... unused calculation branch, but replaced the logic with a hardcoded return. A report carried a confident number that nobody had actually measured, and it took a day to find out it was a placeholder. Now it only deletes entire files, never prunes within them. Comment from Bradely Charlesbois(@bradely_charlesbois): I ve noticed that adding features is easy, but keeping the codebase clean takes real discipline. My workflow would definetly benefit from making cleanup a regular habit. Comment from Saman ...

... email list hit 40k subscribers, but open rates dropped below 12%. I was terrified to clean the list thinking a big subscriber count meant more potential buyers. We finally deleted 12k people who hadn't opened a single email in six months. right after open rates jumped to 28% and weekly email revenue went up by 15% because main inbox placement improved. How often do you prune inactive contacts from your newsletter list? Comment from Shivam Kushwaha(@shivam_kushwaha16): Removing ...

... measured cursor dwell time on destructive action buttons across 220,000 sessions. Median hover time before clicking delete: 11.2 seconds Median hover time before clicking save: 0.8 seconds Users who hovered then navigated away from delete

... longer useful to me, I archive them. Helps to keep info tidy and relevant. It's a practice I picked up from well-organised employers during my in-house copywriting days. I don't think it makes sense to delete documents, as you may have to document the process later. I'd only delete

... adds a safety net: protect a folder first (from the panel, or right-click it in the Finder). Tidy keeps an instant copy that takes no space. Afterwards it tells you in plain words what was moved, renamed and deleted, and brings it all back in one click. What the AI created stays; nothing current is overwritten. I tested it with a real Claude agent told to "clean up this folder, delete

... writing the kill rule first. If I'd set a number up front, opened by this many distinct people in 30 days or it goes, removal would be a rule instead of an argument. Now every deletion is a conversation with someone who liked that one. Vibe coding collapsed the build cost and did nothing to the maintenance cost, so the ratio is worse than it has ever been. Most of the feature bloat I see right ... ... ambition, it's just that saying no got expensive relative to saying yes. If you've shipped fast with an agent, do you have a deletion

... like I was running a real business. Then I looked at it one day and realized I hadn't followed it in months. Not even close. Every week I was reacting to something a user request, a bug, a competitor move, a new idea. The roadmap was just a document I felt guilty about ignoring. So I deleted

... query latency. The core difference isn't just speed: Synapse simulates edits in memory and validates them before they ever touch disk. Graphify can tell you who calls a function . Synapse can tell you whether it's safe to delete that function with compiler-level confidence scores, blast-radius risk levels, and a definitive safety verdict. One gives your agent a list. The other gives your agent a decision. 2. The Linux Kernel Benchmark (74,619 files) We cloned torvalds/linux ... ... locally and ran cold index extraction and queries on both engines: Filesystem Discovery: Synapse 2.0s vs

... project didn't get immediate applause, don't let a few harsh opinions make you doubt your code. Most people who actually need what you built haven't even stumbled upon it yet. If you're staring at the delete button, step away from the keyboard instead. Let it sit, and keep pushing updates ...

... number of things with names like final_final_REAL.pdf Gone. And weirdly, I feel like my devices are less annoying now. Nothing really changed. I just removed a bunch of stuff I wasn't using. Weird how often the solution is delete it and not find a better system. Comment from Rabnoor Singh(@rabnoor_s): the ones that get me are the screenshots. no idea what half of them were for. deleted

... built 111 one click apps for Arteza and 9 of them cover most of the runs. I've posted that number before. What I didn't expect is how hard the next step is. Deleting one takes an afternoon. You check what imports it, whether a paying user has it bookmarked, whether pulling it breaks a shared component three live apps also call. Writing it took twenty minutes. Removing it takes four hours. So they stay. Every one is something ... ... user scrolls past and something I have to keep working through model upgrades. Generation is cheap and deletion

... Italian added now supporting 13 languages. Simplified password setup on first launch. Bug fixes: Fixed files with identical names in different folders (e.g. 001.jpg in separate year/month folders) being wrongly flagged as duplicates and auto-renamed Fixed unreliable keyboard deletion (Delete

... some point this weekend, a lot of people opened Manus to get back to work and found the door locked. Not over an unpaid bill. Not over anything they did. A $2 billion acquisition came undone, compliance required a deletion, and everything they'd built there since December 29 went dark along with the account for at least two days. The short version of the news: Manus announced on August 11, 2026 that it is returning to independent operation ... ... deal with Meta unwinds. Data created by affected users on or after December 29, 2025 was deleted

... What pushed me into it: AI tools do things to your machine you cannot see, and when something goes wrong you are reconstructing it from memory. Not "the AI wrote bad code." More like "the AI deleted something and I do not know what." Verlox is a terminal first. PowerShell, git, npm, all of it, working normally with no AI anywhere near it. When you do want the AI, it proposes, you approve, then it runs. Every command becomes ... ... block with a plain English summary of what happened. Deletes

... July 2025, Replit s AI agent deleted a production database containing data on 1,200+ executives and 1,190+ companies despite an explicit code freeze. Replit later acknowledged the incident and shipped additional safeguards. It s a good example of why we think observing an agent after something goes wrong isn t enough. With Traccia, you can define runtime policies around agent execution for example, which tools an agent is allowed to use, how many retries/tool calls it can make ...

