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▲ The Forth Deck mini: a portable Forth computer with a discrete CPU (mynor.org)
Title: Hobbyists Rejoice as New Trinket Does Exactly What Old Trinkets Do
In a world desperate for more niche electronics, the Forth Deck mini emerges, heroically solving a problem no one realized existed. This revolutionary device, a *portable Forth computer* with a discrete CPU, promises to perform functions that other gadgets in your drawer already do, but with added inconvenience and twice the obscurity. Commenters, inflating their chests in digital pride, are elated to discuss their love for low-level coding while conveniently ignoring their inability to program a VCR. The Forth Deck mini: because modern technology is just too user-friendly. 🙃
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152 points by hggh
2024-06-26T20:12:31 |
46 comments
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▲ One Million Checkboxes (onemillioncheckboxes.com)
In an exhilarating display of digital checkbox mastery, OneMillionCheckboxes.com allows users to finally fulfill their lifelong ambition to click checkboxes - one million times, no less. Because if there’s anything more rewarding than endless Netflix scrolling, it’s endlessly ticking boxes that achieve absolutely nothing. The comment section, a veritable think tank, is abuzz with intellects competing to declare how clicking checkboxes is actually a profound metaphor for their empty, bureaucratic soul-sucking jobs. Here we celebrate the zenith of human achievement: performing a task a simple script could do in minutes. 🎉 Truly, we are in a golden age of innovation.
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536 points by LorenDB
2024-06-26T15:02:38 |
203 comments
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▲ Corcel – Use WordPress backend with Laravel or any PHP application (github.com/corcel)
Ah, finally, the Frankenstein's monster that the tech world neither needed nor asked for, Corcel – the unholy union of WordPress's spaghetti code jungle with Laravel's pristine garden. The developers, in their infinite hubris, have proclaimed they "*read every piece of feedback*," which is tech-speak for "we're happily ignoring everything that could make this project less of a disaster." Meanwhile, the GitHub comment section is a mesmerizing black hole of lost souls applauding the ability to further complicate their life with a dose of WordPress in their Laravel. Critics rejoice – if you love wrestling with code that stubborn out-of-date plugin, Corcel is your new best nightmare! 🍝🔥
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47 points by rob
2024-06-26T22:33:59 |
12 comments
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▲ Next gen 3D metal printing (fabric8labs.com)
**Next-Gen 3D Metal Printing: A Shocking Revelation!**
Another day, another **revolutionary** 3D printing technology that promises to *change everything*. Welcome to Electrochemical Additize My Life Manufacturing (ECAM), where traditional manufacturing methods shake in their boots. In the shimmering world of ECAM, metal parts magically form at a sedate, room-temperature pace, because who needs the drama of heat? Delight in discussions about "micron-scale feature resolution" that only three people understand, while the rest of us nod and smile. Meanwhile, in the comments, self-declared experts compete for the crown of "Most Pedantically Obscure Point," contributing mightily to the advancement of buzzwords rather than actual technology.
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98 points by justinclift
2024-06-26T19:41:14 |
33 comments
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▲ Figma Slides (figma.com)
In a stunning display of originality, Figma decides to reinvent PowerPoint, calling it "Figma Slides." Tech enthusiasts are storming the comment section, trying to prove they always knew that designing a slide deck was the pinnacle of creativity and innovation. Watch as millions pretend this will revolutionize how they avoid real work. Will anyone remember this in two weeks? Place your bets.
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223 points by FelipeCortez
2024-06-26T18:04:34 |
86 comments
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▲ Liquid Layers (grantkot.com)
In the latest episode of "I just learned basic science and must share," Grant Kot presents "Liquid Layers," a groundbreaking exploration of how liquids can, believe it or not, sit on top of each other if they have different densities. Brace yourselves as armchair physicists in the comments section reinvent centuries of fluid dynamics, armed with their high-school diplomas and a smattering of Wikipedia knowledge. Expect profound revelations like oil floats on water and you can color them to look pretty. Science education is quaking. 🙄💧
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278 points by nmstoker
2024-06-23T08:43:29 |
30 comments
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▲ GCC's new fortification level: The gains and costs (redhat.com)
In a groundbreaking revelation that's sure to shock millions, Red Hat proudly reports that GCC will now be able to catch even more developer mistakes with its new fortification level. Watch in awe as programmers around the world pause their relentless coding marathons to marvel at how a compiler upgrade can discover buffer overflows and bugs—as if half of them weren't just Googling Stack Overflow answers anyway. The comments section is ablaze with armchair experts who simultaneously manage to miss the point and congratulate themselves for utilizing "high-security practices," likely meaning they've mastered the art of copying headers from the first result in their search results. Surely, the internet is saved again, thanks to more automated babysitting. 💻🔒
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99 points by fanf2
2024-06-24T11:42:03 |
27 comments
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▲ South Korean telecom company attacks torrent users with malware (tomshardware.com)
The virtuous knights of South Korean telecom have launched a righteous crusade against the vile hoards of torrent users, by sneakily deploying malware. Because, obviously, the best way to teach someone about the perils of stealing content is to potentially steal their passwords and credit card information—makes sense if you don't think about it. Over in the comments, the usual bevy of internet Ph.Ds who couldn't subnet a mask if their life depended on it, argue over whether this is "ethical hacking" or just plain old revenge. One user bravely suggests that everyone just "buy their software," blissfully unaware of the irony as he streams his favorite show in the next tab.
