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Four Column ASCII (2017)

https://garbagecollected.org/2017/01/31/four-column-ascii/
81•tempodox•1d ago•18 comments

14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-14-year-old-is-using-origami-to-design-emergency-s...
632•bookofjoe•13h ago•122 comments

Rise of the Triforce

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240•max-m•11h ago•29 comments

A deep dive into Apple's .car file format

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67•MrFinch•2d ago•0 comments

Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11988
87•mustaphah•20h ago•53 comments

Poor Deming never stood a chance

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55•todsacerdoti•6h ago•7 comments

What your Bluetooth devices reveal

https://blog.dmcc.io/journal/2026-bluetooth-privacy-bluehood/
400•ssgodderidge•17h ago•150 comments

Visual introduction to PyTorch

https://0byte.io/articles/pytorch_introduction.html
228•0bytematt•3d ago•17 comments

Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue

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173•zachlatta•11h ago•81 comments

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376•colinprince•7h ago•194 comments

Show HN: Scanned 1927-1945 Daily USFS Work Diary

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88•dogline•8h ago•16 comments

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55•lorisdev•8h ago•28 comments

Rendering the Visible Spectrum

https://brandonli.net/spectra/doc/
16•signa11•2d ago•3 comments

DBASE on the Kaypro II

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41•TMWNN•3d ago•14 comments

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93•GoodluckH•6h ago•35 comments

SvarDOS – an open-source DOS distribution

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31•d_silin•2h ago•3 comments

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Ghidra by NSA

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356•handfuloflight•3d ago•190 comments

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4•elayabharath•20h ago•0 comments

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44•tesserato•3d ago•19 comments

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92•kianN•12h ago•16 comments

Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox

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101•four_fifths•9h ago•48 comments

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106•presbyterian•14h ago•86 comments

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76•AnujNayyar•11h ago•50 comments

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88•yichab0d•13h ago•36 comments

Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files

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345•dvrp•1d ago•67 comments

SkillsBench: Benchmarking how well agent skills work across diverse tasks

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329•mustaphah•11h ago•139 comments

Turing Labs (YC W20) Is Hiring – Founding GTM Sales Hacker

1•turinglabs•11h ago

PCB Rework and Repair Guide [pdf]

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128•varjag•2d ago•36 comments

Testing Postgres race conditions with synchronization barriers

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85•lirbank•12h ago•46 comments
Open in hackernews

Instagram boss says 16 hours of daily use is 'problematic' not addiction

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn71mgmzljlo
49•pseudolus•6h ago

Comments

walletdrainer•2h ago
That seems like it’s probably correct, and utterly unsurprising.

Why does this deserve a headline?

nielsbot•1h ago
That he said it or that the label “problematic” is correct?
thisislife2•1h ago
Do you really believe 16 hours of use daily is not indicative of an addiction? It deserves a headline as it is is a controversial statement that aims to minimise criticism against social media platforms and thus needs to be challenged / debated in society. If social media addiction is not treated as a social problem, the people will not pressure the government to regulate it. That is why social media platforms are claiming that it is only (a personal) problem (of some individual) if some use it for 16 hours while others suggest that it has become a societal problem because its users are now addicts. Social problems needs political solutions to address, and in this case one of the suggested ways is government intervention (through regulations).
bdamm•1h ago
It is absolutely revealing that the Instagram boss can’t openly admit that 16 hours of daily use is a problem.

Name one thing that is okay to do for 16 hours a day. One.

King-Aaron•1h ago
breathing
atomicapple•1h ago
> the Instagram boss can’t openly admit that 16 hours of daily use is a problem.

> Instagram boss says 16 hours of daily use is "problematic"

tgv•1h ago
Not the best argument, as the answer is breathing.
ta8903•1h ago
I don't think it's okay to breathe for 16 hours a day.
DavidPiper•1h ago
If Instagram is as omnipresent as breathing we still have problem.
andsoitis•1h ago
> It is absolutely revealing that the Instagram boss can’t openly admit that 16 hours of daily use is a problem.

