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▲ First anode-free sodium solid-state battery (uchicago.edu)
On the prestigious academic lawns of the University of Chicago, where the real stretches of neuron firepower are supposedly abundant, scholars announce the birth of the first anode-free sodium solid-state battery. Harnessing the revolutionary power of common table salt, this breakthrough promises to redefine energy storage, or so claims the team. The internet scholars in the comment section are already tripping over themselves to predict the collapse of the lithium industry, ironically using devices powered by the very same. 🙄 Meanwhile, debates erupt over whether the salt in their kitchen can power their Tesla, and if so, what does this mean for their weekend plans?
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275 points by givinguflac
2024-07-06T16:01:25 |
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▲ Constitutional Right to Be a Pirate (thefp.com)
In the latest circus of intellectual timeout that graces the digital pages of thefp.com, armchair legal scholars unite to dissect the "Constitutional Right to Be a Pirate." Armed with the entirety of constitutional knowledge gleaned from half-watched YouTube documentaries and a dusty copy of Pirates for Dummies, our intrepid commentators engage in a battle of witlessness. Each response tries to one-up the last, suggesting amendments and bylaws for Pickyearemismylad-istan, their newly proposed nation-state on the high seas. Who knew piracy could be so bureaucratic and a casual Friday wardrobe essential? 🏴☠️💼📜
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34 points by wslh
2024-07-07T00:36:09 |
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▲ Kivy – a cross platform Python UI framework (kivy.org)
In a groundbreaking act of sheer innovation, the world has been graced with Kivy 2.3.0, because what we truly lacked in the universe was yet another cross-platform UI framework. The Kivy team, in their infinite wisdom, have decided that Python, the language that catloads itself slower than a sloth on a lazy day, needed more graphical bells and whistles. Commenters, who apparently have never seen a UI framework they didn't want to evangelize, are tripping over themselves in digital ecstasy, proclaiming this update as the second coming. Heaven help us all, as we navigate yet another toolkit promising to make UI development "fun" and "intuitive." 🙄🎉
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131 points by peanball
2024-07-06T16:27:48 |
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▲ How to Catch a Lab Leak (statecraft.pub)
Today on statecraft.pub, an intrepid blogger with an associate’s degree in Wikipedia Forensics unveils the 'definitive' guide to spotting lab leaks, because nothing screams expertise like amateur hour in virology. The comment section, a glorious dumpster fire, becomes an Olympic-level mental gymnasium where conspiracy theorists and armchair politicians compete for the gold in mental gymnastics. Expect a lot of ALL CAPS and unmatched confidence from people who just discovered the science section on their news feed. Truly, a masterclass in missing the point. 🕵️♂️💥
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7 points by mooreds
2024-07-06T18:52:00 |
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▲ How to Think in Writing (henrikkarlsson.xyz)
In a thrilling display of philosophical acrobatics, yet another blogger reveals the *stunning* secret that thinking and writing are interconnected. Cue the collective gasp from the world's commentariat, whose keyboards ignite with the friction of their revelatory insights like "Wow, profound!" and "Changed my life!" 😱 Watch as thousands rediscover the wheel, each convinced they are the sole bearer of this arcane knowledge. It's a bold festival of redundancy, breathlessly repackaging the blatantly obvious as groundbreaking thought. 🎉
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77 points by Luc
2024-07-06T18:44:46 |
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▲ (Modal) (wryl.tech)
In a stunning display of redundant insight, (Modal) (wryl.tech) churns out yet another thousand-word manifesto to solve the pressing non-issue of too few buzzwords in tech speak. The blog’s liberal use of "synergy" likely quadruples its Google AdSense revenue by sheer SEO magic. Meanwhile, the comment section, a notorious echo chamber of tech bro "thought leaders," competes for the Olympic gold medal in missing the point, with participants tripping over themselves to agree harder. If only self-awareness was as easily downloadable as their touted life-changing whitepaper PDFs. 🤓
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14 points by privong
2024-07-06T21:17:15 |
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▲ Against the Burden of Knowledge (theseedsofscience.pub)
At The Seeds of Science, an intellectual titan confronts the harrowing issue: having to know things. The article "Against the Burden of Knowledge" bravely argues that ignorance really is bliss, especially when complex subjects rudely demand understanding before opinionating. Comments below teem with relieved PhDs and overworked intellectuals thrilled to replace scholarship with heartfelt guesswork. Finally, a manifesto for the proudly uninformed – let's hope it doesn’t have too many big words! 📚🚫
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48 points by mooreds
2024-07-06T18:52:41 |
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▲ Advantages of incompetent management (yosefk.com)
On this radiant day of patriotism and fireworks, yosefk.com decides to celebrate by paradoxically lauding the unsung heroes of corporate chaos: incompetent managers. The article dives deep, with the kind of depth that only comes from accidentally leaving your brain at the beach, into why being clueless at the helm could actually be a secret ingredient to innovation (or, more likely, accidental amusement). Commenters, deep in their Monday doldrums, rally to the cause, sharing tales of unintentional managerial "success" that are either borderline delusional or thinly disguised cries for help. Everything is em>truly/em> inspirational, if your goal was to inspire a career change.
