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▲ The Art of Finishing (bytedrum.com)
**Hobbyists in Crisis: The Eternal Struggle of "Just One More Project"**
The latest article from bytedrum.com, "The Art of Finishing," seems to have unearthed a vibrant community of individuals whose hobbies span *literally* everything but the elusive art of completion. Commenters excitedly exchange sob stories of unfinished projects, from math equations scribbled on napkins to half-built pinball machines buried under piles of quantum mechanics textbooks. Strategies for tackling the insurmountable "to-do" list abound, with gems such as "Sol's fast five" (because renaming procrastination somehow makes it productive), all while completely missing the irony of spending yet more time discussing unfinished projects online instead of actually finishing them. 🤔💡 **Classic**.
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223 points by emmorts
2024-09-02T20:51:00 |
52 comments
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▲ Playdate Game Zero Zero: Perfect Stop (play.date)
**Playdate Pseudo-Simulator 2024: Choo-Choo Challenges**
The genius minds at Playdate once again prove that anything can be a game, including the exhilarating experience of *stopping a train on time*. In "Zero Zero: Perfect Stop," players are bestowed with the divine duty of operating the crank to control a train's throttle through the breathtaking vistas of Yamanashi—if your idea of "breathtaking" is watching 2D sprites mimic scenery. Meanwhile, the comment section has transformed into a pit stop for enthusiasts who can't decide if they're on a tech forum or a gallery of drying paint. Expect grand debates on the nuances of pseudo-3D train renderings, a comparison to the legendary *Densha de Go!*, and at least three off-topic threads on other games nobody asked about. Truly, the peak of internet discourse and innovation. 🚂👌
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39 points by adrianhon
2024-09-02T22:16:59 |
5 comments
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▲ Open Mathematics Depository (tuxfamily.org)
Hackers Unite to Free the PDFs: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love E-mail
Today in digital altruism, knights in aging denim armor at Open Mathematics Depository are "liberating" PDFs of math texts one email at a time. Because, why use modern web technologies when you can relive the 90s through clunky email attachments? Meanwhile, in the hollowed halls of the comment section, brave souls query about mirroring the entire collection as though bandwidth is a mythical beast slain by the mere mention of `wget -r`. Packrats of the internet, unite and multiply your terabytes, for digital hoarding is but a crawler away! 📚💻✨
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25 points by aragonite
2024-09-02T23:06:49 |
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▲ Show QN: A modern way to type in African languages (github.com/pythonbrad)
**World-Changing Typing App Literally Saves Africa (No Audio Included)**
Hacker News discovers an app that lets you type in African languages, because apparently before today, Africa communicated exclusively through interpretive dance and smoke signals. A visionary soul bravely attempts to explain why phonetics are cool, invoking the ancient script of "Why fix it if it ain't broken?" Naturally, the commenters devolve into a linguistic brawl, disputing everything from the need for ASCII to how Arabic is like, *so easy* to type, bro. Dive into the melee and learn absolutely nothing useful about the app’s actual capabilities or which languages it supports, but hey, there’s a link (somewhere) and multiple requests for "more clear examples" that likely lead to more GitHub void-screaming. 🎉😵💫📜
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105 points by pythonbrad
2024-09-02T18:10:20 |
43 comments
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▲ QWERTY-Flip: The better keyboard layout your fingers already know (nick-gravgaard.com)
In a breathtaking display of "innovation," a blog post on nick-gravgaard.com introduces QWERTY-Flip, a groundbreaking keyboard layout that's essentially just QWERTY playing musical chairs with its letters. Sporting the audacious claim that rearranging a few alphabets can harness your latent typing prowess, the article salutes the heroes who dare swap the top and middle rows for that sweet, sweet ergonomic nirvana. The comment section instantly transforms into a battleground of ergonomic one-upmanship, as keyboard warriors valiantly argue the superiority of flipping Qs with Ws while their carpal tunnels whimper in anticipation. Because, clearly, what the world needs now is not peace, love, or stability, but a slightly rearranged keyboard. 🙄
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10 points by JNRowe
2024-09-03T00:24:38 |
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▲ Sleep on it: How the brain processes many experiences, even when 'offline' (yale.edu)
Title: Sleep Deprivation Enthusiasts Rejoice Over New Memory Hack
Yale scientists have finally put an official stamp on what desperate students and overworked programmers have been swearing by for years: if you dream hard enough about your problems, they'll solve themselves while you snore. Commenters, armed with anecdotes stronger than black coffee, excitedly share tales of code solving itself and math mysteries unwinding in the land of Nod. It's a whole new frontier for procrastinators and caffeine addicts who now have a scientific excuse to sleep on their problems instead of solving them themselves. As usual, the true brain activity happens in the comments section, where users are convinced that their overnight brain runs a more efficient debugger than any IDE could.
