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▲ Ball: A ball that lives in your dock (github.com/nate-parrott)
Welcome to the revolutionary world of "Ball," the solution you never knew you needed for that utterly vacant spot in your dock. Its developer proclaims a messianic zeal for user feedback, ensuring that every "ping" from your system is met with the sanctity it deserves. The commenters, in an exhibition of peak internet productivity, engage in a philosophical melee, questioning the existential necessity of the "Ball." Revel in this digital round-table where enthusiasts and trolls alike debate whether watching a ball do nothing surpasses watching paint dry. 🙄
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272 points by Bluestein
2024-06-25T20:52:52 |
54 comments
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▲ HyperCard Simulator (hcsimulator.com)
In the latest nostalgic pandering, a HyperCard Simulator emerges courtesy of someone with too much free time and an old Macintosh User Manual. The web-based relic magically transports tech enthusiasts back to 1987, where they can relive the exhilaration of grayscale interfaces and clunky user experiences. Commenters, breathing heavily into their vintage Apple t-shirts, wax philosophical about simpler times, clearly forgetting the agony of a 2400 baud modem connection. It's a hipster tech fest, no PBR required.
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74 points by metadat
2024-06-25T21:34:40 |
16 comments
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▲ Show QN: Glasskube – Open Source Kubernetes Package Manager, alternative to Helm (github.com/glasskube)
A visionary GitHub dweller, possibly wearing a stained hoodie in a basement, unveils **Glasskube**: yet another attempt to save us from the tyranny of Helm, the de facto overlord of Kubernetes package management. Glasskube, an homage to shattered dreams and fragile devops egos, promises simplicity like every other tool that's now gathering dust in your virtual shed. Commenters, who apparently have enough free time to bicycle through every trendy GitHub repo, offer profound insights like "cool" and "neat project, bro!" ensuring that the cycle of excitement, adoption, and eventual neglect continues unbroken. Aren't we all just thrilled for another round of Kubernetes khaos? 🎉🐳
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148 points by pmig
2024-06-25T15:30:40 |
63 comments
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▲ A brief introduction to interval arithmetic (buttondown.email/hillelwayne)
In a thrilling exploration of math that you slept through in high school, Hillel Wayne resurrects interval arithmetic to solve the age-old problem of whether your monster-sized couch will collide with your pretentious minimalist aesthetics. As it turns out, two things both measured at 7 feet might not actually be the same size, because who knew a tape measure could lie? Commenters, in a dazzling display of missing the point, pitch into a holy war over the merits of using actual math versus just shoving the couch against the wall and seeing what happens. Will the couch fit? Stay tuned for more edge-of-your-seat domestic drama. 📏😱🛋️
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20 points by zdw
2024-06-25T23:15:02 |
4 comments
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▲ Show QN: I built a JavaScript-powered flipdisc display (flipdisc.io)
A startup hero reinvents the wheel by gluing JavaScript to a flipdisc display, cleverly named flipdisc.io. The Hacker News armchair legion is thrilled, offering their priceless insights like suggesting frameworks that could further complicate a 1980s train station sign. Brace for the showdown of ASCII art critics, while somewhere, somehow, a lone Raspberry Pi weeps for the future. 🙄🔄
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275 points by simpsoka
2024-06-25T15:14:08 |
90 comments
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▲ The Album Art of Phil Hartman(n) (conorherbert.com)
Today on the enlightened corridors of conorherbert.com, we dive into the captivating world of Phil Hartman, who before becoming the voice of your favorite failed Hollywood star, was actually quite the scribbler. Hartman’s heretofore unknown saga of dropping an *‘n’* from his surname—presumably for enhanced aerodynamics—is tightly woven into thrilling tales of doodling for rock bands you've already admitted to liking ironically. Comment sections are bursting with armchair graphic designers and a plethora of "I knew him when" anecdotes, each racing to out-obscure the other. Surely, music—and indeed, the English alphabet—was never the same. 🎨🎸
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3 points by JojoFatsani
2024-06-26T00:27:49 |
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▲ Fixing QuickLook (2023) (foon.uk)
On the eternal pilgrimage to find the least necessary software tweak, a brave internet hero documents the harrowing quest from Mojave to Ventura, only to discover — *gasp* — Apple changed QuickLook. Cue the outrage. Commenters, flailing their arms in digital dismay, wax poetic about the golden days of past versions, conveniently ignoring that they barely used the features they're now mourning. This thread is a poignant reminder that nostalgia is just software bugs dressed in vintage filters. 🎻
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100 points by rogual
2024-06-25T19:45:08 |
12 comments
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▲ I found a 1-click exploit in South Korea's biggest mobile chat app (stulle123.github.io)
In a *brave* demonstration of low-effort hacking, a blogger at stulle123.github.io managed to exploit the titan of chatting, KakaoTalk, by simply picking up the digital equivalent of fruits lying on the ground. Who knew that securing massive data could be bypassed with what amounts to a stern look? Meanwhile, in the comments, legions of armchair cryptographers and weekend warriors pat each other on the back, arguing about the best hypothetical ways to save the Internet – preferably, methods that require minimal actual coding and maximum theorizing. Truly, we are in a golden age of 🔒security theater🔒.
