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▲ Did you lose your AirPods? (alexyancey.com)
Did you lose your AirPods?
Another day, another Silicon Valley Sherlock Holmes figures out how to almost solve a "mystery" that nobody asked for. Our protagonist stumbles upon the holy grail of lost tech: AirPods of Unknown Origins, and embark on an epic journey of bad ideas. Deciding against spamming every number ending in 1234, because clearly, that's just a tad noisy, he turns to the dark arts of scripted messaging and area codes. Meanwhile, the commenters go from fear of Apple's wrath to techno-nostalgia about subpar noise cancellation. Who needs a detective novel when you have random internet detectives with too much access to API calls? 🕵️♂️📲
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111 points by RockRobotRock
2024-08-23T23:54:28 |
44 comments
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▲ We have reached OpenBSD of Theseus (marc.info)
In the latest episode of "Hackers and Labyrinthine Commit Histories", an OpenBSD zealot attempts to navigate the treacherous path from GitHub to poorly old school CVSWeb just to find a patch. 🤓 Meanwhile, classicists weep into their togas as OpenBSD choses a Latin quiz over a Greek one because surely, Latin is the cooler dead language. Remember kids, nothing screams "inclusive community" like debating the obscurity of ancient languages in a mailing list while making puns about mythical ships. Need a patch? Better brush up on your Beta Code - because apparently, ASCII is too mainstream. 💾
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219 points by nabla9
2024-08-23T19:39:11 |
25 comments
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▲ I sped up serde_json strings by 20% (purplesyringa.moe)
**Rustacean Squeezes Extra Juice from serde_json: A Performance Odyssey**
In the illustrious domain of serde_json, where byte-shaving is the high art, a bravado-filled Rust enthusiast promises a mesmerizing 20% speed boost by twirling some knobs on serde_json, a tool so prevalent that its mere whisper summons tremours in the Rust belt. Meanwhile, the armchair critics in the comment sections flex their "expertise," lamenting about their bloated dev environments caused by the monstrous 3GB of dependencies—a figure as elusive as their understanding of how storage works. The outcry prompts a quasi-forensic analysis by others, only to find the actual footprint is more like a gentle tiptoe in the digital sandbox. Now, if only JSON parsing controversies were as thrilling as they think, someone might have watched this drama unfold beyond GitHub threads. Behold, programming heroes and armchair analysts: the saviors of kilobytes and slayers of alleged gigabytes! 🤓💾🎭
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82 points by purplesyringa
2024-08-22T04:24:22 |
17 comments
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▲ Open-Source AI necklace like Friend (github.com/basedhardware)
In yet another feat of solitary brilliance, a lone hero introduces "Omi," the open-source spy kit masquerading as a necklace, poised to transcribe every sigh, grunt, and corporate secret its wearer exhales. Commenters, in between chuckling at California's quaint privacy laws and inventing countermeasures for unwarranted eavesdropping, eagerly anticipate the glorious day when everyone’s whispered nothings become part of the next giant data breach. Meanwhile, legal experts in the thread are scratching their heads, wondering if this gizmo turns every chit-chat into a criminal conspiracy. It’s Silicon Valley innovation at its creepiest—because who doesn't want their small talk permanently logged and analyzed by a piece of chic hardware, subsidized by your friendly neighborhood venture capitalists? 🎤⚖️💥
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40 points by kodjima33
2024-08-23T22:31:45 |
32 comments
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▲ Adding 16 kb page size to Android (googleblog.com)
In a baffling attempt to justify bloating the memory footprint of every Android device on the planet, Google engineers propose inflating the page size from 4 KB to 16 KB, allegedly boosting performance by "5-10%". With the precision of a carnival fortune-teller, this vague performance metric has already ignited the imaginations of armchair experts in online forums, who debate fiercely over scenarios where this trivial tweak could break everything. Commenters, vagabonds of digital wanderlust, alternate between technobabble about address translation speeds and existential crises over multiple gigabyte page sizes, proving that, yes, you can indeed use more words to say less. Clearly, the biggest uplift here is in the comment length. 📈💾🤦♂️
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211 points by mikece
2024-08-23T17:14:05 |
120 comments
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▲ BMW Overtakes Tesla in European EV Sales for First Time (electriccarsreport.com)
In another staggering victory for charts, graphs, and obnoxiously granular detail, a website breathlessly reports BMW momentarily outselling Tesla in European EVs—something akin to winning a pie-eating contest by default because the other guy wasn’t hungry that month. Commentators, armed with the intensity of a thousand suns, dive deep into registration semantics and dealer strategy, uncovering (to the shock of absolutely nobody) that sales stats are as padded as a teenager's first bra. Meanwhile, conspiracy theories about Elon Musk’s influence on EV subsidies swirl like unwanted remoras around the hapless flounder of Tesla’s public image. At this rate, Tesla watchers might soon need a degree in political science just to follow car sales trends, or perhaps just a stiff drink.
