Clicker games are the product of stripping a game down to nothing but the microtransactions and trading elements, which is likely why the developers of “Banana” don't care if it's bots or humans playing, so long as users are buying and trading content. They're earning about 10% of every sale between players, human or not

xD

Ryanair – when every page is a dark pattern

Ask HN: What is in C-00000291*.sys?

Climate crisis is making days longer, study finds

Facebook Is the 'Zombie Internet'

sheeet.

Rainfall is down 40% since 2003 and experts predict a third of Sicily will be desert by 2030

oh oh...

LLM evaluation is a minefield, and it turns out that agent evaluation has a bunch of additional pitfalls

Obsession with growth is enriching elites and killing the planet. We need an economy based on human rights

Who is Julian Assange? 20 Mind-Blowing Facts

Global spending on nuclear weapons is estimated to have increased by 13% to a record $91.4bn during 2023

Google is (still) losing the spam wars to zombie news-brands

Media freedom is declining across the EU and “perilously close to breaking point” in several countries

Working on problems in the order I noticed them is rarely the most effective order. So the WTF Notebook gives me a place to park the impulse to fix it now, damn it! until I have more context for deciding what to work on first

Outlook is Microsoft’s new data collection service

oh oh...

Conspiracy, monetisation and weirdness: this is why social media has become ungovernable

Why Is Our Culture So Obsessed With Individual Experience?