you'll die violently if she find out you are behind the dissapearance of her hairbands. (At least that would happen to me)

You don't even need to be behind the disappearance to be eligible for the death penalty. Even if it wasn't you... somebody's gotta pay

The part that the cost of changing software is unknown, ignored and fixed is not true anymore. This is a thing I realized recently.

A company cannot get free (o low cost) software changes anymore. Someone invented llms and they charge by work produced (useful or not)

So a PM cannot "save" costs by pushing. The employees will resort to their agents and there will be cost. If there is no agent, another company will beat them. So now a change has a measurable cost and even you can calculate in what was spent (agent logs)

They'll charge you extra then.

What a sad concept

Awwww the curse

Fools, they lost a source of very valuable training data.

Nope. Google+ was a ghost town. They made the right call to shut it down and focus their efforts on YouTube.

The videos and comments on YT are superb training data, every bit as good as Google+ was.

In 2025, YouTube’s total revenue (advertising + subscriptions like YouTube Premium and TV) surpassed $60 billion. If they spun out YT it would have a market cap $500-600bn putting it in the top 20 companies. Google+ would never have been worth much as the 7th most popular social network.

> comments on YT are superb training data

This I find hard to believe. Most YT comments are just noise. Even the UX of writing comments in YT is just terrible. Comments randomly appear and disappear, and you are never sure if it is some yt algorithm, a technical issue or specific moderation practice. I am pretty sure if they valued yt comments as data, they would have put a bit more effort into that side of their platform.

Ghost town was the best part, for users like me. I didn't want another fb or insta. The circles and community were great.

The videos are good training data, but the comments? The comment UX is so non-conducive to discussion, and the general quality is very low compared to what used to be on Google+ (to be fair, the self-selected users of Google+ were not representative of the general population).

It's the first computer I ever programmed, I was twelve years old then. <3

Why the plutocrats believe that the entity emerging from the singularity will side with them? Really curious

Please show the game list in random order, or starting in a random position. Just to promote the discovery of the games later in the alphabet. (Or end up with games called ______11_roguexxx, lol)

Indeed. This is precisely what we did for the HN Personal Websites Directory at <https://hnpwd.github.io/>. The website info cards are shown in random order, with the ordering reshuffled every hour.

I am not a professional web developer but I have been using JavaScript since 2001 or so. It is only this month that I realised JavaScript does not have a way to seed the pseudorandom number generator (PRNG). So there was no way to do something like:

  srand(Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000 / 3600))

As a result, I had to implement a linear congruential generator (LCG) based on the Knuth parameters: <https://github.com/hnpwd/hnpwd/blob/1e513b1/web/script.js>. When I first came across the LCG algorithm (in K&R with different parameters) in the early 2000s, I felt it was neat but assumed I would never need it, since almost every mainstream language comes with a reasonable PRNG. Little did I know back then that the most ubiquitous language on the web would make that old knowledge useful again, some 25 years later.

Fixed :) Like I mentioned elsewhere this was a project born out of my desire to try a new documentation framework (docusaurus)... however the sorting of the docs is not super convenient.

Ive added a randomisation to the list, so hopefully it makes it fairer. If this maintains some traction perhaps Ill beef up the site and make it much more fairer/customizable :)

I strongly disagree with that. It's so irritating as a user when sites have a random ordering to things. I can envision a "random" button being useful, but not having a random order to the list.

I got bored with articles trying to make some controvertial points just to grab some attention / traffic. (he says so in the article).

The OP doest't even deserve your sincere and just to the point response.