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101 points by PROgrammerTHREE
2024-06-26T22:03:00 |
34 comments
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▲ Show QN: R2R V2 – A open source RAG engine with prod features (github.com/sciphi-ai)
Title: HackerNews Presents Yet Another Open Source Project No One Will Use After This Week
In a breathtaking leap of absolute redundancy, a brave HackerNews soul heralds the launch of R2R V2, a "revolutionary" RAG engine armed with prod features that will change absolutely nothing. The project page proudly claims to "read every piece of feedback and take your input very seriously", because as we all know, the first version must have been a resounding success to merit a sequel no one asked for. Meanwhile, the comments are a predictable maelstrom of armchair developers debating the existential necessities of features that 98% of them will never use. But hey, star it on GitHub – it's free! 🌟
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180 points by ocolegro
2024-06-26T13:27:14 |
64 comments
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▲ Show QN: I built an indie, browser-based MMORPG (reconquer.online)
A lonesome hacker, fueled by delusions of disrupting the MMORPG world, unveils reconquer.online to the salivating Show HN crowd. This "groundbreaking" browser-based RPG is set to revolutionize the industry, as long as you ignore its 1995 graphics and user base smaller than a high school chess club. Commenters, erupting with unearned enthusiasm, trip over themselves to praise the "innovative" use of HTML5 and JavaScript, while subtly dropping links to their own less impressive projects. Others offer grave technical advice that completely ignores the core question: Who asked for this?
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9 points by onemandevteam
2024-06-26T17:53:22 |
2 comments
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▲ How the STL Uses Explicit (quuxplusone.github.io)
In a riveting exposé that shocks absolutely no one, Arthur O’Dwyer unleashes the startling truth that the STL uses explicit keywords, rocking the very foundations of C++ nerddom. Brace yourself for flamewars as the comment section divides into camps: those worshiping at the altar of maximal verbosity and the heretics who dare to embrace minimalism. Watch them battle over syntax supremacy like gladiators, armed with nothing but keyboards and over-inflated egos. 🍿💻🥊
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21 points by jandeboevrie
2024-06-26T21:12:31 |
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▲ From RSS to My Kindle (olano.dev)
Title: From RSS to My Kindle: The Digital Hoarder's Chronicle
In an electrifying display of absolutely nothing new, a tech hobbyist rediscovers RSS feeds and recycles his old manifesto about a feed reader customized with more alerts than a nuclear submarine. After months of "intense" observation and ground-breaking tweaks, like buttons that sort and discard, the app now revolutionizes his life by letting him see something "fresh" a couple of times a day. Meanwhile, commenters, staggering under the weight of such innovation, discuss their heroic struggles with digital minimalism, while simultaneously begging for GitHub links so they can also ignore hundreds of articles in slightly more efficient ways. Truly, the future of reading is in safe hands. 📚🚀
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95 points by alastairr
2024-06-24T06:47:47 |
26 comments
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▲ The brain makes a lot of waste. Now scientists think they know where it goes (npr.org)
At NPR, Jon Hamilton pens an electrifying exposé revealing that, shockingly, brains — much like teenagers — produce garbage. Eager readers flock to boast that they knew all along their ex’s brain was a dump site, while others speculate whether this “waste management” insight could clean the clutter in their mental attic. Meanwhile, the astutely observant comment section evolves into a battleground over which superfood might turbocharge our cerebral trash compactors, because armchair neurology is, evidently, just that easy. 🧠💤
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75 points by robg
2024-06-26T22:21:49 |
35 comments
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▲ Living Computers Museum to permanently close, auction vintage items (geekwire.com)
In another crushing blow to the dwindling population of individuals who enjoy fluorescent lighting and the smell of aging plastic, the Living Computers Museum has decided to shut its doors forever. The mournful cries of vintage computing enthusiasts, desperate to run their fingers over a real DEC VT100 one last time, echo fruitlessly across the internet. Comments on the article rapidly devolve into a hellscape of misplaced nostalgia and one-upmanship about who can recall the most obscure programming languages. It's the digital equivalent of watching grown adults fight over the carcass of a Woolly Mammoth, except even a mammoth would be embarrassed by the levels of irrelevance achieved here. 😭👴💾
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235 points by dboreham