He literally said it is problematic!

godelski•1h ago
Considering teenagers should get more than 8hrs of sleep, 16 hours means they're losing sleep because they spent more than their waking hours on a single thing...
giancarlostoro•1h ago
Ah yes, my high school years, go to sleep at 1 ~ 2 AM wake up at 5 AM in order to get ready for high school. There was no instagram, insomnia was still terrible. Teens need a lot of sleep time, but I feel like I was way more resilient on less sleep. Compared to now where I can barely function without at least 7 hours of sleep.
leosanchez•1h ago
When does it become an addiction? 26 hours?
JumpCrisscross•1h ago
> Adam Mosseri, who has led Instagram for eight years

This is the light of moral clarity in Mountain View that champions Instagram for Kids [1].

[1] https://www.npr.org/2021/12/08/1062576576/instagrams-ceo-ada...

scarab92•1h ago
It’s worth keeping in mind that 16 hours was their single highest day of use ever, not their typical daily use.

I’m sure I’ve spent 16 hours on Netflix or League of Legends in a 24 hour period before, yet my median daily usage is 0 hours, and it wouldn’t be reasonable to describe my usage as an addition either.

I’m not saying people don’t get addicted to social media, they do, but in this particular case I think his description of problematic is adequate, and this headline is unnecessarily confrontational.

throwawayk7h•1h ago
habituation and addiction are technically different. But both can be very damaging.
carabiner•1h ago
Are we the bad guys then?
daniel_iversen•1h ago
[assuming you work for Meta or a social media company] in theory (and not that debatable IMHO) if the net contribution to society on balance is negative?
stinkbeetle•1h ago
He would say that.
Surac•1h ago
If i only look ar it every 8 hours for 10 secs then 16 hours may be ok
intellectronica•1h ago
Technically correct. We can't call every compulsive behaviour "addiction". Using a social app for 16 hours a day is a very serious problem and requires treatment. But it's not addiction in the same sense that other commonly-recognised addictions to substance and even behaviours are.
whilenot-dev•47m ago
I'd call every enjoyment that isn't practiced as a ritual an addiction, and healthy rituals should not take up more than a fraction of the available time.

With 16 hours of daily use (and 8 hours of sleep per day) I wouldn't contrast the batched consumption here on an hours/day-basis, but on a days/year-basis, like going on a trip, a festival etc. Since that basically results in all the days available each year here, it isn't really a practiced ritual anymore, but a complete lifestyle.

baxtr•1h ago
It’s good to have a definition in place before a discussion.

People with addiction use substances or engage in behaviors that become compulsive and often continue despite harmful consequences.

This is from the American Society of Addiction Medicine.

You can do your own test if this matches watching short videos extensively.

https://www.asam.org/quality-care/definition-of-addiction

rester324•40m ago
IMO we are way past beyond the point where these definitions are necessary. The consensus is that social media sites are objectively mentally harmful
sidcool•1h ago
"Thank you for smoking"
b00ty4breakfast•54m ago
I could maybe be more amenable to considering his opinion if his product wasn't designed to elicit this kind of behavior in users. Whether 16 hours specifically is the norm or just an extreme outlier, it is still the desired outcome of every decision that goes into engineering and building Instagram.

eating 20 twinkies a day isn't necessarily the norm but twinkies have been formulated to make you want to eat them.

Frieren•46m ago
> "I'm sure I've said that I've been addicted to a Netflix show when I binged it really late one night, but I don't think it's the same thing as clinical addiction."

Tobacco defense. He is defending himself in a trial, is a very biased opinion.

> Familial links to lung cancer manifestation first appeared in the literature in the 1960s when siblings were found to have an increase in lung cancer mortality. ... The first published piece of literature attributing cigarette smoking to the growing incidence of lung cancer was in 1912 ... Tobacco companies enlisted the medical and nursing professions to promote the safety of their products in their advertising materials

Stop listening to billionaires and CEOs that profit the most from the damage that their business do to society. They lie for money, as simple as that.