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Re:Magnifica Humanitas (Encyclical Letter) on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @04:43PM (#48285703)
The mid-20th century Ford argument misses policies and society. It’s not like the pope can only affect reality by changing the hearts of big tech CEOs. It could go through what voters and workers think is possible, what they tolerate and demand. The middle class is not just Ford having a brilliant idea, it is the workers movement, unions, in many countries in cooperation with the church. If you are looking for sources of large scale and long term effects this might be it, like the 19th century strikes supported by the church and Rerum novarum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1889_London_dock_strike#Church...

Ask HN: The role of trade unions in tech whistleblowing?

It seems to me that tech trade unions could be where tech workers can safely discuss what worries them in the technology they are paid to build. With legal support and a whistleblowing platform.Do you know of such success or failure stories of tech workers telling trade unions about unethical products?

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Aligning a webapp with the API

I am considering redesigning a web application so that it is structured the same way as the API. The same URL would take the user to an application in a browser, or a corresponding API endpoint if used programmatically. That could work by checking the request headers.The goal is to improve discoverability or exploration of functionality. Many of our users might want to use the API...

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Ask HN: How OS developers find specifications needed to write drivers?

As someone interested in OS development, I read articles, source code and tutorials on the topic. I have created a Linux module, I have an idea of how a bootable "hello world" ISO is created etc.Recently I looked into an open-source OS written from scratch, with support for some peripherals, networking, graphics and I asked myself whether I would know how to implement those. I picked rtl8168d...

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If they pay claims super fast and earn no money saying "no", how, as a customer, can I be sure other customers do not make fake claims and decrease my share of leftover money? Or even make Lemonade unable to pay claims?