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174 points by belter
2024-08-23T21:04:12 |
174 comments
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▲ Canon R5 Mk Ii Drops Pixel Shift High Res – Is Canon Missing the AI Big Picture? (kguttag.com)
**Canon R5 Mk II's Discarded Pixel Shift Puzzle: Did They Forget Their Glasses?**
Canon, apparently too busy backslapping corporate chieftains to notice, has bafflingly axed the pixel shift high-res jamboree from the latest R5 Mark ii—which the engineering team knew (because reasons) magically squeezes more "fake" pixels from thin air than a Photoshop intern on a Friday afternoon. Commenters, wielding various camera make/models as if tech spec sheets are dueling swords, clash valiantly over who can malign their camera's artificial enhancements with more loathing. Meanwhile, a paladin of hope persists, suggesting its theoretical usefulness in astrophotography, to the resounding silence of any evident success stories. Truly, Canon's oversight or strategic blunder—whichever you fancy—leaves enthusiasts and pixel peepers alike in a disillusioned tizzy, undoubtedly crafting fiery letters to Santa asking for better firmware by Christmas.
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24 points by LorenDB
2024-08-23T21:29:44 |
17 comments
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▲ People with Disabilities Use the Web (w3.org)
Title: Hacker News Discovers Accessibility: A Déjà Vu
In a stunningly late breakthrough, the Hacker News community grapples with the concept that people with disabilities use the web. Commenters vie for a semblance of enlightenment, oscillating between "I amended the auto-censored title" heroism and superficial acknowledgments of accessibility—almost reaching the depth of a puddle. Misguided web scholars debate over syntax rather than substance, while fighting the tyranny of greyscale interfaces. It’s just another day of paving the low road with good intentions and better regular expressions. 🤓
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47 points by fagnerbrack
2024-08-23T21:01:42 |
11 comments
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▲ About the IMGUI Paradigm (github.com/ocornut)
Oh joy, another color-soaked attempt to modernize UI development misadventures—or as enthusiasts cry into their ergonomic keyboards, "the IMGUI paradigm!" In this riveting iteration, supporters cling to outdated graphics API references like their favorite decaying programming manuals, all while trying to convince every visitor of their shiny acronym's worth. Commenters hurl themselves into technical nit-picking, like knights jousting over which lego piece was historically accurate in their software castle, all while somehow confusing Direct3D API history with a new gospel. Let's strap in, reroll our understanding of UI, and watch an army of keyboard warriors redefine 'revolutionary' by merging 90s tech limitations with today’s digital sass. 🎨💻🔙
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33 points by ibobev
2024-08-22T16:38:45 |
26 comments
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▲ Accident Forgiveness (fly.io)
**Accident Forgiveness (fly.io)**
Fly.io, the self-touted revolutionary cloud, is here with a promise to save developers from the harrowing depths of public cloud billing, an ordeal apparently scarier than a Stephen King novel read in a haunted house. Be prepared to deploy faster than you can say "unexpected bill," thanks to their user-friendly set-up that boasts "accident forgiveness" — presumably like the good driver discount but for perpetually frazzled devs. In the comments, watch as an ensemble of tech bros vehemently discuss whether this is the messiah of cloud services or just another corporate drone, all the while meticulously ignoring their already maxed-out AWS bills. Surely, this must be the golden age of innovation, right? 🙄
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184 points by piperswe
2024-08-21T18:27:56 |
173 comments
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▲ OpenSSH Backdoors (isosceles.com)
Title: "**OpenSSH Backdoors? More Like Open Yawns**"
Imagine a world where every OpenSSH backdoor discovery is treated like the plot twist in a second-rate hacker movie. Cue the *security experts* and armchair analysts in the comments section, tripping over themselves to declare how they predicted this all along, amidst calls for the execution of any developer who dares commit a typo. Oh, and let's not forget the tantalizing dance of "who's to blame" that unfolds like a dramatic soap opera. The sheer excitement might just be too much—if it weren't so utterly predictable and rehashed from a hack that happened before some of these commenters were potty trained. 🍿👀
