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▲ Higher-kinded bounded polymorphism in OCaml (2021) (okmij.org)
Title: **OCaml Proves Even Ghosts Can Code**
In a thrilling exhibition of linguistic gymnastics, an article from okmij.org attempts to delve into the esoteric joys of higher-kinded bounded polymorphism in OCaml, a topic so niche that even the bravest of functional programmers might flee in terror. The author, masquerading as a digital wizard, conjures from the ether ways to manipulate OCaml into performing tricks it was clearly not keen on. Meanwhile, the devoted commentariat, squinting at pixels, bemoan the crushing smallness of the code font, as if the clarity of typeface was all that stood between them and arcane enlightenment. Ghosts of long-dead languages hover in approval, whispering, "At least it's not COBOL."
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40 points by tinyspacewizard
2024-07-28T21:40:47 |
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▲ tolower() with AVX-512 (dotat.at)
In a groundbreaking display of technical exhibitionism, "tolower() with AVX-512" delivers an exhaustive treatise on making letters duck without breaking a sweat on modern CPUs. The author, swelling with pride over muscling through character case conversion using SIMD instructions, seems blissfully unaware that most of the world is still struggling with normal alphabets without needing a supercomputer. Meanwhile, the comment section morphs into a tower of Babel, where code-snippets sling through the air, and everyone casually flexes their negligible improvements and language standards trivia. It's a thrilling circus of "my ASM is rustier than your C," where the ultimate prize is realizing that, perhaps, we really just need to turn off the computer and go outside. 🤓🎪💻
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43 points by fanf2
2024-07-28T20:38:59 |
26 comments
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▲ Show QN: A football/soccer pass visualizer made with Three.js (statsbomb-3d-viz.vercel.app)
Welcome to the latest HN offering, where someone decided to use every tech buzzword to reinvent how we watch grass grow: a football pass visualizer. Because why enjoy a game when you can obsess over pass trajectories in glorified 3D? Comments immediately turn into a tech support session, with every armchair developer needing a direct line to customize their new toy. They suggest every possible feature, except maybe one to make the visualizer actually useful. Meanwhile, the creator scrambles to appease the backseat coders, updating and tweaking, probably while missing the actual game. 🚀🏈💻
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72 points by carlos-menezes
2024-07-28T20:45:17 |
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▲ LeanDojo: Theorem Proving in Lean Using LLMs (leandojo.org)
Welcome to the LeanDojo, where coders masquerading as mathematicians unleash AI "copilots" to automate theorems because, let's be real, human ingenuity is just too mainstream. Behold, these AI marvels, fueled by GPUs or the *cloud*, gallantly suggest tactics like a caffeinated chess player in a tournament against time, desperately searching for that one proof that will validate their existence. Commenters, tangled in the technical ecstasy, ponder whether integrating AlphaProof's AI with more AI could somehow yield an AI that might finally pass high school math. Meanwhile, a brave soul battles existential dread by clinging to Wikipedia, trying to ascertain if Lean is indeed a proof assistant or a new diet trend. 🤖🧮🤷♂️
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51 points by aseg
2024-07-28T22:34:36 |
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▲ How simultaneous multithreading works under the hood (codingconfessions.com)
Welcome to another episode of *Half-Baked Tech Theories*, courtesy of codingconfessions.com. Today, we wade through an **oversimplified mish-mash** of how simultaneous multithreading (SMT) allegedly revolutionizes CPU efficiency—as explained through the wildly riveting world of cache misses and ALU engagements. In the grandstands, the commenters throw their *two cents with utmost confidence*, debating everything from memory architectures to the refreshing notion that rendering frames is akin to stacking sandwiches at a high-tech deli. If confusion was a processor, here we witness its peak performance, hyperthreaded with 💯 hyperbole and a side of 🍿.
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174 points by rbanffy
2024-07-28T15:35:14 |
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▲ Show QN: I built an open-source tool to make on-call suck less (github.com/opslane)
Title: Hacker News Solves On-Call Suffering: Opslane Edition
In yet another valiant effort to save developers from the tyranny of 3 AM alerts, a brave Hacker News soul unveils Opslane, a revolutionary (yet utterly derivative) tool designed to categorize your notifications as either crucial or just another reason to question your career choices. HN's finest congregate in the comments to deliver a numerous amount of "insights", consisting largely of complaints about their current workplaces and some veiled self-promotion. One might wonder if Opslane will end up as just another ignored Slack notification. Indeed, amidst cries for cultural reform over technical fixes, it is evident that no amount of open-source wizardry can turn off that 1 AM alarm ringing—both literally and metaphorically—for better alert management. 😴💤
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115 points by aray07
2024-07-27T13:53:58 |
60 comments
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▲ Italy's Sun Motorway (2021) (domusweb.it)
In a moment of nostalgic reverie, domusweb.it treats us to a summer special where the flavor of the month is the dusty, sepia-toned glamour of Italian motorway archives. Enthusiasts and alleged experts jump in, sharing tear-jerking tales of roadside spaghetti and toll booth adventures. One savant points out the shocking revelation that, unlike its American counterfeits, real Italian highway food is superior - a culinary bombshell that's sure to upend the fabric of society 💣💥. Meanwhile, critics weave in lamentations about crumbling infrastructure and overpriced drives, proving once again that nothing ignites raw passion like the mention of Italian road maintenance. 🛣️🍝
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46 points by simonebrunozzi
2024-07-28T16:27:11 |
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▲ Show QN: CeLLama – Single cell annotation with local LLMs (github.com/celvoxes)
**Hackerman Unleashes "ceLLama": The Latest and Greatest in LLM-based Chloroplast Clairvoyance**
In a world desperate for *yet another* use of Large Language Models, the awe-inspiring devs at ceLLama proudly repurpose NLP tech to guess what kind of cell might be feeling under the weather. Clearly, pressing Ctrl+C on bioinformatic pipelines and Ctrl+V into a Python script now counts as "innovation." As Github trembles under the existential weight of ceaseless "hello-world" experiments with LLMs, HN commenters unleash their usual blend of armchair expertise: between calls for benchmarks and fears of apocalyptic mislabeling, one brave soul wonders if we might not just replace the entire mess with a magic 8-ball. 🎱 Meanwhile, the project lead waits by the freshly spawned localhost server, hoping someone can explain how their own code works, and potential contributors line up attracted by the magnetic force of the words "fine-tuned model."
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89 points by celltalk
2024-07-28T12:56:55 |
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▲ 50th anniversary of Vannevar Bush's passing (thetech.com)
The internet has once again paused its cat-video consumption to heroically remember Vannevar Bush, the obscured titan of obsolescence and cameos, just as some poor MIT alumnus discovers Google can help forget a mid-life crisis by writing grandiloquent obituaries in *thetech.com*. Apparently, the Oppenheimer movie teased us with more Bush than we could spot, inspiring a deluge of who's that guy? from the diligent network of alumni who, it turns out, share a collective memory shorter than Bush’s screen time. Commenters, meanwhile, compete fiercely in the intellectual void, each scrambling to see who can most effectively blend reverence with cluelessness, thereby ensuring the history of technology remains as well-accessorized and superficial as their understanding of it. Truly, MIT never disappoints. 🎓💡
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3 points by ricksunny
2024-07-28T22:47:28 |
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▲ How to debug your battery design (github.com/ionworks)
**GitHub Universities: Battery Debugging 101**
In a heroic display of addressing an issue no one realized existed, a blog on GitHub proposes to transform mere mortal engineers named Jeremy into battery debugging demigods, armed with nothing but the power of simulations. Commenters, bursting with theoretical vigor, quickly turn the discussion into a battleground over statistical methodologies, each trying to out-nerd the other with references to obscure textbooks and unsolicited Python snippets. Meanwhile, an oblivious soul shares his weekend project of cobbling together a DIY power bank, blissfully ignorant of the intellectual colosseum unfolding above. Don your lab coats, folks, and brace for a crash course in statistical overkill and procrastination. 🤓
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268 points by tomtranter
2024-07-28T01:39:06 |
90 comments
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▲ The irrational hungry judge effect revisited (2023) (cambridge.org)
**The Irrational Hungry Judge Effect: Still Stomach-Churning After All These Years**
In an electrifying demonstration of academic resilience, Cambridge decides to stir the pot once again with the “hungry judge hypothesis,” which suggests judges dish out harsher rulings when their stomachs start rumbling. Despite the 2011 study being as stable as a house of cards in a hurricane, the recent rehash has commenters slicing through it like a hot knife through buttered evidence. Revelations abound that maybe, just maybe, it wasn't hunger pangs but the sequential severity of cases affecting the verdicts—imagine that! Still, armchair legal experts synthesize constitutional amendments and the random ordering of lunch menus in a desperate attempt to inject some fairness back into the judiciary, or at least, make it to the next cookie break without disrupting the cosmic balance of courtroom order. Who knew justice was best served not only blind but also well-fed? 🍔⚖️🤔
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189 points by fzliu
2024-07-28T07:35:11 |
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▲ Show QN: I made a tool to receive alerts when answers change (alertfor.com)
In a digital world desperate for *reliable misinformation monitoring*, a brave Hacker News user unveils Alertfor.com, the ultimate tool for anyone who fears missing out on the latest modifications to the "best" answers online. With a stark user attraction strategy of *forcing* sign-ups to even peek at what's offered, the site has successfully repelled the casual browser, prompting bemused demands for public demos in the comments. The creator scrambles to serve up content snacks — a screenshot here, a tweet there — in a heart-racing race to justify why anyone should care about tracking fluctuating web truths. Meanwhile, commenters leap at the chance to strategize monetization before the first user even figures out whether the Toddies have more MPs or just more Twitter followers. 🤪
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66 points by saran945
2024-07-28T13:55:02 |
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▲ FurtherAI (YC W24) is hiring founding software engineers in the Bay Area (ycombinator.com)
At FurtherAI, the hottest YC startup since the last one thirty minutes ago, you can fuel their groundbreaking mission to revolutionize the insurance industry by building a workforce of AI teammates. Finally, a cure for insomnia! 🥱 These AI wizards will automate everything... except the last 20% of any task, because as we all know, that would require actual magic. Commenters are tripping over themselves to either idolize or demonize the bots, apparently undecided if AI teammates will save the world or just really annoy insurance agents. How innovative! 🤖📄💤
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0 points by
2024-07-28T21:01:15 |
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▲ Microsoft technical breakdown of CrowdStrike incident (microsoft.com)
**Microsoft Gives CrowdStrike a Tech Timeout**
In a dazzling display of corporate shade, Microsoft meticulously dissects the latest CrowdStrike saga, teaching us all how not to handle memory safety. Revel in the technical breakdown where Microsoft, draped in the cloak of a concerned partner, subtly highlights every bump and scrape CrowdStrike has collected while tripping over their own kernel-mode drivers. Commenters gleefully grab their popcorn, watching the blame game unfold, with every tech enthusiast and their grandma offering a hotter take on kernel politicking. Meanwhile, real-world applications suffer in silence, much like our patience for this never-ending drama. 😴💻🍿
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194 points by nar001
2024-07-28T19:55:42 |
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▲ A man's brain is like a little empty attic (1887) (virginia.edu)
In the latest installment of academic navel-gazing, a resolute scholar at the University of Virginia bravely declares that a man's brain is akin to an empty attic, a bold metaphor that absolutely no one has stumbled upon since the time of high-button shoes. "You see," he pontificates, fully conjuring the spirit of a Victorian gentleman overly proud of discovering his own forehead. Commenters, ever eager to prove their attendance in freshman psychology, toss in everything from tired gender tropes to the groundbreaking revelation that fictitious detective Sherlock Holmes uses dubious science. 🕵️♂️ One shining intellect queries the capacity limits of the human attic-brain, clearly distressed that learning his mate's birthday might evict his deep knowledge of Star Wars lore.
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23 points by yamrzou
2024-07-28T20:21:43 |
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▲ The Ridgeway: The 5k-year-old pathway that's Britain's oldest road (bbc.com)
**The Ghosts of Pedestrians Past: Marching Down Britain's Oldest "Road"**
In a breathtaking display of nostalgia, a BBC article takes us on a spirited jaunt down the Ridgeway, heralded as Britain's most ancient road because nothing screams history like vague assertions and solitary dog walkers. Between the lines, one might mistake the windswept chalk for the chalkboards of lost druids scribbling their rites, if not for the chorus of commenters stumbling over each other to add their two cents about GPS coordinates and their last bikepacking trip. It’s not just a road; it’s an archaeological debate waiting to happen, with more side quests offered by commenter links than an Elder Scrolls game. 🚶♂️📜🤷
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89 points by andsoitis
2024-07-24T13:47:44 |
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▲ Back to our roots (honnibal.dev)
Welcome to the latest episode of "Back to Basics: Corporate Retreat", where a small tech company realizes that drinking venture capital Kool-Aid makes you less startup-y and more sellout-y. 🚀💸 The prodigal founders, after tasting the forbidden fruit of VC money, confess that self-reliance tastes less like compromise and more like survival. In the peanut gallery, commenters oscillate between applauding the return to "independent-mindedness" and scratching their heads over whether the VCs still own their souls—or just a large slice of their revenue pie. Meanwhile, linguistic tools gather digital dust waiting for humans to remember that technology doesn’t grow on venture-funded trees. 🌳💔
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93 points by saeedesmaili
2024-07-28T09:32:35 |
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▲ StreamPot: Run FFmpeg as an API with fluent-FFmpeg compatibility, queues and S3 (github.com/streampot)
**Welcome to the Exciting World of StreamPot: Lumbering Through Legacy Code with Style**
The tech elite have blessed us once again with StreamPot, a promising pile of abstraction atop the ancient mystical rites of FFmpeg. Operating quietly under the delusion that everyone needs their videos trimmed or transcoded within their bespoke JavaScript apps, StreamPot invites us to wrestle with fluent-ffmpeg compatibility, S3 storage puzzles, and the thrilling world of queues. The GitHub page is a fever dream of early adopters furiously debating the merits of polling vs. websockets, like gladiators in an arena, only with less dirt and more JavaScript. Meanwhile, you can echo through the timeless void of their "heavily reliant" documentation, searching in vain for a link that isn't broken. Godspeed, brave souls. 🎥💻🔧
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126 points by thunderbong
2024-07-28T04:09:04 |
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▲ Counting Lines of Code (andrewpwheeler.com)
**How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Counting Whitespace:** A techie blogs proudly about their python project at Gainwell, gloating over the monumental achievement of churning out 30k lines of code, inclusive of all the essential spaces and tabs one could dream of. A delightful ode to quantity over quality, because who needs elegant code when you can boast about size? The comment section becomes a battleground where readers either worship the ground the programmer walks on for their inhuman speed or question the utility of half the lines being comments about what the other half is supposed to do. Meanwhile, some brave souls suggest that, just maybe, counting lines of code is as useful as counting the number of times you've regretted opening this blog post. 🙄
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4 points by apwheele
2024-07-24T17:18:57 |
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▲ Intel N100 Radxa X4 First Thoughts (bret.dk)
**Intel N100 Radxa X4 First Thoughts: A Raspberry Pi on Steroids or Just Another Techie Tantrum?**
Ah, the Intel N100 Radxa X4, a technological marvel outclassing the Raspberry Pi in a smug online battle of specs and snark. At just $60, tech enthusiasts find themselves salivating over a device "able to run anything x86," inadvertently abandoning all Raspberry Pi loyalty like rats from a sinking ship. Comment sections burn with the fiery passion of those convinced their ignored comments about PoE hats and GPIO headers will revolutionize microcomputing—or at least their DIY smart-home projects. Meanwhile, contradictions flourish as the Radxa X4 toggles between sold-out statuses and ‘optional’ features, leaving fans in a chaotic limbo of availability and true capabilities. 🤓💻🔥
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195 points by geerlingguy
2024-07-27T22:51:57 |
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