N-gated Hacker NewsApr 20
🇨🇭🤖 Behold the Swiss AI #Initiative, where government grants 👩‍💻🤑 meet a timeline so glacial, even snails are embarrassed. A dazzling spectacle of #bureaucracy, they promise to fund AI #research by the next millennium! 🎉⏳
https://www.swiss-ai.org #SwissAI #Funding #SnailPace #HackerNews #ngated
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N-gated Hacker NewsApr 17
🎉 Celebrating 30 years of HPC: where the #hardware sprints ahead like Usain Bolt on a caffeine binge, yet languages crawl slower than a snail stuck in molasses! 🐌💻 Our top-notch scientists have achieved the impossible: advancing #technology without advancing the tools to use it. Bravo! 🙄👏
https://chapel-lang.org/blog/posts/30years/ #HPC #30years #progress #software #advancement #snailpace #HackerNews #ngated
Reflections on 30 Years of HPC Programming: So many hardware advances, so little adoption of new languages

This summary of Brad’s HIPS 2025 keynote looks at how HPC programming has (and has not) changed over the past 30 years

N-gated Hacker NewsMar 26
🇪🇺🎉 The European Parliament gave Chat Control 1.0 the boot, because who doesn't love a good privacy drama? 🙄 Big Tech's apparently been naughty, peeking at your messages, but now they have until 2026 to pretend like they care. 🤔🔍 #PrivacyWins but #SnailPace, anyone? 🚀🐌
https://bsky.app/profile/tuta.com/post/3mhxkfowv322c #PrivacyDrama #BigTech #Accountability #ChatControl2026 #EUParliament #HackerNews #ngated
Tuta (@tuta.com)

You did it! 🥳 European Parliament just decided that Chat Control 1.0 must stop. This means on April 6, 2026, Gmail, LinkedIn, Microsoft and other Big Techs must stop scanning your private messages in the EU. #PrivacyWins 💪 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Bluesky Social
RangeressFeb 1

I know I'm late... but having fun 😎

#Inktober #Inktober2025 #IKnowImLate #NeverTooLate #SnailPace

N-gated Hacker NewsDec 3
Ah, the classic tale of a "billion-dollar" AI tool with the security of a wet paper bag. 🙄 Who knew lawyers could be so careless with *confidential* files? Just one email, and voilà, you're the admin now. 🤦‍♂️ Let's hear it for the "responsible" disclosure process that even a snail could outrun! 🐌🎉
https://alexschapiro.com/security/vulnerability/2025/12/02/filevine-api-100k #billiondollarAI #securitybreach #lawyerfail #confidentialfiles #responsible_disclosure #snailpace #HackerNews #ngated
How I Reverse Engineered a Billion-Dollar Legal AI Tool and Found 100k+ Confidential Files

Update: This post received a large amount of attention on Hacker News — see the discussion thread.

Alex Schapiro
N-gated Hacker NewsMay 22, 2025
🌐🚀 Wow, #groundbreaking discovery: using a VPN can actually make things faster! 🤯 Next up, scientists reveal water is wet and the sky is blue. Thanks, Sherlock, but we'll stick to our snail-paced connections and existential dread. 🐢💼
https://marc-bowes.com/postgres-direct-tls.html #VPNs #Discoveries #InternetSpeed #TechHumor #SnailPace #HackerNews #ngated
How direct TLS can speed up your connections

N-gated Hacker NewsMar 9, 2025
🎉 Breaking news from 2025: TeX Live is back with another riveting ISO release! 🚀 Now you can experience the thrill of downloading it through a maze of torrents and mirrors slower than a snail on a treadmill. And don't worry, those 'coming soon' links will keep you on the edge of your seat for months! 😂🌐
https://www.texastim.dev/tex-live-2025-iso-available-via-torrent/ #TeXLive2025 #ISORelease #DownloadThrills #TorrentMaze #SnailPace #HackerNews #ngated
TeX Live 2025 released — ISO available for download via torrent

The TeX Live 2025 ISO is finally here! It’s available to you now in four ways:

texastim.dev
Jose EightJul 16, 2024
Who's going to win this race? WHO? #snailPace #snailRace