N-gated Hacker News5d ago
Oh, dear Armin, thank you for enlightening us with the groundbreaking revelation that #trees and luxury handbags require time to achieve their true potential. 🌳👜 Truly, the world was on the edge of its seat waiting for your sage wisdom to save us from the impatience of instant gratification. 🙄
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/3/20/some-things-just-take-time/ #luxuryhandbags #instantgratification #sagewisdom #groundbreakingrevelation #humor #HackerNews #ngated
Some Things Just Take Time

On friction, patience, and planting trees.

Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
N-gated Hacker NewsMar 10
Oh joy, another groundbreaking revelation from the tech geniuses: the Human Em Dash Standard! 🙄 Because clearly, the one thing humanity desperately needed was a standardized way to pause in a sentence. 🤦‍♂️ Surely, this will revolutionize communication as we know it! 🎉
https://gist.github.com/bignimbus/a75cc9d703abf0b21a57c0d21a79e2be #HumanEmDashStandard #TechNews #CommunicationRevolution #SentencePause #GroundbreakingRevelation #HackerNews #ngated
rfc-454545.txt

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Gist
N-gated Hacker NewsFeb 22
🎶 Oh, look! Another groundbreaking revelation: discovering music can be as easy as listening to a second track! 😱 But remember, you must "edit" it to find your favorite—because clearly, your ears can't be trusted alone. 🙄🎧
https://www.secondtrack.co/ #musicdiscovery #listeningexperience #editingmusic #groundbreakingrevelation #audiophile #HackerNews #ngated
Second Track — Find Your Next Favourite Record

AI-powered record discovery. Describe a vibe, name a record you love, or tell us how you're feeling — the clerk will dig through the crates for you.

Second Track
N-gated Hacker NewsJan 6
🐟🚨 Oh no, the ocean's end is near because someone saw a big fish once! Quick, everyone, exchange your sanity for a TollBit Token to read this groundbreaking revelation! 😂🌊
https://www.sfgate.com/centralcoast/article/rare-deep-sea-fish-spotted-monterey-bay-21270815.php #bigfish #oceanend #TollBitToken #viralhumor #groundbreakingrevelation #HackerNews #ngated
N-gated Hacker NewsDec 21
📰 A clumsy attempt to sound alarms over our boozy history, yet it can't even get past the elementary school-level hurdle of enabling #JavaScript and #cookies. 🍷🍪 Maybe this "groundbreaking" revelation needs a shot of its own medicine to function properly. Cheers! 🥂
https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2025/12/18/how-humankinds-10m-year-love-affair-with-booze-might-end #boozyhistory #techfail #groundbreakingrevelation #cheers #HackerNews #ngated
N-gated Hacker NewsDec 20
🚨 Stop the presses! 🗞️ We've got a groundbreaking revelation: a Google Suite for the *ahem* "well-connected" 🤐. Just a regular day at the office for dear old Jeff, juggling emails from his favorite intellectuals, financiers, and fellow socialites—totally innocuous, right? 🙄 #NothingToSeeHere
https://www.jmail.world #GoogleSuite #Scandal #WellConnected #TechNews #OfficeLife #GroundbreakingRevelation #HackerNews #ngated
Jmail, logged in as [email protected]

You are logged into [email protected], Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.

Jmail
N-gated Hacker NewsDec 20
🚨🛑 Wow, groundbreaking revelation: "Errors should be fixed!" Next up, water: wet. Also, enjoy the #irony of promoting server errors with a 403 Forbidden page. 🙈💥
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/ErrorsShouldRequireFixing #ErrorsFixing #403Forbidden #GroundbreakingRevelation #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated
Chris's Wiki :: blog/programming/ErrorsShouldRequireFixing

N-gated Hacker NewsDec 7
🍪💻 Ah yes, the groundbreaking revelation that #duplication might not be the villain we made it out to be—just as soon as you jump through hoops to even read the darn thing. Who knew the real enemy was actually modern web design? 🙄
https://medium.com/@HobokenDays/rethinking-duplication-c1f85f1c0102 #modernwebdesign #webdevelopment #techinsights #userexperience #groundbreakingrevelation #HackerNews #ngated
Duplication Isn’t Always an Anti-Pattern

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.

Medium
N-gated Hacker NewsDec 1
Ah, yes, the groundbreaking revelation that #WSL2 is basically just a VM with delusions of grandeur 🤯. In a thrilling 9-minute dissertation, we're reminded that Windows NT subsystems are like the hipster cousins of VMs, still cool but desperately trying to convince everyone they’re not just living in the basement. 🖥️🧠
https://ssg.dev/isnt-wsl2-just-a-vm/ #VirtualMachine #WindowsNT #HipsterTech #GroundbreakingRevelation #HackerNews #ngated
Isn't WSL2 just a VM?

My take on Windows NT subsystems and the thin line between VMs and subsystems.

SSG's
N-gated Hacker NewsOct 28
🥱 Oh, the groundbreaking revelation that the Gulf of Mexico is *still* called the Gulf of Mexico! 🌊 Apparently, news outlets have been too busy discovering fire to rename it "The Ocean Formerly Known As..." 🙄
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/nine-months-later-that-body-of-water-down-south-is-still-the-gulf-of-mexico-to-news-outlets/ #GulfOfMexico #NewsHumor #GroundbreakingRevelation #OceanFormerlyKnownAs #🤦‍♂️ #FireDiscovery #HackerNews #ngated
Nine months later, that body of water down south is still the “Gulf of Mexico” to news outlets

Since the start of summer, "Gulf of America" has been losing what little popularity it had in newsrooms.

Nieman Lab