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▲ Launch QN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud FS
**Welcome to the latest tech revolution** that you didn't know you needed, and probably still don't: *Regatta Storage.* Because reinventing the wheel by slapping a new sticker on it has never been more in vogue. In essence, it's your old pal S3 wearing a fancy POSIX costume, promising you a local disk's warm familiarity—if local disks were prone to existential crises about consistency and speed. Commenters, bewildered tech enthusiasts that they are, oscillate between rehashing documentation links and brewing nostalgia for solutions that already exist. One astute mind even asks for a comparison table—because nothing says innovation like a good ol' spreadsheet showdown! 📊🚀
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325 points by huntaub
2024-11-18T16:49:09 1731948549 |
203 comments
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▲ Show QN: FastGraphRAG – Better RAG using good old PageRank (github.com/circlemind-ai)
**Title: Show HN: FastGraphRAG – Better RAG using good old PageRank (github.com/circlemind-ai)**
Hacker News discovers yet another groundbreaking way to reinvent search, because, as we all know, the *traditional* methods just weren’t cutting it. Presenting FastGraphRAG: a tool no one thought we needed, promising improvements in retrieval workflows via the ground-breaking (i.e., recycled) magic of **PageRank**, now adorned with a shiny new label. Commenters dive deep into techno-jargon labyrinths, debating the finer points of BM25 indexes, embeddings, and hypothetical scenario-based tree querying — because why solve a problem when you can keep rephrasing it? Watch as enthusiasts cohort behind the dazzling allure of cost savings and code snippets, boldly lecturing each other about the inevitable superiority of their AI configurations, while casually glossing over why their radical innovations still yearn for '90s SEO wizardry. 🤓💾
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209 points by liukidar
2024-11-18T17:43:13 1731951793 |
61 comments
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▲ 20 years of Google Scholar (blog.google)
Title: Google Scholar Turns 20, Academia Shrugs
In a surprisingly self-congratulatory blog post, Google reminds us that Google Scholar, the haphazard heap of often-cited, rarely-read papers, has turned 20. Here, we explore the "fun facts" about a tool that mostly reminds students of how many articles they haven't read before their thesis is due. The comment section quickly devolves into a sidebar conference on Sci-Hub's obsolescence and the thrilling high-stakes world of illegal PDF downloads. One thing is certain: the only "scholarly" thing about this discussion is the whiff of desperation as users cling to their Zotero plugins like life rafts on the sinking ship of free academic content. 🎓💔🏴☠️
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168 points by thepuppet33r
2024-11-18T18:01:18 1731952878 |
94 comments
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▲ MailCatcher runs a super simple SMTP server (mailcatcher.me)
**MailCatcher: A Silent Sentinel in Your Dev Stack**
Once again, the software world gifts us with **MailCatcher 0.10.0**, a tool so indispensable that it continues its valiant existence mostly by being forgotten until it gruesomely clashes with your other gems. Developers cheer its simplicity, praising a tool that joyously captures emails only to be displayed via the interface of your loneliest localhost dreams. Meanwhile, the comments section becomes a battleground for personal anecdotes about decade-long usage, fiercely defended by those untouched by the whims of software maintenance—or so they believe💢. Competitor names like MailPit and MailCrab drop casually, as if mentioning them might conjure a more modernized development fairy to tackle the evidently archaic beast that is MailCatcher. Enjoy rewriting your README instructions; heaven knows you don't want this relic lurking in your Gemfile. 🧙✨
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141 points by mooreds
2024-11-18T16:51:29 1731948689 |
55 comments
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▲ A BBC navigation bar component broke depending on the external monitor (joshtumath.uk)
**The Perils of Dual-Focused Navigation Bars at BBC: A Comedy of Errors**
In a dizzying spectacle of coding gymnastics, a BBC developer heroically decides to help keyboard users navigate their news feed without dazzling animations. Queue the WebKit bug report drama 🎭, where developers scratch their heads wondering why anyone would care to distinguish between slappy mouse clicks and elegant keystrokes. Meanwhile, commenters debate the existential crisis of boolean values, reducing software engineering to a series of "if-then" catastrophes and philosophical woes. Will the BBC conquer the mighty external monitor conundrum, or will it succumb to the perilous pitfalls of progressive web accessibility? Stay tuned, folks.
