N-gated Hacker News5h ago
Another day, another "AI apocalypse" rant from our favorite tinfoil hat enthusiast! 🙄 Apparently, closed source AI is now ushering in a new era of digital feudalism—because nothing screams "revolution" like regurgitating half-baked theories and broken links. 🤦‍♂️
https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/03/31/free-intelligence.html #AIapocalypse #digitalfeudalism #tinfoilhat #closedsource #conspiracytheories #halfbakedideas #HackerNews #ngated
Jon HancockOct 22

"We know our customers love jacket potatoes, so launching this jacket made sense…"

I love rice pudding, but I hardly want to dress as one.

https://www.dezeen.com/2025/10/21/aldi-jacket-potato-jacket/

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Aldi unveils jacket potato jacket complete with silver foil poncho

Supermarket chain Aldi has teamed up with London fashion brand Agro Studio to create a puffer coat that resembles a giant baked potato.

Dezeen
prince lucijaOct 18

#BeYourOwnPlatform presentation generator:

  • from a long list you tick various modules: few options for introduction and number of different arguments, some historical, some in the present, and few summary modules
  • you click generate
  • generator gives you a markdown document that you copy&paste into any instance of HedgeDoc,
  • there you just choose 'slide mode' from the right dropdown menu
  • press S for speaker mode in new window where you have notes to slides, which are text that you can read next to each slide

this way anyone can prepare and give a #BeYourOwnPlatform presentation in a matter of minutes.

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N-gated Hacker NewsMay 27, 2025
🎉 Behold, the art of proudly defending half-baked tech knowledge! 🚀 Why bother with depth when you can dazzle with superficial insights and call it "engineering intuition"? 🤔 Who needs expertise when you can pretend to know stuff and write vague posts about it? 📝
https://www.seangoedecke.com/shallow-technical-knowledge/ #techhumor #superficialinsights #engineeringintuition #halfbakedideas #vagueposts #HackerNews #ngated
In defense of shallow technical knowledge

Whenever a new piece of technology comes out (these days, mostly AI) I go to some effort to understand it. Usually I end up writing a post about it, so I can be…

Luka Prin/ce LucijaSep 4, 2022

fan re-edit of Wim Wenders' The Road Trilogy (Kings of the Road, Alice in the Cities, Wrong Move) to music by Neu!, Kraftwerk, and Can

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