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Wikipedia Pressed the Red button on Odin | TheStandup

2026-05-02 Science & Technology
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Full Ep on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3Jrvpidho5r5JjosPWSmYh Full Ep on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGXvCMuDE9s Don’t let bad code get merged without reviewing (hopefully not by merge cop!). Checkout out Code Rabbit at https://trm.sh/coderabbit The crew debates the internet’s latest impossible question: red button or blue button, and somehow turns it into a full philosophical breakdown of trust, self-preservation, group behavior, and whether Trash would doom humanity because he hates red cars. They also get into Pokémon card chaos, Wikipedia drama, Odin’s deleted page, and why modern “notability” might be broken. Chapters 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:21 - Blockers 00:03:12 - Odin Wikipedia Drama 00:16:51 - Merge Cop 00:19:39 - More Wikipedia 00:31:37 - Blue or Red Button 00:45:40 - Outro https://twitch.tv/ThePrimeagen - I Stream on Twitch https://twitter.com/terminaldotshop - Want to order coffee over SSH? ssh terminal.shop Become Backend Dev: https://boot.dev/prime (plus I make courses for them) This is also the best way to support me is to support yourself becoming a better backend engineer. Great News? Want me to research and create video????: https://www.reddit.com/r/ThePrimeagen Kinesis Advantage 360: https://bit.ly/Prime-Kinesis

Top Comments (10)

@dev-rel 2026-05-02

I'm from Indonesia. The government is trying to ban Wikipedia because it's not registered with the internal business system. All tech companies are required to "pay" the government to run their businesses, but Wikipedia is a non-profit organization. I want everyone to know this because I hate the government.

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@krux02 2026-05-02

There is a battle in the background that Wikipedia fights, where companies hire Wikipedia editors, to edit their own company wiki page with propaganda and lies. It's draining on wikipedia editors, and I guess that battle is showing some collateral damage here.

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@paulwary 2026-05-02

Wikipedia has a rather long page for the brainfuck programming language.

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@zigmooi 2026-05-02

Trash's Red vs Blue answer: Trash-maxxing

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@jsalsman 2026-05-02

Primary and self-published sources seem like a good idea for Wikipedia until you see what marketing staff and contractors do with them.

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@codeheretic 2026-05-03

I tweaked Sam Altman's page to remove "programmer" and nobody has noticed in the 2 years since lol

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@mairex3803 2026-05-03

There is one interesting thread in the deletion discussion where one of the editors pro deletion responds to someone voting for keeping the odin article: "It's reasonable to pose the question, that Odin might be more of a vanity project and self-promotion. The language is very strongly tied and centers around the outspoken persona of "Ginger Bill", as if a cult leader. Jai and Jonathan Blow can be put into this category too, but are way more successful with that strategy and have a much wider following." This seems very much like a personal vendetta to me, as the 'notability' rule can be interpreted in whatever manner fits the majority. Seeing that e.g. also Hyprland has no article, even though its installed on ~20% of Arch desktops while most other random packages have one is telling giving the dev is also controversial.

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@fortytwo8388 2026-05-02

You find the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect in AI. When you really are deep into a subject, you can get really disappointed or frustrated. Especially in coding. When you don't know much, have not much time, using AI is just fascinating and you don't question much - as you don't know what to question in the results.

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@trinomic7904 2026-05-02

Trash running the whole standup in idle xD

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@konberner170 2026-05-03

That "dispensary" next door to Trash is doing amazing business.

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