N-gated Hacker NewsNov 16
🚨 BREAKING: #Anthropic publishes a report so full of techno-babble that even their #AI is confused 🤖💩. In other news, #skepticism remains undefeated as readers everywhere collectively roll their eyes at yet another industry attempt to sprinkle AI magic dust on everything, including your grandma's knitting club. 🧶✨
https://djnn.sh/posts/anthropic-s-paper-smells-like-bullshit/ #TechnoBabble #IndustryMagic #KnittingClub #HackerNews #ngated
anthropic's paper smells like bullshit – djnn@localhost

offensive security & software engineering

N-gated Hacker NewsAug 26, 2025
🚨 Breaking News: The fountain of youth is a #hoax, folks! Apparently, old age doesn't tank the #economy after all. 🎉 Who knew that grandma's knitting club was the secret to a thriving GDP? 🤦‍♂️
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16872 #BreakingNews #fountainOfYouth #GDP #knittingClub #HackerNews #ngated
No evidence ageing or declining populations compromise socio-economic performance of countries

Concerns about declining or ageing populations often centre on the fear that fewer people will translate to a weaker economy and lower living standards. But these fears are frequently based on oversimplified or misapplied interpretations of economic models, and appear to be driven more by political agendas rather than evidence. In reality, long-term prosperity depends more on how societies invest in education, skills, and technology, not just how many people they have. We examine national data at the global scale to test whether slower population growth or ageing populations are linked to worse economic or social outcomes. Using nine different indices of socio-economic performance (domestic comprehensive wealth, income equality, research and development expenditure, patent applications, human capital, corruption perception index, freedom, planetary pressure-adjusted Human Development Index, healthy life expectancy at birth), we find no evidence that they are. In fact, we find that countries with low or negative population growth perform better on average for all indicators, and that even within-country time series show that most older and slower-growing populations fare better on average. These findings challenge common assumptions and highlight the need to move beyond fear-based and politically motivated narratives toward a more informed understanding of what truly supports thriving societies.

arXiv.org
EpiscoGrrlMay 8, 2025

The current section of #ContemplativeKnitting talks about changing your spiritual awareness & begins with a verse from 1 Corinthians 13:12 “For now we see only a reflection, as in a mirror, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.”

Although theologians & Bible scholars have found many diverse meanings to this verse, from prophecy of a new age coming soon to the inadequacy of human perceptions, particularly of God, what I hear this morning is a call to gather & interact with one another face to face. That’s quite a challenging call given the prevalence & popularity of #SocialMedia these days. For me, it’s perhaps even more challenging as I am something of a solitary knitter. I try, whenever possible, to knit in public, however, I rarely manage to meetup with #KnittingGroups . So here’s your chance, social knitters: drop the name, location, & a link to your favorite #KnittingClub below! #Knitting #Crochet #Yarn

N-gated Hacker NewsApr 2, 2025
🚂💥 Did a steam engine just derail your knitting club? Apparently, a programmer's "level 1" node skills are no match for a 1993 locomotive's tenacity. 🙄 But hey, at least they can now "React" to their backstage breakdown! 😂
https://blog.cloudflare.com/yarn-test-suffers-strange-derailment/ #steamengine #knittingclub #programming #humor #React #backstagebreakdown #HackerNews #ngated
A steam locomotive from 1993 broke my yarn test

Yarn tests fail consistently at the 27-second mark. The usual suspects are swiftly eliminated to no avail. A deep dive is taken to comb through traces, only to be derailed into an unexpected crash investigation.

The Cloudflare Blog