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▲ Immersive Math (immersivemath.com)
**Immersive Math: Another Interactive Wonderland or Just Another Techie Distraction?**
In the latest episode of "textbooks are dead, long live the textbooks," Immersive Math arrives to save us from the tyranny of printed paper with its digital dazzle. Here, J. Ström and the gang employ every trick in the book (pun intensely intended) to make linear algebra as immersive as a lukewarm VR rollercoaster. Commenters, in a frenzy of anti-paper ecstasy, toss around URLs like confetti at a parade honoring the death of traditional education. Cheers to digital salvation where—God forbid—you might actually have to turn a page to check your answers. 🎉📚🤖
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403 points by oumua_don17
2024-05-11T17:16:08 |
34 comments
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▲ Vision Transformers Need Registers (openreview.net)
Title: Tech Wizards Propose Extra Doodads for Pixel Shuffling Sorcery
In a thrilling twist of events that will absolutely revolutionize the stocking of virtual shelves at Pixelytics Inc., groundbreaking researchers propose giving Vision Transformers little digital junk drawers called "registers". These cutting-edge novelty items, akin to throwing extra pockets into code-jeans, somehow help the digital brains stop mistaking dogs for muffins. According to the veritable army of overnight AI experts in the comments, this is equivalent to "pretty much inventing the camera all over again but with extra sci-fi." Meanwhile, the real debate is whether this techno witchcraft is the gateway to Skynet or just a new way to crash your Chrome tabs faster.
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88 points by cscurmudgeon
2024-05-11T18:08:18 |
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▲ PeaZip: Open-source file compression and encryption software (peazip.github.io)
Title: PeaZip: Enthusiasm Unzipped and Compressed Into Irrelevance
Once again, the open-source carnival rolls into town with its latest act: PeaZip, a software claiming to elevate file compression to the dizzying heights of mediocrity. Enthusiasts rave about its use of the ancient Lazarus and Free Pascal tools, extolling the virtues of going "off the beaten path" as if the software equivalent of hiking boots will somehow justify their questionable life choices. Tragedy strikes, however, as the lead developer might have to pause development due to eye surgery, leaving a community hanging in suspense - or as suspenseful as one could be over ZIP files. Cue the typical forum knights, jousting over irrelevant technicalities while Linux users in the corner argue that their unique snowflake OS is misunderstood, all within the echo chamber of a comment section that mistakenly believes it's pushing the envelope of software development. 🤓💾
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199 points by thunderbong
2024-05-11T12:19:00 |
70 comments
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▲ Why the CORDIC algorithm lives rent-free in my head (github.com/francisrstokes)
**Why We Pretend We Understand the CORDIC Algorithm**
In an exciting burst of nostalgia-fueled tech jargon, an enthusiastic coder reveals why the CORDIC algorithm "lives rent-free" in their head, which surely makes for a cluttered living space filled with obsolete numerical methods. Delightfully, the author pledges devotion to every piece of feedback, suggesting a desperate plea for validation in an era where even your toaster is probably running on something more advanced. The comments section quickly devolves into a tech-measuring contest, where everyone seems to reminisce about the 'good old days' of fixed-point arithmetic with the wistful tears of those who barely survived parallel parking before rear cameras. As our valiant hobbyists debate floating points versus fixed points, determinism, and the arcane arts of compiler behaviors, one can't help but wonder: if they ever do finish their projects, will anyone be awake to care? 💤🤓
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294 points by todsacerdoti
2024-05-11T07:18:39 |
50 comments
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▲ System Analysis and Programming (1966) (scientificamerican.com)
In a shocking turn of events, Scientific American bravely unearths an article from the dusty crypt of 1966 about systems analysis, reminding us all why nobody reads this stuff voluntarily. Commenters, in a desperate bid to seem relevant, lament broken links to blogs older than the smartphones they're feverishly typing on. Fortunately, they swiftly provide new URLs, heroically saving us from the abyss of a life without access to a 55-year-old paper. Meanwhile, on Google, Christopher Strachey loses a popularity contest to a biography subject, proving once again the internet has priorities well in order.
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48 points by aragonite
2024-05-11T16:42:45 |
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▲ 100k Stars (chromeexperiments.com)
The web bends over backwards to remind us of our utter irrelevance in the cosmic sandbox with "100k Stars," a Chrome-based experiment that manages to make even the universe look dated. Commentators, clinging to nostalgia like a security blanket, wax poetic on the now silent soundtrack of this digital space odyssey—because apparently, ensuring audio plays requires manual settings tweak in 2023. Too busy reminiscing about their childhood bank visits and expounding on nihilism, the cosmic peanut gallery misses the irony that their deep ruminations on insignificance are, indeed, laughably insignificant. As the soundtrack remains unheard, one solemn truth resounds: much like the universe's appreciation for our existence, Chrome's care for its early experiments is a cold void. 🌌🔇
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151 points by sans_souse
2024-05-10T07:45:31 |
29 comments
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▲ Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora (foto-webcam.eu)
**Title: Europe Slips Into A Cosmic Disco, And The Internet Has Opinions**
As Europe suddenly blushes pinker than an over-enthusiastic Instagram filter due to some feisty auroral activity, witnesses from Denmark to the river Dee transform into overnight phenologists draped in layers of amateur cosmic jargon. One intrepid soul, nearly brought to tears by technicolor skies, vows to post holy-grail photos "somewhere," but gets thwarted by the cruel mistress of comment-edit timeouts - such drama! Meanwhile, the armchair experts huddle around digital campfires (a.k.a Twitter links and obscure aurora apps), swapping tales of the sky's latest mood swings, each revelation met with the inevitable online squabble over photo credibility and the best app for catching the next light show. Who needs scientists when you have high ISO settings and a Twitter account?
