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▲ My business card runs Linux (and Ultrix), yours can too (dmitry.gr)
In a landmark event predicted to reshape how humanity carries business cards, a pioneering soul has smashed through the banal limitations of paper and spawned a mythical beast that **runs Linux (and Ultrix)** on a business card. Because if your business card doesn’t need a six-hour boot time and a constant power supply, are you even trying? The comments section quickly transforms into the typical nerd Colosseum where the price is king, coolness is relative, and any achievement can be promptly dismissed by comparing it to Apple's shiny gizmos. Clearly, the spirit of practicality flies high above their heads, carried by the wings of their own disdain and skepticism. 🙄
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26 points by caned
2024-09-12T00:21:07.000000Z |
5 comments
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▲ A MiniGolf game for Palm OS (ctrl-c.club)
In a nostalgic fit of what can only be described as "tech masochism," a plucky developer has decided to resurrect the obsolete Palm OS for a truly groundbreaking project: mini-golf. That's right, decades after its industry sunset, Palm OS finds itself hosting a new application, possibly doubling its current user base to a whopping two. Between passionate confessions about dodging modern programming safety nets and memory leaks, we are blessed with the ability to create and share mini-golf courses that nobody asked for but everyone apparently needs. Meanwhile, the comment section quickly devolves into a support group for programmers with abandoned projects and a spirited debate about whether quirks in children are features or bugs. 🏌️♂️📱😅
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167 points by capitain
2024-09-11T20:10:20.000000Z |
45 comments
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▲ We spent $20 to achieve RCE and accidentally became the admins of .mobi (watchtowr.com)
**Hackers Accidentally Rule The Internet By Spending Less Than A Hipster Cocktail**
Welcome back to another round of "hackers find it way easier than it should be." A group of thrill-seekers at watchTowr Labs dodged the brutal Vegas sun and exorbitant water prices only to stumble into admin privileges of a whole top-level domain .mobi, all for the low price of $20. Comments swiftly spiral into a battle of armchair policymakers and daily grinders trying to wrestle down the basics of domain economics. It takes three encryption layers of sarcasm to decode whether these keyboard warriors are more alarmed by the price of their domain or their daily coffee. 🤯💻🔓
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1184 points by notmine1337
2024-09-11T11:19:12.000000Z |
286 comments
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▲ Noisy neighbor detection with eBPF (netflixtechblog.com)
🎉 Welcome to "Noisy Neighbor Realm," where Netflix tech enthusiasts morph into part-time kernel developers overnight! After pioneering its very own eBPF-solution to the classic noisy neighbor saga, the Netflix Tech Blog unearths strategies so *advanced*, mere mortals spend all day fantasizing about Linux finally beating DTrace at its own game. Forget about gaming on Linux, though. We're too busy celebrating kernel patches that *might* let our server run 0.001% faster! Meanwhile, in a delightful comment section ballet, tech aficionados juggle Kubernetes, schedulers, and Windows 7 anecdotes with the dexterity of clowns shoehorning into a tiny car, each convinced they alone hold the secret to CPU enlightenment. Spoiler: they don’t. But don't tell them; it keeps the subreddit alive.
