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▲ Serialization for C# Games (chickensoft.games)
### Serialization for C# Games (chickensoft.games)
Another thrilling episode in the endless saga of why game developers can't just enjoy life. Serialization, the dark art of turning game state into save files, apparently ranks up there with root canals and tax audits. The brave souls commenting have turned into virtual sages, preaching the gospel of "just use JSON bro" and competing in the misery Olympics over whose save/load system is the most byzantine. Now, watch as developers claim nobility in their struggle while ignoring simpler solutions, because suffering is clearly more sophisticated. 🎮👾
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44 points by jolexxa
2024-06-14T21:44:33 |
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▲ IPC in Rust – A Ping Pong Comparison (3tilley.github.io)
In a stunning display of *originality*, a brave software intern tackles the Herculean task of inter-process communication using Rust, because clearly, C++ was too mainstream. The blog post delves into the critical world issues like how fast two processes can scream meaningless data at each other on the same machine—because improving Tinder loading times is what humanity really needs right now. In the comments, a motley crew of wannabe language lawyers and self-declared performance gurus vie in an Olympic-level nitpicking contest, each more eager than the last to point out micro-optimizations that could save nanoseconds—enough time to blink twice, really swiftly. 🏆🔬
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30 points by todsacerdoti
2024-06-18T22:40:18 |
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▲ Show QN: Billard – Generate music from ball collisions in 2D space (medusis.com)
Today on Hacker News, a user bleeding code from every orifice unveils "Billard" – an application that somehow transforms the riveting dynamics of colliding billiard balls into music. Because, you know, we clearly needed another synesthetic time-waster tailored to those who ponder the sound of one hand clapping while watching paint dry. Commenters are torn between pseudo-philosophical rambles about the relationship between chaos theory and bebop, and bitter complaints from self-proclaimed music purists that "music generated by algorithms isn't real music." Meanwhile, actual musicians are outside, making real music, completely unaware of this earth-shattering techno-babble. 🎱🎶
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174 points by bambax
2024-06-18T16:45:45 |
50 comments
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▲ The enduring mystery of how water freezes (quantamagazine.org)
In a monumental display of journalistic inertia, Quanta Magazine reinvents winter by explaining how water turns to ice – because apparently nobody attended third-grade science class. In the comments, an onslaught of armchair physicists with YouTube degrees engage in a gladiatorial debate full of misused scientific jargon, each one desperately vying to outsmart the other by rediscovering the laws of thermodynamics. Just when you thought science couldn't get any cooler, we discover water freezes, and the Internet's finest ensure this chilling revelation shatters the very fabric of common sense.💧❄️
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43 points by Tomte
2024-06-17T14:26:18 |
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▲ Donating clothes is contributing to Africa's 'mitumba' problem (washingtonpost.com)
The Washington Post discovers Africa just in time to blame Americans for donating too many t-shirts. With the piercing insight of an intern's fifth Google search, the article sheds light on Africa's "mitumba" dilemma, hinting that perhaps Africans might manage without our moth-eaten yoga pants. In the comments, practical saviors with usernames like EthicalGuru47 argue fiercely over whether wearing clothes is culturally insensitive or just another capitalist scheme. Meanwhile, everyone quietly ignores the bit about needing "support from public and private sectors," because what fun is systemic change when you can argue over old jeans?
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17 points by andrewfromx
2024-06-18T22:59:50 |
19 comments
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▲ KidPix (kidpix.app)
In the latest episode of Silicon Valley Saves Art, KidPix.app is unleashed upon the masses, promising to transform your pathetic doodles into masterpieces with the touch of a button. Watch in awe as absolutely normal software claims to utilize state-of-the-art technology previously known only to those with the ability to install Instagram filters. Commenters, in a display of critical thinking previously thought extinct, hail this monumental invention as the savior of art education, clearly forgetting that actual pencils still exist. Join us next week when we discover another app that can immediately solve all human shortcomings, no effort required! 🎨💔
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8 points by wonger_
2024-06-18T23:38:40 |
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▲ 3D Gaussian Splatting as Markov Chain Monte Carlo (ubc-vision.github.io)
Title: "3D Gaussian Splatting as Markov Chain Monte Carlo: A Revolutionary Leap or Just More Digital Paint?"
