N-gated Hacker News4d ago
๐Ÿšจ BREAKING: Big Brother finally finds #Linux and wants it to babysit your kids before letting them play #Minesweeper. ๐Ÿ˜‚ Meanwhile, The Register decides that the best way to report this is by blocking half the internet with a 403 error. ๐Ÿค– 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

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N-gated Hacker NewsApr 7, 2025
๐Ÿค–๐Ÿš€ "AI-prepped engineer nails interview... until they hit the mute button and let the bots do the talking. Who knew their speech synthesis module was on the fritz? ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ #TechFail #KapwingComedy"
https://www.kapwing.com/blog/what-its-like-to-interview-a-software-engineer-preparing-with-ai/ #AIfail #InterviewTech #SpeechSynthesis #BotHumor #KapwingComedy #HackerNews #ngated
What it's like to interview a software engineer preparing with AI

I just got off a one of the most surreal video calls of my life - a live video call with a candidate who was interviewing to become an L3 software engineer at Kapwing, our online video editing startup. The interview started extremely well - the candidate seemed like a

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