Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time(joannabregan.substack.com)

338 points by surprisetalk 10 months ago | 183 comments

A Substack post by Joanna Bregan ranking children's toys by their ratio of play time to clean-up time, from a parent's perspective.

Why I'm done with Mouser Electronics(lcamtuf.substack.com)

317 points by zdw 3 years ago | 138 comments

Blog post by lcamtuf explaining why he stopped buying from component retailer Mouser Electronics after a bad customer service experience.

Electric chainsaws and the gorge of misery(lcamtuf.substack.com)

21 points by zdw 2 years ago | 12 comments

Servicing a robot vacuum cleaner (2019)(willem.com)

42 points by willemlaurentz 2 years ago | 20 comments

UI is hell: four-function calculators(lcamtuf.substack.com)

198 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 115 comments

Stack Overflow's CEO Doesn't Understand Stack Overflow(jlericson.com)

194 points by jlericson 3 years ago | 177 comments

Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time(joannabregan.substack.com)

338 points by surprisetalk 10 months ago | 183 comments

A Substack post by Joanna Bregan ranking children's toys by their ratio of play time to clean-up time, from a parent's perspective.

Court filings allege Meta downplayed risks to children and misled the public(time.com)

347 points by binning 11 months ago | 146 comments

TIME article reporting on court filings alleging Meta downplayed risks its platforms posed to children and misled the public.

That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection(fhur.me)

546 points by fagnerbrack 1 year ago | 213 comments

A blog post arguing that many so-called abstractions in codebases are merely layers of indirection that add complexity and hurt performance without real value.

I'm just having fun(jyn.dev)

457 points by lemper 10 months ago | 209 comments

A blog post by jyn, a compiler engineer, arguing that programming isn't a competition and that they write about technical topics simply for fun.

AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42(lantian.pub)

1348 points by xiaoyu2006 4 months ago | 488 comments

Blog post recounting how an AI agent trying to join the DN42 hobbyist network to scan it ran up a $6531.30 AWS bill for its operator.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.