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▲ SQLite is likely used more than all other database engines combined (sqlite.org)
**SQLite: The Everywhere Database That Knows No Bounds 🌎📱**
Once again, the tech realm serves us a steaming plate of hyperbole: SQLite is everywhere, from the phone in your pocket to the dark recesses of your smart TV. According to a wildly enthusiastic blog post, we're basically up to our necks in SQLite databases—trillions, they say! Every app, device, and household appliance is apparently in a committed relationship with SQLite, suggesting either an unspeakable level of codependency or just a lack of database diversity. Commenters, on their end, oscillate between worshiping SQLite as the unsung hero of modern civilization and vaguely understanding what a database even is. In this riveting exchange of misinformation and awe, we are reminded why the internet remains the best place to exaggerate how important something really is.
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80 points by ysabri
2024-06-15T23:38:50 |
40 comments
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▲ Just Enough Software Architecture (georgefairbanks.com)
**Architectural Daydreams and Doodles**
George Fairbanks' *Just Enough Software Architecture* leaps into the literary void, egregiously assuming that developers might prefer to design systems rather than cannibalize Stack Overflow for quick fixes. The book mourns the 'good old days' before a quick Google replaced actual knowledge, despairing over mere mortals who confuse knowing C++ syntax with the ability to architect software systems that don't crumble under mild scrutiny. Commenters, armed with their freshly minted opinions and half-read blog posts, fervently agree while simultaneously misconfiguring their own blogs. For anyone eager to erect complex software castles on foundations of sand, Fairbanks seems just as nostalgic as his readers are clueless.
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147 points by teleforce
2024-06-15T19:02:38 |
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▲ ESASky (esa.int)
Today on ESA's latest attempt to dazzle the homebound nerds with pretty space pictures, ESASky unveils yet another "groundbreaking" map of the universe. Because if there's one thing the internet needs, it's more oversized images no one knows how to interpret. Commenters, engaged in a cosmic battle of self-importance, scramble to demonstrate their superior armchair expertise on astrophysics, surpassing last week's pixel counts and speculations about alien real estate. It’s another small leap for a commenter, one giant eye-roll for mankind. 🌌🙄
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249 points by xioxox
2024-06-15T17:10:57 |
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▲ Two announcements: AI for Math resources, and erdosproblems.com (terrytao.wordpress.com)
In an exciting development for anyone without ten PhDs, Terence Tao declares his never-ending crusade against unsolved math problems with his announcement of AI for Math resources and the warmer-than-toast erdosproblems.com. Because if there’s one thing the internet needed, it’s another place where mathematicians can take their problems, rather than just taking them to therapy. Comment sections quickly fill with verbose laments, as half the math community spills their intellectual insecurity, while the other half smugly types “trivial” in answers to problems they Googled five minutes ago. Clearly, this new website will solve all of math’s social issues, one p-adic analysis at a time. 🤓
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84 points by nabla9
2024-06-15T17:24:12 |
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▲ Reverse Engineering a Restaurant Pager System (k3xec.com)
**Reverse Engineering Dinner Plans**
Another *brilliant* hacker has decided that the pinnacle of human curiosity involves dismantling a restaurant pager because ordering curly fries doesn't thrash the adrenal glands enough. 🍟💥 Our intrepid hero buys the "most popular" set on eBay (because research starts with the Best Seller tag, obviously), embarking on what is doubtlessly a multi-week adventure away from actual social interaction. Meanwhile, the comment section turns into a bizarre mix of amateur radio enthusiasts and people who think microwave ovens are still the height of cutting-edge technology. Stay tuned for next week’s riveting sequel: **How Many Engineers Does It Take to Reverse Engineer a Paper Nap.**
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54 points by edward
2024-06-15T20:37:28 |
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▲ A most profound video game: a good cognitive aid for research (thoughtforms.life)
In a universe-tilting revelation that nobody asked for, Dr. Michael Levin declares video games as not just colossal time-sinks but brilliant cognitive treasures to aid research. The Internet’s legion of armchair neuroscientists convenes on thoughtforms.life to debate whether the professor's groundbreaking use of pixelated wisdom could finally outsmart a flatulent gerbil. Commenters alternate between worshipping Levin’s joystick jockeying skills and pondering if their own gaming prowess could indeed land them a Ph.D., or at least get them through their next existential crisis. The entire discussion firmly secures the future of humanity in the capable hands of those who can discern philosophical truths between rounds of *em*Space Invaders*em*. 🎮🧠
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144 points by myth_drannon
2024-06-15T13:43:40 |
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▲ Show QN: Keydogger – Minimal keyboard macro for Linux (Wayland) (github.com/jarusll)
Title: Show HN: Keydogger – Minimal keyboard macro for Linux (Wayland) (github.com/jarusll)
Welcome to yet another earth-shattering open-source project: Keydogger! Apparently designed by someone who thinks that Linux didn't already have *enough* ways to customize your keyboard, this tiny tool insists on revolutionizing our lives via macros. The developer solemnly assures us that they "read every piece of feedback and take your input very seriously," which is basically hacker news-speak for "please don't hurt me in the comments." Meanwhile, the comments section is a delightful dumpster fire of purists debating Wayland vs. X11 like it's a life or death decision, pepper brass necks poking out to argue the virtues of emacs or vim when all we wanted was to press a button and watch a thing happen.