2024-06-25T14:35:07 |
139 comments
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▲ The plan-execute pattern (mmapped.blog)
Today, the intrepid thought leaders at mmapped.blog have graced the unwashed masses with yet another earth-shattering revelation: the "plan-execute pattern." Shockingly, it occurs to them that thinking before doing might just be beneficial. Meanwhile, the comments section bursts into a chaotic symphony as keyboard warriors passionately defend their revolutionary strategy of winging it and varying degrees of back-patting masquerade as intellectual discourse. Who knew adulthood could be so complicated? 🤯
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135 points by surprisetalk
2024-06-21T13:27:51 |
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▲ Upgrading my Chumby 8 kernel part 11: SD/CF card reader (downtowndougbrown.com)
Title: Everlasting Torment: Chumby 8 Kernel Upgrade Chronicles
In an improbable twist of fate, an intrepid soul trudges through the Sisyphean task of upgrading a Chumby 8's kernel for the eleventh horrifying time. Today’s misadventure highlights the soul-crushing revelation that a card reader is pointlessly hoarding system resources, possibly out of spite. Amid the obligatory series-plug, part 11 delivers a dazzling display of persistence that nobody asked for. Below, a bevy of tech-savvy commenters compete for the crown of Captain Obvious, offering "helpful" advice indistinguishable from raving to oneself in a darkened room. Will humanity survive or be consumed by rogue block devices? Stay tuned for part 12. 🙄✨
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30 points by todsacerdoti
2024-06-21T05:29:11 |
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▲ Nano DIP: the smallest complete Arduino board 33 x 10mm (avdweb.nl)
In an exhilarating display of micro-measurement one-upmanship, a developer unleashes the "Nano DIP," which is presumably an Arduino board shrunken through exposure to indifference and market oversaturation. The call to arms—sorry, call for "urgent cooperation" on the creator's websites and projects—spirals into an abyss of mutual congratulation in the comments, where readers marvel at their ability to reinvent the wheel if only it were a little smaller and more complicated. Amidst the self-congratulatory digital back-patting, practical applications remain as elusive as the board's extra nanometers of necessity. Truly, we are in the age of innovation, where the main question is "How tiny can pointless things get?" 🤏💾
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37 points by rolph
2024-06-23T15:26:04 |
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▲ Exploring How Cache Memory Works (pikuma.com)
Title: Hackers Decode The Mystical Art of Cache
Today on the grand stage of the internet, pikuma.com decides to dumb down the elusive enigma of cache memory for the everyday plebeian who can’t discern between L1 and a grocery list. The author embarks on a heroic quest to clarify terms like L1, L2, and cache block, normally tossed around by people in dark rooms lit by computer screens. Commenters, awash with sudden enlightenment, transform overnight from "know-nothings" into self-proclaimed experts pontificating on the nuances of cache optimization. It’s a miracle performed with mere words! 🚀💾
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113 points by imadj
2024-06-21T18:04:30 |
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▲ WordStar – A Writer's Word Processor (1990) (sfwriter.com)
Title: Luddites Laud Ancient Text Editor
Oh, the ecstasy of ancient tech! In a world brimming with advanced word processors, behold the band of merry geriatrics huddled around their DOS emulators, waxing poetic about WordStar, the Gutenberg Press of digital word processing. These enthusiasts, in their heartfelt blog posts, cling to the simplicity of a time when 'copy' and 'paste' were exercises in mental gymnastics rather than keystrokes. Dive into the comments where nostalgia is thick enough to choke a floppy disk, as Baby Boomers exchange seventeen-step methods to run WordStar on a smart fridge. Is it usability or just fear of the 'ribbon' interface in modern software? Only the shadow of the blinking cursor knows. 🖨️💾
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12 points by _Microft
2024-06-26T21:16:41 |
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▲ Tracing garbage collection for arenas (btmc.substack.com)
In a thrilling adventure of arcane gibberish, btmc.substack.com once again heroically attempts to explain *Tracing garbage collection for arenas*, bravely assuming anyone knows what that means. Undeterred by the inevitable confusion, the comment section becomes a battleground of self-proclaimed experts, each aggressively misinterpreting the article more creatively than the last. Here, ego-driven debates over niche programming jargon accomplish what no garbage collector could: efficiently disposing of the reader's hopes of understanding any of it. 🗑️💥
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65 points by sirwhinesalot
2024-06-24T11:31:16 |
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