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Multiple websites including Cloudflare, LinkedIn, and Claude.ai are down, causing access errors

A user experienced errors while writing a blog post on Medium and found that multiple websites, including Cloudflare, LinkedIn, DownDetector, and Claude.ai, were inaccessible. This indicates a widespr...

#service-outage#website-down#cloudflare+1
Hacker News274
about 18 hours ago

Streaming apps have poor performance and usability issues despite paid subscriptions

Users experience significant problems with streaming apps, including high latency, memory leaks, poor ad management, and frustrating UIs. These issues affect subscribers who pay monthly fees, leading ...

#streaming-apps#performance#user-experience+2
Hacker News53
1 day ago

Concerns about YC's ethics in acquiring SaaS companies and cutting support staff

The user expresses alarm over a Y Combinator hiring post that outlines plans to acquire profitable SaaS companies while stating 'No support staff answering tickets.' They perceive this as a red flag f...

#yc#saas#ethics+2
Hacker News62
1 day ago

LED streetlights cause light pollution and ecological harm due to poor system design

Cities are replacing traditional streetlights with white LEDs to save energy, but this is increasing light pollution and disrupting ecosystems. The blue-rich light scatters more, harms insects and wil...

#light-pollution#ecosystem-disruption#urban-planning+2
Hacker News111
1 day ago

Facebook activates microphone in Safari without user permission, raising privacy concerns

Users report that when visiting Facebook.com in Safari on macOS, the system microphone icon appears indicating activation, even though no permission was granted. This occurs during capability negotiat...

#privacy#facebook#safari+2
Hacker News123
1 day ago

Time-consuming learning exercises vs. reliance on LLMs for coding tasks

A developer transitioning from Java to Python is questioning the value of doing coding exercises from scratch, such as walking a directory tree, when LLMs like GitHub Copilot can generate the code qui...

#learning#ai-tools#productivity+1
Hacker News55
2 days ago

Cloudflare service outage causing dashboard and CDN asset loading failures

Users are experiencing a service outage where Cloudflare's dashboard is not loading, and assets from their CDN are failing to load. This disrupts website operations and access to critical services, in...

#cloudflare#cdn#outage+2
Hacker News1811
2 days ago

Struggling to self-promote and communicate effectively for job or freelance opportunities

The individual faces difficulty in selling themselves due to poor communication skills, lack of clarity in messaging, and inability to effectively present their work experience and projects. This has ...

#self-promotion#communication#career-stagnation+2
Hacker News64
2 days ago

Difficulty finding a reliable, budget-friendly Windows laptop with sufficient RAM for stenography hardware compatibility

A user returning to school for stenography needs a Windows laptop to work with specialized stenography hardware, but after buying a cheap laptop that caused freezing issues, they struggle to find a re...

#windows#laptop#hardware-compatibility+2
Hacker News1016
2 days ago

AI agents causing unexpected costs due to infinite loops in production

Developers building AI agents with frameworks like LangChain face financial losses when agents enter infinite loops in production, burning through API credits overnight. This occurs because current to...

#ai-agents#cost-management#testing+2
Hacker News30
2 days ago

Senior web engineer struggles to transition into stable, remote game development roles

A senior software engineer with extensive web experience wants to move into the games industry but faces challenges in finding suitable opportunities. They seek stable, remote positions to avoid the c...

#career-transition#game-development#remote-work+2
Hacker News39
3 days ago

Manual social media management is time-consuming and lacks intelligent automation for content creation

The authors describe spending months on manual tasks like creating visuals in Canva, writing captions with ChatGPT, and using schedulers that still require significant effort. They highlight a gap whe...

#social-media#automation#content-creation+2
Hacker News44
3 days ago

High upfront cognitive cost and role shift in agentic coding for software developers

Developers using agentic coding face a higher upfront cost as they must externalize mental models, architecture, and constraints before AI can generate code, shifting their role from precise implement...

#agentic-coding#cognitive-load#software-development+2
Hacker News76
3 days ago

Microsoft Azure blocks new subscriptions due to a $24 unpaid invoice that cannot be paid or resolved through support

A user has a $24 autopay charge on their Azure account that failed, and the invoice is locked in the billing portal with no way to pay it. This blocks them from creating new subscriptions or spending ...

#azure#billing#support+2
Hacker News187102
3 days ago

Declining build quality and durability of recent Dell/Lenovo laptops compared to older models

Users report that newer Dell and Lenovo laptops, such as the 2021 Precision 5550 and 2019 Carbon X1, suffer from battery and charging port issues within a few years, unlike older models that lasted 7-...

#laptops#build-quality#durability+2
Hacker News103188
4 days ago

Firefox 145 lacks complete option to disable AI features, ignoring user control preferences

Users cannot fully disable all AI chatbot features in Firefox 145, as certain context menu items remain visible even after adjusting about:config settings. This issue has persisted for a month without...

#firefox#ai-features#privacy+2
Hacker News7224
6 days ago

Regrets about wasted time and unethical actions before life-threatening surgery

A person facing life-threatening surgery reflects on deep regrets, including wasting time on unimportant accomplishments, procrastination, and past unethical behavior like harming a programmer for fin...

#regret#time-management#ethics+2
Hacker News256133
6 days ago

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