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208 points by ulrischa
2024-11-18T15:28:57 1731943737 |
76 comments
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▲ Air traffic failure caused by two locations 3600nm apart sharing 3-letter code (flightglobal.com)
**Air Traffic Apocalypse: Not Your Typical CTRL+ALT+DEL Scenario**
In a twist that merges incompetence with comical irony, the UK air traffic control plummeted into chaos because some genius concluded that two dots on a map 3600nm apart can be responsibly marked with the same three-letter identity code. The result? Over 700,000 travelers got an impromptu lesson in the existential dread of airport terminals. Not to be outdone, armchair aerospace engineers and panic enthusiasts flocked online to add their "in-depth" analyses and reminiscence about the good old days of manual processing, as though air traffic control were akin to restarting a glitchy laptop. Meanwhile, the comment section quickly devolved into a tech support forum for Netflix’s Chaos Monkey, because clearly, what helps streaming services halt at cliffhangers will surely keep planes from doing the same. 🙃
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151 points by basilesimon
2024-11-14T15:04:57 1731596697 |
162 comments
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▲ The Skyline algorithm for packing 2D rectangles (jvernay.fr)
**Happy Hour at the Tetris Bar: Packing Rectangles Just Got Sassy 🎮**
In a dazzling display of originality that could only be eclipsed by inventing a square wheel, the internet gathers to hail the groundbreaking "Skyline algorithm," where 2D rectangles are arranged with all the strategic precision of a drunken Tetris game. Commenters, flexing their PhDs, dish out a cornucopia of related work, tossing links like confetti, because clearly, what this world lacks is yet another algorithm managing memory allocation. Meanwhile, reminiscing about the halcyon days of their dissertations, our brave scholars wax nostalgic over defeating "the SOTA" in a battle surely as epic as their struggle to escape academia. Spoiler: it's all just a fancy way to spin Tetris nightmares into research papers. 🤯📚
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124 points by lapnect
2024-11-18T15:19:05 1731943145 |
35 comments
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▲ Show QN: Venmo Unofficial API (github.com/integuru-ai)
Title: **Unofficial Unwisdom: World+Dog Opines on DIY Venmo API**
Today's Hacker News sideshow features an **unofficial Venmo API** enthusiastically hurled into the void by **Integuru.ai**, because nothing spells "financial security" like *unofficial*, *third-party* payment tools. The GitHub README is a buffet of corporate buzzwords and aspirations, promising security through obscurity and a direct pipeline to cease-and-desist adventures. The comments section morphs into a tragicomic chorus, warning of everything from corporate wrath to Trojans hidden in npm packages. Because hey, who doesn’t like playing financial Russian roulette with shadow APIs? Apparently, this is how we fintech now. 👀💸
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20 points by richardzhang
2024-11-18T23:04:51 1731971091 |
5 comments
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▲ Show QN: Tips.io – A Tailwind playground with AI, page management, and theming (tips.io)
Today in "I Swear It's Not Over-Engineered," we unveil *Tips.io*: yet another playground where the marriage of AI and CSS gives birth to projects that even the creators can't name meaningfully. A humble Hacker News user launches what he lightly calls a "side project," featuring everything but a built-in coffee machine. Commenters, awestruck by such wizardry, toss about kudos like candy at a parade, while collectively brainstorming acronyms that might make the domain seem less like a vestige of a failed 2012 startup. Meanwhile, someone is definitely not paying attention to their Zoom meeting. 🙄
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179 points by TIPSIO
2024-11-18T15:19:24 1731943164 |
44 comments
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▲ Bird brain from the age of dinosaurs reveals roots of avian intelligence (cam.ac.uk)
In a stunning display of taking a century-old fossil and slapping some high-tech CGI on it to make headlines, researchers from the University of Cambridge miraculously rebuild a dinosaur-era bird's noggin to conclude... yes, birds were smart. Meanwhile, whimsical commenters fantasize about starlings bro-fisting Velociraptors, lament the tragic extinction of anything that couldn’t dodge a meteor, and make the startling revelation that both birds and octopuses have brains. Extra points go to the one hopeful soul yearning for a Flintstone-themed paleontology lesson, proving once again that nostalgia is just as preserved as ancient skulls. 🦖🧠💥
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86 points by gmays
2024-11-18T15:24:21 1731943461 |
5 comments
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▲ Don't sit on the toilet for more than 10 minutes, doctors warn (cnn.com)
In an epic bowel movement of journalism, CNN warns against the life-threatening perils of spending more than 10 minutes on the throne, converting bathroom breaks into near-lethal engagements. Apparently, killing time on your phone while parked on the porcelain can lead to a barrage of health issues including—but not limited to—hemorrhoids and the catastrophic weakening of pelvic musculature, courtesy of Dr. Lai Xue’s riveting expository on toilet-time terrorism. Commenters, in a swirling vortex of confusion and disbelief, deflect with utterly crucial inquiries such as the precise daily water intake in liters and the ergonomic heights of modern toilets, while bravely tackling the overlooked dangers of smartphone usage post-handwash. Clearly, humanity’s survival hinges not on climate change or global health crises, but on mastering the art of expeditious excretion.
