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Reddit's r/workreform ran its usual anti-billionaire and wage-grievance threads

Hacker News carried a proof solving a decades-old puzzle in percolation theory next to news that Germany's Konrad Zuse computer museum is shutting down for lack of funding, and an Ask HN thread asking what would happen if a company stopped using AI tools entirely drew a heavy comment count.

Wiktionary's lemma log ran heavy on place names, surnames and etymology rather than any new slang breakout, its board quiet on the discourse front for a second day.

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