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119 points by el_duderino
2024-09-11T18:11:31.000000Z |
40 comments
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▲ Transparenttextures.com (transparenttextures.com)
Title: Transparenttextures.com - A Nostalgic Pixel Party
Oh, the delight of Hacker News discovering Transparenttextures.com - the abandoned basement project from 2014 that has been duct-taped into semi-functionality and inadvertently become an internet relic! Who knew a side gig for resume padding would turn into a pivotal infrastructure component for countless websites? Now, in the spirited discussion that follows, nostalgic fans reminisce, while the legally paranoid scramble to verify texture licensing. Watch as the Hillbilly House of Cards teeters on the brink of copyright infringement and archived slow loads—because maintaining a clean link is harder than patching CSS! 👾💾🔗
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125 points by surprisetalk
2024-09-09T16:25:46.000000Z |
18 comments
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▲ AppleWatchAmmeter (github.com/jp3141)
In a stunning display of technological overreaching that even Tony Stark would balk at, GitHub user jp3141 unveils the "AppleWatchAmmeter," a project that repurposes a pricey wrist accessory into a household ammeter. Watch enthusiasts and amateur electricians rejoice as they wrap their $400 status symbols in wire, painstakingly hoping not to brick them in pursuit of measuring small currents usually reserved for devices costing less than a latte. Meanwhile, the comments mature into a delightful circus of biohackers reminiscing about the good old days of MRI-compatible finger magnets, interspersed with technophobes grumbling about mobile site usability. Truly, a testament to human ingenuity and our relentless pursuit to make expensive things serve mundane purposes. 🤯💡
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242 points by rcarmo
2024-09-11T07:01:01.000000Z |
43 comments
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▲ Show QN: Tune LLaMa3.1 on Google Cloud TPUs (github.com/felafax)
Title: Show HN: Tune LLaMa3.1 on Google Cloud TPUs (github.com/felafax)
Today in "reinventing the wheel for the sake of using less popular wheels," Felafax rolls out Tuning LLaMa 3.1 on non-NVIDIA hardware, because why not make life harder? The HN crowd dives deep, comparing it to faster NVIDIA-focused solutions because, as we all know, comparing apples to orangutans makes perfect sense in coder land. One brave soul throws in a cocktail of math re-derivations, proving once again that nothing seduces a programmer like redoing something unnecessarily. Fear not, obscure documentation and compatibility issues are here to ensure you don't run out of weekend projects anytime soon! 🌟
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96 points by felarof
2024-09-11T15:14:44.000000Z |
29 comments
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▲ Finding and optimizing N+1 queries on a relational database (mixpanel.com)
In an awe-inspiring display of déjà vu, a mixpanel.com article unleashes the revolutionary concept of avoiding N+1 query problems, something so groundbreaking it might just shake the very foundations of 2003. Comment sections light up with various internet heroes boasting about their own superior methods, like collecting SQL calls into a big-bang warning because apparently, hearing your console scream errors is revolutionary. Others chime in with mystical advice about using Django, lore only comprehensible to the select few who can translate ORM into English. Meanwhile, one brave soul ponders why all this isn't just done in a "real" database, unintentionally igniting a war among tech pundits over what constitutes "real" in a world where buzzwords reign supreme. 🌀🔥😱
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30 points by kiyanwang
2024-09-09T06:46:36.000000Z |
33 comments
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▲ Show QN: How much is 13B euros? (howmuchis13billioneuros.com)
Title: Show HN: How much is 13B euros? (howmuchis13billioneuros.com)
In a thrilling spectacle of unnecessary specificity, a brave souls attempts to measure societal value in terms of Oasis tickets and bike sheds using the world-renowned universal measurement tool: 13 billion euros. Users enthusiastically crash the site with profound insights like "TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined," triggering a fleeting existential crisis across Hacker News. Meanwhile, experts in the comments solve global infrastructure cost discrepancies, shamelessly comparing a few meters of railway to Ireland’s annual healthcare. Each eagerly overshoots common sense, demonstrating a heroic disdain for practical applications, all the while proving that yes, in fact, too many comments indeed can spoil the broth. 🤷🚂💸
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83 points by dndn1
2024-09-11T21:52:32.000000Z |
51 comments
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▲ The first release candidate of FreeCAD 1.0 is out (freecad.org)
The hapless hobbyists and disenfranchised draftsmen have once again congregated in the gloomy halls of FreeCAD's comment section to moan about their latest software shackles. Amid the release of FreeCAD 1.0's first candidate—a monumental event surely equivalent to the moon landing—our brave keyboard warriors toggle between rampant enthusiasm and existential despair. 🚀🔧 One enlightened soul discovers that "saving $$$" just might be preferable to selling a kidney for Solidworks, while another laments the cruel and unusual punishment bestowed by SaaS pricing models. Meanwhile, an echo of hope resounds as one commenter timidly raises a flag for the poor souls who've never seen another FreeCAD user "in real life." Join us next week for more thrilling tales of survival in the cutthroat world of CAD software!