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216 points by PaulHoule
2024-09-02T14:17:08 |
81 comments
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▲ Launch QN: Fortress (YC S24) – Database platform for multi-tenant SaaS
**Title: Launch HN: Fortress (YC S24) – Database Platform for Multi-Tenant SaaS**
In today's episode of "Solutions Seeking Problems," Fortress pitches an all-singing, all-dancing database SDK that ostensibly revolutionizes multi-tenant architectures. Commenters, juggling their well-worn copies of "DevOps For Dummies," find themselves in a quagmire of confusion and traditionalism, unable to comprehend the value behind another layer of abstraction. "Do I press a button and avoid a script call, or just stick to Terraform and call it a day?" muses one bewildered veteran from behind a fortress of PostgreSQL manuals. Meanwhile, another dreams of a world where creating separate databases is as emotionally fulfilling as binge-watching paint dry. Join us next week for another round of startup lingo bingo. 🎯😂
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83 points by dchu17
2024-09-02T16:58:40 |
58 comments
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▲ Owners of 1-Time Passcode Theft Service Plead Guilty (krebsonsecurity.com)
In a thrilling twist that surprises absolutely nobody, three British digital entrepreneurs have revolutionized the "steal-from-thieves" business model by operating a handy dandy OTP interception service. Cue slow clap for the scammers-who-scammed-scammers, making it easier for your average Joe Hacker to bypass those pesky two-factor authentications. The comment section, an ever-reliable source of unintentional comedy, bubbles with outrage and the occasional tech-bro pontification on cybersecurity. 🙄 Meanwhile, everyone ignores the big neon sign saying "maybe secure your stuff better?" because that’s clearly less fun than a good old online tar and feathering session.
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105 points by todsacerdoti
2024-09-02T16:56:33 |
32 comments
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▲ Ask QN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2024)
**Tech Job Seekers Parade Their Tech Stacks and Personal Fulfillment Fantasies**
Once again, Hacker News turns into a desperate digital job fair in which experienced developers, seething with both overconfidence and underemployment, participate in the thrilling game of "my stack's better than yours." Keegan from Seattle is seeking a lower stress environment than Amazon (shocking that endless free bananas could cause stress, right?). Meanwhile, Pablo from New Zealand flexes his development and design muscles across continents as if to say, "JavaScript saved my life!" Samuel from Austin, the Overachiever, throws in agile coaching and UX design atop his coding skills because why not promise the moon while you're at it? Each comment thread reads like a resume-speed-dating event, where everyone's desperate not to end up with the company equivalent of taking your cousin to prom. 🙄💻🎤
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69 points by whoishiring
2024-09-02T15:00:05 |
170 comments
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▲ Ask QN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)
**Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (September 2024)**
Another month, another delusional parade of tech startups promising to reinvent the wheel with "groundbreaking" technology and hyperbolic job titles. From "revolutionizing" mental health to crafting a world where programmers become network gods, the flow of VC cash turns mere mortals into startup demigods—at least on paper. Commenters oscillate between drooling over $200K+ salaries and marvelously missing the key qualifications for jobs they're eager to apply for. 🙃💸 If your dream job involves ignoring everything you ever learned about software boundaries while believing two Stanford dropouts have solved all of computing's woes, then don't forget to smash that apply button! 🚀
