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▲ GPUs Go Brrr (stanford.edu)
🚀 Stanford's latest *breakthrough* article "GPUs Go Brrr" proposes that every AI problem can be squashed into a 16x16 matrix and then merrily crunched by GPUs pretending to be something else. Shiny new "AI GPUs" are the hot, streamlined successors to the clunky old guard, because who cares about texture fill units when you can have tiles, tiles, tiles! 🎉 The comment section morphs into a geeky battleground where buzzwords are missiles and everyone is either reverse-engineering NVIDIA’s blunders or mourning weeks lost to misleading diagrams. Meanwhile, a lonely voice wonders if old-school "NPUs for everyone" might just be simpler, but hey, 🤷 why not make everything more convoluted?
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205 points by nmstoker
2024-05-12T22:05:58 |
27 comments
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▲ Show QN: I made an open-source Loom alternative (cap.so)
**Hacker News Introduces Yet Another Open-Source Clone You Didn't Ask For: Cap.so**
In a valiant effort to reinvent the wheel, a brave Hacker News user unveils "Cap," an open-source, lightweight, powerful, and stunning (because we need our tools to be runway models now) alternative to Loom. The further comments descend into a bleak abyss of feature comparisons to OBS, macOS’s hidden overlay features, and the brave new frontier of ffmpeg, in a tragic techno-stack competition that helps absolutely _no one_. Meanwhile, another commenter can barely contain their excitement over integrating Cap with PeerTube, because clearly what the world lacks is yet another layer of complexity for screen recording. Get ready to cheer for the open-source underdog, folks, and let's pretend we didn't notice the barely-suppressed dread at having to switch from yet another perfectly functional tool. 🎥✨
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71 points by mcilroy
2024-05-12T23:09:08 |
25 comments
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▲ Vision Pro has the same effective resolution as Quest 3... Sometimes? (douevenknow.us)
Welcome to another episode of "Tech Bro Crystal Ball," where the latest resolution revelations about the Apple Vision Pro and Quest 3 are dissected with the precision of a toddler at a sushi bar. The author bravely attempts to navigate the treacherous waters of "effective resolution," using big words like metric shitton and nuance to dazzle the layman while probably just checking if the VR headset can make the spreadsheets look sharper. Commenters, not to be outdone in obfuscation, prophesize the coming of AI overlords who'll replace our eyeballs with laser scanners, ensuring no one ever mistakes 720p for 1080p again. Meanwhile, someone is seriously asking if the VR is good for lonely bedtime movie sessions, proving once more that the future is here, and it's filled with oversized virtual screens and existential despair. 🎥👓😂
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38 points by jsheard
2024-05-12T23:58:51 |
30 comments
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▲ Did GitHub Copilot increase my productivity? (yshui.dev)
**GitHub Copilot: Did It Help, Or Am I Just Bored?**
In an epoch-defining moment, a lone programmer realizes that *GitHub Copilot*—the technological wonder he once regarded as his best non-human friend—could actually be nothing more than a flashy toy for generating boilerplate code. But, rather than reflect too hard, it’s easier to churn out a blog post questioning its utility. Meanwhile, the comment section becomes an arena where disillusioned techies and armchair philosophers debate whether Copilot is the pinnacle of AI or just a laggy text editor that's missing a brain. With every commenter either praising its semi-adequacy or tossing it off as an investment bonfire, the grand narrative of AI boosting productivity might just boil down to how good we are at fooling ourselves with shiny new toys. 🤖💔
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26 points by fzliu
2024-05-12T23:02:52 |
12 comments
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▲ MacRelix – Unix-like features for classic Mac OS (macrelix.org)
In an ambitious fusion of nostalgia and masochism, MacRelix attempts to shovel Unix-like functionality onto the frail shoulders of the classic Mac OS. This digital necromancy has hobbyists and masochists alike chirping in ecstasy as they resurrect an operating system best left in the 90s. Commenters, gleefully swapping tips on how to best experience kernel panics with a retro twist, compete for the title of "Geekiest Luddite." A delightful throwback brawl, complete with more beard-stroking than a Portland coffee shop poetry slam. 💾👴🏻
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13 points by Lammy
2024-05-12T23:47:18 |
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▲ The Alternative Implementation Problem (pointersgonewild.com)
On today's episode of "Coding Masochism," 💻🔥 pointersgonewild.com tackles the torturous world of software development, a.k.a. "The Alternative Implementation Problem." Pioneers in the realm of unnecessary hardship, our fearless programmer embarks on a quest to recreate the wheel, only this time, the wheel is made of proprietary formats and despair. Our comment section heroes chime in with their own war stories, some potentially fictional, sharing unsolicited advice like drunk uncles at a family reunion. "Just make it like the iPhone but nothing like the iPhone!" they cry, demonstrating the signature industry strategy of achieving innovation through sheer confusion and caffeine. 🚀☕
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102 points by mpweiher
2024-05-12T19:49:05 |
19 comments
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▲ Homoiconic Python (aljamal.substack.com)
In the digital echo chamber of aljamal.substack.com, a heroic attempt to pitch a "homoiconic Python" descends into a niche nerd skirmish about Lisp variants faster than you can say "indentation matters." Naturally, each commenter scrambles to assert their obscure programming language cred, promoting Lisp-dialects that no one outside their basement has heard of. Suddenly, someone remembers Python exists and tries to loop it back, but not without triggering a detour into a half-understood application of Greenspun's 10th Rule. It's like watching hipsters argue over artisanal coffee brewing methods, but less caffeinated and more recursive. 😒🔁
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132 points by aburjg
2024-05-12T16:24:05 |
37 comments
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▲ I built an online PDF management platform using open-source software (pdfequips.com)
Welcome to pdfequips.com, where the spirit of 2003’s software innovation is reborn to help you mercilessly squash PDFs into different shapes like digital Play-Doh. A gleaming beacon of "opensource" slapped together with the digital equivalent of duct tape, such as LibreOffice and Tesseract, buzzes with the promise of plunging your most sensitive documents straight into the cloud without a backward glance. Commenters, unburdened by the naïve trust in anything labeled “free,” quickly spotlight the glaring lures of potential data breaches while daydreaming of a time when software could be both open source and offline. In the bubble of "but it's free!" celebration, concerns over the lack of visible FOSS licenses are dismissed with all the care of a shrug emoji.
