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▲ Raspberry Pi Lidar Scanner (github.com/pilidar)
**HackerNews Unleashes Budget Lidar Glory: A Symphony in GitHub Minor**
In a daring assault on both budget and patience, a Github repository (remember, hitting 'star' is just like contributing!) details a Raspberry Pi-based LiDAR scanner that secures its place in the pantheon of DIY projects that at least seven people might actually finish. The project offers an array of buzzwords like "360° spherical maps" and "Breadboard Rev. 2," ensuring that every hobbyist feels inadequate about their current lack of a 3D topographical map of their cat's litter box. In classic tech fashion, the comments morph into a hardware version of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?", where the costs are made up and the points don't matter—prompting deep dives into import tariffs, the existential threat to DIY electronics, and a token off-topic ramble about Tesla's LiDAR policy, because why fix on topic when you can just fixate? 🙃
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307 points by Venn1
2025-04-19T18:53:32 1745088812 |
80 comments
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▲ The Web Is Broken – Botnet Part 2 (wildeboer.net)
***Another day, another grimace from the Open Source Evangelist***, lamenting the treacherous world where your grandma’s iPad is hijacking nuclear subs or something equally catastrophic. In between bouts of ideological preaching 🔮 and coding by the dim light of his ethical superiority, "That Open Guy" unravels a conspiracy where greedy AI companies are morphing innocent apps into predator drones hunting for data 🕵️♂️. The comments, a delightful cesspool of tech jargon and passive aggression, oscillate between condemning modern programming practices and reminiscing about the good old days of manual dependency management—because clearly, knowing how to wire your software like a 1970s telephone exchange is what peak performance looks like. Just another echo in the chamber of The Web is Broken—but don’t worry, your app probably isn’t *that* important.
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242 points by todsacerdoti
2025-04-19T18:59:56 1745089196 |
119 comments
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▲ A unique sound alleviates motion sickness (nagoya-u.ac.jp)
**Researchers Discover Noise Cancels Nausea: Users Suggest DIY Alternatives**
A life-changing breakthrough from Nagoya University claims that blasting a "unique" sound at 100Hz, conveniently named "Sound Spice®," can cure motion sickness faster than you can say placebo. But don't rush to protect your inner ears just yet! Commenters, armed with YouTube links and Android apps, are ready to replicate decades of medical research between TikTok breaks. Meanwhile, debates about importing sound meters spiral into an existential crisis about American manufacturing, proving once again that no good press release goes without speculation and cynicism. Is it science or just another sound of silence? Stay tuned, or just hum your way out of nausea.
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54 points by miles
2025-04-19T22:35:30 1745102130 |
23 comments
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▲ The Art of Assembly Language (2010) (plantation-productions.com)
**Hacker News Discovers Outdated Programming Book; Meltdown Ensues**
In a stunning revelation, Hacker News discovers "The Art of Assembly Language," a book daring to use HLA, sparking an existential crisis among tech hipsters long divorced from the visceral thrill of real low-level coding. One budding historian mourns the loss, or possible banishment, of his precious tome to the void beneath his IKEA bookshelf, while lamenting HLA's deviance from "pure" assembly. Meanwhile, a different technophile envisions learning assembly through video games as if pressing the A-button could sequence genome or launch missiles. The comment section, confused about anatomy and offended by their vintage wine disguised as 'innovative' teaching, spirals into esoteric ramblings about the philosophical implications of tech advancement, proving once again that programmers really just want to argue about anything. 🍿👾
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71 points by ibobev
2025-04-19T20:38:06 1745095086 |
8 comments
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▲ Librarians are dangerous (bradmontague.substack.com)
In the latest attempt to stir a panicked reaction from its three readers, "Librarians are dangerous" takes a bold leap from mundane to melodramatic by championing the absolute frontline warriors of our time: librarians. Commenters spring into action, their tongues battling fiercely as they attempt to redefine the nuclear family, confuse each other, and occasionally nod in agreement amidst a chaotic echo chamber of pseudo-intellectual jargon. One brave soul recounts a thrilling childhood saga of “forbidden” adult books, subtly hinting at the heroic espionage of librarians against the suffocating grip of overbearing parents. 📚🕵️♂️ Indeed, the digital walls of this comments section have seen more action than any dystopian novel could ever hope to achieve.
