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▲ Arthur Whitney's one liner sudoku solver (dyalog.com)
This week on dyalog.com, Arthur Whitney, the apparent savior of programmers with too much free time, blesses the masses with a sudoku solver concise enough to tweet during your bathroom break. In an industry where code verbosity is directly proportional to self-worth, Whitney's one-liner is a brazen middle finger to the cult of the 1000-line Java class. Meanwhile, the comment section transforms into a battleground where veteran coders duel with theoretical runtimes and someone inevitably brings up Python to sound cool. The educational value of dissecting this digital haiku? Questionable. The entertainment value of watching adults argue over a puzzle solver? Priceless. 😂
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21 points by secwang
2024-10-06T00:00:04.000000Z |
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▲ CoRncrete: A corn starch based building material (2017) (tudelft.nl)
Today in "Sustainable Innovation Failures," Tudelft introduces CoRncrete—a building material that combines the fragility of a soggy cereal flake with the environmental toxin release rates that make Mother Nature weep in agony. Commenters compete vigorously in the "Miss the Point Olympics," debating fiercely about U.S. corn policy, with detours through world wars, car engine failures, and the always-ripe-for-a-joke Iowa caucuses. Amidst all the philosophy, one commenter heroically reminds everyone that biofuels still don't reduce emissions, but sure, let's keep throwing subsidies at it. Because if there's something more reliable than CoRncrete in water, it's government logic under pressure.
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117 points by thunderbong
2024-10-05T18:51:28.000000Z |
65 comments
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▲ The Data Visualisation Catalogue: find the right method for your data (datavizcatalogue.com)
The Data Visualisation Catalogue: a testament to the modern internet's ability to sprinkle ad-laden desperation on even the driest of subjects. Here, you can navigate through a sprawling mess of categories, presuming you're not bombarded by pop-up videos so intrusive they make telemarketers look laid-back. The comment section becomes a battleground where ad-weary souls debate whether ads exist and share "better" links like passing notes in class to escape the teacher’s monotony. But hey, if you love clicking more than learning, this is your utopia! 🎉📊
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174 points by sea-gold
2024-10-05T17:25:01.000000Z |
19 comments
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▲ WordPress Plugin Mirror Downloader (Proof of Concept) (github.com/centminmod)
In an awe-inspiring display of modern redundancy, a lone warrior embarks on a crusade to save the world from the unspeakable terror of WordPress.org downtime. Behold, the WordPress Plugin Mirror Downloader, leveraging the raw, untamed power of Cloudflare to bring peace and fast-loading plugins to all ten web developers trapped in WordPress hell since 2004. Commenters, equally lost in time, marvel at spending the whopping sum of $5.35/month, because apparently securing WordPress plugins is on par with financing a Mallorca vacation. Meanwhile, quoting internet adepts on routing around censorship ticks the final box in the web developers' bingo card of hip buzzwords. 🎉💾
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28 points by rob
2024-10-05T21:31:51.000000Z |
4 comments
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▲ The Remarkable Life of Ibelin (thetimes.com)
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, as told by thetimes.com, leads us down the tear-jerking paternity path of Mats Steen, a shining Viking toddler turned Internet Paladin. In an EMOTIONAL and absolutely NOVEL narrative (not!), we discover how Mats transcended his physical limitations through the power of World of Warcraft, emphatically proving that real friendships are just a guild invite away. Meanwhile, out in the bleachers, the commenters *rigorously* debate whether Mats' life was a digital escapism manifesto or an inspiring tale of human spirit. Spoiler alert: It's both, and neither, but definitely a good excuse for everyone to feel something between keyboard strokes. 💻👼🕹️
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236 points by _tk_
2024-10-05T13:12:46.000000Z |
92 comments
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▲ Statisticians use a technique that leverages randomness to deal with the unknown (quantamagazine.org)
In an attempt to break new ground in the endlessly fascinating world of "missing data," Quanta Magazine delivers a spiel that somehow forgets to mention pivotal algorithms like the EM. Commenters, a charming mix of the self-assured and the perpetually confused, trade jabs about statistical legends and methodologies as if this will fill the gaping holes in their understanding. One brave soul suggests regression, prompting an impromptu mini-lecture — because why miss a chance to sound profound while blatantly ignoring simpler solutions? 🤔 Meanwhile, accusations of "fluff" float around, because nothing says "cutting-edge" like questioning the fundamentals while possibly skimming too quickly through another "hyped" headline.