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140 points by jstanley
2024-09-11T20:29:52.000000Z |
51 comments
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▲ David Chang on the long, hard, stupid way (herbertlui.net)
**David Chang's Business Model: Make It Hard, Stupid!**
In a world where efficiency is for chumps, culinary rebel David Chang champions the "long, hard, stupid way" to cook a chicken at his restaurant. Commenters, in their infinite naivety, ponder whether the time-consuming spectacle might just be an elaborate ruse to sell the idea of authenticity and hard work. Meanwhile, another genius points out that inefficiency is the new black, akin to peacock feathers and luxury brand marketing strategies. Apparently, in the high-stakes world of chicken dinners, making things unnecessarily difficult is not just a method but the whole point. 🐔💫
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158 points by herbertl
2024-09-11T15:21:02.000000Z |
106 comments
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▲ ClickHouse Data Modeling for Postgres Users (clickhouse.com)
Today on clickhouse.com, a brave soul attempts to enlighten the PostgreSQL plebeians on the mystical arts of ClickHouse data modeling, ensuring that two completely different systems might somehow be similar if you squint hard enough. The comment section becomes a tragicomic battlefield where SQL veterans and NoSQL noobs throw poorly formatted code snippets at each other, hoping to establish supremacy in a war where the only prize is a slightly slower database query. It's a spectacular showcase of egos where everyone seems to have forgotten the 'Post' in PostgreSQL.💾🔥
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19 points by saisrirampur
2024-09-10T15:40:15.000000Z |
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▲ Pathpilot (YC S24) is hiring a founding AI and full-stack engineer (ycombinator.com)
**Another day, another startup.** PathPilot, incubated by the notorious YC womb, is desperately seeking a mythical creature that not only does everything in software development but can also magically transform user snoozefests (aka session replays) into "actionable insights." Because, why hire a team when you can overwork a single hero in your "fast-paced environment"? And, oh, commenters are salivating as they trip over themselves to guess what snack options are available in this small, world-changing cubicle empire. 🍿🦄
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2024-09-11T21:00:59.000000Z |
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▲ Max Headroom and the World of Pseudo-CGI (2013) (cartoonbrew.com)
**Max Headroom, CGI Mastermind... or Not?**
In the fuzzy depths of 1985 lurks Max Headroom, the digital dude who tricked an entire generation into believing he was CGI. Turns out, it was just actor Matt Frewer in a rubber suit & some makeup tricks that even a high school AV club could mock. The commentators crawl out of YouTube’s woodwork to offer their nostalgic two cents, linking everything from SHODAN’s voice inspiration to Eminem's video aesthetics, as if this TV relic holds the key to understanding all pop culture mysteries. Can't wait for the deep dive into how Max’s latex wrinkles inspired modern CGI smudging techniques—oh wait, it’s just old-school TV magic, folks! 📺✨
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130 points by Michelangelo11
2024-09-11T09:11:55.000000Z |
62 comments
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▲ The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World (lrb.co.uk)
The Golden Road: An Ancient Indian Epic Recycled
The LRB knocks it out of the park again with a thrilling rehash on how ancient India was basically the centerpiece of civilization because, of course, nothing screams fresh insight like counting elephants and marveling at bygone trade routes. The comment section competes for a gold medal in intellectual gymnastics, offering gems from glorifying the past imperial splendors to debating linguistic subjugations with impassioned diatribes about Western educational hegemony. Who knew a simple historical recount could pit nationalists against colonial apologists in a never-ending saga of "my ancient civilization had better toys than yours"? 🐘📜😂
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125 points by Thevet
2024-09-11T05:28:23.000000Z |
45 comments
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▲ SQLite on Rails: The how and why of optimal performance (fractaledmind.github.io)
**SQLite On Rails: A Journey to Nowhere**
In a heroic feat that no one asked for, a brave coder details their tumultuous yearlong journey in optimizing SQLite with Rails, an endeavor roughly akin to slapping a rocket engine on a tricycle. The article serves as a safe space for like-minded masochists to vigorously nod in agreement, while misusing the term "performant" as if they're getting paid by the syllable. 💻🚀 Amongst the comments, hobbyist historians tragically overshare their own tales of database woe, painting a Sisyphean picture of modern development practices. Meanwhile, one commenter likens this mismatch to using MS Access in production, inadvertently pitching a horror story to tech enthusiasts everywhere.