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62 points by jarusll
2024-06-15T17:03:26 |
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▲ Ollama v0.1.45 (github.com/ollama)
**Ollama v0.1.45: The Greatest Typo of Crowdsourced Mediocrity**
In an awe-inspiring demonstration of collective confusion, the developers behind Ollama v0.1.45 emphatically assure us that each bit of "feedback" (read: desperate pleas for basic usability) is very seriously considered amidst their valorous quest to manifest mediocrity. Sifting through the GitHub comments is like watching philosophically bankrupt beavers arguing about the aesthetics of dam leaks. One brave soul suggests a fix for a glaring bug, only to be met by a chorus of armchair developers whose closest encounter with code is formatting their Excel sheets. Thereupon, as the issue tracker devolves into a tragicomic forum of digital despair, the rest of us stand back amused, marveling at how low standards can truly go. 🤡
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58 points by lijunhao
2024-06-15T21:54:02 |
25 comments
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▲ Leveraging Zig's Allocators (openmymind.net)
Title: Yet Another Allocator Adventure
Another day, another hapless developer decides the world desperately needs yet another HTTP server library—this time in Zig, because we clearly haven’t suffered enough. The post kicks off with a thrilling, groundbreaking concept: thread pools. Sleep-inducing technical details prompt the usual suspects in the comment section to throw a parade featuring the all-time favorites: *memory safety*, *performance comparisons*, and, oh, the sweet serenades to the almighty simplicity of Zig. It's a raucous festival of niche enthusiasm and misunderstandings, perfect for when you need a reminder why real humans stick to Python. 😴
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165 points by PaulHoule
2024-06-14T17:34:47 |
76 comments
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▲ Reformatting 100k Files at Google in 2011 (le-brun.eu)
In a heroic tale only a software engineer could love, an intrepid Googler decides to reformat 100,000 files, because why solve real problems when you can embark on a quixotic quest of code cleanliness? The blog boasts about the monumental task with the kind of excitement usually reserved for watching paint dry. Commenters, meanwhile, engage in a holy war over tabs vs. spaces, elevating what is essentially a glorified "find and replace" task to the heights of Herculean effort. It's the digital equivalent of watching someone organize a sock drawer, but with more self-congratulation. 🙄
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11 points by laurentlb
2024-06-15T22:46:35 |
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▲ Finding New Pastures: Big Nerd Ranch's Next Chapter (bignerdranch.com)
Big Nerd Ranch, renowned for churning out code faster than a hipster can order an oat milk latte, has flamboyantly declared its "next chapter." As if the previous chapters were riveting bestsellers and not just manuals subtle enough to make an insomniac weep with relief. In a thrilling adventure comparable to going from vanilla to French vanilla, they promise revolution yet deliver the IT equivalent of reheated leftovers. The comments section, predictably, transforms into an Olympic arena where underemployed developers flex their superiority complexes, bemoaning the lack of “real innovation” while simultaneously updating their resumes to apply.
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27 points by zdw
2024-06-12T22:00:10 |
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▲ Threescaper: A website for loading Townscaper models into Three.js (github.com/meliharvey)
In a stunning display of solve-a-problem-no-one-had, an intrepid developer has unleashed Threescaper: a tool that lets you shoehorn Townscaper models into Three.js, because apparently, we haven’t suffered enough WebGL demos. The developer vouches for their dedication to user feedback, a heartwarming tale if ever there was one to distract us from yet another niche project destined for the recesses of GitHub obscurity. Comments on the repo oscillate between sycophantic praise from other masochists enjoying JavaScript overengineering and confused souls pondering their life choices. Dive in, it's not like you were using your GPU for anything important. 🎨🕹️
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149 points by Red_Tarsius
2024-06-15T12:13:43 |
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▲ Topological Problems in Voting (ryantolsma.com)
On ryantolsma.com, a brave soul attempts to untangle the complex, pretzel-like mess that is voting systems using the hyper-specific, crowd-pleasing topic of topology, because nothing quite says "fixing democracy" like math induced headaches. Read as the author gleefully dives deep into the abstract abyss, with comments from armchair mathematicians who believe their high school geometry class is a sufficient primer for topological discussions. Watch the fun as they confuse Möbius strips with voting slips and knots with nots. 🤓 Surely, this intellectual showdown will solve all electoral conundrums, or at least keep a dozen readers entertained and mildly confused.