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1445 points by luispa
2024-05-10T21:59:03 |
351 comments
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▲ Billions in Dirty Money Flies Under the Radar at Busiest Airports (wsj.com)
Welcome to today's episode of "Sky Smugglers Anonymous" where billions in dirty money breeze through airport security like VIPs at a nightclub. In the WSJ's latest fear-fest, airports are apparently as sieve-like as a pasta strainer, missing cash-stuffed cases while obsessing over your bottled water. Commenters on the ground report missing cash in their luggage post-flight—shocker!—while others amusingly breeze through with ammo, because priorities. Maybe next time, just PayPal your laundered money, folks! It's less bulky, and clearly, nobody's looking that hard. 🤑👜✈️
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40 points by kripy
2024-05-11T22:07:09 |
26 comments
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▲ $64B Gamble: SoftBank Arm Plan to Launch AI Chip in 2025 (geekynews.org)
In an astonishing display of financial acumen, SoftBank decides the best way to burn through $64 billion is by launching an AI chip in 2025, aligning perfectly with the peak of a market already oversaturated with contenders. Commentators on geekynews.org are tripping over themselves to applaud the move, showcasing a touching but misguided faith in SoftBank’s strategy, which seems primarily based on high-stakes poker. Experts from the depths of internet forums explain, with unmatched clarity, why this move is either the next big evolution in tech or the equivalent of using dollar bills for kindling. Meanwhile, other users are busy tying this news to unrelated geopolitical theories, because why stick to reality when conjecture is so much more fun?
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3 points by prestonlau
2024-05-12T00:57:49 |
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▲ Home ownership is not the boon to older Americans that it once was (nytimes.com)
Welcome to the latest disaster in real estate understanding, courtesy of the perennially confused journalists at nytimes.com. Elderly homeowners are shocked—shocked!—to discover that selling their overvalued mansions doesn't magically allow them to buy cheap, spacious, and elegant condos tailored for geriatric royalty. In this laughably narrow exposé, we learn one couple’s earth-shattering revelation that property prices have gone up for *everything*, amid the tears of an entire comment section collectively forgetting the basics of inflation and market dynamics. Fear not; they'll surely solve it all by blaming millennials and their avocado toast in 3... 2... 1... 😱🏡💸
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18 points by MilnerRoute
2024-05-12T00:11:32 |
29 comments
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▲ Making Sense of Acquire-Release Semantics (davekilian.com)
In the spiraling vortex of technical jargon and memory model semantics, Dave Kilian nobly attempts to demystify the enigma of acquire-release semantics, only to inadvertently plunge into the depths of programmer despair. The commenters, an elite cohort of self-proclaimed wizards of threading, rise from their ergonomic battle stations to share tales of glory and missteps involving shared memory adventures, confirming their status as tragically misunderstood heroes in a world cruelly indifferent to CPU instruction ordering. As they proudly trade war stories and recommended talks that no one else will likely watch, the true heart of the issue remains cloaked in a dense fog of acronyms, proving once again that the real enemy in programming isn’t misunderstanding; it’s assuming anyone else actually understands 😵👨💻.
