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▲ Extreme Pi Boot Optimization (kittenlabs.de)
Welcome to the thrilling world of Extreme Pi Boot Optimization, where the cognoscenti of the Raspberry Pi subreddit converge to unravel the mysteries of squeezing every microsecond from their precious Pi boot times! 🙄 In true hobbyist fashion, our valiant eco-warriors are saving the planet, one boot cycle at a time, arguing the virtues of a "microsaving" that would make Benjamin Franklin facepalm. Revel in terse comments juxtaposing the Pi's power management to the mythical prowess of Google's Coral, because hardware comparisons are the Internet's favorite arm-wrestling match. And for an extra sprinkle of geek drama, witness the eternally amused crowd poking fun at typos and Microsoft's UI decisions—because what's a discussion without some good-natured tangential Microsoft bashing?
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158 points by todsacerdoti
2024-09-01T21:36:55 |
37 comments
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▲ Artificial Intelligence Cheapens the Artistic Imagination (convergemedia.org)
Title: AI Eats the Art World, Internet Commenters Miss Dessert
In the latest cultural apocalypse, convergemedia.org mourns the imminent death of human-artists mowed down by the ruthless AI juggernaut. Apparently, 60-80% of artists will soon be unemployed, not because robots are better, but because they're cheaper and don't complain about health insurance. One artist suggests turning into cyborgs to stay relevant, thus envisioning a future where you're part painter, part printer. Commenters, in a typical display of internet wisdom, debate whether using AI is different from a cave dweller's finger-painting, misunderstanding both art and history with equal fervor. The internet remains undefeated in confidently solving complex societal changes in less than three sentences and a meme.
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11 points by 23B1
2024-09-02T00:09:39 |
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▲ Programming Zero Knowledge Proofs: From Zero to Hero (zkintro.com)
**Programming Zero-Knowledge Proofs: From Zero to Hero (zkintro.com)**
Another week, another misguided tutorial attempting to herd the code-monkeys from zero understanding to hero status in the confounding world of Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs). This time, zkintro.com presents a half-baked analogy between zebras, the Federalist Papers, and modern cryptography that leaves readers as bewildered as a lion staring at a magic eye poster. Commenters enthusiastically showcase their own ignorance, asking for explanations that are simpler than their grasp of basic algebra while others attempt to sound profound by linking every digital interaction to ZKPs — yes, including that "anonymous" meme sharing in their group chat. Surely, the path from zero to hero wasn't meant to be paved with such comedic misunderstandings. 😂
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63 points by oskarth
2024-08-30T06:08:41 |
19 comments
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▲ The vagus nerve orchestrates the mind-body connection (quantamagazine.org)
**The Vagus Nerve Orchestration Conspiracy: Anatomy’s In-House DJ**
In another groundbreaking revelation, Quanta Magazine dives deep into the unseen world of the *vagus nerve*, a mysterious snake-like entity lurking inside us, controlling our gut feelings, literally. Confused readers delight in sharing their own bizarre anatomical anomalies, each trying to one-up each other with tales about extra nerve branches and non-textbook innards. Comment sections quickly turn into amateur open-mic nights for Dr. Frankenstein wannabes, recounting their thrilling adventures in dissections and nerve block parties. Through all this, one can only assume future Quanta issues might come bundled with DIY surgical kits and a “Where’s Your Vagus?” anatomical treasure map. 🧠💉
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201 points by jandrewrogers
2024-08-30T15:29:46 |
71 comments
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▲ The Pentium as a Navajo Weaving (righto.com)
In the groundbreaking exploration of obsolete technology, a daring Hacker News intellectual links the Pentium processor to Navajo weaving, because, let’s face it, who *hasn’t* pondered this deep connection while staring at a CPU in sheer awe? 🤔 Among the sea of ravenous tech enthusiasts, one noble soul reveals their plan to revolutionize suburban aesthetics with a stained glass window inspired by semiconductor design—semiconductors in decor, truly what every front entrance needs! Commenters, proving they can mix mismatched metaphors just as well, dive into the deep end of a pun-laden tech pool without any life guards on duty. Meanwhile, another user, thrillingly, unveils that the uninteresting, plain gray backside of a semiconductor die is *just plain gray*—shocking, revelatory, and definitely worth the deep dive into digital archaeology they thought they were conducting. 🙄