At **ubc-vision.github.io**, another day means another opportunity to flex academic jargon in the thrilling world of 3D rendering. Today's remarkable leap? A slight tweak to an old painter’s trick—Gaussian Splatting now buddies up with Markov Chain Monte Carlo to create scenes so lifelike your cat may try to jump into them. Commenters, staying true to form, perform Olympic-level mental gymnastics to both praise the minuscule advancements and predict the imminent overthrow of traditional photography. If nothing else, you can always count on the comments for a good chortle or an existential crisis over your choice of career in tech. 🎨🖥️
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164 points by smusamashah
2024-06-18T17:08:36 |
36 comments
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▲ Advanced Shell Scripting Techniques: Automating Complex Tasks with Bash (omid.dev)
Today on the revered digital scroll of the omnipotent neckbeard, omid.dev drops a sagely tome titled "Advanced Shell Scripting Techniques: Automating Complex Tasks with Bash". Watch in awe as countless IT warriors and wannabe hackers meticulously argue the semantics of a bash script that's longer than their collective employment history. Not to be left out, the comment section transforms into a battleground where egos swell over the use of sed vs awk, while someone inevitably questions why anyone would do anything in bash when you could just "write a simple Python script instead." 🐍💻 Meanwhile, the silent majority simply copy-pastes the code examples, praying to the digital gods that nothing breaks their prehistoric, duct-taped server setup.
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16 points by omidfarhang
2024-06-18T22:27:45 |
8 comments
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▲ Off-path TCP hijacking in NAT-enabled Wi-Fi networks (apnic.net)
In an enthralling escapade that undoubtedly ruins at least three IoT startup pitches, a blog post over at apnic.net delves into the dark arts of "Off-path TCP hijacking in NAT-enabled Wi-Fi networks." Brace yourself for technical sagas strong enough to ward off sleep better than your double espresso. Commenters, armed to the teeth with third-hand networking knowledge acquired from half-watched YouTube tutorials, leap into the brawl, eager to tout their home-brewed defensive strategies that surely wouldn’t even protect their grandma's email password, let alone critical network infrastructure. Meanwhile, the real world patiently waits outside, entirely unimpressed with the armchair expertise on display. 🎭💤🔐
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9 points by gtirloni
2024-06-18T23:27:36 |
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▲ Ask QN: Why do message queue-based architectures seem less popular now?
On Hacker News, a confused soul wonders why message queues are no longer the hottest tech trend, replacing the blockchain beasts in their basement server racks with something even more obsolete. Commenters, emerging from their microservice citadels, hit pause on their Kubernetes clusters to unleash a barrage of condescending "actuallys" and self-referential anecdotes, treating readers to a thrilling discourse on cloud-native architectures. As the convo toggles between Kafkaesque nightmares and Redis fairy tales, everyone thankfully forgets to answer the original question. Another productive day in tech paradise! 🎉
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39 points by alexhutcheson
2024-06-18T23:50:39 |
20 comments
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▲ Amazon fined $5.9M for breaking labor law in California (washingtonpost.com)
Amazon, in its unending quest to revolutionize "how to squeeze your workforce," has been slapped with a twee $5.9M fine for treating labor laws as mere suggestions. This groundbreaking achievement makes them pioneers in violating shiny new union-backed legislation designed to stop them from working employees into early graves. Commenters, typing furiously on devices conveniently delivered by said overworked employees, argue whether Bezos should be canonized now or later, as they philosophically muse over whether human rights really apply if next-day delivery is at stake. 📦💸😂
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170 points by green-eclipse
2024-06-18T20:59:37 |
145 comments
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▲ Does anybody know this fractal? (2012) (gibney.org)
Welcome to another thrilling online morsel where an armchair mathematician "stumbles across" a may-or-may-not-be-fractal and pokes the infinite hive mind of the internet, lamenting humbly, "I don't know what this is." Pixels and complex numbers tangle in a dance as complex as the social dynamics in the comments section, where everyone tries to out-nerd each other by vaguely mentioning galaxies and mathematical objects they last read about during a caffeine-induced Wikipedia binge. Click *here* for your dose of resolution overkill and a spectator sport of watching ego clashes disguised as intellectual discussions about names and known structures. Can this fractal-like image replace popcorn? Stay tuned, or not—it's truly optional. 🌌💻
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29 points by bemmu
2024-06-14T12:49:28 |
15 comments
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▲ Enhancing Code Completion for Rust in Cody (sourcegraph.com)
Once again, the coding community at sourcegraph.com has heroically managed to revolutionize typing by updating their code completion tool for Rust — because remembering how to code is obviously too hard. In an unparalleled exhibit of keyboard bravery, "Enhancing Code Completion for Rust in Cody" illuminates the complexities of adding a couple of squiggles after you type. The commenters, deftly toggling between smug self-satisfaction and uninformed critique, trip over each other to praise the incremental leap towards an IDE that just does the job for you. Clearly, the future of programming is typing less and accomplishing the same, one autocomplete suggestion at a time. 🙄
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71 points by imnot404
2024-06-13T19:12:08 |
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▲ Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction (arxiv.org)
In an exhilarating display of esoteric jargon, a paper on arXiv bravely claims that something in language models refuses based on "a single direction." Who knew artificial brains had an obstinate streak wired in by deft scientists manipulating a "Single Direction"? 🤯 Meanwhile, in the comments section, self-proclaimed experts battle fiercely over whether this "direction" is more East-West or North-South, with the occasional armchair philosopher declaring that all directions are merely illusions birthed by the oppressive constructs of Euclidean geometry. Clearly, as humanity teeters on various brinksmanship, it's a colossal comfort to know someone's handling the big, "single direction" questions.
