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▲ Hoard of coins from Norman Conquest is Britain's most valuable treasure find (cnn.com)
**Norman Coins Strike Rich: A Metal-Detecting Jackpot**
In a thrilling display of ground-breaking *historical importance* (and a bit of dumb luck), a plucky band of metal detectorists in England unearthed what is now called Britain's most valuable dirt-covered change jar. For just £4.3 million, a local heritage trust now owns 2,584 pieces of silver, thrilling news for both the seven finders and the one lucky landowner who all get to cash in on this old-timey lotto ticket. Meanwhile, armchair treasure hunters on the internet valiantly attempt to calculate inflation over the last millennium, blissfully ignoring that the historic significance might just eclipse the economic punchline. As one commenter astutely notes, the true value of the coins lies not in their ancient purchasing power but rather in how much some collector today, armed with too much money and historical fervor, is willing to unload. 🤑💰
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39 points by ChumpGPT
2024-10-22T23:37:52 1729640272 |
6 comments
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▲ NewPipe on Linux, Using Android_translation_layer (flathub.org)
The Internet's glorious dumpster-diving enthusiasts have stumbled upon yet another groundbreaking solution: running NewPipe on Linux using an "Android Translation Layer," because clearly, what the tech world lacks is more abstraction layers. In a breathtaking leap of problem solving that would make Rube Goldberg blush, enthusiasts can now experience YouTube without the pesky overhead of Google services, by orchestrating a symphony of hacks and patches. As expected, the comments quickly devolve into an esoteric debate about Binder and its existential necessity for Android, which surely plays well to the audience of three people who both understand and care. Meanwhile, other commenters are just jazzed about turning their Linux boxes into bloated Android emulators because who doesn't love a "nice experience" occasionally lagging under the strain of twenty open apps? 🤷♂️
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147 points by FuturisticGoo
2024-10-27T16:58:56 1730048336 |
36 comments
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▲ NotebookLlama: An open source version of NotebookLM (github.com/meta-llama)
Title: **The Endless Echo Chamber of NotebookLlama**
Welcome to the latest GitHub repository where the blind lead the blind into the brave new world of audio gimmickry. Users and the original creators are equally baffled by the "innovative" transition from PDFs to podcasts using NotebookLlama, an open-source wanderer lost in the shadow of its big brother, NotebookLM. Comments oscillate between delusional praise and biting confusion, as hobbyist code wizards decide whether the voice interrupting itself might just be its biggest feature or its most obvious flaw. Meanwhile, standoffish tech enthusiasts debate about which TTS engine might finally make their robot sound less like a bored telemarketer, proving once again that even in open source, you can indeed polish a turd. 🎙️💻🤖
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87 points by bibinmohan
2024-10-27T19:31:02 1730057462 |
23 comments
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▲ The Coming Technological Singularity (1993) (mindstalk.net)
Title: Armchair Futurists Unite: Vernor Vinge Predicts We'll Be Gods or Dust By Next Tuesday
Another timeless breath of vapor from 1993 resurfaces, this time Vernor Vinge grace us with his ancient prophecy about the "Technological Singularity" — a whimsical era where our toasters will outsmart us, and humans might finally merge with their beloved smartphones. As Vinge pontificates from the rarefied air of his techno-utopian pulpit, the denizens of obscure blog comment sections gear up in full battle-rattle, ready to regurgitate half-digested ideas about AI overlords with the same fervor they attack their keyboard's caps lock. The original article, dusted off like a relic for the digital prophets to decode, has been heralded as less of a serious prediction and more of an excuse for IT hobbyists to justify their GPU hoarding. But don't worry, Vinge assures us, it's all for "noncommercial purposes," because who would want to profit from the end of the world as we know it? 🙄
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4 points by RyanShook
2024-10-28T00:42:15 1730076135 |
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▲ A Chopin waltz unearthed after nearly 200 years (nytimes.com)
**BREAKING: Dusty Chopin Sheet Found, Internet Pretends To Care**
In a startling turn of events that mattered to approximately five people, a “lost” Chopin waltz has been unearthed, thrilling dozens of New York Times readers and culture vultures everywhere with minimal understanding of 19th-century Polish composers. The waltz, played in a swanky New York venue that screams corporate sponsorship, has stirred debates among commenters about whether it's danceable or just another testament to Lang Lang’s ego. As online armchair critics clash over the authenticity and execution, the rest of us ponder — if a historical waltz is played in a city and no one is around to dance, does it make a sound? 🎵🕺🎹
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288 points by perihelions
2024-10-27T11:57:04 1730030224 |
92 comments
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▲ You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web (github.com/soimort)
Welcome to the *latest* chapter in the saga of scraping web-content, where a tiny command-line tool called you-get promises to save bytes by downloading only what your heart (or metered data plan) truly desires. Users flock to describe their *MacGyver*-esque feats of downloading videos to save on bandwidth, boasting scripts and setups so convoluted they make Rube Goldberg machines look like Ikea instructions. Meanwhile, the GitHub comments section turns into a bizarre support group where people trade tips on using various browsers and apps like trading cards. Ah, the sweet symphony of digital age thriftiness ⚙️💾🎶!
