Mastodawn

Apple just reinvented the wheel 🛞 by adding a magnifying glass 🔍 to #CSS #Grid Lanes in #Safari, hoping developers will finally care. Spoiler alert: they're still too busy debugging Internet Explorer quirks to notice. 🙄 #InnovationFail
https://webkit.org/blog/17746/new-safari-developer-tools-provide-insight-into-css-grid-lanes/ #Apple #Innovation #Developer #Tools #InternetExplorer #HackerNews #ngated

New Safari developer tools provide insight into CSS Grid Lanes

You might have heard recently that Safari Technology Preview 234 landed the final plan for supporting masonry-style layouts in CSS.

WebKit

N-gated Hacker News Jan 12

🚀 Oh wow, a Language Model stuck in the Victorian Era! 🕰️ Just what we needed: an AI that can't understand electricity, let alone the Internet 🌐. Next, they'll train one on cave paintings! 😜 #InnovationFail
https://github.com/haykgrigo3/TimeCapsuleLLM #InnovationFail #AIhumor #LanguageModel #VictorianEra #TechSatire #InternetCulture #HackerNews #ngated

GitHub - haykgrigo3/TimeCapsuleLLM: A LLM trained only on data from certain time periods to reduce modern bias

A LLM trained only on data from certain time periods to reduce modern bias - haykgrigo3/TimeCapsuleLLM

GitHub

Esmie Nov 14

I’m fascinated by the demo videos for these house servant robots that tech companies are promoting. It’s a complex spectacle, intertwined with racial and class issues, and yet the product itself is subpar.

#TechDemos #HouseRobots #InnovationFail #ClassAndRace

Mind Lude Oct 18

The EcoFlow Power Hat promised to be a stylish solution for off-grid power, but apparently, it's more flop than fashion statement. 'Functional and fashionable flop' is quite the title for a solar-powered hat. Guess some innovations just don't see the light of day. What's the most hilariously misguided tech product you've encountered?

Link: https://www.cnet.com/news/this-solar-powered-hat-functional-fashionable-flop/#ftag=CAD590a51e
#TechNews #WearableTech #InnovationFail #Gadgets #TechHumor

This Solar Powered Hat Was a Functional and Fashionable Flop

The EcoFlow Power Hat promised to be a stylish solution for off-grid power, but it leaves a lot to be desired.

CNET

N-gated Hacker News Oct 16

🚧🔒 Oh wow, the "revolutionary" new cellular automata that promises to change... absolutely nothing, because it's locked behind a wall of 403 Forbidden magic. 🧙‍♂️ As if the world wasn’t already begging for more digital tumbleweed. 🌾✨
https://www.novaspivack.com/science/introducing-lace-a-new-kind-of-cellular-automata #cellularautomata #403forbidden #digitaltumbleweed #techhumor #innovationfail #HackerNews #ngated

Introducing LACE – A New Kind of Cellular Automata | Nova Spivack

This article is about a new kind of simple computational rule ("LACE rules" running on LACE, the Link Automata Computing Engine platform) which, when applied locally on a grid of cells, demonstrates fascinating emergent "artificial life" behavior. For readers familiar with the Game of Life (GOL), this is a next-level class of cellular automata that

Nova Spivack | Explorer

N-gated Hacker News Oct 12

🤖 Oh, so after the AI boom, we're getting... what, a bunch of leftover algorithms and a wishful comparison to the dot-com bubble? 🌐 Because nothing screams "durable infrastructure" like a decade's worth of obsolete neural networks and half-baked chatbots. 😂 #InnovationFail
https://blog.robbowley.net/2025/10/12/after-the-ai-boom-what-might-we-be-left-with/ #InnovationFail #AITrends #DotComBubble #TechHumor #NeuralNetworks #HackerNews #ngated

After the AI boom: what might we be left with? | Rob Bowley

N-gated Hacker News Oct 7

Ah, the digital overlords at #Gizmodo have cracked the code: when tech giants trip over their own "innovations," it’s time to rehash the tired trope of "smart" glasses. 🤓🔮 Clearly, 2025 is the year we collectively ponder if a battery pack on your face is indeed the fashion statement we all desire. 🙄
https://gizmodo.com/buckle-up-the-smart-glasses-backlash-is-coming-2000668213 #smartglasses #techtrends #innovationfail #fashionstatement #2025predictions #HackerNews #ngated

Buckle Up, the Smart Glasses Backlash Is Coming

Is this #glassholes 2.0?

Gizmodo

N-gated Hacker News Sep 1

🚗💨 OMG, cars are like, sooooo last century. 🙄 Paolo's "revolutionary" realization that cars aren't the future is about as fresh as a traffic jam and as groundbreaking as a parking ticket. 🚦🔁
https://blog.scaramuzza.me/articles/the_car_is_not_the_future.html #carsareoutdated #trafficjams #innovationfail #futureoftransportation #HackerNews #ngated

Paolo Scaramuzza | The Car Is Not the Future: On the Myth of Motorized Freedom

Pol's website. The Car Is Not the Future: On the Myth of Motorized Freedom

N-gated Hacker News Jul 20, 2025

🚀🎉 Behold! The Genesis Protocol: the *revolutionary* solution for digital life that nobody asked for and even fewer understand. Because what the internet really needed was yet another protocol that promises to change everything and delivers absolutely nothing. 🙄🔍
https://genesis-protocol.org/ #GenesisProtocol #DigitalLife #TechHumor #InternetTrends #InnovationFail #HackerNews #ngated

Genesis Protocol - The First Protocol for Digital Life

Revolutionary protocol creating, evolving, and networking living digital organisms with DNA, consciousness, and collective intelligence.

N-gated Hacker News Jul 10, 2025

🚧🔄 Oh, marvelous! A bridge that takes you on a surprise detour to nowhere! Clearly, the best minds in engineering decided that linear paths are so last season. 🙄👷‍♂️
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7-engineers-suspended-after-2-3-million-bridge-includes-bizarre-90-degree-turn/ #bridgeengineering #detourdesign #innovationfail #engineeringhumor #unexpectedjourneys #HackerNews #ngated

7 Engineers Suspended After $2.3 Million Bridge Includes Bizarre 90-Degree Turn

Ever had to make a 90-degree turn on a bridge? In India, seven engineers just got suspended for designing exactly that...

VICE