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49 points by Duximo
2024-10-03T07:08:14.000000Z |
18 comments
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▲ Forage conservation is a neglected nitrous oxide source (oup.com)
Scientists Discover Another Thing to Feel Guilty About: Forage Conservation Farts
In a groundbreaking revelation that has the green fringe of the internet salivating, a new study points out that, yes, saving food for Bessie the Cow also pumps out nitrous oxide, completing the “everything you like is bad” bingo card. The article dances around the fact that no matter how many perfectly-curated Mason-jar salads you make—sorry, folks—your grass-fed, ethically-tended livestock patty still has a carbon hoofprint the size of a small planet. Comment sections light up with vegans and meat-lovers throwing more shade than a solar eclipse, where everyone’s favorite argument begins with "I’m not a vegan, but…" Spoiler alert: suggesting moderation in meat consumption doesn’t just bring out the carnivore in people; it summons a primal defensiveness that usually ends in rehashing the benefits of a good steak. Meanwhile, one tragic soul proudly flaunts their YouTube education from Dairyman Dan, convinced they've decoded the complexities of agricultural emissions from a ten-minute video on cow chow. 🐄💨
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19 points by PaulHoule
2024-10-05T20:59:25.000000Z |
7 comments
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▲ Playing with BOLT and Postgres (vondra.me)
**HackerNews Theatre: BOLT Boost Bonanza**
In a thrilling episode of "When Developers Get Bored," vondra.me discovers that tossing the BOLT tool at Postgres while bored can apparently squeeze out performance improvements that sound like snake oil sales pitches. Kleptomaniacs in the comment section are already busy stealing these findings, doubting everything from CPU biases to the existential beliefs of benchmark true believers. Spoiler: performance gains are real—until they're not, or until someone tries it on hardware that hasn't been blessed by the benchmarking gods. 🚀💫 Prepare for lengthy blog posts and HN threads debating if you can really trust these new shiny numbers or if it's just the digital placebo effect. Meanwhile, stay tuned for more detail-oriented posts where the only action is in the footnotes.
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83 points by aquastorm
2024-10-04T17:17:12.000000Z |
20 comments
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▲ An Intuitive Explanation of Black–Scholes (gregorygundersen.com)
Welcome to the cultish world of finance, where the Black-Scholes model is less about pricing options and more about an intellectual status symbol. A blogger attempts to simplify these financial voodoo spells for the mere mortals who typically transmute greed into algorithmic trading strategies. Meanwhile, the enlightened commenters, armed with their half-baked quant musings, grace us with assertions ranging from the model's archaic nature to esoteric code snippets that look suspiciously like witchcraft. It's a magnificent melee of overconfidence where everyone pretends the market is as predictable as their morning coffee. 📈🧙♂️💸
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98 points by alexmolas
2024-10-03T13:28:36.000000Z |
43 comments
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▲ The Globus INK: a mechanical navigation computer for Soviet spaceflight (righto.com)
Welcome to the latest circus of armchair experts on Soviet space technology. Righto.com has just unloaded a new blog series, this time on the Globus INK, a Soviet mechanical navigation computer—the comments, of course, are the real black hole. One commenter, fancying themselves as a freshly minted historian after binge-watching YouTube restorations, misinterprets basic physics by questioning why vacuum tubes would "pop" in actual vacuum (clearly a misunderstood expert in atmospheric pressures). As the debate spirals from misunderstood Soviet electronics to misquoted space race books, it's clear the truly astonishing journey is not into space, but through the convoluted logic festering in the comment section. 🌌🛸
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150 points by dangle1
2024-10-05T13:16:30.000000Z |
19 comments
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▲ IPU6 camera support in Fedora 41 (hansdegoede.dreamwidth.org)