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136 points by GavinAnderegg
2024-09-01T16:46:07 |
29 comments
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▲ Using the moiré effect to show different arrows to each observer (2018) (popularmechanics.com)
**Another day, another moiré**: The miracle of text summarizing a YouTube video has struck again at PopularMechanics, where reading Tom Scott's explanation somehow amounts to a *technological revelation*. Commenters are torn between celebrating the ‘high-density information’ of repurposed content and philosophizing about what counts as blogspam; because apparently, transforming a video into text is just modern alchemy. Meanwhile, someone suggests an animated GIF would've been the gold standard, proving everybody loves a little sparkle over substance. Dive into the comment section for a delightful cocktail of denial and nostalgia—for the days when reading was just reading, not a scavenger hunt for lost video content. 📜🔍✨
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127 points by raldi
2024-09-01T16:06:13 |
42 comments
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▲ Founder Mode (paulgraham.com)
**Paul Graham reiterates Startup Gospel: Be Like Me or Perish**
The web's favorite silver-haired startup messiah, Paul Graham, delivers another epistle from the mountaintop of Silicon Valley, articulating the nebulous concept of 'founder mode.' In a commendable feat of thought leadership, Graham manages to state the obvious with a gravity that suggests he’s just split the atom. Meanwhile, the commenters fall over each other to agree louder, each striving to prove that they too can reference obscure historical anecdotes and their Silicon Valley lineage to validate their startup cred. 🤓 One brave soul dares to raise points about privilege and networking, almost stumbling into a real conversation, but fear not—others quickly steer back to fawning platitudes and self-congratulations, ensuring the echo chamber remains unbreached by reality. 💼🚀
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879 points by bifftastic
2024-09-01T07:35:23 |
528 comments
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▲ Show QN: Linkpreview, see how your sites looks in social media and chat apps (linkpreview.xyz)
**Hackers Unleash Yet Another URL Preview Tool: Innovation or Regression?**
In the grand arena of Hacker News, a new gladiator emerges, wielding the mighty Linkpreview.xyz, a tool designed to show you how embarrassingly old-school your website looks across various social platforms. Enthusiasts and nitpickers gather to toss around terms like meta-crawlers and user agent strings with the casual ease of people who clearly do not get invited to many parties. One genius suggests auto-adding "https://" because, god forbid, we remember how the internet works. Meanwhile, others engage in a high-octane debate about whether URLs should cater to humans or to the robotic overlords that apparently govern us. 🎭🔍🤷♂️
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229 points by fayazara
2024-09-01T13:07:14 |
68 comments
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▲ Postgres Webhooks with Pgstream (xata.io)
Title: The Enlightening Saga of Postgres Webhooks via Pgstream
Welcome to the latest tech disruptor: Pgstream, where every Postgres instance is a unique snowflake and your data reads like a bad AI-generated novel. Now with extra flavor: serverless, schema migrations that are as reversible as your regret for starting this project, and the thrilling capability to attach JPEGs of your existential dread directly to your database rows. But wait, there's more! You can branch your data like it's a sourdough starter, and if you get stuck, just schedule a demo - because nothing spells commitment like a live walkthrough of a database webhook system.
Commenter A muses over the Kafkaesque nature of buffering WAL events, while Commenter B, lost in an episode of "Choose Your Own Middleware Adventure," advocates for Go over Java like it's a lifestyle choice. Commenter C dives deep into the nuances of webhook performance issues like they're unraveling the conspiracy theories of the tech world. With every reply, the existential crisis deepens: should we retry failed deliveries, or just accept the chaos of missed data events as just another part of tech’s grand, pointless spectacle?
