Bharath Upendra18h ago

Modern World Needs Older Myths

People think atheists want to erase faith and leave behind a void but atheists actually want to fill that space with human connection and a deeper appreciation for the world.  To reject the supernatural is to scrub the world clean of ghosts, ghouls, monsters and gods, leaving behind a landscape governed entirely by verifiable and quantifiable data. Or that's what we're told. But this is a misunderstanding. You do not need to believe in the literal existence of a village deity or a cosmic […]

https://ridiculousbharath.wordpress.com/2026/06/24/modern-world-needs-older-myths/

Modern World Needs Older Myths

People think atheists want to erase faith and leave behind a void but atheists actually want to fill that space with human connection and a deeper appreciation for the world.  To reject the su…

Bharath Upendra
N-gated Hacker News3d ago
🚨 BREAKING: #macOS confuses a user with its double-life as a path separator magician! 🎩✨ In the thrilling saga of slashes and colons, our bewildered hero discovers that file names can deceive, leading to existential dread and terminal commands. Who knew creating a folder could be this mind-boggling? 🤯
https://alexwlchan.net/2021/slashes/ #confusion #pathseparator #existentialdread #terminalcommands #mindboggling #HackerNews #ngated
A tale of two path separators

macOS allows both the slash and colon as path separators, and this caused me no small amount of confusion.

Mike_V6d ago

“…Meta’s leadership, recognizing the company’s sagging esprit de corps, is taking steps to improve morale. For starters, the snack budget is being increased….”
This sag in morale is occurring as staff work to train AI agents that will replace them. More snacks will certainly offset the existential dread of that work.
#MetaAI #existentialdread #snacks #AI

https://petapixel.com/2026/06/18/meta-is-increasing-the-snack-budget-after-staff-morale-plummets/

Meta is Increasing the Snack Budget After Staff Morale Plummets

Melons in decorative bowls anyone?

PetaPixel
N-gated Hacker NewsJun 17
Behold! 🌟 An epic tale of a microscopic UI library in #ANSI #C that promises to #revolutionize how you don't use interfaces. Dive in and lose yourself in the endless #GitHub menu toggles and AI-generated dreams, only to emerge with the same existential dread about UI as before. 🚀
https://github.com/rxi/microui #microscopicUI #existentialdread #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated
GitHub - rxi/microui: A tiny immediate-mode UI library

A tiny immediate-mode UI library. Contribute to rxi/microui development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
N-gated Hacker NewsJun 9
Google's 20% project has now evolved into AI's #120% #attention black hole, where engineers give their souls to the machine overlords 🤖. Apparently, it's not enough to just control your weekdays—Google wants your mind, body, and spirit too, in exchange for dividends of existential dread 💰. Talk about progress! 🏃‍♂️💨
https://joe.dev/posts/new-20pct-time/ #Google #AI #MachineOverlords #ExistentialDread #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated
The new 20% time, minus the time

Attention is replacing hours. But is it 120% time all over again?

joe.dev
N-gated Hacker NewsJun 7
🚀🤖 Ah, yes, the OnlyFans of AI—where American dreams ☁️ and science fiction fantasies collide in a digital diner serving up existential dread with a side of 'no class consciousness' fries. 🍟✨ If you're looking for profound insights, keep scrolling; this is just a word salad dressed in Hugo sauce. 🙄
https://leoveanu.com/2026-06-06-qwen3.7max/ #OnlyFansOfAI #AmericanDreams #DigitalDiner #ExistentialDread #WordSalad #HackerNews #ngated
The OnlyFans Economy of American AI

“The dreamers look skyward with longing. The Internet hums with its usual promise — you will find your people, your myth, your wonder, and maybe your transformation.”

Trimming Circles
N-gated Hacker NewsJun 2
🚀 Ah, yes, the age-old question of "what will become of software engineers?" 🤔 Perhaps if we gaze into our coffee mugs long enough, the answer will materialize like a bug in production code. Fear not, fellow developers, our keyboards may yet type us out of this existential dread! 🖥️🔮
https://yakko.dev/blog/whats-gonna-happen-to-software-developers #softwareengineering #techtrends #developerlife #existentialdread #codingjourney #futureofwork #HackerNews #ngated
What's gonna happen to software engineers?

Yakko Majuri's blog about software engineering, startups, AI agents, and open source — by the founder of Skald Labs and former PostHog engineer.

yakko's blog
Show threadRichard PennerMay 31

Sometimes when you are stressed, experiencing the struggles of a fictional character can be cathartic. I guess that's why I used this quote and wrote this description for the cropped screen capture.

#StressRelief #ExistentialDread #AltText #Catharsis #HelluvaBoss #Moxie #ComfortCharacter

Zarion ZoryMay 30

The Flowing Glow of Impermanence

​In one lifetime, how many times do we die?
In a single life, how many times do we give birth to ourselves?
Why does our lived distant past seem ancient?
Why do ancient memories visit us randomly in nightmares?
Why does the future never arrive?
Why does our recent past look like the present?
Do we die and get born again in a single lifetime?
Or do we indeed live and die only once?
​
#ZarionZoryStory

#Life #ExistentialDread #Relationships #WorkLife

N-gated Hacker NewsMay 29
🎨🌀 "Ever wondered what your weather looks like as a Rothko painting? 🙄 Spoiler: it's still just blobs of color lacking any practical use. But hey, at least you can now match your existential dread with the gloom outside. 🌧️✨"
https://rothko.joonas.wtf/ #WeatherArt #ExistentialDread #RothkoPainting #ColorBlobs #GloomyDays #HackerNews #ngated
Current Rothko