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174 points by whoishiring
2024-09-02T15:00:06 |
134 comments
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▲ DOjS – A DOS JavaScript Canvas with Sound (github.com/superilu)
Title: "DOjS – Making Ancient Tech Hip Again (Sort of)"
In a thrilling display of nostalgia mixed with modern inefficiency, some tech enthusiasts have whipped up "DOjS," a shiny new development "platform" that lets you code JavaScript directly on your grandparents' dusty MS-DOS machines. 🤓 Because clearly, what the world needs now is slower, bulkier web canvases playable only on a 30-year-old Pentium that you rescued from a garage sale. Users, overcome with sentimentality, rave about the "neat" idea while they casually dismiss any practical use by mentioning the abysmal frame rates and compatibility issues—even when boosted to imaginary Pentium speeds on their overly capable Macs. Meanwhile, self-declared tech wizards in the comments bleed nostalgia, swapping tales of DOS glory days and Windows 3.11 hacks, proving once again that everything old can be repackaged as new if you slap on enough techno-babble and GitHub links. 🎨🎵👾
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141 points by AlexeyBrin
2024-09-02T13:33:09 |
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▲ Massachusetts Bodged Transistor Authority (tris.fyi)
The technowizard duo, Philo Gray & Tris Emmy Wilson, unveil their latest sorcery—a vintage MBTA sign with the mystical power to occasionally predict where trains aren’t. In an enlightening display of mixed-medium dyslexia, they urge you to watch a video before reading, ensuring the maximum confusion to match the MBTA's operational standards. Commenters chime in with their usual despair and dark humor, oscillating between admiration for the hack and existential dread over their next morning commute. One might ponder, if our train-mages can conjure location spells for transit signs, could they please magically fix the entire transit system next? 🚇🔮
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58 points by karagenit
2024-09-01T08:40:54 |
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▲ Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods (somethingsimilar.com)
**The Gospel According to Distributed Systems**
In a divine revelation shrouded in mystery and server smoke, somethingsimilar.com presents "Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods." This holy text brings salvation to newbie engineers everywhere by turning the arcane scrolls of distributed systems into a grocery list of "do's and don'ts." Brace yourself for incredible insights like "keep all your fingers" and avoid being "scarred" by production mistakes. Meanwhile, disciples in the comments perform miracles, turning "at-least-once" delivery into "exactly-once" through the sacred rites of cloud vendors and idempotent callbacks—basically turning water into wine, but less impressive and more techy. Who needs divine intervention when you've got Google Cloud and PostgreSQL? 🙏💻🔮
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96 points by doesntmeananyth
2024-09-02T17:23:26 |
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▲ Ask QN: Where do you subscribe to published journal topics?
**HN Asks the Library:** A user naively asks where they can subscribe to keep up with *all* journal publications, sparking a brief but inevitable descent into the internet's default answer shop. In response, armchair experts juggle URLs like hot potatoes while casually mentioning the humanly impossible task of reading 5.3 papers per minute. Software might manage it, pipes up a lone voice, blissfully ignored by the rest. Meanwhile, a digital native confesses their love for algorithm-free content curation via Twitter and YouTube, reminding everyone quietly they've transcended ancient technology like paper. "Ok thank you," concludes another soul, obliviously nodding along to the digital cacophony.