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215 points by Anon84
2024-10-27T12:45:02 1730033102 |
85 comments
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▲ Becoming physically immune to brute-force attacks (2021) (seirdy.one)
In an epic collision of physics and computer nerdery that only three people truly appreciate, seirdy.one tackles the existential crisis of how beefy a password needs to be before the universe itself throws in the towel on trying to crack it. Commenters, meanwhile, leap at the chance to flaunt their half-digested physics trivia and theoretical "what-ifs," heralding the rise of cosmic-ray-induced password breaches and refrigerated supercomputers. A handful wander in confused about physical fitness, leaving buff but intellectually unfulfilled. Yes, despite the kilobytes of discourse, your 'password123' is still not safe. 🚀💻🔐
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24 points by emurlin
2024-10-24T22:56:44 1729810604 |
18 comments
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▲ RP FLIP escapes wrecker's claws (gcaptain.com)
**RP FLIP escapes wrecker's claws**
Hacker News is abuzz with nostalgia as the RP FLIP, a ship with the uncanny ability to impersonate a sinking buoy, dodges a death by scrapyard. One commenter, caught in a profound existential crisis over humanity's "wholesale mistakes," now sees themselves heroically steering the next maritime relic to safety, potentially saving their fragile soul from the corrosive effects of modern cynicism. Meanwhile, the inevitable descent of the Airbus A380 into obscurity has another armchair economist pontificating on the failings of superjumbo jets and the hub-and-spoke air travel model – because, as you know, everyone's a seasoned aerospace engineer after reading a couple of Wikipedia articles and half a blog post on aviation economics. Welcome to Hacker News, where every user is one saving-the-world project away from being Elon Musk, and every aircraft is just a bad business decision they saw coming a mile away. 🛩️🔄🚢
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57 points by tomohawk
2024-10-27T19:17:59 1730056679 |
14 comments
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▲ Axiomatics: Mathematical thought and high modernism (maa.org)
**Axiomatics: The Endless Quarrel of Mathematics and Reality**
The Mathematical Association of America has bravely published yet another tome about whether "pure" math can bully "applied" math into giving up its lunch money. Commenters, armed with an *encyclopedic* mishmash from Wikipedia about Euler and Bernoulli's bedtime stories, pretend it's a new Marvel vs DC debate. One brave soul questions whether to spend his dwindling lifespan understanding proofs or building leaky prototypes—sadly, the urgency is lost on a forum where most believe their abstractions might save the world, or at least their afternoon. Meanwhile, another daily savior hacks through cryptography with the grace of a bull in a Bitcoin shop, blissfully untroubled by why his code actually works. The discussions spiral down into a geeky abyss where "applied" vs. "pure" flips back and forth like a coin toss in zero-gravity. Who knew math could be so existential?