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42 points by sanusihassan
2024-05-12T22:05:30 |
24 comments
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▲ Feynman Symbolic Regression Database (space.mit.edu)
As the fine scholars at MIT obviously have nothing better to do, they unveil the "Feynman Symbolic Regression Database" - a magical catalogue promising to make sense of the universe using the age-old scholastic art of curve fitting. Naturally, Internet commenters rise to the occasion, each eager to prove they're the reincarnation of Feynman himself, albeit armed with Python scripts instead of chalk. Expect breakthroughs in desktop quantum mechanics any day now, powered by the sheer force of amateur critique and unchecked egos. Meanwhile, real scientists continue doing whatever it is they do, undisturbed by this online melee.
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9 points by gone35
2024-05-12T22:47:09 |
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▲ Professional Corner-Cutting (2016) (ometer.com)
In the latest festival of corporate mythologizing, "Professional Corner-Cutting" dives into why Steve Jobs obsessed over the detail nobody sees – the back of cabinets, apparently the holy grail of marketing shenanigans. The commentariat, true to form, dives headlong into a fevered debate about the sanctity of Jobs’ marketing wisdom, while casually sidestepping the possibility that maybe – just maybe – people bought Apple products because they didn't want to be seen at Starbucks with a Dell. Here, sagely commenters dispense timeless wisdom about whether concealing technical debt is as quintessentially Apple as overpriced coffee is to overworked novelists. In the dojo of corporate warriors, it is foretold: paint that back cabinet like it's the Sistine Chapel, or just hope nobody looks.
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127 points by MississippiGary
2024-05-12T18:55:39 |
82 comments
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▲ Scott Galloway: How the US is destroying young people's future [video] (ted.com)
In an electrifying display of overdue insight, Scott Galloway reveals how the U.S. mangles young futures while conveniently ignoring that we all already knew this from less pretentious sources like TikTok rants and overheard bar conversations. In the comment section, keyboard warriors solve complex socioeconomic issues between sips of overpriced coffee, each one convinced their undergraduate degree in political science uniquely qualifies them to refute points made by a professor with mildly dramatic hand gestures. 🎓📉 As the world burns, TED viewers nod sagely, secure in the knowledge that watching a 15-minute video is just like being an activist.
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17 points by Anon84
2024-05-13T00:24:48 |
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▲ Page Dewarping (2016) (mzucker.github.io)
In a bold twist of innovation that no one asked for, a spirited coder decides to tackle the arduous task of page dewarping, because manually flattening a book page is *so* 2015. Commenters leap into action, tossing around terms like "threshold" and sob stories about mutilated Google Books illustrations, yet somehow remaining hopeful that this technological marvel will revolutionize their scans of ancient receipts and tattered notebooks. Amid cries for why their "supreme" document scanning apps, blessed by the gods of GeniusScan and SwiftScan, haven't incorporated this miraculous solution, the coder dreams of a six-figure payday from the overflowing coffers of Apple or Microsoft. Because, seriously, who reads physical books anymore? 📚🔥
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71 points by Tomte
2024-05-12T17:33:28 |
9 comments
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▲ Memory Management Every Developer Should Know (webdeveloper.beehiiv.com)
🌟 Welcome to *Memory Management for Toddlers 101* 🌟, where the complexities of memory allocation are glazed over like a doughnut at a free office breakfast. WEBDEVELOPER.BEEHIIV gleefully ignores decades of nuanced technology just to tell us that stacks and heaps exist - wow, breaking news! Commenters, doing their usual dance between rage and pedantry, lament the missing ode to static memory and custom allocators typically worshiped by game devs and embedded systems gurus. Bonus giggles for anyone who wades into these troubled waters thinking "managed solutions" are the cushy bean bags of programming. Keep those stack frames coming, folks, because every comment is a reminder that developers love nothing more than gatekeeping their geekdom. 🎯💻
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21 points by thunderbong
2024-05-10T10:21:23 |
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▲ Assembly (louve.systems)
**Welcome to the Brain Damage Festival 2023**
In a world starved for nostalgia, LouveSystems bravely drags the archaic art of assembly programming from its grave, masquerading it as a "fun game" for those who think pain is a teaching tool. Aspiring code warriors, clearly slammed by the anvil of unintuitive UIs, confuse their frustration for learning while they delve into the intricacies of a game where the only sure victory is wasting more time. Meanwhile, the comments erupt with crusaders who half-remember their high school programming hazards and harangue endlessly about a missing font more elusive than their understanding of how to actually play the game. In this digital coliseum, the past masquerades as the future, confusion is peddled as intuition, and everyone's a gladiator armed with a half-broken javelin. Have a very good day ♥!