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183 points by stulle123
2024-06-24T15:01:42 |
139 comments
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▲ Show QN: Triplit – Open-source syncing database that runs on server and client (github.com/aspen-cloud)
Today, a brave hacker unveils Triplit: the latest solution in search of a problem, masquerading as an "open-source syncing database." Because, clearly, what the world lacks is another layer of complexity in database management, running amok across both client and server landscapes. In the comments, a legion of wannabe disruptors stumble over themselves to praise the groundbreaking redundancy of the project, sharing their invaluable, groundbreaking insights like "neat!" and "could use this for my totally real startup." Don't fear, the future of database synchronization is here, until next week's Show HN submission.
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151 points by matlin
2024-06-25T13:53:05 |
65 comments
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▲ Show QN: From dotenv to dotenvx – better config management (dotenvx.com)
Today on Hacker News, an intrepid developer replaces the last three letters of "dotenv" with "x" to birth dotenvx, claiming revolutionary advances in configuration management because now there's an *x*. Hacker News users, after briefly googling what "dotenv" was, wildly speculate about using dotenvx to reconfigure their smart fridges. The community has already nominated the creator for a Nobel Prize in Clever Suffix Usage, while simultaneously missing the installation instructions and asking if it supports YAML. 🚀🤦♏️
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217 points by scottmotte
2024-06-25T14:49:28 |
130 comments
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▲ Does a cave beneath Pembroke Castle hold key to fate of early Britons? (theguardian.com)
Welcoming another breathless installment in humanity's obsessive quest to justify digging holes, The Guardian reports from the *mystical* depths of Wogan Cavern beneath Pembroke Castle. Here, intrepid scientists are on the brink of uncovering "what really happened" to the early Britons, presumably because surface-level history was just too mainstream. The commenters, emboldened in their armchairs, are already drafting wild theories involving aliens, Welsh dragons, and Arthurian knights as key players in prehistoric Britain. Because obviously, every dusty old cave in Wales must be hiding earth-shattering secrets rather than just, you know, dirt.
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37 points by Brajeshwar
2024-06-23T20:49:08 |
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▲ Stalin, Eisenstein, Walt Disney and Ivan the Terrible (1992) (cliomuse.com)
In an exhilarating collision of history and cinema, "Stalin, Eisenstein, Walt Disney and Ivan the Terrible" solidly holds a spot somewhere between a fever dream and a sophomore history major's term paper. Film buffs and history aficionados alike unite in the comments to wage a gladitorial war of wits, debating which historical figure would win in a fistfight. The author, meanwhile, ambitiously connects dots across continents and centuries with the finesse of a conspiracy theorist at a chalkboard, leaving readers both bewildered and mildly entertained. Will Disney's animation skills or Stalin's steel resolve triumph? Stay tuned, or don't. 🎥🍿🎭
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39 points by samclemens
2024-06-25T04:23:19 |
7 comments
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▲ Remembering the LAN (2020) (tailscale.com)
In an emotional seismic event on Tailscale.com, "Remembering the LAN" brings geeks to tears, reminiscing about the mystical bygone days when actually seeing a coworker’s face wasn’t equated to a security breach. The comments section erupts into a tragically nostalgic echo chamber as keyboard warriors, draped in the faded glory of Ethernet cables, bond over their PTSD from unplugging wrong cables *during really important LAN parties*. The poignant fusion of wistfulness and tech snobbery permeates the blog, leaving readers to bitterly mourn the golden age of real connections — both social and networked. 🕹️💾 #TheGoodOldDays
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156 points by udev4096
2024-06-23T09:26:56 |
46 comments
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▲ The Alternate Reality Kit (1987) [video] (youtube.com)
In the latest archival unveiling, tech antiquarians ooze nostalgia over the "groundbreaking" Alternate Reality Kit from 1987, a software relic somehow held aloft in the hallowed halls of YouTube. Lo and behold, modern-day geniuses in the comments wage verbal warfare to prove who can impart the **most** obvious observation that, yes, technology has indeed advanced since the Reagan administration. Eyes on screens, fingers on keyboards, each valiantly ensuring the digital preservation of their unmatched savvy, lest any soul on the internet forget that once, in the dark ages of computing, pixels were visible and user interfaces were as intuitive as a Rubik's Cube on fire. Tremble before their monumental insights, mere mortals.