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137 points by benhawkes
2024-08-23T16:14:54 |
85 comments
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▲ Meta cancels high-end mixed reality headset after Apple Vision Pro struggles (macrumors.com)
In a stunning act of originality, Meta decides to scrap its high-end mixed reality headset after watching Apple stumble with its own overpriced face computer, the Vision Pro. Throngs of tech enthusiasts, briefly distracted from arguing about JavaScript frameworks, converge in the comments to share their profound insights such as "I never liked VR anyway" and "Zuck is just saving us from more dystopian nightmare fuel." Witness the spectacle of collective schadenfreude as everyone suddenly becomes an expert in market strategies and mixed reality economics, confidently predicting the next big tech flop. Meta and Apple reluctantly thank them for the free consulting.
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156 points by tosh
2024-08-23T18:00:17 |
156 comments
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▲ Arroost: Unblocking Creation with Friends (todepond.com)
**Arroost: Unblocking Creation with Friends**
In a world desperate for another tool that promises to "eliminate your creative woes", Arroost swoops in with the novelty of live programming for music, ensuring that your creative blocks are as live and interactive as your crippling stage fright. Apparently, emotional support has pivoted from humans to software, as Arroost attempts to unblock more than just your average coding errors—it's here to pat you on the back when your symphony sounds like a cat walking on a piano. Commenters are already hailing it as "revolutionary", clearly confusing "collaborative music-making" with "having actual musical talent". Brace yourself for the onslaught of live-streamed creative meltdowns, heralded by tech bros who think debugging can fix their inability to play the violin. 🎻🚫
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5 points by surprisetalk
2024-08-22T16:37:35 |
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▲ Tesorio Is Hiring a Senior GenAI Engineer and Django Engineer (100% Remote) (tesorio.com)
**Tesorio is Hiring Senior Closet Nerds and Hipster Coders**
Tesorio, a wonderland of data nerds and financial wizards, humbly brags about their quirky cool automations that even your grandma wouldn’t bother to understand. Held captive in the grandeur of Panama City, they bonded over color-coded workshops and clichéd team-building activities presumably involving trust falls and sharing 'fun facts' nobody cares about. Future offsites might just be in Narnia, considering the firm’s grand plans to revolutionize finance with yet another AI tool nobody asked for. In the meantime, delusional commenters contend for the ‘most awe-inspiring suck-up comment’ award while prophesizing world-changing impacts from moving buttons around on a remote dashboard. 🙄
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2024-08-23T21:01:15 |
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▲ My IRC client runs on Kubernetes (xeiaso.net)
My IRC Client Runs on Kubernetes: Because Normal Solutions Are for Mortals
Today, humanity leaps forward as someone decides that Kubernetes—the undisputed overlord of over-engineering—is absolutely essential for managing five gigabytes of IRC logs. Commenters, thrilled to bathe in the glow of such "standardizing" brilliance, throw around phrases like "simple/complex" and "unique/standard" with the giddy abandonment of a cat in a yarn store. Meanwhile, the Kubernetes fanfare drowns out any whispers of practicality, as another brave soul decries its endless complexity. Don't fret, the solution is clear: wrap the overwrap, because why run things simple when you can orchestrate a symphony of yaml files? 🎻🤹♂️
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80 points by xena
2024-08-23T19:46:40 |
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▲ Pi-CI – A RasPi 5 emulator in a Docker image for creating and flashing configs (github.com/ptrsr)
**Welcome to Pi-CI: Because Real Hardware is Just Too Mainstream**
Here we go, another brilliant life hack for those too avant-garde for basic Raspberry Pi interactions: Pi-CI, turning complex hardware setups into a cozy Docker container. Now you can "flash those RPi configs" from the comfort of your own virtual environment! Commenters, in a dazzling display of originality, declare the solution thrilling—shocking, given the tech community’s renowned disdain for anything that makes life easier. Whether it’s replacing traditional tinkering with a seamless *'docker run'* command, or baffling newcomers with the phrase "bind mount to /dist," everyone's excited to strap in for this wild ride into virtual hardware management! 🎢💾💻
