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Google followed an Embrace, Extend, Extinguish pattern to reduce RSS adoption over many years.
Shutting down Reader to push Google+ is seen as the inflection point where Google turned evil.
OpenAI claims a next-gen model solved 10 long-standing math and CS problems.
Two camps: one excited by AI's potential, one fearing math careers will collapse like chess.
Diátaxis is a systematic approach to technical documentation organized into four distinct types.
Strong approval for Diátaxis as a documentation framework, with minor friction over API doc placement.
ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 generates up to 30-second videos with multi-round extensions and advanced multimodal referencing.
Sharp divide: some see creative potential for filmmakers and marketers, others see only misinformation and slop.
Cursor removed dollar amounts from its usage page, replacing them with token counts, and users are angry.
Users are split between those switching to alternatives and those valuing Cursor's integration and multi-model support.
AI financial advice encourages saving and diversified investing, but misses nuanced planning.
AI advice is generic and useful, but misses behavioral and local tax nuances.
Canada signed a UN cybercrime treaty critics call a cross-border surveillance pact.
Signing is not ratification, but critics fear it enables transnational repression and lawful access expansion.
NetBSD 11.0 is out with known security issues, transparently documented.
Release is welcomed for transparency; debate over daily-driver viability and legacy hardware support.
RipGrep's musl binary segfaults during large searches, likely due to a Linux kernel race condition.
Two camps: those dismissing the AI analysis as slop, and those valuing the reproducible crash.
Generic methods, UUID package, and JSON v2 lead Go 1.27.
Mixed: welcome for generics evolution vs. nostalgia for lost simplicity.
Google News search filters are broken, showing social media posts and foreign results.
Commenters split between those confirming the bugs and one unable to replicate them.
Flint provides a unified JSON language for generating charts across multiple backends.
Skepticism about necessity and buzzwords, with some praise for backend flexibility.
AI speeds prototypes but not the hard work of building production-grade software.
Two camps: those agreeing the hard part remains, and those saying AI compresses the whole pipeline.
A site dedicated to rotating ramen, with 114 bowls photographed and documented.
Lovers and skeptics of ramen outside Japan debate quality, price, and authenticity.
BMW delivered a full-screen Spider-Man ad to paid-for vehicles' dashboard displays.
Broad criticism of BMW for violating ownership expectations after promising no in-car ads.
A single bootcamp grad cycles through startups, drugs, and burnout in Silicon Valley's pipeline.
Two camps: those who recognize the Jim archetype, and those who doubt the drug-fueled orgies exist.
Volume 2 of Randall Hyde's assembly book rebuilds high-level constructs from scratch in MASM.
Thread splits on MSVC vs Itanium ABI for vtables and LLM's capability in assembly.
A 15-year-old built a 3D-printed cycloidal gearbox with a Python script.
Broad praise for the build; debate over using "engineer" without a degree.
NAS vendors are adopting restrictive hardware designs that limit user repairability and choice.
DIY vs. prebuilt NAS debate, with some citing maintenance and security issues for prebuilt units.
A Tumblr blog collects anime screenshots featuring futuristic, information-rich interfaces from shows like Akira and Cowboy Bebop.
Debate over whether all images count as UIs, plus a call for sources and corrections like the WarGames clip.