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Obey the Testing Goat

https://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/
1•mkl95•57s ago•0 comments

Claude Opus 4.6 extends LLM pareto frontier

https://michaelshi.me/pareto/
1•mikeshi42•1m ago•0 comments

Brute Force Colors (2022)

https://arnaud-carre.github.io/2022-12-30-amiga-ham/
1•erickhill•4m ago•0 comments

Google Translate apparently vulnerable to prompt injection

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tAh2keDNEEHMXvLvz/prompt-injection-in-google-translate-reveals-ba...
1•julkali•4m ago•0 comments

(Bsky thread) "This turns the maintainer into an unwitting vibe coder"

https://bsky.app/profile/fullmoon.id/post/3meadfaulhk2s
1•todsacerdoti•5m ago•0 comments

Software development is undergoing a Renaissance in front of our eyes

https://twitter.com/gdb/status/2019566641491963946
1•tosh•5m ago•0 comments

Can you beat ensloppification? I made a quiz for Wikipedia's Signs of AI Writing

https://tryward.app/aiquiz
1•bennydog224•7m ago•1 comments

Spec-Driven Design with Kiro: Lessons from Seddle

https://medium.com/@dustin_44710/spec-driven-design-with-kiro-lessons-from-seddle-9320ef18a61f
1•nslog•7m ago•0 comments

Agents need good developer experience too

https://modal.com/blog/agents-devex
1•birdculture•8m ago•0 comments

The Dark Factory

https://twitter.com/i/status/2020161285376082326
1•Ozzie_osman•8m ago•0 comments

Free data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS (2024)

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/free-data-transfer-out-to-internet-when-moving-out-of-aws/
1•tosh•9m ago•0 comments

Interop 2025: A Year of Convergence

https://webkit.org/blog/17808/interop-2025-review/
1•alwillis•10m ago•0 comments

Prejudice Against Leprosy

https://text.npr.org/g-s1-108321
1•hi41•11m ago•0 comments

Slint: Cross Platform UI Library

https://slint.dev/
1•Palmik•15m ago•0 comments

AI and Education: Generative AI and the Future of Critical Thinking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7PvscqGD24
1•nyc111•15m ago•0 comments

Maple Mono: Smooth your coding flow

https://font.subf.dev/en/
1•signa11•16m ago•0 comments

Moltbook isn't real but it can still hurt you

https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/tech-things-moltbook-isnt-real-but
1•theahura•20m ago•0 comments

Take Back the Em Dash–and Your Voice

https://spin.atomicobject.com/take-back-em-dash/
1•ingve•21m ago•0 comments

Show HN: 289x speedup over MLP using Spectral Graphs

https://zenodo.org/login/?next=%2Fme%2Fuploads%3Fq%3D%26f%3Dshared_with_me%25253Afalse%26l%3Dlist...
1•andrespi•21m ago•0 comments

Teaching Mathematics

https://www.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~spurny/doc/articles/arnold.htm
2•samuel246•24m ago•0 comments

3D Printed Microfluidic Multiplexing [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ2ZcOzLnGg
2•downboots•24m ago•0 comments

Abstractions Are in the Eye of the Beholder

https://software.rajivprab.com/2019/08/29/abstractions-are-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder/
2•whack•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Routed Attention – 75-99% savings by routing between O(N) and O(N²)

https://zenodo.org/records/18518956
1•MikeBee•25m ago•0 comments

We didn't ask for this internet – Ezra Klein show [video]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ve02F0gyfjY
1•softwaredoug•26m ago•0 comments

The Real AI Talent War Is for Plumbers and Electricians

https://www.wired.com/story/why-there-arent-enough-electricians-and-plumbers-to-build-ai-data-cen...
2•geox•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MimiClaw, OpenClaw(Clawdbot)on $5 Chips

https://github.com/memovai/mimiclaw
1•ssslvky1•29m ago•0 comments

I Maintain My Blog in the Age of Agents

https://www.jerpint.io/blog/2026-02-07-how-i-maintain-my-blog-in-the-age-of-agents/
3•jerpint•29m ago•0 comments

The Fall of the Nerds

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-fall-of-the-nerds
1•otoolep•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I'm 15 and built a free tool for reading ancient texts.

https://the-lexicon-project.netlify.app/
5•breadwithjam•34m ago•2 comments

How close is AI to taking my job?

https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/how-close-is-ai-to-taking-my-job
1•cjbarber•34m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: Why would you downvote without replying?