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57 points by Tomte
2024-06-18T17:09:26 |
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▲ Nature retracts paper that claimed adult stem cell could become any type of cell (retractionwatch.com)
At Retraction Watch, the revelation that a groundbreaking stem cell paper is as legitimate as a three-dollar bill sends shockwaves through the scientific community. Amateurs in lab coats once claimed that adult stem cells could play dress-up as any cell type, prompting visions of medical utopias and Nobel Prizes. The comments section quickly becomes a battleground where disillusioned PhDs throw around accusations and jargon while competing for the 'Most Devastated by Obvious Falsehoods' award. Observers munch popcorn as academic careers deflate faster than a punctured petri dish. 🍿🔬
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178 points by susam
2024-06-18T18:23:10 |
115 comments
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▲ Reports: Apple is halting its next high-end Vision in favor of something cheaper (arstechnica.com)
Once again, the almighty *Apple* decides to halt its latest mystical venture - the Vision - much to the dismay of its cult-like following, who now have to settle for something cheaper and less shiny. Commenters on ArsTechnica engage in a melodramatic symphony of disillusion, reminiscing the days when Apple products required selling organs on the black market. Most are busy reciting their monthly budget mantras, assuring themselves that "less expensive" still captures that Cupertino magic. In between teary eulogies and calculated outrage, one might mistakenly assume they've stumbled upon a support group for abandoned dreamers, not a tech forum. 🙄
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35 points by LorenDB
2024-06-18T23:30:33 |
39 comments
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▲ Tiny beauty: how I make scientific art from behind the microscope (nature.com)
In an utterly groundbreaking revelation that could only originate from the intensely fascinating realm of shooting small thematic photographs, Steve Gschmeissner heroically shows us that microorganisms *actually* exist and (surprise!) they can be pretty. With the daring use of a microscope, Steve magnifies his way into the "unseen world," a realm apparently invisible to those without a Ph.D. or an arts grant. Excited commenters marvel at the sheer novelty of using a microscope for its intended purpose, eagerly debating whether these microbial glamor shots will finally make petri dishes the new Instagram. A true mic-drop moment in both art and science, bound to revolutionize our daily lives—or at least our desktop wallpapers. 🤯🔬🎨
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73 points by pseudolus
2024-06-18T13:45:07 |
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▲ Sharing new research, models, and datasets from Meta FAIR (meta.com)
Meta FAIR, in a performance that might surprise anyone still not jaded by corporate tech-speak, proudly sprinkles new "research, models, and datasets" into the eyes of the adoring public. Determined to pioneer yet another round of "disruption," the wizards at Meta package old wine in new bottles, all while expertly side-stepping any real explanation of how this conga line of buzzwords benefits humanity. Meanwhile, in the comments, diehard fans either vie for LinkedIn likes by parroting half-digested tech jargon or solemnly swear that this is the breakthrough needed to finally make their robo-dog stop walking into walls. Clearly, between uncritical adulation and recycled promises, the future of AI is in *steady* hands. 🤖🎉
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187 points by TheAceOfHearts
2024-06-18T17:01:45 |
40 comments
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▲ Sculpting the moon in R: Subdivision surfaces and displacement mapping (tylermw.com)
In a valiant effort to avoid real social interactions, a brave coder has decided to sculpt the moon using R, the programming language that most people associate with desperately trying to finish their stats homework. This groundbreaking tutorial at tylermw.com will undoubtedly serve a huge community of lunar-obsessed data scientists who believe that adding "Subdivision surfaces" and "displacement mapping" to their lexicon will finally make them cool. In the comment section, self-proclaimed geeks compete over who can ignore more basic human needs while debating the applicability of moon sculpting to predict stock market trends. Spoiler: it can't. But that won't stop them from trying. 🌚📈
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120 points by tylermw
2024-06-18T13:19:34 |
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