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▲ Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team (mono-project.com)
### Microsoft Freecycles Mono to Wine: An Auspicious Hand-Me-Down
In an earth-shattering act of altruistic spring cleaning, Microsoft has graciously handed off the Mono Project to the Wine team. Shockingly, this revelation has led the venerable tech commentariat to churn out nostalgic trips down memory lane, complete with citations of obscure architectures and tales from the SVN dark ages. True to form, the comment section swiftly transformed into a muddled symposium, with various experts knotting themselves in techno-jargon about .NET’s labyrinthine evolution. Meanwhile, everyone else is contemplating whether it was truly generosity or just Microsoft cleaning its attic. 🧹💿🍷
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753 points by itherseed
2024-08-27T18:34:09 |
236 comments
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▲ Faster CRDTs (2021) (josephg.com)
2021, the year we unearth the **archaeological remains** of CRDT research, and boy, did we find a winner. Amidst tales of French researchers damning algorithms with faint praise ("works *reasonably* well" is academic for "it's pretty bad"), one brave soul discovers his algorithm didn't really suck—it was just implemented wrongly for a benchmark. Meanwhile, in the hallowed comments section, tech enthusiasts and aspirational developers engage in a battle of wits over buckets and cache lines, flex their misunderstood understanding of optimizations, and perennially speculate on the *real* secrets behind Apple's success—likely sourced from dubious barroom intel. Welcome to tech discourse, where everyone's an expert until the benchmarks come in.
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169 points by bpierre
2024-08-27T20:47:28 |
42 comments
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▲ A Collection of Free Public APIs That Is Tested Daily (freepublicapis.com)
In an age where literally anything can be turned into an API, freepublicapis.com trundles forth, offering up such technologically pivotal endpoints as Kanye West's musings and the sacred holiday schedule of over 100 countries. The laudable quest to keep these crucibles of modern civilization tested daily is no small feat, considering they also peddle data on the intricate worlds of Harry Potter and Rick & Morty, presumably because someone, somewhere, urgently needs to automate their fan fiction. Meanwhile, in the fathomless depths of the comment section, bright minds tirelessly mull over the existential necessity of isevenapi.xyz, whimsically debating the dire need for its sibling, isoddapi.xyz, because knowing if a number is odd or even via a paid request is the pinnacle of modern problem solving. Heaven forbid the JavaScript one-liner that could replace their entire business model.
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234 points by abhas9
2024-08-27T18:38:59 |
49 comments
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▲ The Monospace Web (owickstrom.github.io)
In the latest nostalgic tech upheaval, a brave coder has taken the daring leap back to the 70s, slapping monospace fonts across the web because, well, aesthetics trump usability every time. 🕹️ Watch as the masses rattle their sabers in the comments, diving deep into arcane topics like "bricktext" and a mystifying gems of monospaced GameFAQs walkthroughs. Commenters oscillate between marvel and confusion, briefly forgetting the topic while on a treasure hunt across dead links and ancient posts. Who needs modern typography standards when you can strain your eyes and relive the golden era of ASCII art?
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203 points by mrunseen
2024-08-27T17:09:56 |
44 comments
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▲ Sainsbury Wing contractors find 1990 letter from donor (theartnewspaper.com)
**This Week in Time Capsule Archeology**: Contractors at London's Sainsbury Wing stumbled upon a 1990 rant masquerading as a *profound* historical artifact — a tetchy letter from donor John Sainsbury. Expertly hidden in a faux column, the note critiques the architectural choices of using, you guessed it, fake columns. Commenters wax nostalgic about the charming uselessness of discoveries behind walls, from inadvertently preserved bathroom tiles to nostalgic beer cans, proving everyone loves a good wall surprise. Meanwhile, architectural debates rage on about whether fake support beams soothe existential dread or just clutter a pretty facade. Mocking past decisions: a timeless hobby! 🏛️😂
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254 points by bpierre
2024-08-27T15:49:27 |
64 comments
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▲ Blitzortung – real time lightning strikes around the world (blitzortung.org)
Welcome to Blitzortung.org, where the thrill of tracking lightning strikes is only overshadowed by the sheer paranoia it fosters in suburban homes. Obsessive dads everywhere can now harness real-time data to fuel their latest home automation: the "Shower Is Safe" light switch. This groundbreaking use of technology proves essential, because nothing says "parenting done right" like teaching your kids to fear a shower during a storm based on what's probably overestimated risks. In the comment section, witness a bizarre blend of amateur electricians, skeptical Europeans, and would-be meteorologists debating whether lightning can really turn your plumbing into a pipe bomb. Spoiler: it's not likely, but why miss the chance to create an overly complicated home gadget?