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160 points by zdw
2024-07-04T17:09:00 |
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▲ Optimizing Large-Scale OpenStreetMap Data with SQLite (jtarchie.com)
Another grueling day dawns on the serfs of Hacker News, as they prepare to ritualistically kneel at the altar of Optimizing Large-Scale OpenStreetMap Data with SQLite. Penguins in palatial basement setups erupt in ecstasy as the sacred texts reveal secrets to fit slightly more useless data into their never-accessed databases. Watch in morbid fascination as each comment eagerly one-ups the next, brimming with barely relevant anecdotes and self-aggrandizing tales of that one time they reduced a query time by 0.001%. The ongoing debate whether a semicolon or a comma is the true path to SQL enlightenment threatens friendships, disrupts professional connections, and ensures that absolutely no one remembers what the article was supposed to be about.
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107 points by thunderbong
2024-07-03T08:58:53 |
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▲ A blast from the past: Disassembling DOS (2020) (softwarelitigationconsulting.com)
Title: Nerds Unearth Digital Dinosaur, Pretend It's Still Relevant
In a stunning display of archaeological irrelevance, tech enthusiasts have unboxed the dusty tome—Undocumented DOS—to marvel at how software looked back when dinosaurs roamed the silicon plains. The site boldly dives into methodologies of reverse engineering, applied to software barely younger than the Lascaucasian chalk circle. Commenters, giddy with nostalgia, trip over themselves to reminisce about the 'good old days' of programming, where every byte felt like a byte-sized adventure. Clearly, the path to unearthing why Windows calls Get SysVars is laden with more emotional baggage than practical utility. 🦴💾
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25 points by userbinator
2024-07-03T03:16:58 |
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▲ High-altitude cave used by Tibetan Buddhists yields a Denisovan fossil (arstechnica.com)
In a staggering revelation to nobody, scientists have turned up yet another dusty old bone in a Tibetan cave, this time claiming it's from the Denisovans because apparently, we need more ancient cousins. Naturally, every armchair paleontologist on the net is now an expert in archaic hominin biogeography because they watched a documentary once. The comments are a delightful cesspool of self-congratulatory pseudoscience with enthusiasts arguing whether this bone justifies their gluten-free diet. Stay tuned for more groundbreaking revelations like "Cave Floors: Surprisingly Dirty 🤷."
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64 points by namanyayg
2024-07-04T12:08:16 |
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▲ Fabric is an open-source framework for augmenting humans using AI (github.com/danielmiessler)
In this week's thrilling Github escapade, a plucky coder unleashes *Fabric*, an open-source framework that *promises* to augment humans with AI—because what could possibly go wrong when you mix fragile meat sacks with code that can’t even order pizza without three patches and a reboot? The repository's creator solemnly swears they read every piece of feedback, but let's be real: the comments section is a tragicomic opera of clueless wonders offering hot takes that make you wonder if the AI is already running the show. Meanwhile, desperados in the comment trenches fight valiant battles equipped with half-baked knowledge from a two-hour coding crash course, passionately arguing about ethics while likely agreeing to terms and conditions without reading them everywhere else. 😂🤖
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69 points by kristianpaul
2024-07-06T16:40:59 |
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▲ Starcraft (A History in Two Acts) (filfre.net)
This week on filfre.net, we dive into the critically pressing history of clicky-clicky space game, *Starcraft*, split into two muscle-straining acts no less. Can humanity endure the sheer excitement learning which Zerg rush overcame which nerdy keyboard shortcut? In the comments, watch a magnificent circus of graying gamers argue which is the best unit in Klingon. Spoiler: it's *loneliness*. 🚀👾
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71 points by dmazin
2024-07-05T16:09:43 |
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▲ Teaching general problem-solving skills is not a substitute for teaching math [pdf] (2010) (ams.org)
In an explosive PDF from yesteryear that just surfaced on ams.org, a valiant academic attempts to shatter the revolutionary idea that teaching broad problem-solving skills could ever *dare* replace the sacred act of teaching math. The academic community promptly takes this disruption to their echo chamber to pen a novella of comments, each more pedantic and self-righteous than the last. Oblivious to the irony, they flaunt their complex mathematical jargon while simultaneously proving the paper's point: perhaps broader problem-solving skills aren't totally useless, if only to understand each other's comments. Meanwhile, students globally continue to struggle with algebra, blissfully unaware of this highbrow skirmish unfolding in the hallowed halls of academia. 📚✖️🧠
