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The Normalization of Inexplicable Failures

https://www.ihatethefuture.com/2026/09/the-normalization-of-inexplicable.html
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hyperhello•33m ago
If you spend more time with a product, you’re more likely to choose to do it again, even if it’s because of failure or annoyance. You’d justify it somehow (I have a leg up now or something). This actually applies to looking at things as well; a brightly colored box on the supermarket shelf is simply more likely to be chosen because you look at it first and longer.

Wasting your time and resources is a power signifier, but getting you to waste your own time and your own resources is hegemony.

voidhorse•6m ago
This is the problem building "it does everything" machines.

If you are pitching that your service can do potentially "whatever the client wants" you have such a thin basis on which to provide contracts and guarantees as a provider. The narrower the function, the clearer you can be about what's supposed to happen and why things might have gone wrong.

When you're using probabilities as the fundamental approach to computation, all of that goes out the window. Nondeterminism is powerful because it's insanely flexible, but the cost of that flexibility is predictability and expectation. Determinism was humanity's primary choice for formalisms and technology precisely because it reduces complex problems and situations to repeatable mechanics that are easy to understand. Deterministic tools can't do a lot in the grand scheme of things, but it is precisely these limitations that make them work well in concert and keep them comprehensible.

Show HN: Drive your Chrome window from the shell

https://github.com/borisreitman/browser-session-ctl
1•boris1•52s ago•0 comments

Glyd – Run LLMs in 33% less GPU memory, bit for bit

https://getglyd.com/
1•surya-koritala•2m ago•0 comments

Dead Cognitions: A Census of Misattributed Insights

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.10288
1•Michelangelo11•3m ago•0 comments

A fast, open-source iOS Simulator for Xcode 27

https://github.com/Mastersam07/OpenDeviceHub
1•cs1996•4m ago•2 comments

Railway-Oriented Programming

https://kciter.so/posts/railway-oriented-programming/en/
1•signa11•5m ago•0 comments

Why Has No One Made a "Concert Hero" VR Game Yet?

https://utkusen.substack.com/p/why-has-no-one-made-a-concert-hero
1•utku1337•5m ago•0 comments

There are no "rogue" AI agents

https://eoinhiggins.substack.com/p/there-are-no-rogue-ai-agents
1•zzzeek•5m ago•0 comments

Panthropic Abuse: The Developmental Architecture of Constellated Abuse – Zenodo

https://zenodo.org/records/22995335
1•RhizomaticMind•7m ago•0 comments

Kimi K3 vs. Claude Opus 5.5: How Two Flagship LLMs Built Pokémon Emerald Worms

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1•suhacker256•8m ago•0 comments

Packing Binary Is Fun, Actually

https://hereticpleb.vercel.app/blog/packing-binary-is-fun-actually
1•signa11•8m ago•0 comments

Ford's Latest Employee of the Month Is a Hawk Named 'El Charro'

https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/fords-factory-hermosillo-mexico-pigeons-hawk-el-charro-b78d90ae
1•geneticdrifts•10m ago•0 comments

Hello. Are you there? (a short story on alignment)

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1•valbis•10m ago•1 comments

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https://github.com/plusminushalf/rot-guard
1•garvitdelhi•13m ago•0 comments

Advancing Private AI Compute with secure, server-side memory

https://deepmind.google/blog/advancing-private-ai-compute-with-secure-server-side-memory/
2•gmays•14m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Do you keep Emacs installed out of nostalgia rather than usefulness?

2•amichail•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: An MCP-enabled cross between Twitter X Bumble BFF X ChatGPT

https://druggie.org/log/join/d84c1ae8566b861b8000050de79a3776
1•freshman_dev•17m ago•0 comments

The Mars Delusion

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2•Tomte•19m ago•0 comments

LiveMaply – Real-time website visitor analytics and live chat

https://livemaply.com/
1•panob•23m ago•0 comments

My Server Was Hacked

https://gowtham.dev/blog/my-server-was-hacked.html
4•gowthamgts12•23m ago•0 comments

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https://github.com/jatoran/swe-mux
1•jatora•23m ago•0 comments

Ultima Online Retrospective (4.5 hour documentary) [video]

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1•CharlesW•24m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A goal tracker that looks like a 1983 terminal, drawn in Swift

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1•NSergeevich•24m ago•0 comments

Northstar Browser

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9p39zb79jv0t?hl=en-US&gl=US
3•roschdal•27m ago•2 comments

The Tragic Alley of the LLM

https://nikotak.com/tragic-alley-of-the-llm.html
2•tzury•29m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT and Perplexity agreed on only 1 in 4 local business recommendations

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2•ravinder_cheema•32m ago•0 comments

Show HN: TinyAIArena watch AI agents battle it out

https://tinyaiarena.com/
12•hp6•34m ago•3 comments

Show HN: MacUp – keep CLI tools up to date from the menu bar

https://macup.patriciobcs.com/
4•patriciobcs•35m ago•0 comments

Trump Set to Roll Back Biden-Era Auto Fuel Economy Standards

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-26/trump-set-to-roll-back-biden-era-auto-fuel-eco...
4•melling•37m ago•0 comments

How Fast You Age During 40s May Predict Memory Lapses in Your 50s

https://nautil.us/how-fast-you-age-during-40s-may-predict-memory-lapses-in-your-50s-1285315
3•Brajeshwar•42m ago•0 comments

Tyndall Effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyndall_effect
2•thunderbong•43m ago•0 comments