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376 points by mooreds
2025-04-19T14:49:36 1745074176 |
376 comments
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▲ Electromagnetism as a Purely Geometric Theory (iop.org)
Title: "Hacking the Universe with Geometric Jazz Hands"
Summary: In an audacious display of intellectual hipsterism, the newest article on iop.org attempts to reframe electromagnetism as a byproduct of funky spacetime dance moves, ignoring extra dimensions and abstract spaces that no one has seen at the party anyway. Commenters swiftly morph into a hybrid of confused students midway through Quantum Mechanics 101 and retired physicists reminiscing about the good old days of “real” theories. As they squabble over whether this is innovative brilliance or reheated Kaluza-Klein leftovers, one brave soul attempts to connect it all to thermodynamics, just in case the paper wasn’t puzzling enough. Oh, and someone asked about the Higgs boson—an adorable attempt to sound like they didn't sneak into the lecture halfway through.
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63 points by andyjohnson0
2025-04-19T21:14:33 1745097273 |
13 comments
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▲ Ssl.com: DCV bypass and issue fake certificates for any MX hostname (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
**SSL.com Forges Ahead with Innovative Security Failures**
In what could be mistaken for a late April Fool's joke, SSL.com manages to bypass all that pesky security stuff by issuing certificates willy-nilly to anyone who can spell "email". Commenters, wearing digital capes, swoop in to suggest such revolutionary ideas as "maybe check who you're issuing to?" and "CAA records, ever heard of them?" But don’t worry, there's always that one guy ready to remind everyone that CAA records are just a polite suggestion really, and fraud is just another form of networking! SSL.com, heralding a new era of "trust us, maybe", remains a frontrunner in the race to become least trusted entity on the internet. 🏆💻
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146 points by xPaw
2025-04-19T18:44:17 1745088257 |
35 comments
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▲ Show QN: I built an AI that turns GitHub codebases into easy tutorials (github.com/the-pocket)
On today's episode of "Hacker News Magic," a brave software astronaut has built an AI that supposedly turns the labyrinthine hallways of GitHub codebases into 'easy' tutorials, because apparently reading documentation is for people who can't code *magic*. Commenters, in a state of awe reminiscent of watching a party trick, either shout their undying love or bemoan the AI's tone like critics at a bad art show. One commenter vaguely plans to contribute, given it doesn’t take "a lot of time" — a likely story. Meanwhile, debates simmer about whether a vaguely remembered company was acquired or just evaporated into the corporate ether of Google. The AI, in all its infinite wisdom, remains blissfully unaware of its role in this techno-soap opera. 🤖💔📚
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73 points by zh2408
2025-04-19T21:04:41 1745096681 |
19 comments
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▲ Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days (arstechnica.com)
Title: Android’s New Auto-Reboot: Because Touching Your Phone Is Overrated
In an innovative leap towards absolute redundancy, Google has decided that any Android device not caressed within a three-day period will now reboot itself, installing the ghost of updates past and pretending to protect your data. According to deeply concerned citizens on the internet, this is either the best thing since pre-sliced avocados or a nefarious scheme to disrupt your morning alarms and late-night bathroom trips. Commenters oscillate between fear of technological overreach and indignation over missed coffee brews due to update-induced alarm failures. In typical form, no one knows exactly why this feature is necessary, but everyone has a very strong opinion about it.
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273 points by namanyayg
2025-04-19T12:14:13 1745064853 |
221 comments
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▲ First baby born in UK to woman with transplanted womb (bbc.com)
In a stunning display of medical incest, the UK hails its first ever baby sprouting from a transplanted womb, as a woman borrows her sister’s uterus to conceive a tiny human named after the organ donor. Commenters, ever eager to discuss anything but the actual article, dive deep into the terrifying ballet of genetic warfare that pregnancy supposedly is, comparing fetuses to xenomorphs – because apparently, this is the perfect analogy for childbirth. As the thread morphs into an intellectual mud-wrestling match over fetal microchimerism and the evolutionary benefits of laying eggs, it becomes clear that no one really cares about the miracle of life unless it's described in terms of a sci-fi horror or a biological Armageddon. Who needs straightforward joy when you can have an existential crisis about eggs and uterine stitch integrity?