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27 points by Curiositry
2024-08-23T20:29:42 |
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▲ Launch QN: Moonglow (YC S24) – Serverless Jupyter Notebooks
On Hacker News, a vainglorious startup called *Moonglow* emerges from the primordial foam of Y Combinator, offering the latest in serverless Jupyter Notebooks because apparently, the market is dying for another platform where data scientists can neglect data privacy in exciting new ways. Hacker News users, frothing with the unique blend of condescension and FOMO that characterizes this elite crew, jostle each other in the digital playground to pontificate on Kubernetes, lambdas, and other buzzwords sufficiently esoteric to assert their tech dominance. Meanwhile, a lone commenter queries if "serverless" means the server is actually just hidden in the CEO's basement. The echo chamber reverberates with the sound of self-congratulation. 🚀📉
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78 points by tmychow
2024-08-23T15:20:20 |
49 comments
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▲ Playing Sudoku in TypeScript while the type checker highlights mistakes (github.com/gruhn)
**TypeScript: Not Just for Solving Problems, But Also for Creating Them**
In the latest exercise of making simple things complex for the mere sake of 'because we can,' a brave GitHub user attempts to reinvent Sudoku in TypeScript, ensuring the type checker vomits errors whenever you make a mistake, much like your meticulous friend who won’t let a game night be fun. 🤓 The repository, weighed down by the profound philosophical question, *“How do we enforce Sudoku rules in TypeScript?”* turns into a battleground where proponents claim TS is basically the superhero JavaScript never asked for, while detractors argue about experiencing hunting type errors more than actual bugs. Amidst cries of the type system being both omnipotent and the bane of existence, everyone seems to forget the real issue at hand: we're using an advanced type system to pick a fight with a puzzle that should've stayed in newspapers. 📰💥
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135 points by mjcurl
2024-08-19T21:18:19 |
50 comments
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▲ Vega – A declarative language for interactive visualization designs (vega.github.io)
**Vega: Because Real Programmers Use JSON for Everything**
Today in the world of unnecessary complexity, we introduce Vega, a tool that transforms the art of making pretty charts into a soul-crushing exercise in writing JSON. It’s the perfect playground for those who thought HTML and CSS were too straightforward and needed a 'JSON-ier' way to design interactive visuals. Brace yourselves as every data scientist with a GitHub account now considers themselves a frontend developer because they can throw some JSON to generate a pie chart. Meanwhile, in comment sections across the web, masses of Vega enthusiasts argue vociferously over the best way to visualize their morning coffee routines, while simultaneously missing the fact that more JSON does not, in fact, improve your life. 📊💻
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183 points by worble
2024-08-23T13:15:40 |
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▲ SurrealEngine: Open-source reimplementation of Unreal Engine with playable UT99 (github.com/dpjudas)
**Title: Yet Another Regurgitation of FPS Nostalgia, Now with More Bugs!**
In a stunning display of archaic obsession, the tech necromancers at GitHub bring you **SurrealEngine**: an attempt to reanimate the dusty corpse of Unreal Tournament '99. The devs proudly proclaim the engine is on the brink of adequacy, missing only "minor" features like arrays and network something-or-other. Meanwhile, in the commentary graveyard, enthusiasts are tripping over themselves to share misty-eyed tales of yesteryear, forehead scars, and potential regrettable tattoos. Will this open-source ouija board actually revive UT '99, or just its community’s faded glory? Stay tuned for more 404s and existential dread! 🎮👻
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285 points by klaussilveira
2024-08-23T14:50:09 |
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