Hacker News with Generative AI: User Experience

I don't like ChatGPT's new memory dossier (simonwillison.net)
Last month ChatGPT got a major upgrade. As far as I can tell the closest to an official announcement was this tweet from @OpenAI:

ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence, User Experience

21 points by ingve 2 days ago | 6 comments

Sloppy software is why you think you need new hardware (neowin.net)
There's something oddly disappointing about using modern computers.

Software, Hardware, User Experience

3 points by xemane 2 days ago | 0 comments

If an AI agent can't figure out how your API works, neither can your users (stytch.com)
LLM-powered agents are beginning to look a lot like tireless junior developers. Hand them an API along with the docs and they’ll diligently read the reference, issue a request, parse the error, adjust parameters, and try again and again—on loop—until something works.

Artificial Intelligence, APIs, Development, User Experience

97 points by mattmarcus 3 days ago | 52 comments

Ask HN: When do you just give up and ship it? (ycombinator.com)
Products are never really finished, they're always evolving and growing and changing, for better or worse. At what point do you draw the line, call it quits on further breaking changes, and ship it? Asking for a friend.

Software Development, Product Development, User Experience, Software Release

16 points by 90s_dev 3 days ago | 14 comments

Don't guess my language (vitonsky.net)
If you’re still using IP geolocation to decide what language to show, stop screwing around. It’s a broken assumption dressed up as a feature.

Web Development, Language Localization, User Experience

660 points by e-topy 4 days ago | 365 comments

My changes to saving Konsole tab layouts (akselmo.dev)
I recently made a patch to Konsole terminal emulator, that adds to the current tab layout saving system couple more things:

Software, Terminal Emulators, Linux, Open Source, User Experience

6 points by todsacerdoti 5 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Keep track of why you muted someone on X (github.com/klntsky)
A simple browser extension for x.com (formerly Twitter) that helps you remember why you muted or blocked a user and allows you to keep private notes on user profiles, visible only to you.

Social Media, Browser Extensions, Privacy, User Experience

20 points by klntsky 5 days ago | 12 comments

Is current state of querying on observability data broken? (ycombinator.com)
I feel that current observability tooling significantly lags behind user expectations by failing to support a critical capability: querying across different telemetry signals.

Observability, Data, Querying, Tools, User Experience

12 points by pranay01 6 days ago | 0 comments

Sloppy software is why you think you need new hardware (neowin.net)
There's something oddly disappointing about using modern computers.

Software, Hardware, User Experience

8 points by bundie 7 days ago | 1 comments

Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes (sixthtone.com)
From early-morning school drop-offs to seniors booking rides to the hospital, from suburban commuters seeking a faster link to the metro to families visiting ancestral graves, Shanghai is rolling out a new kind of public bus — one that’s designed by commuters, and launched only when enough riders request it.

Public Transportation, China, User Experience, Innovation

493 points by anigbrowl 9 days ago | 362 comments

Why are banks still getting authentication so wrong? (haba.sh)
While recently traveling to the U.S., I was completely locked out of my TD Personal Banking account.

Security, Banking, User Experience

287 points by kamikazee 10 days ago | 370 comments

Which AI Agent is your favorite? (ycombinator.com)
I've created a directory for AI agents, and I'm curious about which ones are the most popular and frequently used. Have you started using AI agents to assist with your daily tasks? Which AI agent is your favorite?

Artificial Intelligence, AI Agents, User Experience, Productivity

4 points by jeyzolo 10 days ago | 7 comments

Anti-Personnel Computing (2023) (erratique.ch)
Anti-personnel computing noun Use of computing devices at the expense of the interests of their users and for the benefit of a third-party entity.

Privacy, Ethics, Technology, Computing, User Experience

122 points by transpute 10 days ago | 64 comments

Can you trust that permission pop-up on macOS? (wts.dev)

macOS, Security, Privacy, User Experience

376 points by nmgycombinator 11 days ago | 251 comments

Ask HN: Did GitHub UI become unbearably slow? (ycombinator.com)
I remember being able to review even large PRs (70-100 files changed) from the web UI fairly easily, but now every time I click a button, the page becomes unresponsive for many seconds.