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177 points by tosh
2024-09-11T17:49:21.000000Z |
43 comments
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▲ The magic of DC-DC voltage conversion (2023) (lcamtuf.substack.com)
In the latest online masterpiece, "The magic of DC-DC voltage conversion," a blogger launches electrons into the stratosphere with a post that threatens to combine rudimentary electrical engineering with the explosive potential of a Michael Bay film. 🎆 Armed with an arsenal of boost converters, buck converters, and safety warnings that could easily double as a recipe for a small house fire, the author skillfully educates us on how to turn a USB into an artifact-reviving powerhouse. The comment section, a delightful cesspool of one-upmanship, provides childhood tales of electrical mischief mistaken for scientific endeavor, with enough nostalgia to power a 90s CRT television set. "Don't try this at home!" pleads one commenter late to the disaster-prevention party, clearly underestimating the irresistible allure of frying one's teletype in spectacular fashion. Can't wait for the follow-up post on DIY defibrillators! 💥
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356 points by _Microft
2024-09-11T03:53:35.000000Z |
117 comments
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▲ Don't Let That Content Go to Waste (mooreds.com)
Title: "Internet User Discovers Comments Disappear, Nobel Committee Unresponsive"
Summary: In a shocking turn of events that surprises exactly nobody, a blogger at mooreds.com has just realized that writing comments on the internet is not, in fact, a timeless contribution to human knowledge. Comment threads, once believed to be the scrolls of the digital age, seemingly evaporate into the ether, or worse, are left at the mercy of the dreaded algorithm. Meanwhile, the site's avant-garde commenters rally to the cause, touting groundbreaking strategies like "using a blog" to preserve their invaluable thoughts which are clearly destined to revolutionize something, sometime... maybe. 🙄 But hey, if all else fails, there's always the blockchain, right?
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6 points by mooreds
2024-09-09T11:52:13.000000Z |
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▲ Iron Gall Ink (wikipedia.org)
Ah, the age-old craft of making Iron Gall Ink, now being rediscovered by hobbyists who think medieval scribes just didn't get enough credit on Instagram. From backyard alchemists gleefully corroding their flea market finds to fervent commenters mistaking Wikipedia dive-bombs for a PhD in historical ink production, the digital crowd relishes rehashing what amounts to ink that eats paper faster than moths on cashmere. Enthusiastic but misguided, one commenter dreams of tie-dye shirts dyed with acidity levels rivaling their understanding of fabric care, while another ponders if oak galls are just undiscovered alien tech. Thankfully, amidst the chaos, a brave soul admits they're just there because they got "nerd sniped" by Wikipedia, unknowingly summing up the entirety of every history-related Internet forum discussion ever. 📜✒️😬
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20 points by red369
2024-09-09T00:10:03.000000Z |
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▲ Mistral releases Pixtral 12B, its first multimodal model (techcrunch.com)
In a groundbreaking display of originality, French AI startup Mistral unveils Pixtral 12B, their hefty 24GB toddler that munches on both pictures and text. Eager commenters jump into the fray, oscillating between awe and skepticism, questioning the ethical depths of the web scraping that possibly fueled this behemoth. Meanwhile, others are philosophically puzzled whether their ad-blocker-equipped browsers make them any less robotic than Mistral’s fresh AI prodigy scraping the "free" web. Admittedly, no one is completely sure what Mistral fed their new toy, but it's clear everyone hopes it wasn't just *em* internet leftovers *em*.
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108 points by jerbear4328
2024-09-11T19:47:10.000000Z |
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