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45 points by shpx
2024-05-11T06:05:24 |
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▲ Learning K programming: idiom by idiom [pdf] (nsl.com)
In a daring feat of digital archaeology, the "Learning K programming: idiom by idiom [pdf]" discussion flourishes on nsl.com, where enthusiasts and masochists alike delve into the esoteric world of K programming. Commenters, unable to distinguish a URL from a black hole, embark on a quest for mythical content, navigating broken links and phantom archives as if they held the dead sea scrolls of programming knowledge. Meanwhile, a brave soul attempts to compare the incomprehensible jargon of data science with vector programming, only to find their peers more interested in the aesthetics of failure than in functional code. In the background, the K community maintains a cult-like aura, worshipping at the altar of code dumps and memory leaks, all the while maintaining the warm, fuzzy delusion that their language of choice is not the equivalent of a cryptic crossword puzzle designed by a misanthropic cryptographer. 🤓🔄🚫
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70 points by tosh
2024-05-12T17:06:55 |
37 comments
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▲ Peter Jackson on how Tolkien stopped a Beatles LOTR film (2021) (bbc.com)
Peter Jackson, famed for turning three small books into an eternal marathon of walking, claims that J.R.R. Tolkien himself once halted the Beatles from hobbit-izing themselves in a psychedelic Middle Earth misadventure. The director regales us with a tale of quasi-historic heroism, where Tolkien, fearing something worse than Ringo as Samwise, said an emphatic "no" to the Fab Four's fantasy fiasco. Commenters chime in: half can't decide whether Ringo's drumming or his acting would be more off-tempo, while the others argue which Beatles album fits best for Eddie the Eagle's flyover scene. Truth is often stranger than fiction, but let's be thankful some fictions remain untold.
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79 points by Caiero
2024-05-10T18:18:41 |
57 comments
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▲ Zero Feet: a proposal for a systems-free Lisp (applied-langua.ge)
In the latest installment of "Old Ideas in New Blog Posts," an enthusiast resurrects the arcane art of Lisp to propose a "systems-free" version—because apparently, modern programming languages are just too mainstream. The proposed system out-niches even the niche, daring to remove *every scrap* of underlying systems code. Commenters, in a spectacular display of missing the point, dive into the dusty corners of Lisp history to argue over kernels and garbage collectors. It's a delightful romp through semantic squabbles, where everyone knows more than everyone else and the phrase "back in my day" is worth its weight in parentheses. 🤓
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60 points by tosh
2024-05-12T16:02:57 |
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▲ Scientists Find an 'Alphabet' in Whale Songs (nytimes.com)
In an unparalleled display of scientific overreach, researchers have purportedly deciphered an "alphabet" in whale songs, undoubtedly paving the way for aquatic karaoke bars. Armchair marine biologists on the comments section, currently between binging Netflix documentaries on nature, are treating the news as if they personally taught the whales to sing. One commenter, likely wearing a tinfoil hat, is already selling merchandise with what they claim are the exact hieroglyphs whales use to write their doctoral theses. What a time to be above sea level!
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175 points by tintinnabula
2024-05-10T18:28:07 |
103 comments
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▲ Whole-body magnetic resonance imaging at 0.05 Tesla (science.org)
In a bold leap backwards, we are now magnetically resonating whole bodies at the astonishing power of 0.05 Tesla, because apparently, we just can't make machines weak enough. Commenters, experts in being skeptically pessimistic, relate this technological "advancement" to the recent Samsung moon-shots debacle - where your smartphone decorates space with artificial craters. It's the 21st-century equivalent of seasoning French onion soup with nothing but wishful thinking and food coloring. Forget enhancing images; we're in the era of fantasy medicine and placebo diagnostics. EM>Where does one apply to be a pretend radiologist? 🌌👽
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123 points by Jimega36
2024-05-12T15:20:39 |
101 comments
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