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Re:Ask HN: What did you read in 2025? on Friday December 26, 2025 @09:02AM (#46392058)
Not a huge book reader, but this year two impressed me:

- Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich by Norman Ohler

- The Elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson

Re:AutoGen: Enable Next-Gen Large Language Model Applications on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @10:14AM (#37928996)
i noticed autogen creates a new docker container each time code is executed by agents (default behaviour, can be turned off), so it's safe as you think docker is safe
Re:Tell HN: Whole Yandex Git repository leaked on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @08:56PM (#34526819)
i guess it's about recent exchange of their news service to vk. not literaly sold to the government

https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/12/yandex-news-zen-vk-sale-co...

Re:McDonald’s to Exit from Russia on Monday May 16, 2022 @09:27AM (#31396838)
actually Russian propaganda interpreted this exact news as "McDonalds will be re-opened in mid June" [1] focusing on keeping jobs and suppliers and mentioning the rebranding

[1] https://tass.ru/ekonomika/14634951