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86 points by mebcitto
2024-09-01T10:10:51 |
14 comments
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▲ Escaping from Anaconda's Stranglehold on macOS (paulromer.net)
**The Scrappy Python Tutorial**
Hapless macOS users, behold your savior at paulromer.net, offering a magical escape from Anaconda’s constrictive embrace without the terror of the command line. Through the revolutionary power of *drag and drop*, the traumatized denizens of Python's newbie swamp can now evade the need to understand scary terms like "shell" and "virtual environments." Meanwhile, the comments section becomes a battlefield where seasoned coders lament the chaos inflicted by Python's package management, turning every well-meaning tutorial into a recipe for system-wide disaster. Isn’t education fun? 😂
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93 points by surprisetalk
2024-08-29T08:57:15 |
128 comments
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▲ Einstein's Other Theory of Everything (nautil.us)
**Einstein's Other Theory of Everything (nautil.us)**
Oh *joy*, another deep dive into Einstein’s quest beyond gravity, because evidently folding spacetime once wasn’t a cosmic magic trick enough for his résumé. Einstein, in a wild chase to marry matter with his curvy space, spent **four decades** birthing nothing more than a prestigious term: “unified theory.” Commenters, armed with their PhDs from the University of Silly Putty, squabble over metaphors—from rubber sheets to spherical sponges—as if trying to physics their way out of a high school science fair. Meanwhile, the balls stubbornly refuse to roll uphill, the universe snickers, and the quest for Einstein’s lost theory continues with less clarity than a foggy night in an Escher painting. 🌌🔮
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152 points by dnetesn
2024-09-01T10:09:15 |
82 comments
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▲ The web's clipboard, and how it stores data of different types (alexharri.com)
🌐 Welcome to another episode of "Why Is My Clipboard a Mess?" courtesy of alexharri.com. In today's thrilling saga, we discover the mysterious ways Google conspires to use deprecated APIs to muddle your copying and pasting adventures on Firefox. Commenter sages display 🦉 astounding wisdom, like discovering that 'deprecated' and 'depreciated' aren’t interchangeable (thanks, dictionary warrior 📚!). Meanwhile, another brave soul mourns the loss of Flash like it’s 1999, proving nostalgia can indeed blind us to the horrors of the past. ✨ Embrace the chaos of clipboard management where the only certainty is another tech giant's oversight! 🎉
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168 points by alexharri
2024-09-01T11:02:35 |
32 comments
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▲ Electrified thermochemical systems with high-frequency metamaterial reactors (cell.com)
In a dazzling display of academic verbosity, the latest article from *Cell* throws around terms like "electrified thermochemical systems" and "high-frequency metamaterial reactors" to describe what is essentially just a souped-up toaster oven with a few fancy knobs. Of course, commentators eagerly parrot back the jargon, blissfully glossing over the fact that industrials have been roasting marshmallows over similar tech since the Stone Age. The article's crowning achievement? Taking silicon carbide ceramic foams — a staple at every high school science fair — and pretending they've reinvented the wheel, but now with induction heating! And lo, the academic circle is complete: introduce old wine in a new bottle, and watch the world marvel at its revolutionary bouquet. Meanwhile, Google searches for "what is a metamaterial" skyrocket amongst the readership. 🙄
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26 points by PaulHoule
2024-09-01T19:32:53 |
5 comments
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▲ An Ottoman Winter in Toulon (historytoday.com)
On historytoday.com, where stuffing historical pillow fights with gravitas is an Olympic sport, an article recounts the epic *fail* of "An Ottoman Winter in Toulon". The Franco-Ottoman bromance of the 1530s—courtesy of François I and Sultan Süleiman—turns out to be as impactful as a squib in a thunderstorm. 😂 The unholy alliance, described with the drama only a Renaissance soap opera could muster, manages little more than causing Renaissance men to clutch their pearls. Commenters, gallantly missing the irony, wage keyboard warfare to decide who betrayed Christendom harder, while simultaneously solving none of the world's current problems. 🤦♂️
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8 points by Thevet
2024-08-31T14:33:58 |
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▲ Ask QN: How to store and share passwords in a company?
Title: Ask HackerNews: How Do I Make Passwords Hard and Share Them Softly?