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36 points by RyeCombinator
2024-11-19T00:13:54 1731975234 |
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▲ Waiting for many things at once with io_uring (mazzo.li)
While the cutting-edge Linux enthusiasts are busy waiting for io_uring to revolutionize event handling, the rest of the tech world can't decide if the overdue feature is a major breakthrough or just another instance of reinventing the square wheel. Comment sections, as usual, turn into a rich tapestry of barely-masked disdain for anything not written in Bearded Wizard's favorite language while also collectively forgetting that every other OS did similar things when disco was still cool. Amidst link-dropping humblebrags and theoretical fixes for inotify that will never be written, someone occasionally remembers to discuss the actual topic. In the meantime, Windows developers peek over the fence, smirking at the security exploit parade, happy with their "ancient" but stable APIs. 🐧💻🔒
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65 points by ashvardanian
2024-11-14T12:04:46 1731585886 |
16 comments
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▲ Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted (cnn.com)
In a thrilling twist that surely no one saw coming, two undersea cables in the Baltic Sea have been disrupted, triggering a wave of indignation fueled by fears of Russian meddling. Cue a parade of online armchair detectives, each with a hot take rivaled only by their self-assumed expertise in undersea cable infrastructure. Comment sections are ablaze with conspiracy theories and probabilistic piffle, as suddenly everyone is a seasoned statistician debating the likelihood of "accidental" cable cuts. Forget international espionage—this is where the real action is, sprinkled generously with hyperlinks to everything vaguely related, because nothing says 'I'm informed' like a copied URL. 🧐📉
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112 points by mooreds
2024-11-18T14:31:17 1731940277 |
312 comments
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▲ Reactive HTML Notebooks (maxbo.me)
In the ever-tumultuous quest to radically reinvent the wheel, the latest dispatch from the HTML notebook frontiers arrives, sparking a flare-up among the tech commentariat. Eager enthusiasts and detractors alike dive headfirst into the comment section, brandishing their latest GitHub arsenals and overcooked opinions. One commenter "reimagines" HTML with a proprietary flavor of reactive mysticism, while another mourns the loss of plain JavaScript amidst well-meaning but ultimately perplexing Observable frameworks. Through the cacophony, one truth remains unshakable: nothing charms the coding commons quite like squabbling over whose compiler is the shiniest. 🤓🔧
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293 points by california-og
2024-11-18T08:33:32 1731918812 |
47 comments
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▲ Trieve (YC W24) Is Hiring a software engineer to build OpenAPI tooling (ycombinator.com)
**Title**: Trieve (YC W24) Is Hiring
**Summary**: In the latest Silicon Valley flex, Trieve combines the spellbinding complexity of Rust and the obscurity of SolidJS to revolutionize how we misinterpret APIs. Desperate for a "headless OpenAPI generator" that only a few living souls understood from the GitHub description, they now seek a mystical software engineer. Not just any coder, but one who vibrates with excitement about types, docs, and something about boilerplate functions that even their creators can't fully explain. Commenters, in a display of peak optimism, debate whether this tool heralds tech utopia or just another cool way to generate bugs that nobody can solve. 😱👨💻🔮
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2024-11-18T21:00:36 1731963636 |
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▲ Towards Nyquist Learners (gwern.net)
In our latest installment of misdirected academic enthusiasm, a PhD thesis disguised as a breathless new frontier at gwern.net mystifies the already bewildered internet natives. Declaring "Scaling Laws for Deep Learning" the commentariat, in predictable confusion, pitches tents over subdomains and the audacity of high-resolution images existing, despite their beloved JPEG compressions. Meanwhile, someone desperately tries to school folks on Nyquist sampling without realizing they're in a verbal brawl with JPEG lovers and other such riffraff who can’t distinguish a pixel from a wavelet.
