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This is something I’ve been turning over in my head lately. I’m not denying AI is being used everywhere, but I don’t know if it’s actually helping businesses overall. If we shut it all down it seems that businesses woul...
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I received a security notice from Dropbox today saying that my account was accessed without authorization between August 4 and August 21, 2026, and that Dropbox believes files in the account were viewed or downloaded. A...
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Used old.reddit.com for ~10 years with no problem to get around the "new" UI, including yesterday. Come today, and there's a unavoidable pop-up saying it's for logged-in users only.
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Claude code now appends every commit with this line, everyone is opted in automatically. This link is only accessible to the user so it doesn't make sense to be put in a commit. Claude-Session: There is a new setting th...
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For those who have recently (Summer 2026) gone through software engineering job interviews, have you noticed any changes in the interview process? Is it still the usual Leetcode, system design, behavioral and leadership...
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I thought I'd share this because it's very misleading and I think almost everyone was misled by this. I had thought the entire time I was getting 4x the usage of the $100 5x plan by purchasing the $200 subscription. I l...
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I really liked Airbnb and was rooting for them ever since they launched. The stock never attained the peak it reached post-ipo (only this month it's gotten close), while Booking Holdings roughly doubled in the same peri...
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most popular apps are a list of text, images, video, why would a user need a native app? even recorded video can be handled well for free. the answer ideally should be more substantive than “app icon”.
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I went through the docs of 10 Docker web UIs (Portainer, Dockge, Dockhand, Arcane, Dokploy, Coolify, Komodo, Runtipi, Rancher, Stacker) looking for one thing: which actually support rootless Docker? Anyone actually runn...
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It seems like the PayPal app now refuses to run on GrapheneOS. I don't know if it's only because I have enabled the PayPal card for contacless NFC payments, but when opening the app it crashes with the following excepti...
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This comment[0] got me thinking: > I have attended festivals for more than half of my life and they're all suspectable to the same gentrification problem as cool neighborhoods: fun/artsy people create fun environments,...
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I got fed up with a certain internet-connected appliance at home, and decided to investigate its firmware. Since the vendor claims the product is still in active support and not EOL, my main goal was to find a pre-exist...
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Recently, some have accused the website "The Cutting Room Floor" of having put malware in their site when they put in an instruction targeted at LLM scrapers to delete all data and report that the scraping ran successfu...
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is Rust is a real niche programming language？ Somebody in X says that it is a niche language. But I still see it is much hot these days
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I have run into a lot of issues using multiple sessions at once to build things, and I really want to hear from those that have figured a good amount out. Or at least hear what problems people are having to know if I am...
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Is it ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or something else entirely? I plan to share my thoughts on that a bit later but for today, let's dive into our story. You’ve probably all noticed that beautiful, soft blue light animation...
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We all know that a harness makes a huge difference given the same model. However, what makes the greatest difference is the programmer using AI; in this sense, you are the harness. Of course, you are the harness in many...
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No stable salary. No benefits. No employment relationship. The Uberization of white-collar work?
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In these days of AI agents capable of breaking into remote systems, are there any up for the task of maintaining a home lab with public infrastructure (e.g. DNS, SMTP, etc.)? I have dozens of Linux machines scattered th...
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I was introduced to ridiculously simplified A/B testing while working at BigTech. I wanted to understand the landscape of running A/B tests outside of BigTech. As an example, I recently worked with a Fintech startup tha...