**Fedora's New Camera Support: Too Little, Too Late or Just in Time to Save Face?**
In today's episode of "Patching It Until It Works," Fedora 41 finally boasts seamless IPU6 camera support, sending ripples of ecstasy across a sea of devoted commenters who can't seem to remember when Fedora wasn't just a hobbyist's paradise. A chorus of IT professionals and enthusiastic novices alike sing hymns of praise to Hans de Goede, the apparent savior of Linux camera drivers, while simultaneously casting passive-aggressive shade at Intel's less-than-stellar contributions. Meanwhile, in the comments, technophiles debate the merits of integrating image signal processors directly with CPUs with all the fervor of a '90s IRC chatroom. **Bonus points** for confounding an entire generation with technobabble that could probably revive the GDI print drivers. 🐧📷💾
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61 points by JNRowe
2024-10-03T07:37:01.000000Z |
16 comments
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▲ One pioneering grizzly and her two cubs appear on Vancouver Island (hakaimagazine.com)
**Grizzly Invasion or Just a Family Trip?**
The intrepid bears of British Columbia are wreaking havoc on the expectations of wildlife enthusiasts and residents alike, because apparently, swimming is what bears do now when they fancy a change of scenery. In an emotional display of wildlife ignorance, one spectator managed to capture this historic family outing with nothing more than a camera and a lack of understanding about bear swimming habits. Commenters, in a spectacular demonstration of missing the point, pivot to discussing the potential this bear migration holds for boosting the dramatic tension in wilderness reality shows and getting cool vacation pics. Meanwhile, local wildlife continues to reenact *Bearwatch* without the slow-mo, completely oblivious to their new role as invasive species debate props. 🐻📸🏝️
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62 points by abscond
2024-10-04T23:36:54.000000Z |
30 comments
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▲ Router Security (routersecurity.org)
Welcome to Router Security for Dummies where the truly paranoid find solace in tinkering with gadgets that make the internet go brrrr. Here, our noble tech wizard recycles the same piece of advice you’ve ignored since 2002 while rediscovering the horror of router flaws—because ignoring a blinking box of wires for a decade is definitely a crime against humanity. Commenters, a delightful mix of the "actually" brigade, rope in IPv6 debates hotter than a server room without AC, and the occasional wisecrack about pinging being a more effective weapon than the Death Star. But wait—what exactly is a router again? Doesn’t it just, you know, route things? 🙄
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33 points by blueridge
2024-10-05T19:35:31.000000Z |
12 comments
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▲ Continue (YC S23) Is Hiring a Developer Relations Engineer in San Francisco (ycombinator.com)
At YC S23, the startup incubator that turns half-baked app ideas into billion-dollar buyouts one year and irrelevance the next, a new opportunity has arisen: Developer Relations Engineer. This glorified tech evangelist will journey to the magical land of San Francisco, armed only with buzzwords and free swag, to preach the gospel of Continue's latest unsolvable problem. In the hallowed comments section, tech bros and hopeful interns clash over whether this role is a stepping stone to fame or just a handy way to pay off those pesky coding boot camp loans. Revel in the spectacle of misplaced optimism and entitlement that only the Silicon Valley faithful can provide. 🚀💸💻
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2024-10-05T21:01:01.000000Z |
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▲ Weird Nonfiction (lareviewofbooks.org)
The Los Angeles Review of Books ventures into the wilds of "Weird Nonfiction," a genre apparently so bizarre it confuses even its most ardent defenders about whether it's fact or fiction, or a funky blend called "ficnontion." Commenters, in a dazzling display of originality, quibble over semantics rather than substance, showcasing the internet's unparalleled ability to miss the point. One literary savant deems the article "exceptionally well written," a judgment surely made without reading the piece, as per internet tradition. 📚🙃
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26 points by samclemens
2024-10-05T19:09:47.000000Z |
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▲ What P vs. NP is about (vasekrozhon.wordpress.com)
In a fresh twist on **spoon-feeding computer science**, Vasek Rozhon lays out yet another gloriously oversimplified take on the P vs. NP problem, complete with missing academic citations and technical hand-waving that would make actual mathematicians cringe. The blog post, adorned with a dashing unauthorized photo of an 8008 processor, serves as an "in-depth" follow-up to a YouTube video - shockingly, without a link, draining life from eager commenters pleading for a simple URL. The comment section becomes a tragicomic display of confusion, from misinterpreted complexity classes to the heartfelt struggle to recall the difference between NP-hard and NP-complete, despite numerous desperate links to Wikipedia. If reinventing the computational wheel was a sport, this post and its comment thread would be in the running for a gold medal! 🥇😩
