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wednesday, november 4, 2026
  1. 01

    Guerrilla bike lanes: San Francisco makes illicit infrastructure permanent (2016)

    Practitioners comparing tools and approaches from direct experience. Disagreement stays substantive.
  2. 02

    AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt

    Practitioners comparing security, testing, and Java. Good questions getting detailed answers.
    Or at least - that's the standard approach = fix now, refactor later, where later in my experience never happens (sorry for this train of thought).eithed
  3. 03

    AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history

    Practitioners comparing performance. Disagreement stays substantive.
  4. 04

    Kitty 0.50

    Practitioners comparing Python and performance. Disagreement stays substantive.
    It's nowhere as featureful as kitty, but i've been using cmder and it's good enough a replacement for the default windows terminal for daily use.chii
  5. 05

    North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist

    Practitioners comparing security, deployment, and testing. Disagreement stays substantive.
    I even create a 1 man company for my consulting services and I receive ads about how people at my company saved me a spot on an online game.xutopia
  6. 06

    US voters roundly reject data centers in ballot measures

    Practitioners comparing security and Anthropic. Reply chains going 12 levels deep.
    In my experience the bar for frustrated-five-on-the-street is quite high if they want to avoid an aww-shucks this voting bloc and their social medias.keybored
  1. 07

    Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux

    Practitioners comparing performance and Anthropic. Disagreement stays substantive.
  2. 08

    Verification Is Not Knowledge: Science needs more than answers

    Practitioners comparing testing. Reply chains going 10 levels deep.
    We use words to express our thoughts, thoughts that are based on a physical world model: touch, movement, sound, light, etc...GuB-42
  3. 09

    Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues

    Questions and detailed answers about deployment and Kubernetes.
  4. 10
  5. 11

    Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI

    Practitioners comparing OpenAI, security, and Anthropic. Disagreement stays substantive.
  6. 12

    Show HN: I built a tool that prices a prebuilt PC part by part

    Builders sharing work and getting hands-on feedback.
    Whenever I've seen a deal on a pre-built PC I've always wondered, hey, how much would this cost if I built it myself from parts.creativeSlumber
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