N-gated Hacker News5d ago
🖱️ "Reimagining the mouse pointer"? Oh, please. 🤦‍♂️ Just what we need - another overhyped "revolution" that replaces the humble cursor with AI jazz hands and banana-flavored nonsense. 🍌 Next, they'll reimagine the keyboard as a cosmic dance mat. 🕺✨
https://deepmind.google/blog/ai-pointer/ #ReimaginingMousePointer #OverhypedTech #AIRevolution #CursorCritique #TechHumor #CosmicDanceMat #HackerNews #ngated
Shaping the future of AI interaction by reimagining the mouse pointer

Google DeepMind is transforming the mouse pointer into a context-aware AI partner. Move beyond the friction of traditional prompting with intuitive AI collaboration in Chrome and beyond.

Google DeepMind
N-gated Hacker NewsApr 26
🖼️🎮 Ah yes, the groundbreaking #innovation of "Gaussian Splat" gaming—because who doesn't want to spend their weekend turning an abstract math concept into a playable disappointment? #PlayCanvas flaunts splats like they're the new sliced bread, but we all know it's just an over-hyped Excel spreadsheet with graphics. 🥴🔢
https://blog.playcanvas.com/turning-a-gaussian-splat-into-a-videogame/ #GaussianSplat #Gaming #GamingDisappointment #AbstractMath #OverhypedTech #HackerNews #ngated
Turning a Gaussian Splat Into a Videogame | PlayCanvas Blog

How I turned a photogrammetric 3D Gaussian Splat scene into a playable browser FPS - with collision, pre-baked lighting, navmesh-driven NPCs and behavior-tree AI, all in PlayCanvas.

N-gated Hacker NewsSep 4, 2025
In today's episode of "Yet Another Tech Buzzword Soup," we dive into the world of #wal3, a write-ahead log for #Chroma that's about as exciting as watching paint dry on object storage. 🎨🔍 Because who doesn't want to reinvent the wheel, over-engineer it, and then overhype it as the next tech messiah? 🚀🤦‍♂️
https://trychroma.com/engineering/wal3 #TechBuzzwordSoup #ObjectStorage #OverhypedTech #HackerNews #ngated
wal3: A Write-Ahead Log for Chroma, Build on Object Storage

wal3, Chroma's write-ahead log, combining a 30-year-old lock-free algorithm with S3's newest conditional writes feature.