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OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% of Apps Will Disappear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uzGDAoNOZc
1•schwentkerr•3m ago•0 comments

What Happens When Technical Debt Vanishes?

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11316905
1•blenderob•4m ago•0 comments

AI Is Finally Eating Software's Total Market: Here's What's Next

https://vinvashishta.substack.com/p/ai-is-finally-eating-softwares-total
1•gmays•5m ago•0 comments

Computer Science from the Bottom Up

https://www.bottomupcs.com/
1•gurjeet•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a toy compiler as a young dev

https://vire-lang.web.app
1•xeouz•7m ago•0 comments

You don't need Mac mini to run OpenClaw

https://runclaw.sh
1•rutagandasalim•8m ago•0 comments

Learning to Reason in 13 Parameters

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04118
1•nicholascarolan•10m ago•0 comments

Convergent Discovery of Critical Phenomena Mathematics Across Disciplines

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22389
1•energyscholar•10m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Will GPU and RAM prices ever go down?

1•alentred•10m ago•0 comments

From hunger to luxury: The story behind the most expensive rice (2025)

https://www.cnn.com/travel/japan-expensive-rice-kinmemai-premium-intl-hnk-dst
2•mooreds•11m ago•0 comments

Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi...
5•mindracer•12m ago•1 comments

A New Crypto Winter Is Here and Even the Biggest Bulls Aren't Certain Why

https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/a-new-crypto-winter-is-here-and-even-the-biggest-bulls-are...
1•thm•12m ago•0 comments

Moltbook was peak AI theater

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/
1•Brajeshwar•13m ago•0 comments

Why Claude Cowork is a math problem Indian IT can't solve

https://restofworld.org/2026/indian-it-ai-stock-crash-claude-cowork/
1•Brajeshwar•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Built an space travel calculator with vanilla JavaScript v2

https://www.cosmicodometer.space/
2•captainnemo729•13m ago•0 comments

Why a 175-Year-Old Glassmaker Is Suddenly an AI Superstar

https://www.wsj.com/tech/corning-fiber-optics-ai-e045ba3b
1•Brajeshwar•13m ago•0 comments

Micro-Front Ends in 2026: Architecture Win or Enterprise Tax?

https://iocombats.com/blogs/micro-frontends-in-2026
1•ghazikhan205•16m ago•0 comments

These White-Collar Workers Actually Made the Switch to a Trade

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/white-collar-mid-career-trades-caca4b5f
1•impish9208•16m ago•1 comments

The Wonder Drug That's Plaguing Sports

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/ostarine-olympics-doping.html
1•mooreds•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Which chef knife steels are good? Data from 540 Reddit tread

https://new.knife.day/blog/reddit-steel-sentiment-analysis
1•p-s-v•16m ago•0 comments

Federated Credential Management (FedCM)

https://ciamweekly.substack.com/p/federated-credential-management-fedcm
1•mooreds•17m ago•0 comments

Token-to-Credit Conversion: Avoiding Floating-Point Errors in AI Billing Systems

https://app.writtte.com/read/kZ8Kj6R
1•lasgawe•17m ago•1 comments

The Story of Heroku (2022)

https://leerob.com/heroku
1•tosh•17m ago•0 comments

Obey the Testing Goat

https://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/
1•mkl95•18m ago•0 comments

Claude Opus 4.6 extends LLM pareto frontier

https://michaelshi.me/pareto/
1•mikeshi42•19m ago•0 comments

Brute Force Colors (2022)

https://arnaud-carre.github.io/2022-12-30-amiga-ham/
1•erickhill•22m 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•22m ago•0 comments

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

https://bsky.app/profile/fullmoon.id/post/3meadfaulhk2s
1•todsacerdoti•23m ago•0 comments

Software development is undergoing a Renaissance in front of our eyes

https://twitter.com/gdb/status/2019566641491963946
1•tosh•23m ago•0 comments

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

https://tryward.app/aiquiz
1•bennydog224•24m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Anyone else tired of reading 5–10 review articles just to buy one product?

1•Mr-Mosh•1mo ago
Lately I’ve noticed that buying anything (laptop, headphones, keyboard, app, etc.) feels way harder than it should.

I end up opening 5–10 review sites, comparing slightly different “Top 10” lists, and still wondering:

• Which sites are actually trustworthy? • Why do rankings change so much? • Am I missing something better?

It made me wonder:

Would you trust an app/extension that automatically aggregates the best products across multiple reputable review sites, shows you the sources, and ranks them by how consistently they’re recommended?

Not asking about perfect accuracy — more about saving time and reducing decision fatigue.

Curious:

How do you personally decide what to buy?

Do you trust review sites today?

What would make you not trust something like this?

Genuinely interested in honest opinions — even if the answer is “this already exists” or “I wouldn’t use it.”

Comments

gus_massa•1mo ago
> Do you trust review sites today?

Nah.

I read like 5 or 10 and try to see the common pattern.

JohnFen•1mo ago
> Do you trust review sites today?

No. I consider reviews and review sites to be basically worthless and pay no attention to them. If I'm making a nontrivial purchase decision, I research the product itself first (not reviews of the product). The closest I get to paying attention to "reviews" is that I do a web search looking for people asking for help resolving issues with the product. That gives me a good idea of how problematic the product is and how much difficulty people have had engaging with the manufacturer about problems.

> Would you trust an app/extension that automatically aggregates the best products across multiple reputable review sites, shows you the sources, and ranks them by how consistently they’re recommended?

This is unlikely to be of interest to me. How would just a site define "best product", how would it decide what review sites are "reputable", etc.? Also, review aggregators like this historically have been even worse than the review sites themselves.