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44 points by hhs
2024-10-27T14:47:22 1730040442 |
9 comments
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▲ Cheap Light Transformed Civilization (bigthink.com)
Bigthink.com, in a stunning revelation, announces that light, of all things, is quite important and—brace yourselves—cheap light has transformed civilization. Who knew that flicking on a bulb could achieve more than assembling a bookshelf in dim angst? Commenters engage in a fierce competition to determine who can most profoundly state the obvious, with bonus points for invoking the Industrial Revolution or name-dropping Edison. It’s a dazzling display of electric insights, sparking enough self-congratulation to power a small lamp. ⚡🎉
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8 points by Thevet
2024-10-23T04:21:38 1729657298 |
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▲ Serious fun (scattered-thoughts.net)
Title: *Serious Fun or Seriously Funny?*
Oh, joy! Another groundbreaking expedition into the heart-rending conundrum: can being serious actually coexist with fun, or are we just flapping our gums? Today's revelation from scattered-thoughts.net dares to venture that yes, oh yes, they can live harmoniously on orthogonal axes (because throwing math terms makes everything sound smarter). Meanwhile, commentators can't resist linking anything remotely related to prove they, too, can connect dots like pre-school Van Goghs on a sugar high. One enlightening comment suggests a slap therapy to boost intelligence—apparently, physical comedy is now peer-reviewed science. Who knew academia could be a slapstick performance? 🤡
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28 points by luu
2024-10-26T08:01:47 1729929707 |
2 comments
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▲ Platform Strategy and Its Discontents (infrequently.org)
**Hackernews Strategy Blunders & Keyboard Armchair Generals**
In a startling revelation from an ex-Mastodon epic, "Platform Strategy and Its Discontents" melodramatically decries the apocalyptic havoc wreaked by JavaScript's mere existence, daring to suggest that maybe, just maybe, pushing entire apps into everyone’s browser wasn’t our finest hour. 🤔 Commenters, those grand wizards of hindsight, hop onto their high horses, passionately arguing whether modern web tools are the heralds of innovation or just a great new way to make everything slower and more annoying. Spoiler: no code snippet or bleeding-edge framework can save us from our own hubris! Meanwhile, a zealous few clamor for the mythical HTML6, because surely *one more version* will fix everything. Join us next week for another round of digital doom-scrolling as we collectively ignore the existential dread of our daily online experiences. 😱💻
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56 points by wmanley
2024-10-27T19:46:11 1730058371 |
12 comments
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▲ Pollen: A publishing system written in Racket (racket-lang.org)
Title: **Pollen: Revolutionary or Just Pollinating Confusion?**
In an audacious yet splintered attempt to innovate digital book publishing, Pollen graces us with a programming-first approach—because every reader secretly aspires to be a coder, right? The digital age meets literary masochism: books without navigation, search features, or multiple formats. Our virtuous commenters, ever-hopeful for a tool to fit all, ponder desperately if adding Racket as a dependency is the hill they want to die on. Will Pollen bloom or wither in the vast garden of e-publishing tools? Stay tuned as disappointment here is coded, not stirred. 📚💻🤷♂️
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87 points by nesarkvechnep
2024-10-27T15:57:10 1730044630 |
9 comments
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▲ Character amnesia in China (globalchinapulse.net)
**Harvard Ph.D. Students Can't Write: Character Amnesia Epidemic or Just Laziness?**
In a tale as old as digital amnesia, the article at globalchinapulse.net revisits the thrilling world where Chinese Ph.D. students, supposedly the crème de la crème of academic society, face their arch-nemesis: the sneeze character 嚔. The drama unfolds at a luncheon, striking fear into the hearts of language purists everywhere, as not one of these towering intellects could recall how to write it. Cue the comments section, where every Tom, Dick, and Haruo justifies forgetting basic literacy due to the advent of typing. It’s a fierce battle between 'technology makes us dumb' and 'but it’s just one word,' serving lukewarm takes faster than a microwave on its last legs.📱🤦♂️📜
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219 points by nabla9
2024-10-27T01:52:05 1729993925 |
172 comments
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▲ Using SQLite as storage for web server static content (clace.io)
**SQLite: The Jack of All Trades and Master of... Well, None?** 🙄
In a revolutionary act of "because we can," the folks at Clace.io decide to use SQLite as a shoebox for all their web server static content, apparently mixing up "unique" with "useful." Commenters, thirsty for innovation (or just complexity), salivate over this hacker nirvana, spewing links and faint praise like confetti at a parade that nobody asked for. One gets nostalgic about previous experiments, perhaps trying to validate this techie heresy, while another drills into transactional updates, missing the forest for the "this will surely fix everything" tree. 🌳💔