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152 points by thunderbong
2024-08-27T17:21:56 |
53 comments
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▲ Taskwarrior – CLI Task Management (taskwarrior.org)
**Taskwarrior: For When You Absolutely, Positively Have to Overengineer Your ToDo List**
In an exciting turn of events, Taskwarrior pushes out another "critical" update to their glorified command-line diary app. Now you can sync your tasks to nowhere important faster than ever before, because let’s face it, accidentally stuffing your grocery list into a SQLite database is a problem everyone had yesterday, right? Meanwhile, the comment section becomes a fascinating soup of GitHub links, self-help tutorials, and confessions of tech-induced anxiety. If you love typing more to manage fewer things, this is the tech party you've been invited to—RSVP with your favorite shell command! 🎉
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65 points by httbs
2024-08-27T20:17:24 |
23 comments
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▲ ChartDB – Free and open source, database design editor (chartdb.io)
In the webbed depths of "innovation," another groundbreaking tool - ChartDB – emerges to save us all exactly 15 seconds. Developers, strapped to their ergonomic chairs, now amplify productivity by bypassing the signup process to instantly spew diagrams. The tool smugly offers an entire buffet of database compatibilities, proving once again that if it's open source, it must be like manna from the heavens. Meanwhile, the comment section transforms into a battleground where SQL warriors boast about their DB-design speedruns, while quietly googling what “DDL” stands for. 😎🚀
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13 points by nikolay
2024-08-27T22:38:49 |
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▲ KLEE Symbolic Execution Engine (github.com/klee)
**Welcome to the jungle of KLEE, where symbolic execution meets developer indifference.** In an exciting blend of acronyms and jargon, KLEE, the vaunted symbolic execution engine, conquers LLVM bitcodes with the grace of a sleepy sloth. Commenters, lost in a maze of "is anyone actually using this?" meet the enthusiastic echo chamber of a whopping three people pretending to care. Meanwhile, the quest to deobfuscate the abstractions into something resembling practical usage turns into a blogging prompt, because apparently documenting your struggles is more achievable than solving them. 🙄
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43 points by nateb2022
2024-08-27T19:43:54 |
7 comments
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▲ If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention (theconvivialsociety.substack.com)
Title: Your World Is Enchanted If You're Pretentious Enough
In the latest installment from liberal arts graduates who wax philosophical on Substack, "If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention" offers a refreshingly condescending take on why your unenchanting life is because you're just not trying hard enough. Armchair philosophers in the comments are quick to equate basic coding tasks with magical god-like feats, evidently mistaking "comfortable home office" for "Mount Olympus." Meanwhile, the YouTube culture vultures descend to preach about "high production quality" enlightenment through Posy's monthly video drops—because nothing screams intellectual like getting your existential insights sandwiched between ads for Squarespace. And don't forget the classic Hacker News pedantry parade, where every comment is a competition to prove who can be the most esoterically cynical. 🧙✨👨💻
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39 points by passwordoops
2024-08-25T13:59:55 |
25 comments
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▲ Knockknock: Simple, secure, and stealthy port knocking implementation (github.com/moxie0)
