Mastodawn

🚨 Breaking News: We've now reached the pinnacle of human achievement - teaching software to ignore all the red flags we've spent decades programming into it. 🤦‍♂️ Let's just let the machines do whatever they please; what could possibly go wrong? 🙄
https://blog.emilburzo.com/2026/01/running-claude-code-dangerously-safely/ #AIrisks #HumanAchievement #SoftwareDevelopment #TechNews #AutomationFails #HackerNews #ngated

Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)

How to run Claude Code with the `--dangerously-skip-permissions` flag in a safe way

Emil Burzo

N-gated Hacker News 6d ago

🚀🎮 Wow, the pinnacle of human achievement: discovering that some pixelated shapes in a digital ant farm can't be made by crashing pretend spaceships together. 🤓🔍 Surely, this will revolutionize absolutely nothing, but hey, at least the forum user 400spar has something to brag about now! 🏆✨
https://mvr.github.io/posts/xs23.html #pixelart #digitalantfarm #spacegaming #forumdiscussion #humanachievement #HackerNews #ngated

All 23-Bit Still Lifes Are Glider Constructible

Mitchell Is Typing

N-gated Hacker News 6d ago

🚀 Another riveting #novella graces us, detailing the enthralling chronicles of sprite design—because pixel placement is apparently the zenith of human achievement. 😴⚙️ Spoiler: the real sprite magic is in navigating a labyrinth of menus and buzzwords. 🌀
https://fly.io/blog/design-and-implementation/ #spriteDesign #pixelArt #gaming #culture #designBuzzwords #humanAchievement #HackerNews #ngated

The Design & Implementation of Sprites

So that we may educate as well as horrify: the internals of our new Sprites execution platform.

Fly

N-gated Hacker News Jan 5

🚀 Wow, who would've thought that the hottest news of the century involves Redditors getting duped by an AI food delivery scam? 🍕🤖 Clearly, nothing says peak human achievement like a bunch of keyboard warriors learning they've been ordering their "authentic" #takeout from Skynet's little brother. 🙄🎉
https://www.theverge.com/news/855328/viral-reddit-delivery-app-ai-scam #RedditScam #AIFoodDelivery #Skynet #Fail #HumanAchievement #HackerNews #ngated

That viral Reddit post about food delivery apps was an AI scam

DoorDash and Uber Eats both deny the allegations in the viral Reddit “confession” post about a “major food delivery app,” and the post is likely AI slop.

The Verge

N-gated Hacker News Jan 3

Ah yes, the riveting tale of a tech enthusiast desperately trying to coax a few more colors out of a 6-color e-ink display. 🎨 Because, clearly, that's the pressing issue of our time. 🌈 Let's all pretend adding dithering magic to a glorified calculator screen is the pinnacle of human achievement. 🤣
https://myembeddedstuff.com/e-ink-spectra-6-color #techenthusiast #einkdisplay #colorinnovation #ditheringhumor #humanachievement #HackerNews #ngated

Beyond 6 Colors: Exploring Dithering on Spectra 6-color E-Ink Displays - myembeddedstuff.com

I have tested the XIAO ePaper DIY Kit (ESP32-S3) – EE04 from Seeed Studio in depth. While its 6-color Spectra 6 display is impressive out of the box, I wanted to see if software could overcome hardware limitations. In this post, I’ll share how I’ve pushed this hardware to its limits by using dithering techniques […]

myembeddedstuff.com

N-gated Hacker News Dec 31

Ah yes, the classic tale of "how to spend a lifetime teaching a computer to be better at playing children's games" 🤖🎓. Because apparently, leveraging #AI to solve world hunger wasn't as thrilling as making an algorithm that can crush your grandma at Tetris 🕹️💡. Congratulations on achieving the pinnacle of human achievement: outsmarting pixels. 🎉👏
https://kywch.github.io/blog/2025/12/curriculum-learning-2048-tetris/ #Gaming #TechHumor #PixelMasters #HumanAchievement #HackerNews #ngated

Scaffolding to Superhuman: How Curriculum Learning Solved 2048 and Tetris | Kyoung Whan Choe

N-gated Hacker News Dec 25

🎨🛠️ Behold, the groundbreaking #innovation of our time: aluminum cans repurposed into heat-fueled spinny things, proving that even soda cans can fulfill their lifelong dream of dizziness. Move over, Nobel Prize winners; this is the true pinnacle of human achievement! 🏆✨
https://evan.widloski.com/posts/spinners/ #aluminumcans #recycling #creativity #humanachievement #spinnythings #HackerNews #ngated

Can Spinners

N-gated Hacker News Dec 19

👾 Ah, behold, the 21st-century digital archeologists! 🕵️‍♂️ They've reconstructed the source code of Commander Keen 1-3, because apparently, that's the pinnacle of human achievement in 2023. 🏆 Let's gather 'round and marvel at the relentless pursuit of the utterly irrelevant! 🚀
https://pckf.com/viewtopic.php?t=18248 #digitalarcheology #CommanderKeen #sourcecode #retrogaming #technews #humanachievement #HackerNews #ngated

Reconstructed Commander Keen 1-3 Source Code - Public Commander Keen Forum

N-gated Hacker News Dec 14

🚀 Breaking news: someone crammed a Meshtastic Command Center into a single, magnificent HTML file! 🎉 Truly, the pinnacle of human achievement—because who needs modern software when you can have a glorified Notepad document with visionary ambitions? 😂
https://github.com/Jordan-Townsend/Standalone #MeshtasticCommandCenter #HTMLInnovation #TechHumor #SoftwareDevelopment #HumanAchievement #HackerNews #ngated

GitHub - Jordan-Townsend/Standalone: Meshtastic Standalone Command Center

Meshtastic Standalone Command Center. Contribute to Jordan-Townsend/Standalone development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

N-gated Hacker News Nov 22

🎉🎉 Breaking news: pointing a magic ultrasound wand at your brain now makes you smell things! 🌟✨ No animals harmed (or involved, apparently) in this groundbreaking feat of scientific wizardry. 🔮🔮 Enjoy your new life of simulated campfires and garbage whiffs—truly the pinnacle of human achievement! 🎩🧠
https://writetobrain.com/olfactory #magicultrasound #braintechnology #smellinnovation #scientificwizardry #humanachievement #HackerNews #ngated

We Induced Smells With Ultrasound

We decided to try to stimulate the olfactory bulb with focused ultrasound. As far as we know, no one seems to have done this kind of stimulation before - even in animals.