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80 points by sph
2024-05-10T08:59:13 |
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▲ Show QN: Wag, MFA and Enrollment for WireGuard (github.com/nhas)
In the latest spectacle of reinventing the wheel, Show HN triumphantly parades Wag, paradoxically merging sophistication with "what could possibly go wrong?" scenarios involving the eerily untrustworthy HTTP. Desperate for reassurance, the comments erupt into a frenzy of security paranoia and technobabble, suggesting such revolutionary actions as "maybe using HTTPS" and "occasionally check if the internet still exists." Meanwhile, developers engage in the ceremonial dance of the VPN settings, surely convinced they're crafting the digital Fort Knox, except that the blueprint might just be a fancy doodle. Amid cries for more features, "This is really cool," exclaims a lone voice in the desert – likely wearing a tin foil hat and eagerly anticipating the next session timeout. 😎🔐
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118 points by Nullence
2024-05-11T07:31:23 |
32 comments
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▲ BCPL evolved from CPL. (2021) [pdf] (cam.ac.uk)
In the latest edition of "Nostalgia Meets Narcissism," the hallowed halls of academia bless us with yet another PDF—an art piece really—on how BCPL, the Mesozoic precursor to all programming languages that mattered, evolved from CPL. Ambitious readers eagerly skim through, while commenters engage in a tech-hipster contest to boast who wasted more of their youth typing in the most obsolete language. One aficionado lovingly recalls wasting his PhD code on BCPL despite the existence of C, because who needs career prospects when you can have vintage coding cred? Another brags about exchanging pleasantries with legends, in case you doubted his vintage tech street cred. The thread becomes a group hug of forgotten semicolons and dusty memories. 🤓💾
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12 points by fanf2
2024-05-10T10:42:03 |
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▲ Unix and Multics (2019) (multicians.org)
Welcome to yet another nostalgic episode where tech hipsters laud ancient coding stories as the high art of programming. Here, Tom reminisces over lunch dates that decided the fate of Unix’s error handling, pitching the radical idea of just letting it crash, because why bother with something as pesky as stability? In the comments, the modern wizards agonize over errors, proposing a future where coding is essentially drafting elaborate cybersecurity apologies. Who needs reliable software when you can indulge in the masochistic pleasure of watching your system burn and reboot? Maybe throw a party every time it doesn’t! 🎉
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99 points by aragonite
2024-05-10T05:25:26 |
56 comments
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▲ Metabolism of autism reveals developmental origins (medicalxpress.com)
In the latest escapade of amateur hour at medicalxpress.com, we dive head-first into the Metabolism of Autism, which apparently got lost somewhere between developmental biology and a wild goose chase for biomarkers. Brace for a thrilling narrative where standard biochemical disturbances turn into Sherlock Holmes-level diagnostics, courtesy of one Dr. Randy Blakely, who's been connecting serotonin to autism like it's a game of molecular Twister. 🔬🧬 Meanwhile, in the comments section, join the motley crew of armchair experts dissecting advanced scientific methodologies with all the finesse of a bull in a china shop. They hypothesize with the aftermath clarity of 20/20 hindsight, because who needs scientific rigor when you've got YouTube and a pet hypothesis? 🤷♂️
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99 points by wglb
2024-05-11T15:18:32 |
186 comments
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▲ The global tree restoration potential (Bastin et al., 2019) (science.org)
In an exhilarating display of environmental optimism, Bastin et al. proclaim that trees, yes, *trees*, are here to save the day from our climate apocalypse. The study identifies enough barren land to plant a trillion of these leafy heroes, blissfully ignoring the complexities of ecosystem dynamics, local economies, and actual human behavior. Commenters on science.org engage in the ritual dance of armchair expertise, alternately heralding the study as the second coming of Arbor Day and denouncing it as naïve plant-worship. Trees for President, anyone? 🌳🌍
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8 points by karl_rikhardych
2024-05-10T12:09:29 |
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▲ So We've Got a Memory Leak (stevenharman.net)
Title: The Great Memory Management War
In the latest self-indulgent tech rambling that perpetuates the stereotype of engineers with superiority complexes, Steven Harman clumsily wrestles with the age-old enigma of memory leaks, packaging it humorously as a service no one asked for. Commenters dive headfirst into this esoteric abyss, flexing their 'unique' mental capacities to handle manual memory allocation, an evidently trivial task for the gifted few. Equal parts hubris and nostalgia, the thread devolves into a tedious echo chamber where veterans scorn the "simplicity" of modern programming paradigms while gloriously reminiscing about the Good Old Days™ of manual everything. Somewhere in this verbose display of technical machismo, the elusive point about effective memory management remains cunningly at large, dodging detection under layers of condescension and sarcasm.
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178 points by todsacerdoti
2024-05-10T05:14:14 |
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▲ Adam Curtis on the dangers of self-expression (2017) (thecreativeindependent.com)
In a startling testament to the depth of modern intellectual decay, a commenter on "The Creative Independent" regales us with a nostalgic lament for days when art wasn't just an elaborate scheme for the rich to play "hide the taxable income". In a heartfelt eulogy to the uniform genius of the Renaissance, our art connoisseur misses the irony that da Vinci probably wouldn't even paint today's zeitgeist if they could help it, opting instead to design more visionary helicopters—or anything less banal than engaging in online comment wars about whether artists should revert to making endless Madonnas to please the nostalgia-prone masses. Meanwhile, other commenters duke it out in caps lock over whether YouTube's monetization strategy has more artistic integrity. Surely, after threading through these digital cries for the past wrapped in complaints about tax evasion, the ghost of Adam Curtis nods gravely on how self-expression has led not just to the end of cohesive art movements, but also, apparently, coherent thought.
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119 points by greenie_beans
2024-05-11T02:16:55 |
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▲ Why you can hear the temperature of water (nytimes.com)
In a groundbreaking piece of journalism that will surely revolutionize atmospheric physics, a New York Times reader nobly educates the masses on the acoustic properties of water, inspired by their dog and a backyard creek. Commenters, freshly adorned with lab coats, delve into deep, intellectual debates about whether hot water sounds different from cold water, each drawing on years of tea-making experience as empirical evidence. One scientific savant even claims to identify shower temperature by ear, presumably while performing Mozart's lesser-known "Concerto in H2O Major." 🛁💧👂 Mockery ensues, as the forum transforms into an echo chamber (pun intended) of anecdotal thermodynamics. Ah, the symphony of pseudoscience!
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166 points by mhb
2024-05-10T11:22:34 |
113 comments
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