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Daniel Lemire argues in a new blog post for 'ephemeral testing' — writing throwaway tests meant to validate code once, rather than maintaining a permanent test suite. The piece has drawn attention on Hacker News, where readers are debating whether disposable tests offer a practical middle ground between skipping tests and full long-term coverage, especially for research code and quick prototypes.

Schleswig-Holstein's minister president Daniel Günther has complained to CDU leader Friedrich Merz about Thuringian politician Thorsten Reich's plans concerning the EEG renewable energy levy and the related network package, according to a report by t-online. Commenters online cite Günther as an example of the kind of pragmatic CDU politician they say the party needs more of if it wants to improve its poll numbers.