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189 points by JustinSkycak
2024-07-06T15:07:30 |
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▲ Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem – Isolated Declarations (marvinh.dev)
Title: Developers Discover Yet Another Life-Changing JavaScript "Feature"
Summary: The JavaScript ecosystem, known for its perpetually reinventing wheel, has birthed another "game changer" for developers to obsess over. TypeScript, in its latest bid to save developers from actually understanding what their code does, introduces isolated declarations—because who doesn't want to accelerate the production of something you probably copied from StackOverflow? Commenters, frothing at the keyboard, herald this monumental advancement, which reduces the onerous process of type definition from "minutes, sometimes even hours" to less than a second, promising to revolutionize the fifteen minutes it takes to finish their half-baked side projects before abandoning them for the next shiny thing. Who knew programming could be reduced to instant gratification?
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23 points by realshadow
2024-07-06T20:27:17 |
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▲ Show QN: Bash Dungeon – An educational dungeon crawler in the shell (github.com/wolandark)
Title: Hacker News Plays Goblin King in the Bash Dungeon
In an unprecedented display of nerd synergy, a brave Hacker News user unveils "Bash Dungeon" – a place where the exhilarating thrill of dungeon crawling meets the timeless elegance of shell scripting. Comment sections ignite with vim vs emacs warriors momentarily distracted by the chance to argue about a text-based game instead of text-based editors. 🐉 Meanwhile, each contributor earnestly assures the developer that their feedback is as vital as an SSH key for a root server, because, of course, everyone's opinion on pixelated cave exploration is a make-or-break issue. Will our valiant coder manage to decode feedback more cryptically enigmatic than any Bash script ever written? Stay tuned. 🎮💻
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59 points by wolandark
2024-07-06T16:59:17 |
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▲ The magic of small engineering teams (posthog.com)
Startup veterans, after miraculously discovering that fewer cooks spoil less broth, extol the revolutionary "small engineering team" method to the ovation of wide-eyed tech bloggers. Industry giants pretend to scribble notes as one brave commenter declares he could have built Google solo with Post-It notes and a Nokia 3310, as microservices cheer from the sidelines. The rest of the comment section descends into chaos, with participants arguing fervently about whose gear setup has the most minimalist vibe. Another day, another productivity hack promised to absolutely change the game. 🙄
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105 points by andyjohnson0
2024-07-04T09:09:13 |
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▲ Writing GUI applications on the Raspberry Pi without a desktop environment (2019) (avikdas.com)
In an awe-inspiring display of masochism, Avik Das dives into the abyss of coding GUI applications on a Raspberry Pi — without the cushy embrace of a desktop environment. Because, why utilize user-friendly tools when you can manually wrestle with pixels and pointers in some tech underdog street cred background? Commenters, in a rare outbreak of unity, alternate between congratulating themselves for reading the article without falling asleep and pedantically arguing over the most *ram-efficient* way to trigger carpal tunnel syndrome. Clearly, the future of software development is here, and it runs on a monitor-less Raspberry Pi operated by sheer willpower and nerd tears. 🤓💾🎉
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178 points by raytopia
2024-07-03T02:29:56 |
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▲ Why haven't biologists cured cancer? (writingruxandrabio.com)
In a stunning display of intellectual humility, writingruxandrabio.com tackles the age-old question: "Why haven't biologists cured cancer?" Armed with a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and a weekend retreat’s worth of Google skills, the author enthusiastically explains complex biological processes with the precision of a toddler performing surgery. Commenters, unified in their indifference towards scientific accuracy, engage in a fierce competition to see who can miss the point more spectacularly, offering unsolicited advice ranging from essential oils to positive vibes. Surely, the cure is just one kale smoothie away. 🥬💫
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19 points by zdw
2024-07-06T18:26:58 |
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