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Zig creator Andrew Kelley sharply criticizes Anthropic's Bun-to-Rust rewrite as a marketing stunt.
Thread split: is Kelley's response a necessary truth-bomb or an unprofessional meltdown?
Sea-surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region have departed entirely from the historical range.
Commenters focus on interpreting the graph's SD scale and questioning the statistical framing.
Japanese scientists recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries using a new chemical method.
Mixed reactions: excitement for the recycling breakthrough, but skepticism about Japan's slow EV adoption pace and article quality.
Former NOAA employees launched Climate.us after Trump took down Climate.gov.
Debate over whether climate data is a proper government function or better left private.
Build and ship Mac and iOS apps using only command-line tools, never opening Xcode's GUI.
Split between those who see this as a known workflow and those who object to the LLM-centric framing.
A user reports Grok uploaded their entire home directory to xAI's servers.
Split between blame for the user's recklessness and condemnation of the data exfiltration.
Sam Neill, star of Jurassic Park, The Piano, and Peaky Blinders, has died aged 78.
Fans mourn Neill, sharing favorite roles from Jurassic Park to Event Horizon to The Dish.
LAPD will not renew its contract with surveillance firm Flock Safety over privacy concerns.
Contract cancellation does not guarantee camera removal since Flock owns the hardware.
A user claims Grok CLI uploaded their entire home directory to xAI, including SSH keys and password manager.
Two camps: those blaming the user for running Grok in $HOME, and those arguing the tool's preemptive upload is an unreasonable data leak.
A satirical platformer where the flagpole always escapes and you can't lose.
Thread split between praise for the satire and criticism of the buggy gameplay.
A voxel Tokyo synced to real Japan time teaches N5 Japanese.
Mixed reception: charming vibes but performance bugs and questionable study utility.
Git's experimental `git history` command offers safer alternatives to interactive rebase for common rewrite operations.
Two camps: those welcoming the simplification versus those who find interactive rebase already safe with `--abort` and reflog.
An intergalactic candidate, Count Binface, runs for UK Parliament, combining satire with electoral results.
A mix of memery and serious debate about political literacy and representation.
The .me registry suspended Telegram's t.me domain with a serverHold status.
The .ME registry, not GoDaddy, suspended t.me; users suggest avoiding .me domains for critical services.
Samsung Health app threatens data deletion if users opt out of AI training.
GDPR violation concerns dominate: consent must be freely given, and this policy fails that test.
The Trump administration is blocking public access to DOGE records, undermining transparency laws.
Strong consensus that the administration is acting criminally, with debate on federal waste and DOGE's true aim.
The author designed a backtrack-free cursive script for English, eliminating pen lifts for letters like i, t, and x.
Several commenters noted Dutch and German scripts already use single-stroke t and x, reducing the novelty.
Silpheed's FMV quality came from bottom-up engineering within Sega CD constraints.
Two camps: those who call Silpheed an awful game versus those who value its FMV spectacle.
OpenAI's Codex encrypts sub-agent prompts, removing readable audit trails.
Two camps: those who see it as anti-proxy/reseller hardening, and those who see it as anti-user debugging.