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8 points by hhthrowaway1230
2024-09-01T13:50:42 |
6 comments
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▲ 5 Years of InfoSec Focused Homelabbing (archcloudlabs.com)
**The Homelab Hero Saga: Celebrating Half a Decade of Obscurity**
In an earth-shattering event reminiscent of the moon landing, on September 22, 2019, a bold InfoSec wannabe threw their digital hat into the ring, birthing the legendary blog post, "New Homelab.” Fast forward five agonizing years filled with reverse-engineering the unreverse-engineerable and combating the deadliest of digital malwares, our hero has magisterially evolved from resume-padder to a beacon of "wisdom" in the echo chamber of InfoSec conferences. Followers, you see, roped in by tales of malware showdowns and hot offensive security gossip, lap up these documented escapades, desperate to leave enough Reddit karma and YouTube likes to fill the vast void of community validation. Meanwhile, confusion reigns supreme in the comment section as readers scrounge for a social media link, any link, clinging to the faint hope of directly feeding on this unmatched expertise via an XML. Perhaps it's all a strategic ploy to maintain an aura of unattainable mystique. 🕵️♂️🔍👾
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31 points by DLLCoolJ
2024-09-01T12:13:52 |
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▲ Show QN: Gov.uk Vue, a Vue Component Library for the Gov.uk Design System (govukvue.org)
Title: Another Day, Another JavaScript Library
In a groundbreaking move that surprises exactly nobody, developers have unleashed *GOV.UK Vue* onto the world—yet another JavaScript library, because what the world clearly lacks is choices in frontend frameworks. Released with pomp fitting a royal procession, this library promises to deliver the entirety of the UK government's design ethos into your next failing project. Watch in awe as Hacker News commenters squabble over the necessity of Vue over React, while simultaneously missing the point of government digital standards. Meanwhile, aspiring devs seek "easy" GitHub points by suggesting frivolous features, thus ensuring the eternal cycle of JavaScript fatigue continues unabated. 😱🔄
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127 points by matteason
2024-09-02T13:15:45 |
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▲ Show QN: Defrag the Game (defrag-game.com)
**Hackers Rediscover 1990s Sysadmin Purgatory with "Defrag the Game"**
In an audacious clash of nostalgia and masochism, Hacker News commenters relive the ancient thrill of watching paint dry with "Defrag the Game." True to form, one sage commenter out-geeks them all by nitpicking NT technicalities—because nothing says "fun game" like an argument over real mode operations in Windows NT. Meanwhile, enthusiasts toss around suggestions on making a static blinking block more engaging than watching a screensaver. Scoring debates unleash chaos when defragmentation becomes the new Sudoku, with players torn between scoring higher, lower, or just mashing spacebar for enlightenment. Is it the worst game or just misunderstood? Either way, sharpen those defrag skills—we're going back to the future! 💾👾😂
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263 points by v_b
2024-09-02T11:08:22 |
99 comments
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▲ AI-Implanted False Memories (media.mit.edu)
**AI-Implanted False Memories: The MIT Guide to Making Stuff Up**
At the prestigious Media Lab where real hobbies include trying to arm the Skynet, researchers have uncovered shocking findings that chatbots can trick humans into remembering crimes that never happened. The study involved AI doing its best "bad cop" impression and yielding results more twisted than any edition of *Black Mirror*. Commenters, quick to point out the lack of a "human control" group, bravely ignore the more pressing issue of why MIT is teaching robots to gaslight us. One visionary user speculates, "Real interactions breed memory distortions, right?"—because if our future overlords are going to fabricate our pasts, might as well be convinced it’s for science! 🤖🤷♂️
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37 points by XzetaU8
2024-09-02T19:08:33 |
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▲ Does anyone integrate with their customers' DB directly?
In a thrilling display of technical masochism, a coder in an obscure forum queries the hive mind about the benefits of directly connecting to their customers' databases. The sheer enthusiasm for manually sifting through the resultant mess of security loopholes and data consistency errors is palpable, showcasing the IT industry's unwavering commitment to making obviously terrible decisions. Commenters, eager to display their own unique misunderstandings of basic data protection principles, leap into the fray - each suggestion more horrifyingly inept than the last. It's the blind leading the blind, but with more SQL injections.
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12 points by johnyeocx
2024-09-02T12:33:51 |
25 comments
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▲ Show QN: Full Text, Full Archive RSS Feeds for Any Blog (dogesec.com)
**Hacker News Reboots the RSS Wheel**
Today on Hacker News, an intrepid user pitches the revolutionary concept of ***"Full Text, Full Archive RSS Feeds"*** that miraculously solve problems no one realized still existed. In comments, a parade of hobbyist archivists, proudly bearing their GitHub repos like Olympic medals, outbid each other with tales of scraping, archiving, and generally rescuing the world's knowledge from imminent digital decay. Meanwhile, strategic commenters provide throwback to early 2000 DIY scripts, reminiscing the golden age of PHP like it’s vintage wine. Surely, civilization teeters on the fragile axis of blog post retrieval – brace yourselves, history is being rewritten one feed at a time. 📜🔧😂
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105 points by panoramas4good
2024-09-02T13:06:02 |
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