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Seattle City Council votes to ban surveillance pricing in sale of groceries

https://advocacy.consumerreports.org/press_release/seattle-city-council-votes-to-ban-surveillance...
1•ortusdux•30s ago•0 comments

Lifelogging with Large Language Models

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1•jaan•1m ago•0 comments

Movies This Week in NYC

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1•patrickdevivo•2m ago•1 comments

Startup Hubble Reaches Unicorn Status for Space-Based Bluetooth

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1•jmarbach•3m ago•0 comments

Circuits in the Terminal

https://isene.org/2026/09/Circuits-In-The-Terminal.html
1•surprisetalk•4m ago•0 comments

AI video won Nikon Image Competition, microscope user needs to talk about it

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1•internet_points•7m ago•0 comments

Dan Saunders ATM Glitch

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Structural Analysis in Browser (FEA)

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Show HN: PCBClaw

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2•hggh•11m ago•0 comments

Caring vs. Knowing

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Comma's hands-off driving tech under investigation after 2 fatal crashes

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2•Brajeshwar•14m ago•0 comments

Coverd Is a Late-Stage Capitalism Fever Dream

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1•mooreds•14m ago•0 comments

It's 90 Degrees in the Arctic

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1•mooreds•15m ago•0 comments

The First Microbe for Mars

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1•rossant•16m ago•0 comments

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2•bookofjoe•19m ago•0 comments

Redis is not a map you talk to over TCP

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2•ibobev•19m ago•0 comments

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1•okutan•20m ago•0 comments

Amazon re-hiring laid-off workers for AI

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2•KazaNLP•20m ago•0 comments

Sandboxing with Minimal Effort

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Developers want more efficient software

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1•soheilpro•21m ago•0 comments

Cheating at Search with Jev

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1•softwaredoug•22m ago•0 comments

The United States of Walmart, According to WiFi Data

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2•emot•22m ago•0 comments

Cheaper LLM Labelling

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1•ibobev•23m ago•0 comments

UK to launch new military space squadron to protect satellites

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1•mdp2021•24m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern

https://michaelheap.com/github-wiki-is-an-antipattern/
32•ibobev•59m ago

Comments

stephenlf•48m ago
I agree with this post. I’ve never found the GitHub wiki experience to be particularly ergonomic. I don’t have any issues with it, but it’s no more convenient than a simple /docs folder. And from there, it’s almost trivial to turn /docs into GitHub pages. Similar effort for a much better end product.

Wikis typically connote distributed, anonymous edits. This feature is partially covered by git already.

cxr•7m ago
[delayed]
hn1rig3rak•34m ago
Biggest thing for me is wiki edits skip code review, so docs rot silently while a /docs PR at least shows up in the diff next to the change.
freedomben•27m ago
Indeed, and also now with agents everywhere the docs can be updated and checked more regularly. If it's in the wiki, you can clone it locally and put an AGENTS.md line informing of where the docs are, but it's still a separate repo to deal with. Credit where due, it was a revolution (even a godsend) in it's time, but at this point I agree a /docs is better.
nchmy•13m ago
im having trouble connecting the dots here. How does adding the friction of code review reduce rot?
anon48293•4m ago
You can spot a code change without a docs change or vice versa
chungy•28m ago
Fossil (https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki) solves this pretty nicely. You can have documentation as files or in a special wiki namespace and it's versioned both ways, and every repository clone gets everything. Even better than that, your in-tree documentation files are rendered and browseable in exactly the same way as the dedicated wiki namespace.

The linked URL to the home page there can even serve as an example: the "trunk" is a check-in name (https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/checkin_names.wiki) that points to the newest check-in on the "trunk" branch. You can replace it with any other reference to get the old version; eg, version-2.20 would work to get the version 2.20 of the docs, 2015-03-14 would work to get the version from 14 March 2015, etc.

YPCrumble•10m ago
Why is this easier or more effective than just a /docs directory?
gatlin•6m ago
Parent comment linked to that answer.
mghackerlady•7m ago
Fossil is the best. Sqlite uses it
bocklund•27m ago
Interesting because I just added a wiki for one of my projects. I'm not using it for docs, since the project already has in-tree docs. I'm using it more as a public scratchpad of ideas / experiments to try that aren't well-defined enough (or known to be worth) opening as an issue yet.
mikeocool•23m ago
In my experience, the docs for something like setting up a dev env are typically greatly improved by the second person who sets up the dev env, not the personal who originally wrote the docs.

In that case, when the docs are not associated with a code change, you want to make getting those improvements into the docs as frictionless as possible, otherwise the changes aren't going to get made.

Personally, I've found that making docs updates incredibly fast + easy to be far more valuable than anything you get from forcing doc changes through the full SDLC process. If someone has feedback on your docs changes they would have shared in a review, they can just update the docs instead.

wavemode•20m ago
You can set up automation and/or configuration such that changes to the docs folder don't require code review.
juancn•18m ago
That could be easily be corrected by relaxing merge gates for changes only to the `docs` folder (or some suitable naming pattern).

You can even do live edits on the web if you don't want to use a command line.

jdxcode•22m ago
i was going to say the biggest reason wasn't mentioned here, that github sets Disallow: /*/wiki*

however I think maybe this has changed? I don't see it in https://github.com/robots.txt now

david_allison•13m ago
They're not indexed if they're publicly editable
jdxcode•11m ago
also the repo needs 500+ stars https://docs.github.com/en/communities/documenting-your-proj...
_itsRoze•13m ago
It's likely also better that agents seeing versioned /docs can understand the context of changes to the codebase better.
knose•11m ago
nit: ”Using the /docs folder is the highest effort-to-reward ratio option” shouldn’t it be lowest or reward-to-effort instead?
ierukah•6m ago
In Forgejo, wikis are just another repo, so you have versioning there.
dayyan•2m ago
Duh.