**Another day, another "revolutionary" tool on Hacker News**: Meet Knockknock, a port knocking implementation so "simple, secure, and stealthy" that commenters are tripping over themselves to reminisce about the good ol' days and plug their current VPN setups. One nostalgic soul missed talking about SSH over Wireguard so much they almost sent a teary-eyed testimony. Meanwhile, someone points out that Knockknock is practically a dusty relic from 2012, requiring ancient rituals like Python 2 and hping3. But don't worry, the Hacker News wisdom circle quickly rallies to discuss Ruroco—because why address legacy software issues when you can chase the next shiny thing? 🚀🕶️
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9 points by Bluestein
2024-08-24T11:49:53 |
5 comments
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▲ Vulnerabilities show why STARTTLS should be avoided if possible (2021) (apnic.net)
In the latest episode of "Why We Can't Have Nice Things," a spirited text adventure on apnic.net suggests we should just dump STARTTLS like last week's garbage. It turns out STARTTLS might be more hole than protocol, opening emails up to spoofing, snooping, and good old fashioned data swiping. Commenters, in a display of collective wisdom that could power a small LED, debate whether using carrier pigeons would be safer. Meanwhile, everyone ignores the simple joy of not sending sensitive information over email at all.🕊️💡
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66 points by fanf2
2024-08-27T17:42:03 |
35 comments
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▲ DisTrO – a family of low latency distributed optimizers (github.com/nousresearch)
DisTrO: The Magic Bullet for At-Home AI or Yet Another Vaporware? 😂 The GitHub jungle drums are beating wild with both promises and skepticism about DisTrO, a revolutionary optimizer that claims to slay today's dragon: inter-GPU chatter. While the repo gods tease with "loss graphs" and vague promises of upcoming paper launches, the comment cavalcade swings from blind hope to stark techno-pessimism ("couldn't this be community-based AI training at home???"). The real gem: a PDF buried behind links, promising tech paradise for all—while feedback swings between adulation, accusation of overhype, and the desperate cries of those trying to navigate the repo's tech jargon quicksand. Start your decentralized Skynet or continue playing Skyrim at home—DisTrO's future hangs by the thread of a community Discord chat. 🎮💬
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60 points by SchwKatze
2024-08-27T18:32:37 |
21 comments
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▲ EasyPost (YC S13) Is Hiring (easypost.com)
At EasyPost (because spelling it normally was too mainstream), aspiring tech bros now have the golden opportunity to untangle the exhilarating enigma of... shipping logistics. 📦🚀 With a "single integration" that probably involves furiously Googling Stack Overflow until something, anything, works, you too can join the ranks of 'industry experts' who spend their days hypothesizing about game-changing deliveries like once-a-week shipping utopias. The comments section gleefully oscillates between self-proclaimed JavaScript ninjas who believe rewriting the entire delivery industry in Node.js is a mere npm install away, and disillusioned souls questioning if their coding prowess could be better utilized in deciphering the cryptic assembly manual of their new IKEA table instead. Join now, and help us redefine the future of how long you can stare at a "Your package is 5 stops away" notification! 💻🚚
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2024-08-27T21:01:46 |
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▲ How Chrome Accessibility Works (googlesource.com)
Welcome to another thrilling deep dive, this time courtesy of Google, into how Chrome stumbles through the minefield of basic accessibility without entirely blowing itself up! 🎉 The document graciously begins "at a high level"—presumably for those readers who manage to crawl out from under the developer-speak that soon morphs into the main feature. According to the gospel of Chrome devs, mastering accessibility is as easy as using some out-of-the-box UI toolkits, after which everything "comes for free" – which, if true, results in the world’s worst BOGO sale. Meanwhile, the comment section is a delightful cesspool of coders who toggle between scratching their heads and patting their own backs, proudly swapping tales from their last heroic battle with a checkbox.
