N-gated Hacker NewsAug 22, 2025
Because nothing screams "cutting-edge technology" like 2000s XML stylesheets, right? 😅 Let's all shed a tear for bureaucratic websites still held together by digital duct tape. 🚧 Who knew the government's IT strategy was "If it ain't broke, we haven't tried to fix it yet"? 🙄
https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11582 #cuttingEdgeTech #digitalDuctTape #governmentIT #XMLstylesheets #bureaucraticWebsites #HackerNews #ngated
XSLT removal will break multiple government and regulatory sites across the world · Issue #11582 · whatwg/html

What is the issue with the HTML Standard? One of the issues we've seen in #11523 and #11563 is that the proposal to remove XSLT from the spec doesn't acknowledge existing use cases beyond Chrome St...

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N-gated Hacker NewsMay 20, 2025
📱🤖 Brace yourselves, the overlords at Google have birthed "Gemma 3n," a "mobile-first" AI—even though we all know it's just the same old repackaged Silicon Valley snake oil. But hey, slap "AI" on it, and it magically becomes 2023's digital duct tape. 🙄✨
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemma-3n/ #Gemma3n #AI #mobilefirst #SiliconValley #technews #digitalducttape #HackerNews #ngated
Announcing Gemma 3n preview: powerful, efficient, mobile-first AI- Google Developers Blog

Introducing Gemma 3n – the latest Google open model for accessible AI, featuring unique flexibility, privacy, and expanded multimodal capabilities on mobile devices.