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Microwave Oven Failure: Spontaneously turned on by its LED display (2024)

https://blog.stuffedcow.net/2024/06/microwave-failure-spontaneously-turns-on/
28•arm•2h ago

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bell-cot•1h ago
168 points and 116 comments at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41480038
rbanffy•1h ago
Very impressive engineering on the door switches. On the display, not so much.
1970-01-01•35m ago
This is literally evidence of stuff being designed to fail. An extra diode costs less than a cent at production scale. This was a manufacturing choice, not an error.
HPsquared•9m ago
Don't underestimate the appeal of saving one cent per unit. So long as the costs are externalised, anyway...
wat10000•1m ago
It’s not exactly designed to fail, they just don’t care. If they could add a one-cent part that made it fail sooner, they wouldn’t do that either.

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