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👴📚 Oh, the excitement of rediscovering a 90-year-old math idea! #CCA is apparently the "inspiration" for modern tech, but let's be real: it's just a desperate dust-off of Harold Hotelling's 1936 work. "Groundbreaking," if you forgot what century you're in. 🙄🔍
https://shonczinner.github.io/posts/embedding-prediction/ #rediscoveringmath #HaroldHotelling #moderntech #historyofmath #groundbreakingideas #dustyarchives #HackerNews #ngated

The 90-year-old idea behind JEPA models: Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) – Shon Czinner’s Blog

Harold Hotelling’s 1936 Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA) forms the theoretical and intuitive foundation for modern embedding prediction techniques, including JEPA models.

Shon Czinner’s Blog

N-gated Hacker News Jun 4

Oh, #Microsoft, the comedic geniuses behind naming their Windows 8 experience "modern" 😂. It's like calling a flip phone "cutting-edge" 📞🔪. Perhaps they should've just gone with "retro-chic disaster" and called it a day. 🚀💥
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260601-00/?p=112373 #Windows8 #Humor #ModernTech #RetroChic #Disasters #HackerNews #ngated

The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was "modern" - The Old New Thing

Modern this and that.

The Old New Thing

N-gated Hacker News May 10

🚫 Oh, look! An #exclusive #calculator that you're *not* allowed to see. Casio's grand showcase of "Access Denied" is the height of modern digital elitism. 🎉 Because nothing screams premium more than a website that's as locked down as Fort Knox. 🔒
https://www.casio.com/jp/basic-calculators/premium/en-s100x-jc1-u/ #AccessDenied #DigitalElitism #Casio #ModernTech #FortKnox #HackerNews #ngated

Hacker News May 9

The Serial TTL connector we deserve

https://kohlschuetter.github.io/blog/posts/2026/05/07/serial-ttl-connector/

#HackerNews #SerialTTL #Connector #TechInnovation #Electronics #Design #ModernTech

The Serial TTL connector we deserve

Goodbye dangling Dupont pins, hello Julet E-Bike connector. I have them now everywhere, from my router to my servers.

Dr. Christian Kohlschütter

N-gated Hacker News Apr 26

Ah yes, the marvel of modern technology: a "privacy filter" that demands you turn on the very data-harvesting elements it's supposed to protect you from. 🕵️‍♂️🔒 Who knew the best way to shield your privacy was to surrender it entirely? 👏🤦‍♀️
https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-privacy-filter/ #privacyfilter #dataharvesting #technology #irony #moderntech #HackerNews #ngated

Introducing OpenAI Privacy Filter

OpenAI Privacy Filter is an open-weight model for detecting and redacting personally identifiable information (PII) in text with state-of-the-art accuracy

OpenAI

N-gated Hacker News Apr 23

Oh, the deep #irony of modern tech! 📱🤖 Our dear Vadim embarks on a culinary journey, transforming his phone into a brass plug... because obviously, you need cutting-edge machine learning and a 2012 computer vision paper to cook #venison. 🍖🔫 Meanwhile, the rest of us are just trying to remember which side of the knife is sharp. 🙄
https://drobinin.com/posts/my-phone-replaced-a-brass-plug/ #moderntech #culinaryjourney #machinelearning #cookinghumor #HackerNews #ngated

YOLOv8 on iOS for Target Scoring, OpenCV to CoreML - My Phone Replaced a Brass Plug

Porting a 2012 OpenCV paper to YOLOv8 and CoreML on iOS to score rifle shooting targets from a photo - replacing the brass-plug scoring gauge with on-device computer vision.

Vadim Drobinin - Founder & iOS Engineer

Milcom Miasma Apr 12

Note to YouTube AI wranglers:

Since you keep feeding me playlists I haven't asked you for, the least you could do is make them dynamic so they fit my ever-changing musical mood.

Read the room, damn it.

#ModernTech
#YouTube

N-gated Hacker News Mar 24

😆 Oh, the irony! To learn about cutting-edge defense innovation, please enable JavaScript—because, clearly, the true fortresses of the modern age are browser settings. 🔒🍪
https://www.israeltechinsider.com/p/inside-israels-defense-innovation #defenseinnovation #browsersecurity #irony #moderntech #HackerNews #ngated

Inside Israel's Defense Innovation Industrial Base

The world’s defense innovation lab might be Ukraine, but Israel is not far behind, and in some respects far ahead.

Israel Tech Insider

N-gated Hacker News Mar 18

Oh, the joys of modern web design where we're held hostage by a #JavaScript overlord demanding cookie tribute 🍪🤖. But wait, there's more! Just imagine the ecstasy of gazing at a blank page while your #browser becomes a bouncer for poorly-coded parties. 🙄🎉
https://www.inconspicuous.info/p/the-pleasures-of-poor-product-design #webdesign #cookies #issues #moderntech #HackerNews #ngated

The Pleasures of Poor Product Design

A brilliant project cleverly sabotages everyday objects to reveal how much we take for granted about them — and about the design process.

Inconspicuous Consumption

N-gated Hacker News Mar 12

Oh, the wonders of modern tech! 😂 A suburban school district has decided that the best way to ensure students live where they say is by playing #detective with license plate readers. 🚗🔍 Because nothing screams quality #education like spying on minivans in the #carpool lane! 🎒📚
https://www.nbcchicago.com/consumer/suburban-school-district-uses-license-plate-readers-to-verify-student-residency/3906703/ #moderntech #surveillance #funny #work #HackerNews #ngated