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Spec-Driven Design with Kiro: Lessons from Seddle

https://medium.com/@dustin_44710/spec-driven-design-with-kiro-lessons-from-seddle-9320ef18a61f
1•nslog•34s ago•0 comments

Agents need good developer experience too

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

The Dark Factory

https://twitter.com/i/status/2020161285376082326
1•Ozzie_osman•1m 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•2m ago•0 comments

Interop 2025: A Year of Convergence

https://webkit.org/blog/17808/interop-2025-review/
1•alwillis•4m ago•0 comments

Prejudice Against Leprosy

https://text.npr.org/g-s1-108321
1•hi41•5m ago•0 comments

Slint: Cross Platform UI Library

https://slint.dev/
1•Palmik•9m ago•0 comments

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7PvscqGD24
1•nyc111•9m ago•0 comments

Maple Mono: Smooth your coding flow

https://font.subf.dev/en/
1•signa11•10m 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•13m ago•0 comments

Take Back the Em Dash–and Your Voice

https://spin.atomicobject.com/take-back-em-dash/
1•ingve•14m 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•15m ago•0 comments

Teaching Mathematics

https://www.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~spurny/doc/articles/arnold.htm
1•samuel246•17m ago•0 comments

3D Printed Microfluidic Multiplexing [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ2ZcOzLnGg
2•downboots•18m 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•18m 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•18m ago•0 comments

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

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ve02F0gyfjY
1•softwaredoug•19m 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•22m ago•0 comments

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

https://github.com/memovai/mimiclaw
1•ssslvky1•22m 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•22m ago•0 comments

The Fall of the Nerds

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-fall-of-the-nerds
1•otoolep•24m ago•0 comments

I'm 15 and built a free tool for reading Greek/Latin texts. Would love feedback

https://the-lexicon-project.netlify.app/
2•breadwithjam•27m ago•1 comments

How close is AI to taking my job?

https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/how-close-is-ai-to-taking-my-job
1•cjbarber•27m ago•0 comments

You are the reason I am not reviewing this PR

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/479442
2•midzer•29m ago•1 comments

Show HN: FamilyMemories.video – Turn static old photos into 5s AI videos

https://familymemories.video
1•tareq_•31m ago•0 comments

How Meta Made Linux a Planet-Scale Load Balancer

https://softwarefrontier.substack.com/p/how-meta-turned-the-linux-kernel
1•CortexFlow•31m ago•0 comments

A Turing Test for AI Coding

https://t-cadet.github.io/programming-wisdom/#2026-02-06-a-turing-test-for-ai-coding
2•phi-system•31m ago•0 comments

How to Identify and Eliminate Unused AWS Resources

https://medium.com/@vkelk/how-to-identify-and-eliminate-unused-aws-resources-b0e2040b4de8
3•vkelk•32m ago•0 comments

A2CDVI – HDMI output from from the Apple IIc's digital video output connector

https://github.com/MrTechGadget/A2C_DVI_SMD
2•mmoogle•32m ago•0 comments

CLI for Common Playwright Actions

https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-cli
3•saikatsg•33m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Why more than a quarter of Americans admit to stealing from self-checkout

https://www.marketplace.org/story/2025/12/11/why-are-people-stealing-from-selfcheckout
4•geox•1mo ago

Comments

zippyman55•1mo ago
It does not seem worth it. I purchased a $15 drain pipe from Home Depot and had placed a $1.49 end cap on it so my purchase came to $1.49 and not the $16.49 it should have. I caught my error and paid for both. But had I followed thru, they would have had me on video. Not fast forward a few other suspicious transactions and one day you actually are busted. The store will have a collection of video evidence that clearly allows them to distinguish your actions as not simple mistakes. So I think anyone could do this once or twice by accident. But the risks vs reward issue seems very high for multiple thefts as when you are eventually caught. They can pull up all your recorded credit card transactions and quickly build a case.
trashface•1mo ago
The machines can be buggy. The one I use (Giant supermarkets) often doesn't ask for a quantity on navel oranges. It just rings up the the price for one and says put them in the bag. I don't want to bother the attendant, who's often busy debugging some problem another person is having, so I just put them in the bag. I've probably not paid for a few 10s of bucks on navel oranges this way over the past few years.

The anti-theft system is pretty paranoid though. I've tripped up its video alarm a few times just with my normal awkward motions - waffling about which item I want to scan next, while holding it, seems to mess it up. The attendant comes over and we both watch the review video from the camera above featuring a few seconds of my receding hairline, he clears it and I keep going.

But I still prefer self-checkout greatly over weird/awkward human interactions, and I can bag at my own pace too and i'm not holding up the line.

JohnFen•1mo ago
I learned to dislike self-checkout years ago and so I generally avoid it. If I have one or two items, am in a big hurry, and there's no line at the self-checkout, then I used it, but in the last couple of years I've even stopped doing that exactly because of this kind of thing.

Why would I willingly put myself in a situation where I am under increased scrutiny and could easily be wrongly accused of theft?

> He said retailers are investing in improving those machines with AI.

This makes the whole self-checkout thing seem even riskier.