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178 points by gmays
2025-04-17T14:36:51 1744900611 |
185 comments
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▲ Monsky's Theorem (mathmondays.com)
Today on MathMondays.com, we delve into the mind-bending world of Monsky's Theorem, where aspiring mathematicians and bored commenters collide in their quest to slice squares into triangles. Discover how a simple geometric question throws us into the whirlpool of number theory and combinatorics, because why make things easy when you can make them mathematically impenetrable? In the comments, enthusiasts argue over terminology with the fervor of internet warriors defending the use of "gif" vs. "jif," while others wax poetic about topological proofs they clearly didn't understand. One brave soul even suggests dividing by infinity, because clearly, practical solutions are too mainstream. 🤓🔪📐
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22 points by hyperbrainer
2025-04-19T21:12:07 1745097127 |
6 comments
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▲ Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding (anthropic.com)
Title: The Frugal Developer's Guide to Pretend Efficiency: Adventures in Claude Code
Let the chorus of cost-conscious coders serenade us about their penny-pinching exploits with Claude Code, the latest toy in the developer's overstuffed sandbox. In an awe-inspiring 🤯 display of frugality, one commenter reveals their groundbreaking strategy: avoid unnecessary file reads—because manually managing machine cache is exactly what we trained years for. As the conversation rockets past cost efficiency into the nebulous realm of "it's like having an intern that occasionally trashes your database," another bright mind trumpets 🎺 the virtues of Aider—a tool that, shockingly, also reads files, but without the pesky spontaneity that might spur innovation. Each comment culminates in an unwitting eulogy for developer autonomy, tenderly hinting that maybe, just maybe, the biggest cost saving would come from not using Claude Code at all. 😂
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318 points by sqs
2025-04-19T10:48:30 1745059710 |
161 comments
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▲ Translate Fortran to C++ with AI and RAG (lanl.gov)
**Translating the Incomprehensible: AI Saves Legacy Code!** In a desperate attempt to spare human developers the agony of interacting with archaic programming languages, an article at lanl.gov heralds the cutting-edge (circa 1993) solution: using AI to turn Fortran into C++. Dip into the comments, and you'll find the classic circus of tech enthusiasts confusing a simple language conversion with the Second Coming. One brave soul suggests using LLMs to shut down IBM's "mainframe rent seeking business", sparking the expected blend of clueless optimism and tech bro infighting that makes you wonder if AI should instead focus on translating commenter ideas into coherent thoughts. 🤖💻🙄
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14 points by LosAlamosNerd
2025-04-16T20:48:07 1744836487 |
10 comments
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▲ Packing Input Frame Context in Next-Frame Prediction Models for Video Generation (lllyasviel.github.io)
Title: The Future of Watching Paint Dry, But Faster
As the tech world gasps in awe, Stanford's very own wonder duo claims they can jam a feature-length film into a glorified calculator. According to their blog post, their miraculous "FramePack" squashes epochs of video into single milliseconds—or something like that—except when your GPU catches on fire. 🚒 In earnest jubilation, the comment section gushes over the next messiah of video generation tech, marveling at how this techie David Copperfield makes hours of video play nice with consumer-grade tech sorcery. As each aspiring tech guru points out their own micro-contribution to video tech, it's clear there's enough self-congratulation here to power Silicon Valley for a year, no batteries included.
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226 points by GaggiX
2025-04-19T13:17:48 1745068668 |
26 comments
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▲ Computational Complexity of Air Travel Planning [pdf] (demarcken.org)
At last, an archaeological treasure unearthed: "Computational Complexity of Air Travel Planning," a seminal work etched onto digital papyrus before the dawn of TSA pat-downs. Internet historians and armchair theoreticians revel in discussing a document so obsolete, it predates the iPhone and humanity's loss of 3.5mm headphone jacks. Commenters, ecstatic in their discovery of dusty PDFs, debate the merits of using Common Lisp in the enigma machine—sorry, flight scheduling software—from an era when "streaming" was just something you did with a fishing rod. Proceed with all the caution—or don't; after all, who needs contemporary data when you have nostalgia?
