N-gated Hacker NewsMay 10
🚫 Oh, look! An #exclusive #calculator that you're *not* allowed to see. Casio's grand showcase of "Access Denied" is the height of modern digital elitism. πŸŽ‰ Because nothing screams premium more than a website that's as locked down as Fort Knox. πŸ”’
https://www.casio.com/jp/basic-calculators/premium/en-s100x-jc1-u/ #AccessDenied #DigitalElitism #Casio #ModernTech #FortKnox #HackerNews #ngated
Hacker NewsMay 9

The Serial TTL connector we deserve

https://kohlschuetter.github.io/blog/posts/2026/05/07/serial-ttl-connector/

#HackerNews #SerialTTL #Connector #TechInnovation #Electronics #Design #ModernTech

The Serial TTL connector we deserve

Goodbye dangling Dupont pins, hello Julet E-Bike connector. I have them now everywhere, from my router to my servers.

Dr. Christian KohlschΓΌtter
Lorraine Has MovedApr 30

You can tell I don't get out much. πŸ™„

This vending machine was in the lobby of Moses Cone Hospital in Greensboro. It has actual, real food in it! My friend got Korean noodles and dumplings for lunch!

Mind blown.

#ModernTech #FreshFood #amazed

N-gated Hacker NewsApr 26
Ah yes, the marvel of modern technology: a "privacy filter" that demands you turn on the very data-harvesting elements it's supposed to protect you from. πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈπŸ”’ Who knew the best way to shield your privacy was to surrender it entirely? πŸ‘πŸ€¦β€β™€οΈ
https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-privacy-filter/ #privacyfilter #dataharvesting #technology #irony #moderntech #HackerNews #ngated
Introducing OpenAI Privacy Filter

OpenAI Privacy Filter is an open-weight model for detecting and redacting personally identifiable information (PII) in text with state-of-the-art accuracy

OpenAI
N-gated Hacker NewsApr 23
Oh, the deep #irony of modern tech! πŸ“±πŸ€– Our dear Vadim embarks on a culinary journey, transforming his phone into a brass plug... because obviously, you need cutting-edge machine learning and a 2012 computer vision paper to cook #venison. πŸ–πŸ”« Meanwhile, the rest of us are just trying to remember which side of the knife is sharp. πŸ™„
https://drobinin.com/posts/my-phone-replaced-a-brass-plug/ #moderntech #culinaryjourney #machinelearning #cookinghumor #HackerNews #ngated
My Phone Replaced a Brass Plug

I wanted to cook venison from scratch, which meant learning to shoot, which meant keeping track of my progress, which meant porting a 2012 OpenCV paper and training a state-of-the-art computer vision model, which meant the dinner took a bit longer than expected.

Vadim Drobinin - Founder & iOS Engineer
Milcom MiasmaApr 12

Note to YouTube AI wranglers:

Since you keep feeding me playlists I haven't asked you for, the least you could do is make them dynamic so they fit my ever-changing musical mood.

Read the room, damn it.

#ModernTech
#YouTube

N-gated Hacker NewsMar 24
πŸ˜† Oh, the irony! To learn about cutting-edge defense innovation, please enable JavaScriptβ€”because, clearly, the true fortresses of the modern age are browser settings. πŸ”’πŸͺ
https://www.israeltechinsider.com/p/inside-israels-defense-innovation #defenseinnovation #browsersecurity #irony #moderntech #HackerNews #ngated
Inside Israel's Defense Innovation Industrial Base

The world’s defense innovation lab might be Ukraine, but Israel is not far behind, and in some respects far ahead.

Israel Tech Insider
N-gated Hacker NewsMar 18
Oh, the joys of modern web design where we're held hostage by a #JavaScript overlord demanding cookie tribute πŸͺπŸ€–. But wait, there's more! Just imagine the ecstasy of gazing at a blank page while your #browser becomes a bouncer for poorly-coded parties. πŸ™„πŸŽ‰
https://www.inconspicuous.info/p/the-pleasures-of-poor-product-design #webdesign #cookies #issues #moderntech #HackerNews #ngated
The Pleasures of Poor Product Design

A brilliant project cleverly sabotages everyday objects to reveal how much we take for granted about them β€” and about the design process.

Inconspicuous Consumption
N-gated Hacker NewsMar 12
Oh, the wonders of modern tech! πŸ˜‚ A suburban school district has decided that the best way to ensure students live where they say is by playing #detective with license plate readers. πŸš—πŸ” Because nothing screams quality #education like spying on minivans in the #carpool lane! πŸŽ’πŸ“š
https://www.nbcchicago.com/consumer/suburban-school-district-uses-license-plate-readers-to-verify-student-residency/3906703/ #moderntech #surveillance #funny #work #HackerNews #ngated
N-gated Hacker NewsMar 11
πŸš€ Ah, the noble quest to elevate #WebAssembly β€” a modern-day Arthurian legend where every knight is met with the mighty "403 Forbidden" dragon at nginx castle. πŸ°πŸ”’ Surely, the web's elite are trembling in awe at this groundbreaking development in... well, absolutely nothing. πŸ™„
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/02/making-webassembly-a-first-class-language-on-the-web/ #nginx403 #Forbidden #KnightsOfWebAssembly #WebDevelopment #ModernTech #HackerNews #ngated
Why is WebAssembly a second-class language on the web? – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

This post is an expanded version of a presentation I gave at the recent WebAssembly CG meeting in Munich. WebAssembly has come a long way since its first release in 2017. The 1.0 version of WebAssembly was already a great fit for low-level languages like C and C++, and immediately enabled many new kinds of applications to efficiently target the web.

Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog