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▲ RP2350 PicoDVI Preview (github.com/wren6991)
**RP2350 PicoDVI: A Technical Mirage for Enthusiasts**
In a world where reading a few datasheets makes you an expert, enthusiasts at github.com celebrate the RP2350 PicoDVI’s minor technical advancements as if they’ve just split the atom. The comment section transforms into a battleground for superiority, where each commenter flexes their deep understanding about HSTX and SIO TMDS encoders—a veritable showdown of acronyms that surely impacts 0.0001% of the population. One visionary dreams of streaming this miracle via a USB-C noodlescape, unwittingly plotting the downfall of traditional hubs everywhere. Is there hope for human salvation when "easy, weekend projects" involve multicasting USB over IP? Probably not, but it's a thrilling sideline for the soldering iron crowd. 😂
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59 points by fidotron
2024-08-15T21:42:53 |
21 comments
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▲ CEOs Are Running Companies from Afar Even as Workers Return to Office (bloomberg.com)
In a stunning display of ~~corporate equality~~, CEOs continue to command their empires from the comfort of far-flung locales, whilst the office plebs have been summoned back to their cubicle dungeons. Commenters are shocked—*shocked!*—to discover this age-old tradition persisting, sharing tales of top brass turning corporate trips into family Disney excursions, and longing for the good old days when CEOs might accidentally run into an employee in the elevator. Meanwhile, a lone voice in the wilderness claims CEOs should inhabit the same zip code as their company HQ, clinging to quaint notions of leadership and local legacy like a life raft in the sea of modern corporate indifference. 💼🏝️
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52 points by petethomas
2024-08-16T00:41:16 |
14 comments
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▲ One man's quest to restore the first-ever Air Force One (atlasobscura.com)
In a thrilling exposé reminiscent of watching paint dry, Atlas Obscura details the riveting adventure of buffing the first-ever Air Force One to a high shine. Comment sections ignite with simmering excitement, proving that there's nothing quite like outdated aviation to get middle-aged men more animated than a fake thermostat. No sneaker talk here—just cold, hard, polished aluminum tales to distract from the usual suburban ennui. History buffs mingle with conspiracy enthusiasts to wildly postulate over the air conditioning preferences of dead politicians. Surely, this is the peak of human achievement. 🛫👴🔧
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72 points by rmason
2024-08-15T21:04:35 |
30 comments
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▲ How does it feel to test a compiler? (medium.com/zakharenko)
Title: How does it feel to test a compiler?
Oh, the thrill of debugging other people’s heroic code! Over at Medium, someone decided to pen their tear-jerking, soul-searching voyage into the heart of compiler testing. Commenters are marching in with badges of honor, bragging about how their sacred testing rituals save civilizations—or at least some CPU cycles. Meanwhile, the real crusade is against the barbaric acts of those who dare commit code without tests. Test your code, or test our patience, peasants! Reading between the lines, we muddle through "test-driven soliloquies," a mournful ode to the misunderstood heroes: testers who should sit at the Round Table but sadly, often don’t even get a stool at the bar. 🧑💻🐜
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23 points by thunderbong
2024-08-12T09:39:44 |
8 comments
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▲ Galois Theory (utexas.edu)
**The Internet Cannot Add Numbers**
In what will surely be remembered as the pinnacle of academic achievement in 2023, the University of Edinburgh valiantly attempts to teach Galois theory to undergrads via XHTML and CSS-infused lecture notes, now tragically stranded on arXiv. The lecturer, braving technological frontiers, suggests using Mozilla to view MathML content, gleefully excluding anyone stuck in the technological dark ages of Internet Explorer. Over in the comments, enthusiasts reliving the glory days of Ian Stewart’s books and fabricating relevance in modern chat platforms like IRC suggest that, yes, mathematics might just be comprehensible if packaged in enough historical anecdotes or discussed endlessly on dead web channels. Meanwhile, other commenters solemnly nod in agreement, hastily glossing over the fact that despite all these sophisticated models and discussions, they still struggle to convince their own children why algebra matters.
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323 points by mathgenius
2024-08-15T13:00:48 |
158 comments
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▲ Take selfies with public traffic cameras (trafficcamphotobooth.com)
Title: 📸 The Great Traffic Cam Selfie Saga 📸
The latest trend in self-absorbed surveillance involves snapping selfies with unsuspecting traffic cameras, all thanks to TrafficCamPhotoBooth.com's ground-breaking mix-up of geolocation and narcissism. In an era of global connectivity, the site hilariously assumes that everyone resides within a hop, skip, and an Uber ride from NYC’s finest CCTV. Meanwhile, the comment section becomes a comedy club as lost souls lament over mysterious streets and thwarted desktop adventures, blissfully unaware that a world exists beyond the Five Boroughs. Don’t worry, there's a handy fix – just pretend your laptop is a smartphone and join the chaotic fun not designed for you! 😂
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18 points by Jalad
2024-08-13T05:54:44 |
6 comments
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▲ Show QN: High-precision date/time in SQLite (antonz.org)
**Show HN: I reinvented the wheel, but now it doesn't handle roundabouts.** A brave Hacker News warrior, defying decades of timekeeping misery and timezone tragedies, gifts us "sqlean-time" to handle dates in SQLite as if every day is a sunny day in UTC-land. Commenters, weighed down by the ghosts of DST and leap seconds, chime in with skeptical URLs and cautionary tales. Meanwhile, the true hero points out that without handling leap seconds, we're all doomed to be approximately 30 seconds late for eternity. 🕰️💥
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233 points by nalgeon
2024-08-15T11:13:37 |
57 comments
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▲ Launch QN: Hamming (YC S24) – Automated Testing for Voice Agents
**Launch HN: Hamming (YC S24) – Automated Testing for Voice Agents**
Today we witness yet another attempt to replace human warmth with robotic coldness as Hamming unveils its plan to make voice agents less terrible at understanding basic human requests. Commenters are torn between praising the advent of our AI overlords and mourning the lost art of actually typing. One enlightened soul manages to both dictate a soliloquy on voice processing superiority via macOS’s voice-to-text and simultaneously miss the irony 💬. As usual, the real panic is reserved for those realizing their call center careers are being outsourced to a server farm potentially less empathetic than their current human overseers. 🤖💔
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82 points by sumanyusharma
2024-08-15T15:44:53 |
45 comments
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▲ Weak supervision to isolate sign language communicators in crowded news videos (vrroom.github.io)
Title: AI Whizzes Promise to Decode Hand-Waving in Crowds, Probably
In a dazzling display of misplaced confidence, a new blog post from vrroom.github.io reveals the "groundbreaking" initiative by the ever-benevolent Longtail AI Foundation to craft a sign language nirvana for crowded news videos. Venturing boldly into realms where no data has dared to gather, these brave souls vow to *finally* bridge the ASL-British gap using their high-tech fortress of solitary sign language datasets—because, as we all know, having *oodles* of data has solved every AI problem ever, right? The comments section, a veritable echo chamber of pat-on-the-backs, performs its own sign language of sorts, mostly translating to 👏 and 🙌, unfolding with mutual admiration for their "staggering" ambition amidst a stark shortage of realism. Bless their hearts, and may their data scarcity be forever in their favor.
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32 points by matroid
2024-08-14T20:37:33 |
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▲ Deals with the devil aren't what they used to be (newyorker.com)
In a nostalgic fluff piece, The New Yorker mulls over the tragic fall from grace of diabolical deals – lamenting that they just don't make Faustian bargains like they used to! Would-be modern devils are lost in yet another woeful elegy to the lost "magic" of yesteryear, replaced by the mundane engineering of souls. Commenters, grasping at intellectual straws, dive into a sea of philosophical waxing about metaphysical loopholes and existential pranking. 🤡 "Is this Marlowe, or just a bad day at the metaphysics fair? Nope, just another day modernizing the devil while really missing that old-timey supernatural lore." 🧙♂️👹
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81 points by pepys
2024-08-12T17:47:20 |
107 comments
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▲ Nationalpublicdata.com Hack Exposes a Nation's Data (krebsonsecurity.com)
**The Humbling of NationalPublicData.com: A Privacy Comedy Goldmine**
In a breathtaking display of cybersecurity *acumen*, NationalPublicData.com, a repository of unsuspecting citizens' most sacred details, decided to host a large-scale data giveaway. A cybercriminal who could only be dubbed a "Robin Hood" for the black-hat crowd, gleefully dumped 4 terabytes of juicy personal records onto the dark web like confetti at a breach party. Meanwhile, armchair analysts and panic enthusiasts have set up camp in the comments section, engaging in the digital equivalent of setting hair on fire and running in circles, swapping tales of password resets and identity theft fears like campfire ghost stories. Equipped with the robust wisdom of hindsight, even the least tech-savvy readers collectively chant "I told you so," while hoarding free credit monitoring offers like doomsday preppers. 🎭💔🔒
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11 points by todsacerdoti
2024-08-15T22:46:02 |
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▲ Launch QN: Manaflow (YC S24) – Automate repetitive office work in tables
In a groundbreaking leap back to the future, Manaflow debuts with the audacious promise to scrub the drudgery from your spreadsheet-driven life, allegedly making contracts, forecasts, and invoices as thrilling as a blockchain hype conference. Excitement abounds in the comments section, where tech aficionados, perplexed by the integration of AI in basic tasks like watermarking videos, joyously pile on, demanding more from an application that doesn’t yet integrate with the Excel they sleep next to. One commenter sagely advises the team to do the unthinkable: perhaps understand the jobs they’re automating. Meanwhile, another points out that old-school VBA still holds the championship belt in the office-automation wrestlemania. 🚀🤯💾
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23 points by austinwang115
2024-08-15T19:55:28 |
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▲ Imbue (Formerly Generally Intelligent) (YC S17) Is Hiring an Engineering Manager
At Imbue (formerly "Generally Intelligent," apparently without irony), the quest to lure an Engineering Manager into their bureaucratic fold has begun. This groundbreaking startup, freshly rebranded to sound more like a low-tier herbal tea, is ready to scale its operations from "vaguely competent" to "mildly organized." The comment section, a delightful cesspool of keyword-stuffed enthusiasm and existential dread, serves as a heartbreaking mise-en-scene of rampant unemployment and misplaced career aspirations. 🤖🍵💼
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2024-08-15T21:01:13 |
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▲ Show QN: Denormalized – Embeddable Stream Processing in Rust and DataFusion (github.com/probably-nothing-labs)
In yet another revolutionary act destined to change the world, "Denormalized" struts onto Hacker News with a stream processing engine that promises to bundle all the buzzwords you need to sound tech-savvy at your next board meeting. Built on the ever-popular Apache DataFusion, Denormalized woos the tech crowd with Kafka integrations, windowed aggregations, and the irresistible allure of *stream joins*—because joins just weren’t exciting enough. Commentators quickly turn the thread into a cozy little tech reunion, sharing their past glories in the stream analytics space and pitching their current ventures, all while lavishly praising each other’s *cutting-edge* projects. If you’ve miraculously missed the rise of single-machine efficiency, don’t worry—this comment section will get you up to speed and ready to drop "real-time pandas" at dinner parties. 🚀📈
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95 points by ambrood
2024-08-15T17:16:47 |
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▲ Nomad, communicate off-grid mesh, forward secrecy and extreme privacy (github.com/markqvist)
Welcome to the secretive underworld of Nomad Network, where the paranoia-driven dream of off-grid chatting springs to life. Witness users come together to unravel the complexities of not needing the internet by employing technologies even grandpas at the park talk about. Over on GitHub, folks pass around feedback forms like secret handshakes, seemingly unable to find the "huge button" to unleash their enraged or mystified comments into the FCC abyss. Dive into a thread where the elderly and technophobes alike bemoan the lack of visible comment areas, leading to moments of tech-induced existential dread. 🎭📡
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301 points by pyinstallwoes
2024-08-15T07:54:02 |
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▲ Reticulum Is Unstoppable Networks for the People (reticulum.network)
Title: **Reticulum: Because Growing Your Own Botnet Wasn't Cool Enough**
Ah, Reticulum! The networking solution so powerful it can run on a toaster, staying online even if hit by a neutron star. 🚀 Emboldened by crypto-magic and duct-tape, enthusiasts praise it as "the sovereign internet", while it quaintly indexes arrays like it's 1999. Commenters, rather than discussing this "staggering" prowess, are stuck debating whether the project’s name hints at posterior anatomy. 🍑 Meanwhile, another soul cries into the void, aghast and bewildered, unable to even connect to another mystical peer. Better luck at discovering Atlantis than getting Reticulum setup, folks! 🌐💥
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13 points by vyrotek
2024-08-15T22:24:21 |
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▲ We survived 10k requests/second: Switching to signed asset URLs in an emergency (hardcover.app)
**Survival of the Fittest URL: A Hipster Devops Catastrophe**
In a harrowing tale of overspending and undercharging, a trendy developer with an affinity for Apple gadgets and obscure music narrates his terrifying ordeal of accidentally racking up hundreds in cloud expenses—all while sipping overpriced coffee in a soon-to-be-rained-on café. The crisis peaks with a shocking $300 loss to Google Cloud, all because someone thought it'd be nifty to switch from Vercel to Google during a casual experiment. In the comment section, wannabe cloud experts and budget-conscious devs engage in an epic saga of one-upmanship, sharing unsolicited advice about server costs, all while missing the point as spectacularly as our protagonist missed his cloud configuration. Truly, a spectacle of modern tech confusion worthy of a sitcom episode. 🎭📉
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78 points by dyogenez
2024-08-15T20:36:41 |
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▲ Why won't some people pay for news? (2022) (glasswings.com)
📰 In the thrilling exposé "Why won't some people pay for news?", a former software engineer reminiscing about the good ol' days of print reveals that shockingly, people don't like to overpay for news printed on dead trees 🌳. Commenters dive headlong into a nostalgic rant, mourning the death of print and somehow blaming every management decision ever made, while simultaneously missing the irony that they now get all their news from the same internet they lament killing journalism. One advocate charmingly suggests turning every news outlet into NPR as a beacon of unbiased reporting, clearly having missed every media critique since the dawn of radio. Everyone agrees the news sucks, newspapers are out of touch, and yet somehow, incredibly, continue to argue on the internet about how to save the very newspapers no one reads. Genius! 🎓💡
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29 points by dredmorbius
2024-08-14T19:20:09 |
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▲ Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand (torrentfreak.com)
**Hacker King's Game Over, Internet Weeps**
New Zealand finally rolls out the red carpet for Kim Dotcom's glamorous departure to The Land of the Free™, while a nostalgic corner of the internet prepares a Viking funeral for MegaUpload. The comment section transforms into a tragicomic arena where armchair philosophers debate the finer points of digital piracy, mistakenly comparing Dotcom to Snowden and Assange, because all internet heroes wear the same-sized cape, right? Meanwhile, one sage inquires if it's better to paraglide or parasail, lifting the intellectual debate to stratospheric heights. Dotcom's pending extradition has clearly left a massive void in our lives and law libraries, but fear not—there's always another digital renegade ready to misappropriate the mantle of ‘freedom fighter’.
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619 points by wut42
2024-08-15T12:05:50 |
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▲ We're Cutting L40S Prices in Half (fly.io)
Title: GPU Bargain Bin Bonanza!
The disruptive munchkins at Fly.io have taken a brave leap into the cutthroat world of slashing prices on obsolete tech that nobody asked for. Today, they proudly announce a fire sale on the NVIDIA L40s GPUs, now a steal at just $1.25 per hour! Spoiler alert: nobody really wanted these beastly power guzzlers until the price dropped. This fascinating pivot has left the tech world abuzz with developers - mostly those whose hobbies include complaining about AWS pricing and hoarding vintage VPS - swooping in to claim their discounted digital trophies. Meanwhile, comment sections are filled with jubilant cries of "Take my money!" and sarcastic quips about heating homes with excess computational heat. Just another day in paradise for tech's bargain bin shoppers. 🤑💻🔥
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6 points by LukeLambert
2024-08-16T00:27:37 |
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