules d…

When I first heard of the is-odd and is-even NPM packages I was sure they were a joke, yet there we are: 200K weekly downloads! Publishing the packages may have been the effort of …

Discussion from 5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16437973 Nice to see that some of the suggestions from there, like listing the hidden URLS (/leaders, etc.) seem t…

Just want to say I really like the values on your careers page. Compassion and humility, but raising the bar at the same time. (Of course, it could all be complete corporate BS, fo…

Yeah, as hilarious as this is when it happens to a bad guy the really sad aspect of it, for me, is that their customer service experience is not so abnormal. If it were, most would…

Here is another good one: too easy to hit CTRL+Q instead of CTRL+W https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52821 Only 20-and-a-half years to fix that one! In this case it wasn…

The timeline of this vulnerability might just be the best argument I've ever seen for full disclosure: 2019-09-26 Reported to vendor with POC 2020-01-14 Followed up with vendor 202…

No, the whole point of the original post is that a lot of users see (and use) the option, so that the app's database of personal data is full of rubbish. I don't think the GP's sce…

XPrivacy was great, but apps would regularly crash when I denied some permissions - so apparently it was not faking data well enough. It got so bad that I would never just click "d…