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25 points by rochoa
2025-04-19T21:17:18 1745097438 |
4 comments
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▲ Everyone knows your location, Part 2: try it yourself and share the results (timsh.org)
Title: **Please Track Me: I Can't Get Enough! 📍**
Here we go again. "Everyone knows your location", and apparently everyone also knows that our intrepid blogger has evolved from manual snooping to pseudo-sophistication. After a grueling two months since enlightening the masses with his first groundbreaking exposé, our hero has now chatted up both the villains and Jedi of adtech, only to upgrade his spy gear and assure us that his voyeur exploits are now faster and even more scalable. Comment frenzied tech wannabes oscillate between awe and obliviousness, demonstrating profound revelations such as "other apps probably do this too" and requests for more "eye-opening" sequels, because who doesn't love a trilogy of obviousness? 🕵️♂️💤
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29 points by mtlynch
2025-04-17T13:41:27 1744897287 |
5 comments
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▲ The Animals That Exist Between Life and Death (nautil.us)
**The Eternal Limbo of Microbial Life (nautil.us)**
Today in niche academic existential crises: scientists have been staring through microscopes since the 1600s and still can't decide if tiny swimmers in a drop of water are really alive or just molecular zombies in a perpetual state of "will they/won't they" with death. Nautilus, ever eager to merge philosophy with amoebas, dives deep into the microscopic quagmire that Antonie van Leeuwenhoek chanced upon while probably trying to avoid actual work. Commenters, stirringly unaffected by the gravity of microbial life crises, engage in their usual intellectual jousting – hastily applying Philosophy 101 and pop science to debate the liminality of life and death as if determining the seating chart at a particularly contentious family reunion. One hero concludes, with a dramatic flourish, that at the cellular level, "everything else is abstraction," unintentionally echoing the call of every high school student ever forced to confront existentialism while really just wanting to pass biology. 🦠🤷♂️
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50 points by dnetesn
2025-04-17T01:05:22 1744851922 |
27 comments
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▲ Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons apparently hacked to imitate Musk, Zuck voices (paloaltoonline.com)
**Silicon Valley Crosswalk Shenanigans: Voices from Tech's Least Beloved**
In a daring display of technological mischief, pranksters have imbued Palo Alto crosswalks with the dulcet tones of Silicon Valley’s favorite autocrats: Zuckerberg and Musk. These vocal vandalisms evidently aim to bring existential dread and corporate monologues to your average pedestrian commute. Commenters, ever missing the point, engage in a nerdier-than-thou one-upmanship about IoT security flaws, with bonus points for each mention of “the app could do better.” Meanwhile, local residents now ponder whether braving traffic might be preferable to another philosophical deep dive on AI ethics while crossing the street. 🚦😂
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255 points by coloneltcb
2025-04-13T00:55:54 1744505754 |
73 comments
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▲ Restoring the Galaxian3 Theatre 6, 1992 six player arcade machine (philwip.com)
Title: "Arcade Archivists Rejoice and Commenters Geek-Spasm Over Old Tech"
Fans of obsolete entertainment rejoice as a sacred relic from the pinnacle of early-90s excess, the Galaxian3 Theatre 6, is pulled out from the digital graveyard for a nostalgic resuscitation. The comment section quickly becomes a battleground for tech enthusiasts masquerading as amateurs in electronics, where calls for replacing ancient LaserDisc technology with Raspberry Pi rigs drown in a sea of technical jargon and misplaced enthusiasm. A festival of impractical reminiscences and unnecessary technical solutions ensues, as everyone forgets that the charm of these old beasts was their cantankerous unreliability. Meanwhile, a commenter nostalgically dreams of rewriting childhood memories to include more arcade time, evidently mistaking forum therapy for actual time travel possibilities.
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194 points by countrymile
2025-04-19T09:22:17 1745054537 |
43 comments
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▲ How to Write a Fast Matrix Multiplication from Scratch with Tensor Cores (2024) (alexarmbr.github.io)
**How to Play with Fancy Math Toys: A Novel by Alex the Alchemist**
Today in the hyperspecific carnival of tech enthusiasts, Alex decides to blog about turning big, fancy matrices into even bigger, fancier results using the witchcraft of "Tensor Cores" on NVIDIA hand-wavers, only to have commenters orbit around with their tales of long-lost CUDA codes from undergrad days and heartwarming claims of their massive efficiency gains in all things computery. "Great article—didn't read past the introduction but subscribed for morale," chimes in one armchair enthusiast, who probably thinks tensor is a new brand of gym equipment. Meanwhile, another brave soul points out the quantum leap from gaming GPUs to data center behemoths, sparking the usual semantic swamp of tech jargon that allows everyone to nod wisely without understanding a single word. It's yet another high day in Hackerland, where the code compiles, the models inflated, and the comments perplexed. 🛠️💻🤷
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104 points by skidrow
2025-04-19T14:42:48 1745073768 |
9 comments
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