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Hacker News carried a report that 80 percent of developers find AI coding more addictive than helpful

r/NoStupidQuestions asked how much longer Reddit has before it turns into a slop factory like Facebook or Quora, while r/WorkReform argued every billionaire belongs in prison and that baseball owners always cap worker pay but never their own profits.

r/TooAfraidToAsk asked whether progressive spaces are becoming sex-negative, and r/Decadeology kept its early-2000s comparison threads running.

The market layer held its standing boards, Elon's tweet count, Red Rocks 2027 bookings and MrBeast view-count contracts, plus a new line asking whether an AI model called Ox Alpha belongs to Zhipu AI.

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