In an astonishing leap of ignorance, a HackerNews user asks how to store and share passwords in a company, unknowingly igniting the dumpster fire that is corporate security advice. Commenters, unable to restrain their inner gatekeepers, dive headfirst into a jargon-filled cesspool, debating the nuances of "SSO taxes" and which password manager bears the crown of slightly less mediocrity. Amidst recommendations like scripting your entire company’s security apparatus or returning to medieval "each-man-for-himself" password practices, the genuine question of how to practically manage credentials in a non-Hellscape manner remains beautifully unanswered. Join us next time when someone suggests using carrier pigeons for two-factor authentication. 🕊️🔐
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98 points by hu3
2024-09-01T15:17:07 |
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▲ 120 Years of New York's Subterranean Literary Muse (nytimes.com)
**Title**: 120 Years of Subterranean Navel-Gazing
It seems The New York Times has once again excavated the profound depths of absolutely nothing to bring us a piece about New York’s subway being both a literal and literary underground. According to their latest profound coffee-table book masquerading as journalism, trains chugging through tunnels are somehow akin to Proust's madeleines for countless Gotham writers. 🚇📚 Join literary pseudointellectuals as they revel in overused metaphors about “dark tunnels” and “flashes of insight” mirroring the 4 train during rush hour. Meanwhile, the comment section is inundated with armchair historians and would-be novelists narrating their own mundane subway rides, as if someone out there is taking notes for their future Pulitzer debut.
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12 points by Caiero
2024-08-30T13:25:55 |
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▲ In This Beautiful Library, Bats Guard the Books (atlasobscura.com)
In this week's episode of *Nature's Janitors*, Atlas Obscura trips over itself to gush about an ancient library where bats are less of a health hazard and more of a quirky feature. Scholars and tourists alike apparently enjoy studying and sightseeing under the subtle pitter-patter of bat droppings, glorified as "helpful creatures" in what can only be described as the pinnacle of pest control euphemism. Commenters, ensnared by novelty, whimsically ponder on the logistics of bat bathrooms and express faux surprise when learning that the library - shocker - is in Portugal. One can only hope these winged librarians are as skilled in salvaging the article's lack of location details as they are in munching on insects.
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42 points by Brajeshwar
2024-09-01T14:58:18 |
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▲ Lady tasting tea (wikipedia.org)
In the riveting world of _statistics_, the "lady tasting tea" experiment graces the history books, offering proof that even tea can become a victim of overzealous scientific scrutiny. Cue the intrepid commenters, each armed with their take on tea's thermodynamic dance with milk – because nothing says "scientific discourse" like reminiscing about ceramic's confrontation with hot liquids 🍵. Amid the tales of brittle porcelain and social stratification via dairy products, one can almost miss the oh-so-critical reveal: it's just tea, folks. But don’t let that stop the armchair physicists and cultural historians from brewing a storm in a teacup over whether Mabel's choice to pour milk before tea was a social faux pas or a clever hack to prevent a trip to the ER with third-degree burns.
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105 points by momonga
2024-08-30T21:00:04 |
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▲ Oregon law rolling back drug decriminalization set to take effect (apnews.com)
**HackerNews: Oregon Re-Enacts the War on Drugs**
The Oregon Legislature, guided by impeccable wisdom and foresight, decides to roll back drug decriminalization because who really needed reform anyway? Posters on HackerNews scramble to compose think pieces faster than their understanding of public policy can actually support. One user seemed shockingly unaware that flinging doors open to Portuguese-style drug treatment without funding or real plans might not be identical to just shrugging and watching *Breaking Bad.* Another suggests luxury opioid resorts, because maintaining dystopia is hard and why not monetize it? Hold tight for more armchair governance and bouts of false correlation! 🧐💊🚔
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10 points by geox
2024-09-02T00:20:40 |
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▲ Godot on iPad, Toolbars, Importers, Embedding, Debugger (la-terminal.net)
In *yet another* critical update that absolutely no one asked for, a brave keyboard warrior chronicles their quest to make Godot run on an iPad—a device notoriously known for its robustness as a pro development machine. 🙃 Commenters, in a predictable twist, dive into the philosophical quandary of whether pushing pixels on a touchscreen can *ever* resemble real work. Debate rages about the existential pain of typing on glass, while somewhere in the distance, a professional video editor quietly weeps into their ergonomically sound keyboard. As the tale unfolds, the comments section devolves into a tech utopia where logic dies and hope for practical productivity on iPads is as elusive as Apple's commitment to fully functional file management. 🍎💔
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165 points by rcarmo
2024-09-01T07:50:35 |
74 comments
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