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Is using AI tooling for a PhD literature review dishonest?

https://www.prisma-statement.org/prisma-2020-flow-diagram

AI productivity gains – do you fire devs or build better products?

https://boltread.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot

https://gist.github.com/donalmacc/e91955be9792a983c375a098ba1767db

https://github.com/linsomniac/tomlynexample

https://github.com/xoofx/Tomlyn

https://guides.rubyonrails.org/command_line.html#generating-code

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47487638

Is anyone here also developing "perpetual AI psychosis" like Karpathy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understand_(story)

If there has been no prompt injection, is it safe?

https://www.notion.so/Inside-OpenClaw-Deploying-Sniffing-and-Hijacking-the-Agent-3224c8e523768080bcdbe0661a560c40?source=copy_link

Tell HN: MS365 upgrade silently to 25 licenses, tried to charge me $1,035

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46258982

Tell HN: H&R Block tax software installs a TLS backdoor

https://www.hrblock.com/tax-center/support/software/technical-issues-software/fix-ssl-error/

https://michael.team/zoom/

https://www.wolterskluwer.com/en/solutions/atx

Are you using OpenClaw or similar agents? How?

https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/openclaw-docker

https://x.com/artoriatech/status/2036111002790490365

Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/spotify#comment-1048914

https://cobertos.com/blog/post/finally-cancelling-my-spotify

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ongoing-Issues/Basic-plans-Users-are-getting-ads/idi-p/7378835

https://duckass.bearblog.dev/how-spotify-silently-updates-itself-and-how-to-stop-it/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy

https://github.com/sentriz/gonic

https://isitbandcampfriday.com/

https://lukecyca.com/2025/listen-to-music-like-its-2005.html

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Upf_B9RLQ

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47440869

https://store.hiby.com/pages/hiby-digital-miku

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/12/spotify-says-its-best-developers-havent-written-a-line-of-code-since-december-thanks-to-ai/

How to get free/cheap Claude and AWS credits

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/free-tier.html

How do you handle peer-to-peer discovery on iOS without a server?

https://github.com/furiousMAC/continuity

Is vibe coding a new mandatory job requirement?

https://antirez.com/news/159

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=architect.new&sort=byDate&type=comment