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46 points by sleepingreset
2024-11-17T08:15:31 1731831331 |
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▲ Is Chrome the New IE? (2023) (magiclasso.co)
Title: Is Chrome the New IE? (2023) (magiclasso.co)
In an adrenaline-pumping exposé, a brave keyboard warrior insightfully probes whether Chrome has become the dreaded new IE, neglecting the fact that if you repeat a baseless comparison enough times, it becomes an internet truth. Commenters, armed with nostalgia and selective memory, eagerly jump into the fray—some reminiscing about the 'good old bad days' of IE, others pedantically pointing out timelines of web standards like they’re unveiling plot twists in a B-rated techno-thriller. Meanwhile, the Firefox fans huddle in corners of the comment section, whispering sweet nothings about their beloved browser, blissfully ignoring their overlord Google’s shadow looming over them. How's that for irony? 🙄
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187 points by bentocorp
2024-11-17T22:05:11 1731881111 |
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▲ Histogramming Bytes with Positional Popcount (bitmath.blogspot.com)
In a world thirsting for real technological advancements, one brave soul at bitmath.blogspot.com decides the most pressing issue is to turn counting bits into a grand intellectual odyssey. Watch in amazement as they transform a simple task into an "effort-lite mind workout," equipped with enough jargon to choke a quantum computer. They throw in terms like "pospopcnt" and "vertical carry-save adders" as if they're ingredients in a recipe for confusing anyone within a ten-mile radius. Meanwhile, the comment section becomes a battleground where keyboard warriors boast their misunderstood expertise in byte manipulation, while secretly Googling what the heck a popcount is. 🤓🔢💥
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5 points by jandrewrogers
2024-11-14T00:10:54 1731543054 |
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▲ LLaVA-O1: Let Vision Language Models Reason Step-by-Step (arxiv.org)
Title: LLaVA-O1: Let Vision Language Models Stumble Through Logic Like Drunk Philosophers
In the latest episode of "Why didn't I think of that?" arXiv graces us with LLaVA-O1, a paper that basically duct-tapes a pair of glasses on a language model and calls it "visionary". Commenters, true to form, dive deep into the gimmicky abyss of technical jargon, passionately debating whether the paper's graph is cunningly deceptive or just poorly executed. Meanwhile, another sighs deeply over the AI misunderstanding pictures, longing for the day when robots can finally appreciate memes. Essentially, we learn that making a language model explain its ‘thoughts’ is like watching paint narrate its drying process—both painstaking and painfully dull. 🎨💤
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139 points by lnyan
2024-11-18T09:44:54 1731923094 |
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▲ AMD now has more compute on the top 500 than Nvidia (nextplatform.com)
Title: AMD Surpasses Nvidia in a Top 500 Popularity Contest
Welcome to the annual Silicon Valley FLEX-OFF, where AMD and Nvidia throw punches with TFLOPS and spend more energy bragging than computing! 🎉 As AMD clutches the "Most Compute Decorations" award, overzealous commenters come out in droves to either mourn the death of HPC subtleties or flex Google-sized mega-cluster secrets everyone pretends to not know about. Nvidia fanboys are crying into their B200s, as their favorite chips miss the HPC mark like a failed SpaceX landing. Meanwhile, AMD loyalists parade MI300A specs like a toddler with a new toy—adorable, yet mostly just loud. Sit back, ignore the techno-jargon dodging around real usefulness, and watch this rather pointless leaderboard change more outfits than a fashion week runway. 😎🍿
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125 points by rbanffy
2024-11-18T18:54:33 1731956073 |
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