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27 points by surprisetalk
2024-06-24T00:58:30 |
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▲ Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says (apnews.com)
In a stunning revelation that shocked absolutely zero people, the European Union has declared that Microsoft might have been a little naughty by packaging Teams with Office. Comment sections across the internet are ablaze with shock and horror, as scores of armchair legal experts, who definitely didn’t just Google "antitrust law," offer their unsolicited, typo-riddled insights. One might think Microsoft was covertly selling state secrets instead of bundling a glitchy video chat service with a spreadsheet app. In what is surely the highlight of their careers, EU regulators have managed to momentarily divert attention from actual global crises with this groundbreaking "discovery."
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403 points by cbg0
2024-06-25T10:21:47 |
438 comments
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▲ A reckless introduction to Hindley-Milner type inference (2019) (reasonableapproximation.net)
On reasonableapproximation.net, an author spends an entire year carefully not perfecting a post about Hindley-Milner type inference, plunging readers into an abyss of half-baked explanations stitched together with the precision of a sleep-deprived sloth. Readers, undeterred by the glaring admission of dissatisfaction from the writer himself, dive headfirst into ajungle of comments. Here they heroically miss the point, debating whether knowing anything about type systems is useful, or just a gateway to losing friends at parties. In an audacious display of self-awareness, everyone agrees the topic is as impenetrable as the post itself, yet paradoxically continues discussing it with unabashed enthusiasm.
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86 points by nequo
2024-06-24T05:24:44 |
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▲ Show QN: The Tomb of Nefertari [QV 66] Guided Virtual Tour (mused.com)
Today in Hacker News innovation, we're all going on a VR holiday to ancient Egypt because apparently decoding CAPTCHAs and figuring out Basic Income wasn't enough to fill our time. A user has unearthed yet another way to avoid sunlight by creating a virtual tour of Nefertari's tomb, because what's exploring actual history when you can sit in your pajamas and do it? Commenters are tripping over their keyboards either lauding this digital marvel as "the future of education" or condemning it as a lazy millennial fad, meanwhile struggling to differentiate between VR and real life without their VR headsets. Of course, every commenter has suddenly turned into an armchair Egyptologist. 🎮🏺📜
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25 points by lukehollis
2024-06-25T14:48:21 |
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▲ Show QN: FiddleCube – Generate Q&A to test your LLM (github.com/fiddlecube)
The Hackernews launchpad detonates yet another groundbreaking revolution in the unbearable struggle against *not having enough side projects*: FiddleCube. Designed to churn out Q&A pairs for testing your Large Language Models, this tool promises to fuel late-night coding sessions and existential dread simultaneously. Comments range from barely-masked self-promotion by people who've suddenly discovered "bugs" in their competitor’s AI models, to the predictably off-topic diatribe about the ethical implications of machine learning on the migratory patterns of European swallows. As always, users are deeply committed, not to the technology, but to proving they can use big words and reference open-source projects no one else has heard of. 🙄
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26 points by kaushik92
2024-06-25T17:26:25 |
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▲ Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites (sansec.io)
Today in the spectacular circus of modern software development, we discover that over 100,000 websites have become unwitting clowns in the latest polyfill supply chain attack. Analysts at sansec.io apparently had nothing better to do than to tell us what we already mistrust: dependencies are a dumpster fire. In the comments, developers and self-proclaimed cybersec gurus tripped over themselves in a frenzy of schadenfreude and gauche attempts at wisdom, each ineffectively signaling their own unmatched expertise in hindsight. "Should have used [insert obscure tool here]," smirks one armchair warrior, blissfully ignorant of their own vulnerabilities. 🙄
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538 points by gnabgib
2024-06-25T18:27:30 |
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