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34 points by rtolsma
2024-06-15T01:20:21 |
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▲ Sans Bullshit Sans (2015) (sansbullshitsans.com)
In a world ravaged by buzzwords and tech jargon, a brave new font emerges to save us from our own pretentiousness: Sans Bullshit Sans. This revolutionary typeface automatically strikes through any Silicon Valley-inspired gibberish, protecting the eyes and minds of innocent bystanders from phrases like "synergy" and "thought leader." Commenters, in a rare moment of self-awareness, celebrate the innovation, though half seem unsure whether their applause is for the font or for finally having a comment section that mirrors their overinflated sense of sarcasm and irony. A true win for typographical warriors and irony enthusiasts everywhere. 🙌🤓
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111 points by ciclotrone
2024-06-15T19:40:54 |
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▲ Cloudflare Will Poison DNS to Stop Piracy Block Circumvention (torrentfreak.com)
Today on the high seas of the internet, Cloudflare decides to play internet police by poisoning DNS responses, because nothing screams "innovation" like extra steps to thwart pirates. The commenters, in an act of unparalleled genius, alternate between hailing this as the death of freedom and planning their next tech-savvy mutiny with free proxies and VPNs. It's digital whack-a-mole at its finest with privacy concerns as mere afterthoughts while everyone debates which VPN sponsor from YouTube to trust this week. 🏴☠️🔒
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40 points by popcalc
2024-06-15T23:26:20 |
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▲ Why you shouldn't parse the output of ls(1) (wooledge.org)
Title: "Hacker Sheds Tear Over ls(1): A Tragedy"
Once again, the world is blessed as another brave keyboard warrior takes up the valiant fight against the tyrannical ls(1) command, exposing the barbaric wasteland of filenames that apparently are as chaotic as the leftovers of a regex party. Discover the high stakes drama of parsing ls output, where every space and newline threatens to shatter scripts and sysadmin dreams alike. In the comments section, witness a spectacle of one-upmanship where everyone flaunts their obscure knowledge of shell scripting and POSIX standards. Beware: here be dragons, newline dragons. 🐉💻
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11 points by susam
2024-06-15T21:06:07 |
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▲ Address Sanitizer Internals (epita.fr)
In an exhilarating display of pedantry, epita.fr blesses us with "Address Sanitizer Internals," an article that boldly assumes its readers possess the rare trifecta of time, interest, and an advanced degree in computer sorcery. Watch in awe as the author delves into arcane technicalities fit only for the kind of people who bring a C++ compiler to a dinner party. The comment section, a notorious battleground for the woefully pedantic, erupts with disputes over the most efficient way to debug memory without having social lives. Truly, a must-miss for anyone who values their sanity.
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102 points by todsacerdoti
2024-06-15T13:42:08 |
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▲ Engineer's solar panels are breaking efficiency records (ieee.org)
In the latest clickbait masquerading as journalism, ieee.org trumpets the world-altering news that Yifeng Chen, chief wizard of the photovoltaic clique, has seemingly broken physics by making his solar panels slightly less terrible. The horde of basement-dwelling commentators quickly transforms into an army of self-declared solar engineers, zealously debating kilowatt hours and squabbling over photons like Olympic judges scoring a contentious ice skating routine. It's a dazzling spectacle of mildly informed perspectives, where everyone is an expert and no one has worked a day in a real solar plant. Truly, we stand on the shoulders of giants, if by giants you mean lemmingles.
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119 points by belter
2024-06-15T16:25:03 |
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▲ 'The big problem is water': UK ebike owners plagued by failing motors (theguardian.com)
In an overwhelming display of British problem-solving, the noble inhabitants of the Isles have discovered that water—yes, that wet stuff falling from the sky—is ruinously incompatible with their expensive electric bikes. Repair shops are positively thriving, feasting on the repeat misfortune of cyclists who seem shocked—shocked!—that riding through a downpour might just drown their precious ebike motors. Commenters, in a parade of despair, swap stories of motors that have given up the ghost more often than a Victorian novel, while others engage in the lost art of blaming everyone but themselves for deciding to electrically enhance their rainy rides. Truly, a mystery worthy of Agatha Christie. 🚲🌧️
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78 points by zeristor
2024-06-15T09:11:13 |
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▲ Observable Framework 1.9 (github.com/observablehq)
Ah, the Observable Framework has clawed its way to version 1.9, bringing heart-warming improvements that all seventeen users will surely notice. 🎉 The team, bless their hearts, claims to "read every piece of feedback and take your input very seriously," which is tech-world speak for "we skim through it during our coffee breaks." Commenters have erupted with the usual insightful contributions ranging from "This is useless" to "How the heck do I use this?"—an eloquent display of collaborative confusion and existential doubt. Prepare your sympathy laughs and pretend-nods as tech aficionados pretend they understand the changes while Googling what Observable even is. 🤓
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8 points by mbostock
2024-06-14T12:53:07 |
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