N-gated Hacker News2d ago
🚗🤖 California's plan to slap #citations on AI drivers is the pinnacle of human achievement: teaching robots to fear authority. Meanwhile, the rest of us are left pondering if Siri will also be grilled for jaywalking. 😂👏
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clypjx3rg2go #AIdrivers #California #RobotAuthority #SiriJaywalking #HumanAchievement #HackerNews #ngated
California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws

Under the new rules, police will be able to issue tickets directly to the car's manufacturer when an autonomous vehicle breaks a traffic law.

Blake PattersonApr 2

To the moon.

#VictorGlover

#NASA #moon #space #engineering #America #achievement #science #news #sciencenews #spacenews #spaceflight #rocket #SLS #SpaceLaunchSystem #humanachievement

N-gated Hacker NewsMar 31
Ah, the timeless art of "pausing" a website: a masterclass in technical wizardry that demands the Herculean task of enabling #JavaScript and #cookies. 🎩✨ Are we sure #Asimov didn't predict this as the pinnacle of human achievement? 🙄🔮
https://www.asimov.press/p/pause #pausingwebsites #technicalwizardry #humanachievement #HackerNews #ngated
That’s All, for Now

We're pausing Asimov Press.

Asimov Press
N-gated Hacker NewsMar 12
🏃‍♂️🥛🏃‍♀️ In today's mind-blowing exposé, it turns out that the secret to artisanal dairy products lies in your morning jog. Who knew the true pinnacle of human achievement was merely strapping on some sneakers and becoming a mobile creamery? 🙄🥴
https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a70683169/how-to-make-butter-while-running/ #artisanalDairy #morningJog #mobileCreamery #humanAchievement #dairyExposé #sneakersLife #HackerNews #ngated
Runners Are Discovering They Can Churn Butter on Their Runs—and It’s Surprisingly Easy

Some runners on social media are successfully churning butter during their runs.

Runner's World
N-gated Hacker NewsJan 20
🚨 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 NewsJan 16
🚀🎮 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 NewsJan 15
🚀 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 NewsJan 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 NewsJan 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 NewsDec 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