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Ask HN: What's the biggest problem you ever prevented?

Hacker News - Sat, 06/13/2026 - 4:14am

There was a recent thread [1] on a paper titled " Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened".

I've seen good collections of postmortems before [2], but prevent problems are severely underreported, because why share your almost-failure if you aren't forced to (and other issues, like people not believing it was a big deal because it ended up not happening [3]).

So this got me wondering: What's the biggest problem you prevented from becoming a big problem?

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498385 2. https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preparedness_paradox

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48514788

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Lojban

Hacker News - Sat, 06/13/2026 - 4:09am

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48514747

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focus - A simple and fast text editor

Hacker News - Sat, 06/13/2026 - 4:04am
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Ask HN: Automoderated by AI Alternative to Reddit

Hacker News - Sat, 06/13/2026 - 4:02am

I'm so sick of human reddit moderation. Thinking about creating automoderated forums by AI. Would that interesting to any of you too?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48514684

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For NBA fans: If you loved 82-0 you'll love this

Hacker News - Sat, 06/13/2026 - 3:46am

Article URL: https://nbabrawl.netlify.app

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48514573

Points: 1

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Ask HN: What Are You Working On?

Hacker News - Sat, 06/13/2026 - 3:30am

It's been a while since the last thread, and I am a curious bee.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48514461

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