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therac-25
Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2015–2024), in 5 threads.
People raised many different problems with therac-25, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 5 complaints
- Slow UI updates let experienced users skip screens, bypassing safety interlocks2024-08-21
- Operators could quickly edit mode selection, but the edits went unnoticed and the machine used a default setup2022-07-17
- Cryptic malfunction codes with no explanation, easily bypassed by habit2019-06-04
- Bad UI leads operators to make input errors2018-10-06
- Error messages appeared so often that operators learned to bypass them2015-06-02