Microwave Oven Failure: Spontaneously turned on by its LED display (2024)

1970-01-01 29 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

This is literally evidence of stuff being designed to fail. An extra diode costs less than a cent at production scale. This was a manufacturing choice, not an error.

	▲	HPsquared 3 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Don't underestimate the appeal of saving one cent per unit. So long as the costs are externalised, anyway...

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rbanffy 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Very impressive engineering on the door switches. On the display, not so much.

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bell-cot 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

168 points and 116 comments at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41480038