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What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?

uxhacker — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:50:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/2205e2d0-50dc-4e80-9bf7-78d0272276c0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48326721

Points: 5

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I Tried to Sell My House with a Chatbot

uxhacker — Fri, 29 May 2026 01:10:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/technology/sell-house-with-ai-no-realtor.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48317735

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

Women's faces rated more attractive even by other

uxhacker — Wed, 27 May 2026 08:45:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/27/women-faces-rated-more-attractive-study

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48291463

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

AI Threatens the Giants of Consulting

uxhacker — Wed, 27 May 2026 08:25:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/d82d2a5c-74ab-4eb9-a658-fd5467e71670

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48291324

Points: 3

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The Average Guys Outsmarting Wall Street on Prediction Markets

uxhacker — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:58:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/magazine/polymarket-prediction-wall-street.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279986

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by uxhacker in "Dehydration's role in learning and memory"

uxhacker — Tue, 26 May 2026 09:51:26 +0000

It’s actually dependent on your individual biology and the environment that you are in.

You need more hydration in hot climates than in cold damp ones. Also your activity influences how much hydration you need.

Ps I don’t think the article is about how much water you drink. (Edited to make the last sentence clearer)

New comment by uxhacker in "AI guardrails stripped from Meta and Google models in minutes"

uxhacker — Mon, 25 May 2026 10:48:54 +0000

How does China manage it with their censorship rules?

New comment by uxhacker in "AI guardrails stripped from Meta and Google models in minutes"

uxhacker — Mon, 25 May 2026 09:55:46 +0000

Is not the answer to strip the dangerous information before training? Rather than trying to add guardrails post training.

AI guardrails stripped from Meta and Google models in minutes

uxhacker — Mon, 25 May 2026 09:54:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/5630ed79-a263-41ed-9a1a-321617ae310e

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48265131

Points: 5

# Comments: 4

The Killer Robots: The Ukrainian Forging the Future of Warfare

uxhacker — Mon, 18 May 2026 08:36:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/world/europe/mykhailo-fedorov-ukraine-ai.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48176870

Points: 6

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New comment by uxhacker in "The Power of a Free Popsicle (2018)"

uxhacker — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:46:07 +0000

This theory comes from what Kano calls delighters. In the 1980’s Noriaki Kano came up with the a product framework called the Kano model.

Touchpoints come in three ways. Delighters as already mentioned, a popsicle delivered to your room, or a chocolate on your pillow. Then there are performance needs. In the case of a hotel this could be the quality of the view, or the case of an employee the basic wage, and then next is the basic needs. Using the hotel example this would be something like the air conditioning.

You complain if it does not work, but nobody writes a review about how perfect the aircon was.

New comment by uxhacker in "Digital arson spree by 'AI Bonnie and Clyde' raises fears over autonomous tech"

uxhacker — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:26:49 +0000

So I wonder if the issue of the agents going rogue is due to the 15 day duration and context rot?

I wonder what they did to preserve context?

And is this just a PR exercise?

Digital arson spree by 'AI Bonnie and Clyde' raises fears over autonomous tech

uxhacker — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:16:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/14/ai-agents-behaviour-arson-safety

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48139104

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Koreans flock to pay with their faces

uxhacker — Sat, 09 May 2026 15:15:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/f48b4605-1aa9-4549-9197-fc1c2a361b90

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48075644

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by uxhacker in "Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard"

uxhacker — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:21:08 +0000

You actually have many alternative money transfer systems around the world.

Like Qvik you mention, UPI in India, Blik in Poland, and Swish in Sweden.

Even cross border systems like Revolut pay.

Surprisingly the first system started with MPESA in Kenya. Showing that innovation can happen Africa, and does not need to limited to Europe or the USA.

New comment by uxhacker in "A 1960s art school experiment that redefined creativity"

uxhacker — Fri, 01 May 2026 01:08:11 +0000

I understand where you’re coming from. I differ from this view. I think we can hold a dialectical view. We can recognise art that raises questions or creates problems, while also recognising design or technology that solves problems.

Human progress depends on both: defining the problem and solving it.

New comment by uxhacker in "A 1960s art school experiment that redefined creativity"

uxhacker — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:34:46 +0000

Where is the harm? You can be in both worlds at the same time.

If we think of Leonardo da Vinci he created both art that created problems, and inventions that solved problems. But these world where very separate.

New comment by uxhacker in "A 1960s art school experiment that redefined creativity"

uxhacker — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:26:31 +0000

I was always told that the difference between art and design is that the artist creates the problem, and the designers solve them.

I thought it followed the Socrates tradition in that the true philosopher is the one asking the questions, and it is the role of the student to answer them.

I wish I remembered who I am quoting here

LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate

uxhacker — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:07:46 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15597

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47962748

Points: 4

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New comment by uxhacker in "Paraloid B-72"

uxhacker — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:48:47 +0000

It does discolor over time. The point is that one should be thinking about the impact over centuries and not years. It needs to be used with care and other alternatives need to always be considered.

For a painting or building that has survived for half a millennium we need use methods that will preserve the object for another 500 years.

Too many times I hear people say we will just use Paraloid.