GitHub, User Experience, Web Development, Software

14 points by zaphodias 11 days ago | 10 comments

Ask HN: Gemini Reliability Degrading? (ycombinator.com)
I've been using Gemini (via the web interface) as my main 'daily driver' since 2.5 Pro came out. It's been super reliable until probably the past few days, where I am seeing a lot of slowness and 'errors', with chats not working or stopping after a few hundred tokens response.

Google AI, User Experience

7 points by martinald 12 days ago | 2 comments

Ask HN: What is the worst communications tool you've ever used? (ycombinator.com)
Ask HN: What is the worst communications tool you've ever used?

Communication Tools, User Experience, Technology, Software

11 points by logicallee 13 days ago | 35 comments

The dark side of account bans (madelinemiller.dev)
In the modern world, online accounts are ubiquitous. You’ve likely got so many that you’d have trouble actually counting them. Almost everything you do requires an account at this point. This wasn’t something I put too much thought into, beyond the mild annoyance of having to sign up to yet another website, until I was recently locked out of all Meta services for nearly two months.

Online Privacy, Social Media, Digital Rights, User Experience

127 points by ponco 14 days ago | 113 comments

Anchor links copied from project READMEs now add a query parameter (github.com/orgs)
Anchor links copied from project READMEs now add a `?tab=readme-ov-file` query parameter, making them harder to read

GitHub, Software, Readme Files, Web Development, User Experience

7 points by mooreds 15 days ago | 0 comments

Optimizing My Hacker News Experience (reorientinglife.substack.com)
Like many, I try to stay updated on tech news via Hacker News (HN) posts.

Hacker News, User Experience, Productivity

78 points by fiveleavesleft 15 days ago | 37 comments

Ask HN: How much better are AI IDEs vs. copy pasting into chat apps? (ycombinator.com)
I just wanted to hear peoples experiences with AI IDEs.

Artificial Intelligence, Software Development, Programming, Tools, User Experience

139 points by lopatin 15 days ago | 136 comments

Ask HN: Why is the sender chat box always on the right? (ycombinator.com)
When did this UX convention develop and why? I think this is also true across languages like Arabic and Hebrew whose script runs right-to-left.

User Experience, Chat Applications, Design Conventions, Language

5 points by bdhe 16 days ago | 9 comments

Towards the Blank Search Bar (fi-le.net)
The trouble began with a bookmark. A genuinely great web page, or a useful little gadget, which I saved to come back later. It would be a happy moment in my next day, I thought, when I come back to it. Surely enough, I did come back the next day, when I typed some letters into the browser trying to... well, what I was trying to type I cannot exactly recall.

Web Development, User Experience, Search Engines

22 points by fi-le 17 days ago | 1 comments

Enshittification: The culture war nobody's talking about (persuasion.community)
We usually talk about “enshittification” in terms of user experience. The slow death of platforms as they prioritize quarterly returns over anything resembling public service.

Culture War, User Experience, Business, Economics

12 points by alwa 18 days ago | 4 comments

Show HN: A social media network where users share prompts instead of posts (mocha.app)

Social Media, User Experience, Prompt Engineering, AI

10 points by ssuds 19 days ago | 0 comments

VR Design Unpacked: The secret to Beat Saber's fun (roadtovr.com)
Our series Inside XR Design highlights and unpacks examples of great XR design. Today we’re looking at Beat Saber (2019) and why its most essential design element can be used to make great VR games that have nothing to do with music or rhythm.

Virtual Reality, Game Design, User Experience, VR Games

109 points by stevenalowe 21 days ago | 84 comments

Show HN: I made a toast that shows what visitors are doing in real-time (proofybubble.com)
Give your visitors the proof they need to convert

Website Development, User Experience

10 points by kulkarniankita 21 days ago | 29 comments

Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup (pcworld.com)
You know how every annoying Windows program wants to launch as soon as you boot up your computer? Well, now Office is going to do that, too.

Microsoft, Windows, Productivity Software, Software Updates, User Experience

807 points by airstrike 22 days ago | 1020 comments

Someone at YouTube needs glasses (jayd.ml)
Opened YouTube and was greeted with this abomination: