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Nuclear Reactor Mishap

Dude, get this – there was a story about a worker falling into a nuclear reactor pool! Sounds insane, right? The article said it was "clean, borated water," but people in the comments were still freaking out about radiation levels and what "measurable" really means. Someone even remembered a similar thing happening at a UVA research reactor years ago. Talk about a bad day at work!

Your Email is a Git Server?

Then there was this cool tech piece called "You already have a Git server". It's basically saying you don't always need GitHub; you can just use email to send patches around, old-school style. Some folks in the comments were joking that devs are "too lazy" to learn that way these days, but it's a neat idea for decentralized stuff. Someone mentioned public-inbox.org as a related tool.

Advent of Code Changes

Big news for coders: Advent of Code 2025 is cutting down its puzzles from 25 to 12 days! Apparently, the creator just needs more free time, which is totally fair. The comments had a lot of chatter about how LLM cheaters might have made it less fun with super-fast solve times, but the main reason is just how much work it is for one person.

NetBSD Needs a Boost

Oh, and NetBSD is looking for donations to help them finish up their work before the end of the year. It sparked a discussion about how BSD licenses are super permissive, which big companies love, compared to Linux's GPL. Always interesting to see the open-source community rally.

Apple's Quirky AI

Apple dropped something called "Pico-Banana-400k". It sounds like some kind of AI image editing model, and everyone was trying to figure out how these models actually learn to understand natural language commands. There was even some talk about the copyright implications of training AI on existing images.

AI Overload Rant

This one really resonated with people: "I'm drowning in AI features I never asked for and I hate it". Loads of comments agreeing, calling it "AI enshittification." People are fed up with AI being shoved into everything, like Confluence getting slow and full of "AI landmines," or Android hijacking the power button for Gemini. Some think this whole AI thing is a massive bubble that's gonna burst.

Wild Ghanaian Movie Posters

And for a completely different vibe, check out this link to bizarre, hand-painted movie posters from Ghana in the 80s and 90s. They're super wild and unique! What was cool in the comments was people debating if the article's text itself was written by an AI, and whether that's a good use for "banal" descriptive content. Funny how AI pops up everywhere, even when talking about old art.

Anyway, just wanted to give you the heads-up. Catch ya later!