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95 points by signa11
2024-10-02T05:46:04.000000Z |
39 comments
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▲ Getentropy() vs. RAND_bytes() (dotat.at)
**"getentropy() vs. RAND_bytes(): A Battle of Irrelevance"**
In the thrilling world of POSIX pandering, getentropy() now promises to end all our cryptographically secure random number woes, a solution clearly (and desperately) needed by armchair cryptographers and professional procrastinators alike. Apparently, switching context into ring 0 is a suburban pastime now, overshadowed only by battling in comment sections about performance implications most will never notice—unless they’re crafting UUIDs for their underground bunk clubs. Meanwhile, the Linux kernel keeps spitting out random enhancements like vgetrandom(), so developers can sleep soundly, knowing their DNS queries are as unpredictable as the plot twists in a daytime soap opera. 🎭💤 Across the forums, the spectral presence of getauxval() haunts discussions like a forgotten ghost from an ELF specification, because why embrace simplicity when you can be neck-deep in arcane legacy trivia? 🧙♂️
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13 points by signa11
2024-10-02T05:28:04.000000Z |
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▲ The Plan to Save Frank Lloyd Wright's Only Skyscraper Isn't Going as Planned (nytimes.com)
In a breathtaking display of collective amnesia, the would-be saviors of Frank Lloyd Wright's only skyscraper are floundering, much to the shock of absolutely nobody who has actually paid attention to Wright's historical habit of crafting beautiful yet structurally dubious edifices. Internet armchair architects flock from their dim, natural-light-starved apartments (no thanks to Wright's design philosophy) to mourn the irony that a building meant to reach the heavens struggles under the weight of its own ambition—and leaks. In the comment section, a lively circus of Wright apologists and detractors spar with the passion of an over-caffeinated philosophy class, occasionally punctuated by gratuitous links to unrelated video games and archived pages, because if there’s something more reliable than a Wright structure, it’s off-topic internet discourse. Who knew heritage preservation could stir such passionate irrelevance?
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12 points by tintinnabula
2024-10-01T18:21:52.000000Z |
10 comments
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▲ Buildroot (buildroot.org)
In the latest episode of "Everyone's an Engineer!" hosted at buildroot.org, hobbyists and professionals alike converge in a delightful online forum to fumble through the complexities of buildroot like toddlers in a china shop. One intrepid soul wonders aloud—apparently for the first time—how on Earth one might update a kernel or application on a buildroot-installed system. Cue the makeshift brainstorming sesh: commenters suggest swiping update strategies from smartphone OS architectures, with occasional nods to mystical OTA updates, and something called mender which is *definitely going to revolutionize everything*. Meanwhile, someone in the back just wants to flip a switch on partitions without really knowing if that's even a thing. 🤷♂️💾
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15 points by jakogut
2024-10-05T21:18:28.000000Z |
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▲ Joseph Jastrow and his duck – or is it a rabbit? (2004–2020) (ocf.berkeley.edu)
**Joseph Jastrow and his duck – or is it a rabbit? Navigating the Bog of Eternal Philosophy**
In an *exciting* rerun of centuries-old visual trickery, an article revisits Joseph Jastrow's "duck-rabbit" illusion, which evidently still baffles academics enough to debate its categorization. *Surprise!* It turns out that the famous illustration wasn't just a simple bar party trick but a way to instigate a philosophical inquiry—because, as we know, philosophers can't just enjoy a picture without a deep existential crisis. Meanwhile, the comment section becomes a battlefield of pseudo-intellectualism, where Wittgenstein is resurrected as an unwitting mascot for animal ambiguity, and commenters flex their philosophical muscles to decide if this age-old sketch quacks or hops. Need a verdict on the optical illusion? Sorry, the internet is still deciding if language means anything at all. 🦆🐇💭
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20 points by dang
2024-10-05T19:03:21.000000Z |
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