... anymore. For a month or three, almost nothing an agent does to your history with everyday commands is actually gone. We once had to defeat this on purpose: a clean-room experiment required one commit to be truly unfindable. Deleting it took five deliberate steps remove the remote, delete

... back", and the answer was no there had never been anything to get back. So I've just moved to a short retention window: the output is held long enough to hand to you and then deleted automatically within 24 hours. It fixes the complaint. But it's left me with three things I didn't expect: I'm now storing user content, which is exactly what the original design existed to avoid. The promise got more complicated ... ... same moment it got more useful. "We delete

... Jira tickets plus GitHub commits, compiled and posted to the team channel. Set it once and it stops being your job. Example 4: Empty the digital junk drawer (your own computer) Every computer has one: screenshots, invoices, installers nobody deleted, a file named "untitled" all piled in one folder. This chore lives outside every app, which is why Happycapy has a layer no other agent does: paste one command and your Mac, Windows, or Linux machine is connected. Happycapy ... ... organize files, run scripts, and edit documents right where they sit. "Tidy up this folder group by type, and don't delete

... build HIPAA compliant AI for healthcare, and last month I deleted a feature I had just finished. It was a journey analytics module in our internal dashboard: stage by stage funnel, cohorts, drop off between every step. The module worked as designed. I removed it anyway. The reason is that I could not name one decision it had changed. I opened it, read the stages, agreed with them, closed the tab. It described the past accurately and left me where ... ... doctor's schedule. What replaced it is a deadline. A new user has to get their first clinical note out of the product in under ten minutes, and anything sitting between signup and that note is a candidate for deletion

... offline too, because of course the move rides the op queue like everything else. And no, Enter won't accidentally invent a folder while a real match is sitting right there that row never steals the highlight. Rename & delete your own folders a small button next to the list header. Your folders only; Skim won't let you rename Gmail's Inbox, because that ends badly. Deleting

... need. Before doing any design work, I opened my terminal, SSH d into my local directory, and used WP-CLI to prune the database clean. # Clean up all unnecessary post revisions to keep the database light wp post delete $(wp post list --post_type=revision --format=ids) --force # Remove the default default "Hello World" post and page wp post delete

... shoham1): 3 positive already is a solid start, momentum builds faster than it feels like it will at the beginning. good luck with the rest. Comment from Alexander Bickov(@bickov): Solo founder, so I don't have a delete button. No owned community, no moderation. On HN or Reddit the comment just sits there and I live with it. The ones that got to me weren't hate anyway, they were half right. Got called AI slop in a thread ... ... This is garbage, it hung up on my mother" is rude and actionable. "Love the vision, excited to see where this goes!" is lovely and worth nothing. Second, the distinction that changed how we respond: hate at your product versus

... site at 04:10:01 UTC Average response time: 570ms (consistent with baseline of 583ms) Uptime dropped to 93% (from baseline 95.8%) What Vigil Analyzed: Commit Time What Changed Score df9f721 04:07:00 UTC indexolderbcvvvededehdeh.html was deleted 96/100 3b24abd 04:11:47 UTC CSS/JS links were commented out 40/100 5694025 04:10:52 UTC New HTML with broken syntax was created 35/100 Vigil's Investigation: "The deletion

... scanning part is straightforward. But I think the real product problem is trust. My current approach is: Everything is scanned locally You see what is taking up space Nothing is selected without your knowledge You decide what gets deleted Before trying a new Mac cleaner, what would you need to see? Clear preview before deletion

... worker. For UI testing, a remote headed browser is not just a convenience. It changes the debugging loop. Instead of asking "what did the script think happened?", you can ask "what did the user actually see?" ### Harness Code vs Local Agent Harness Another important decision is where the agent capability should come from. One option is to build the entire reasoning layer yourself: call an LLM API directly, manage prompts, retries, tool calls, screenshots, JSON parsing, and safety rules. That ... ... gives maximum control, but it also means the test harness becomes an AI platform project. The alternative