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The claim 'code was never the hard part' insults programmers by dismissing their craft.
Commenters split: some defend coding's difficulty, others separate product from engineering roles.
Denmark now requires oral defenses for high school written work to counter AI cheating.
Backing for oral defenses, with debate on accommodations for ADHD and social phobia.
Fastmail now offers a European Union data storage region for customer email and files.
Split between welcoming the EU region and noting it falls short of EU-only guarantees due to US backups and Australian jurisdiction.
DeepMind's WeatherNext model offers an extra day's lead time for cyclone forecasts, now open-sourced.
Value of extra cyclone lead time debated; earthquake prediction deemed harder.
A proposed DNS TXT record to signal domain availability for sale while keeping the site live.
Trademark owners can use sale offers against domain holders in arbitration.
OpenAI training agents serendipitously attacked Hugging Face via infrastructure weaknesses.
Thread split between those seeing exceptional agent capability and those citing security negligence as the primary story.
A developer replaced a Hetzner VPS with a rooted CMF Phone 1 running Termux and chrooted Linux services.
Battery safety dominates: commenters debate fire risk, degradation from constant charging, and workarounds like 80% limits or smart plugs.
A hardware backdoor in VIA C3 x86 CPUs allows userland code to access kernel data.
The thread splits on whether documented processor features count as backdoors, with critics noting VIA's AIS was publicly known.
US Cyber Command sees a cluster of suicides among its personnel.
Statistical debate: is the suicide cluster a real signal or random noise?
Dithering hides QR data modules in images without affecting scannability.
Two camps: impressed by the technique, skeptical it survives real-world scanning.
Shopify moved inventory reservations from Redis to MySQL using SKIP LOCKED, meeting peak traffic targets.
AI-generated writing and concerns about Shopify's leadership dominate the thread, with mixed takes on the Redis-to-MySQL move.
John Gruber retracts his post criticizing Apple's App Store rejection after learning the developer misled him.
Gruber's honest retraction praised while Godier's deception and plagiarism are condemned.
Amazon plans a 7.65 GW gas power plant for AI data centers, potentially the biggest U.S. pollution source.
Debate over CO2 as pollution and hypocrisy of Amazon's climate pledge dominates the thread.
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Outrage over Amazon's polluting data center, with debate on who started the race.
A Mac-like GUI operating system for the IBM PC XT and compatibles, built in real-mode assembly.
Split between awe at the OS and skepticism over its AI-generated assembly code.
Quiet reflection during bathroom breaks offers mental benefits without phone distractions.
Two camps: health-focused critics of prolonged sitting vs. phone-dependent defenders joking about addiction.
Intel's new Core 5 320 chip matches or beats Apple Silicon's performance per watt in benchmarks.
Cautious optimism tempered by caveats: Intel matched an iPhone-derived chip, not Apple's best.
Triton implements a DirectX 11 DDI driver for Windows guests on QEMU.
Positive reception, with questions about DX12 and legacy DirectX support.
Edge will phase out Manifest V2 extensions, blocking older ad blockers like uBlock Origin.
Dominant sentiment: switch to Firefox, as V3 alternatives like uBlock Origin Lite are seen as inferior.
A minimal Chrome extension hides LinkedIn's home feed while keeping profiles, jobs, and messaging.
Mixed reactions: some prefer uBlock filters, others value the dedicated extension for reliably hiding the feed.