7•txrx0000•2mo ago
Or rather, why is downvoting without replying even allowed on HN (which is supposed to be a place for discussion and enlightenment)? The real life equivalent of this is yelling "boo", and then refusing to elaborate. This is a horrible thing invented by social media: it incentivizes people to behave like booing monkeys rather than intelligent humans that communicate using language. Can we change this on HN?

Comments

aeonfox•2mo ago
I'm inclined to agree. But occasionally, someone is so dead set on talking past every point made and or is just posting flame-bait. Engaging with them doesn't help.

I think at least one chance for them to clarify their position, or genuinely answer to critique should be given. If it's clear that it's just a drive-by low-effort comment, or if they just have an axe to grind, only then should they be downvoted. If they are serial offenders, they typically get shadow-banned.

accrual•2mo ago
I would like to hear others' opinions as well. I guess for me it's a simple mechanism shared with many other social sites. A series of downvotes without explanation demonstrates the zeitgeist disapproves. Maybe the reason why is obvious, maybe it's not and thus deserves elaboration for the sake of everyone reviewing.
DrierCycle•2mo ago
As our species looks pretty ill fitted in its niche these days, the zeitgeist is usually about preserving paradoxes at all costs to keep status quo. And that's reflected here pretty strongly. Much of what's come out of SV appeared at one time beneficial, and now it looks like the industry has shifted to dystopian. The zeitgeist that enforces that may be lost.
theamk•2mo ago
That'd be a stronger argument if there was an actual up/down vote count visible. Right now, there is not one - for users other than yourself, all you have is "positive/not" indicator.

So if you see someone's grayed-out comment, it could be a single disagreeing user, or hundred of them - you have no way to know.

fragmede•2mo ago
Comments here only go to -4 before becoming dead and hidden by default. So if you're seeing a greyed out comment, at most four people found it disagreeable enough to downvote, and no one felt like upvoting it. Or there's been a lot of downs and ups but it balances out to, say, -2.
Tadpole9181•2mo ago
Not everyone is discussing in good faith, just because it's "enlightened" HN. And just because I have an opinion doesn't mean I want to argue with them endlessly. Accounts are free and require no credentials, we get bots and Nazis and fools like anywhere else.

However, I disagree with you on a second point. If you comment, don't downvote at all. Your words make your opinions known and downvoting feels both disrespectful to your conversational partner and arrogant. Like voting for yourself for prom king.

theamk•2mo ago
There are some arguments which have been rehashed to death on internet. Yes, I could write yet another version it, but why? Author has likely seen it a lot of times already, I am unlikely to change their mind. So downvote and move on.

And I think hiding others' scores is a very important part HN's culture - making up/down votes is direct communication with author, not "virtue signalling". And authors themselves have no way to compare them with others. (Unlike Reddit, where large negative score often invite even more downvotes from "regulars")

lobito25•2mo ago
Because time is my most precious asset.
fragmede•2mo ago
Sometimes someone's wrong and it's clear it's not gonna be worth anyone's time to thoughtfully engage with that the user. I know the guidelines say to go with the strongest interpretation of a comment, but when the comment is if the level of "Wake up sheeple, 911 was an inside job!!1!" I'm sorry, but that gets a drive-by downvote from me.
TowerTall•2mo ago
It would make a boring read to have all these "negative reviews" of every other comment.