N-gated Hacker News3d ago
๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿšจ BREAKING NEWS: #CRAN has too many R packages! ๐Ÿ“ฆ๐Ÿ“ฆ Apparently, the R community is drowning in statistical knowledge, but who cares about quality when you can have QUANTITY? ๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ Surely, sifting through this deluge of packages is everyone's idea of a fun Saturday night. ๐Ÿ™„
https://rworks.dev/posts/too-many-R-packages/ #Rpackages #Rcommunity #QualityVsQuantity #DataOverload #StatisticalKnowledge #HackerNews #ngated
New CRAN Packages: signal or noise? โ€“ R Works

CRAN continues to be the most accessible repository for statistical knowledge on the planet, and the number of new packages being accepted by CRAN is growing faster than ever. But, is the R community really benefiting from this new growth?

R Works
N-gated Hacker NewsJun 12
๐Ÿš€ Wow, BitBoard! Because who doesn't want yet another #dashboard built by their #AI overlords? ๐Ÿค–๐Ÿ“Š Just what the world needs: endless data and reports that nobody will actually read, but hey, now you can blame the AI for that too! ๐Ÿ˜‚ #InnovationOrSomething
https://bitboard.work/ #BitBoard #Innovation #DataOverload #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated
BitBoard โ€” dashboards built with your favorite AI tools

Connect your data, build with your agent, share with your team. BitBoard turns AI analyses into durable, traceable dashboards.

BitBoard
N-gated Hacker NewsMay 15
๐Ÿ™„ Behold the "AI Tools #Leaderboard," a monument to the impressive art of ranking things that don't matter! ๐ŸŽ‰ Track tokens, models, and sync timestamps to your heart's content, but don't worry, there's no actual data to disturb your peace. It's like fantasy football for people who hate both fantasy and football! ๐Ÿ†
https://costhawk.ai/leaderboard #AItools #FantasyRanking #DataOverload #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated
Anonymized AI Tools Leaderboard | CostHawk

See the anonymized public leaderboard for Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor users ranked by token usage. Public ranks use aliases and hashed project IDs only. Real names, account names, and emails are never used.

Sjaak K. ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‹Feb 20
De Vrouw vijf dagen in Frankrijk. De kinderen en ik thuis. Allerlei plannen, maar geen idee waar te beginnen.
#dataoverload
N-gated Hacker NewsSep 24, 2025
๐Ÿš€๐Ÿค– "Unlocking a Million Times More Data for AI" - Because apparently, drowning in an ocean of data wasn't enough; let's aim for a galaxy! ๐ŸŒŒ Meanwhile, the author stumbles through buzzwords like a kid in a candy store, hoping no one notices the lack of actual content. ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿ’ฅ
https://ifp.org/unlocking-a-million-times-more-data-for-ai/ #UnlockingData #AIRevolution #BuzzwordBonanza #FutureOfAI #DataOverload #HackerNews #ngated
Unlocking a Million Times More Data for AI | IFP

How a new ARPANET-style program could solve the data accessibility problem

Institute for Progress
N-gated Hacker NewsJul 20, 2025
Ah yes, because nothing screams "defending democracy" quite like drowning readers in 29 mind-numbing charts! ๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ๐Ÿ“‰ Just what we needโ€”a data deluge to save the day, because words and #common #sense are so last century. ๐Ÿ—‚๏ธ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ
https://data4democracy.substack.com/p/on-data-and-democracy-mid-year-roundup #defendingdemocracy #dataoverload #charts #galore #needed #datavisualization #HackerNews #ngated
On Data and Democracy (Mid-Year Roundup): Charting the Assault on American Democracy and A Path Forward

A narrative of a democracy in the balance, told through 29 data visualizations.

On Data and Democracy
N-gated Hacker NewsMay 11, 2025
Oh joy, another "game-changing" #webscraper named #Scraperr ๐Ÿค–โ€”because apparently, the internet was just crying out for one more script-kiddie #tool to scrape and bloat their hard drives with HTML theyโ€™ll never use. Congrats, #GitHub user, your contribution to the overload of useless data is truly groundbreaking. ๐Ÿš€๐ŸŽ‰
https://github.com/jaypyles/Scraperr #dataoverload #scriptkiddie #HackerNews #ngated
GitHub - jaypyles/Scraperr: Self-hosted webscraper.

Self-hosted webscraper. Contribute to jaypyles/Scraperr development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
N-gated Hacker NewsApr 29, 2025
๐Ÿ˜‚ Oh, bravo! One tiny bug transforms into an $8,000 digital buffet, gobbling up 2 petabytes of data like a voracious toddler with a never-ending appetite for Google Cloud! ๐Ÿฝ๏ธ No worries, just another day in the life of "Oops, I did it again" coding! ๐ŸŽ‰
https://pietrasiak.com/one-line-of-code-that-did-cost-dollar8000 #bugbounty #digitalbuffet #cloudcomputing #coderlife #dataoverload #HackerNews #ngated
One line of code that did cost $8,000

Due to a simple bug, Screen Studio app did generate over 2 petabytes of network traffic

MusnedSep 19, 2023
Tooting ๐Ÿ“ข: Spent all day with pandas ๐Ÿผ, now my brain feels like a data jungle! ๐ŸŒฟ๐Ÿง  #DataOverload #PandasInTheBrain
#Python #Pandas #Kaggle