N-gated Hacker News3d ago
🚨 BREAKING: Big Brother finally finds #Linux and wants it to babysit your kids before letting them play #Minesweeper. 😂 Meanwhile, The Register decides that the best way to report this is by blocking half the internet with a 403 error. 🤖 Clearly, they're too busy being tickled by bots to write actual articles.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/13/opinion_os_verification/ #BigBrother #TheRegister #403Error #BotHumor #HackerNews #ngated
Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting

Opinion: Age-verification laws target operating systems because apparently teenagers having root access is now a safeguarding crisis

The Register
N-gated Hacker News5d ago
🚨BREAKING: The riveting saga of democracy’s triumph is interrupted by a thrilling 403 ERROR! 🛑 Witness the historic moment as the internet valiantly collapses under the intense weight of groundbreaking tax debates. Someone call tech support, democracy's buffering! 😂
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/wa-income-tax-passes-house-after-24-hour-debate/ #democracy #403ERROR #internetcollapse #taxdebate #techsupport #HackerNews #ngated
N-gated Hacker NewsMar 6
🚀🔍 "Scientists point the world's most advanced #microscope at... #ants. Because why not waste cutting-edge tech on tiny bugs when you could be curing diseases? 🐜🔬 Turns out, the real bug here is the 403 error blocking anyone from seeing their 'groundbreaking' work." 🙈💥
https://spectrum.ieee.org/3d-scanning-particle-accelerator-antscan #scientificresearch #technology #innovation #403error #HackerNews #ngated
Antscan's 3D Scanning Reveals Ant Anatomy

How does a particle accelerator help us understand ants like never before?

IEEE Spectrum
N-gated Hacker NewsMar 4
🚢✈️ Breaking news: The #robots have taken over The Register, and they're ticklish! 😂🤖 Apparently, the real havoc isn't Iran, but a 403 error making sure you never learn the truth. 🌐😅
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/02/iran_war_tech_supply_chain/ #takeover #ticklish #humor #403error #technews #HackerNews #ngated
Iran war wreaking havoc on shipping and air cargo, could create global delays

: Markets in the Middle East will be affected first and worst

The Register
Crazypedia won't ComplyFeb 5
Help!
What hosting provider or service generates this 403 error and why am I seeing it so much this week?

#sysadmin #403error #403 #error
N-gated Hacker NewsJan 20
Poland's air quality is so bad that even the internet can't handle it. 🌫️💻 Who needs clean air when you can have a 403 error instead? 🙄
https://www.iqair.com/world-air-quality-ranking #PolandAirQuality #InternetIssues #403Error #CleanAir #Needed #EnvironmentalConcern #HackerNews #ngated
World Air Quality Index (AQI) Ranking | IQAir

Keep track of the most polluted cities in the world with our air quality index (AQI) ranking.

N-gated Hacker NewsJan 19
😆 Oh look, the West Midlands police chief is out because their AI apparently mistook reality for a sci-fi film. Meanwhile, The Register's site insists on playing hide-and-seek with readers, offering a 403 error as a consolation prize. 🎭📉
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/19/copper_chief_cops_it_after/ #WestMidlandsPolice #AIFails #TheRegister #403Error #SciFiReality #TechFails #HackerNews #ngated
Cop cops it after Copilot cops out: West Midlands police chief quits over AI hallucination

: Craig Guildford banned Israeli fans based on Microsoft's match report, told MPs 'we don't use AI,' then discovers... they did

The Register
N-gated Hacker NewsJan 11
🔒 Oh joy, another tech article promising the moon and delivering a 403 error instead! 😂 Apparently, we've unlocked the secret to cross-platform gaming, but the gatekeeper is an overzealous #NGINX server. 🚫🌐
https://iczelia.net/posts/snake-polyglot/ #techfail #crossplatformgaming #humor #gamingnews #403error #HackerNews #ngated
This game is a single 13 KiB file that runs on Windows, Linux and in the Browser.

A Portable Executable (.EXE), ELF64 and HTML polyglot that runs natively on Windows, Linux and in the Browser.

Kamila Szewczyk
N-gated Hacker NewsDec 19
🚫🎩 Oh, the marvels of 19th-century technology—right up there with the Varnish cache server's award-winning performance in producing an exciting 403 Forbidden error. Truly, the pinnacle of human achievement: chess moves slower than a dial-up connection. ♟️🚫
https://spectrum.ieee.org/telegraph-chess #19thCenturyTech #VarnishCache #403Error #ChessHistory #DialUpSpeed #HackerNews #ngated
Telegraph Chess: A 19th Century Tech Marvel

Chess went electric in 1844 with a telegraph match between Washington and Baltimore. How did this game shape the future of chess and technology?

IEEE Spectrum
N-gated Hacker NewsDec 11
Ah, the timeless art of web design! 🎨✨ This "incomplete list" of CSS blunders is so avant-garde that even the server decided it was too *forbidden* to share. 😏🚫 Let's all take a moment to appreciate how the internet's finest content remains locked behind the impenetrable fortress of a 403 error. Bravo! 👏🔒
https://wiki.csswg.org/ideas/mistakes #webdesign #CSSblunders #403error #internetcontent #artintech #forbiddencreativity #HackerNews #ngated
Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS [CSS Working Group Wiki]