Meanwhile, an outlier begs the question, "Isn't everything 35% faster on paper until you actually use it?" Ah, the sweet sound of pragmatism in a sea of over-engineered solutions.😂
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156 points by ajayvk
2024-10-27T17:08:08 1730048888 |
89 comments
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▲ Ibis: Federated Wikipedia alternative (ibis.wiki)
Title: 🌐 Ibis: The Slightly Different Wiki That Still Doesn't Solve Anything
In a stirring ode to redundancy, the internet births yet another Wikipedia alternative called Ibis, which promises to fix none of Wikipedia's long-winded problems but has a cool new structure to confuse everyone. Commentators, in a display of collective amnesia, rehash decades-old Wikipedia scandals to justify their excitement for Ibis while conveniently forgetting to ask about details like how it actually improves anything. They wax poetic about the decentralized charm of Ibis, seemingly unaware that splintering knowledge into echo chambers could make biases worse, not better. Truly, the cycle of internet solutions creating more problems continues unabated, with a promise that this time, it's "federated." ✨
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142 points by mostcallmeyt
2024-10-27T17:39:17 1730050757 |
96 comments
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▲ 'Visual clutter' alters information flow in the brain (yale.edu)
Title: Yale Discovers Brain ‘Suffers’ When Too Many Ads Attack
📚 Angry armchair neurologists gather to revel in a stunning revelation from Yale: your brain *does* get fussy when too many things, like ads or, presumably, the attendees of a Black Friday sale, are vying for its attention. 🧠 According to the comment section, we ought to obliterate all outdoor advertising, thereby curing headaches, and potentially, saving the world from the great existential crisis of simultaneous phone-sniffing and peripheral vision reading. One savant even takes the deep dive into stargazing techniques to prove a point that probably no one argued about in the first place. Stir in a dash of family tales of optical woes, and you've got the recipe for a perfectly cluttered discussion that misses the forest for the sarcastically scrutinized trees.
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135 points by gnabgib
2024-10-22T19:17:22 1729624642 |
50 comments
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▲ Debugging my wife's alarm clock (ntietz.com)
In a heroic tale of domestic electronics warfare, a humble blogger recounts the saga of debugging his wife's alarm clock—a timepiece apparently perplexed by the concept of timekeeping. Armed with nothing but a soldering iron and the unshakable belief that changing a battery might be classified as a repair, our protagonist dives headfirst into the horrifying depths of "why technology hate me?" syndrome. Commenters quickly escalate the situation by tossing around terms like 'LM8560N IC PDF' and reminiscing about the golden years of synchronous motors, proving once more that no technical discussion can occur without a healthy dose of nostalgia and google-fu triumphs. Meanwhile, a tiny faction of rebels still using traditional alarm clocks rallies to share their archaic tech choices, lest their smartphones rob them of yet another precious relic of simpler times. 🕰️👵🔧
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97 points by zdw
2024-10-26T23:47:02 1729986422 |
55 comments
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▲ SDL-based Lua programming environment for kids similar to Codea (github.com/antirez)
In a nostalgic flashback to technology that *barely* predates the iPhone, SDL-based Lua programming environment Load81 emerges from the cyber-cobwebs to teach kids programming like it's 1989 🕹️. In between desires to resuscitate this "modern" relic, clashing comments prop up like browser tabs to preach the gospel of "better alternatives" ranging from Python-Polished Pyxel to the retro-chic PICO-8. Meanwhile, a lone nostalgic voice cries in the wilderness about the good ol' days of QBasic, desperately seeking relevance in a world that has long moved on. Encore performances by friendships formed through Lua's elegance are recounted like war stories by veterans, while the GitHub repo quietly gathers digital dust, admired but untouched like a museum piece. 🎨👾
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61 points by kristianp
2024-10-26T09:43:18 1729935798 |
21 comments
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▲ Crossing the USA by Train (blinry.org)
Welcome to yet another riveting voyage across America's vast flatness that someone decided needed a *detailed* blog post. 🚂 Behold, an urbanite discovers the existence of landscapes outside the subway tunnel and has the epiphany that omg, trains also go long distances! Meanwhile, in the comment section, armchair economists puzzle over the financial gymnastics of train vs. plane vs. automobile, because it’s absolutely crucial to solve this while ignoring the charm of *actually enjoying the journey*. Isn’t the modern pace of life just wonderfully slow and contemplative? 😉
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165 points by chmaynard
2024-10-27T09:23:52 1730021032 |
218 comments
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