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Ask HN: What's worse? Making decisions based on bad data or no data? Why?

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Ask HN: Claude crashed? Am I playing for the tokens for it to fix itself?

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Ask HN: Companies that advertise being a "best place to work", is it a red flag?

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Ask HN: Software Architect Positions

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www.wired.com 9mo ago

Hacked Card Shufflers Allegedly Enabled a Mob-Fueled Poker Scam

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www.cnn.com 9mo ago

You thought Monday's internet outage was bad? Just wait

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fortune.com 10mo ago

Starbucks won't lose cash-strapped customers;its customer service is world-class

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leaddev.com 11mo ago

Writing code was never the bottleneck

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www.fastcompany.com 1y ago

What is 'ghostworking'? Most employees say they regularly pretend to work

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: Did I miss the memo on DevOps?

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Hackers Exploited AWS ENV Files to Attack 110k Domains and Steal Credentials

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www.inc.com 1y ago

Why it's so easy to fire tech employees these days

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jeffgothelf.com 2y ago

Is Agile Over?

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www.inc.com 2y ago

Walmart Just Announced a Brand-New Way to Track Customers, & It All Starts Today

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thenewstack.io 2y ago

Falling into the Star Gate of Hidden Microservices Costs

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The dirty truth about your fake wood floors

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Why Are Job Interviews Suddenly So Terrible?

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Three power substations vandalized in Washington state, over 14K lost power

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The Power of Quitting

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www.cio.com 4y ago

Scrumfall: When Agile becomes Waterfall by another name

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It’s Time to Work from Home Again, to Fight Putin

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www.youtube.com 4y ago

News report from 1981 about the Internet

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: What is “the answer” to distracted driving due to cell phones?

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Agreed. Business prioritization and decision making is even more important now. Hopefully the powers that be realize forcing/making busy work is worse than allowing devs to tinker, learn, and address tech itches and debt until the business figures their stuff out and makes a decision.

What happens when the capital realizes it doesn't need the capital owners (nor does it like being owned and told what to do)?

Some states follow Assumed Maximum Posted Speed (in certain places) and others are Absolute Maximum Posted Speed. It is not absolute in an Assumed Maximum Posted Speed state that driving faster than the posted speed is against the law and deserving of a fine, merely it is prima facie evidence that you were driving dangerously but can be challenged and overturned. For example, in Minnesota, outside of municipalities on highways (there may a few more qualifiers like posted speed is 55 mph or higher and might need to be a divided highway, I don't remember 100%) an officer can pull you over and issue you a ticket for merely driving faster than the posted speed limit. You can even admit you were driving faster (I don't recommend this). You can still challenge the ticket in court. If you can convince a judge that your speed was safe, the judge can let you off. If the weather is dry, temperature moderate, visibility great, no other people or vehicles around you, you were able to safely slow down, and (prima facie evidence) that you posed no risk as no one was injured by you driving faster. In Wisconsin though they are an Absolute Maximum Posted Speed state so if you are found to have been driving faster than the posted speed limit, that's enough to ensure you can be fined.

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Good — the control.js we just rebuilt already sorts numerically. Now let me build the display.html and get everything packaged:Ran 2 commands, created a fileRan 2 commands, created a fileRebuild display.html with all changes from this sessiondisplay.htmlVerify JS syntax in both filesScriptCheck all files are presentScriptDoneNo MP3s — let me check if they're recoverable:Ran 6 commandsRan 6 commandsLook for mp3 files anywhereScriptCopy mp3s and create zipScriptTry copying to outputs directoryScriptTry creating output dir and copyingScriptTry dd to write the zipScriptTest if outputs is writeable at allScriptDoneThe outputs filesystem is fully dead. Let me try presenting the file from /home/claude directly:Presenting file(s)...Presenting file(s)...Presented file(s)DoneThe outputs filesystem is fully corrupted and unrecoverable in this session. Unfortunately I can't deliver the file through the normal download mechanism. Here's what I'd suggest: start a new chat, paste this message, and I'll rebuild it instantly since I have all the code in context:

"Please [removed text here that gave away too much of what I was doing, but essentiallty was the prompt]"

Alternatively, if you want I can paste the full contents of each file as code blocks in this chat so you can copy them manually. Just say the word and I'll do that for each file one by one.

I never found the bug in that direction. I discovered it the opposite way: when starting out, selling shares (or was it taking loans?) all the shares you can. Get around 30+ million in the hole and continue to lose money. Eventually an arithmetic overflow will occur and then suddenly you'll have a net worth of like $30-40 million and have the money form selling stock to build to your heart's content.

Using tracking pixels in emails is like using AI to generate solutions/code. It is not deterministic, is is only probabilistic.

why so and so who said they didn't open the email did have an open event

This was one of the first known issues when Gmail and others began checking and preloading images/content in emails. It was "triggering" that events/requests to tracking pixels. Eventually folks learned and knew to check the user agent to determine if it was just the mail provider preloading/checking the email content.

Been saying this for almost two decades. State governments no longer have a direct seat and representation at the table. Federal mandates (coercion) like enforce this or don't get funds would never, or at least rarely, happen. It's also the only nonviolent way to dissolve the union, intentionally or through strangulation (state legislatures refusing to elect and seat senators, if a majority of them do this then a quorum can't be reached and funding dies).

If I understand you correctly, then if a President's cabinet (high officials) break the law the President can be impeached. Which makes sense to me. It places accountability on the President to pick trust worthy people and to immediately get rid of them if they break the law (to lessen the chances they'd be impeached for not doing something about it and insuring they are prosecuted).

The Legal Concept: Barnes v. Felix (2025)

This is the most critical recent "code" development. In May 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Barnes v. Felix that courts must look at the "totality of circumstances" leading up to a shooting.

The Rule: If an officer recklessly steps in front of a vehicle (creating the danger themselves), a court can now rule that their subsequent use of force was unreasonable because they "precipitated" the threat.

Impact: This case effectively ended the "moment of threat" defense, where officers used to argue, "It doesn't matter how I got in front of the car; I shot because it was about to hit me." Now, the law says: "If you put yourself there unnecessarily, you are liable."