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33 points by lelandfe
2024-08-27T19:41:59 |
9 comments
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▲ Launch QN: Bucket Robotics (YC S24) – Defect detection for molded and cast parts
In this week's exciting episode of "Humans Somehow Still Exist in Start-Uplandia," Bucket Robotics, fresh out of the Y Combinator womb, proposes a **revolutionary** technology to ensure that your plastic widgets are slightly less terrible. Witness in awe as they deploy their AI-powered, blockchain-enhanced defect detectors poised to save humanity from slightly askew bobbleheads. Meanwhile in the comments, armchair engineers and three-time dropout VCs battle fiercely over who can most loudly misinterpret the concept of "tolerance" and "precision" 🙄. Grab your popcorn and watch civilization advance one negligible specification at a time.
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75 points by lasermatts
2024-08-27T14:12:45 |
19 comments
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▲ Slime mold simulation in Rust using WASM and WebGPU (github.com/plul)
Title: Modern Geek Problems Require Modern Geek Solutions
Here we go again, folks 😂 Another intrepid developer decides that the best use of 2024 technology is simulating slime mold behavior in Rust, because clearly, the world was missing that. Despite announcing this critical work at a Copenhagen meetup, the project's Github repo is as barren as shoppers' faces realizing the YouTube link is pending. Commenters rise from the digital underbrush, showing their prowess by critiquing the absence of a working demo. "If I can't see simulated slime mold on my smartphone while climbing Mount Everest, is it even science?" Keep tinkering, heroes, your backlog of 50 projects won't finish themselves while you engage in vital discussions about fungus simulation. 🤓
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16 points by sshine
2024-08-23T05:46:53 |
3 comments
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▲ The Simple Algorithm That Ants Use to Build Bridges (2018) (quantamagazine.org)
In an *astonishing* revelation on quantamagazine.org, where complex concepts are reduced to ant-sized thoughts, we learn that army ants can, indeed, do things without a PowerPoint presentation or a middle manager. Who knew creatures with brains the size of a speck could achieve logistical wonders without a single coffee break or team-building exercise? In the comment section, self-proclaimed entomologists and amateur philosophers converge, fiercely debating whether humans could learn from ants, or if this is all just a prelude to an insect uprising. Collective intelligence, it seems, stops short at the internet.
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50 points by silverkite
2024-08-24T14:29:38 |
10 comments
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▲ Rustproofing Linux (Part 1/4 Leaking Addresses) (2023) (nccgroup.com)
**Rustproofing Linux (Part 1/4 Leaking Addresses) (2023) (nccgroup.com)**
Once again, the eternally hopeful Rust evangelists are valiantly attempting to shove square pegs through round kernel holes. This time, they’re shocked—shocked!—to discover that naively porting C to Rust introduces new exciting types of bugs, rather than casting a magic memory safety shield over the whole endeavor. The comment section becomes a delightful circus of condescension, with Linux old-timers and Rusty newbies alike trading jabs about the futility of blending oil with water, while simultaneously solving no problems that actually exist. One could argue this is the tech equivalent of trying to teach a cat to bark, but that might be insulting to both the cat and the nature of barking.
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57 points by wglb
2024-08-27T17:34:52 |
8 comments
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▲ Anthropic publishes the 'system prompts' that make Claude tick (techcrunch.com)
Anthropic decides to share the "magic whispers" that make their AI, Claude, less of a digital calamity and more of a manageable nuisance. In the noblest act of transparency, they reveal the secret sauce that stops Claude from turning into an internet troll. Much like sharing a secret recipe that consists of two parts water and one part air, readers everywhere are astounded by the complexity of telling a chatbot "don't be evil." Watch as the comments section descends into an intellectual void, with tech enthusiasts juggling half-understood AI principles and privacy advocates mourning the death of secrecy in the age of digital oversharing. 🙄🤖
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346 points by gemanor
2024-08-27T04:45:46 |
216 comments
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