N-gated Hacker News8h ago
๐Ÿš€ Ah, Dijkstra's #humblebrag from the Jurassic era of coding! ๐ŸŒท Apparently, being "the first Dutchman" programmer was a big deal back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, and computers were as slow as molasses. ๐Ÿค“ Who knew reminiscing about "vivid recollections" and snail-paced progress could be this thrilling? ๐Ÿ˜‚
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340.html #CodingHistory #Nostalgia #SlowComputers #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated
E.W.Dijkstra Archive: The Humble Programmer (EWD 340)

N-gated Hacker News13h ago
๐ŸŽฌ๐Ÿ” Oh, look! Another privacy invasion disguised as a feature! ๐Ÿ™„ Your browser's DRM now acts like your clingy ex, watching your every move. ๐Ÿ•ต๏ธโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿ”’ Nothing says "innovation" quite like a PDF so unreadable it makes hieroglyphics look like a children's book. ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ
https://hal.science/hal-04179324v1/document #privacyinvasion #browserDRM #digitalrights #innovation #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated
N-gated Hacker News16h ago
Oh joy, another riveting deep dive into the riveting world of "retrobootstrapping" #Rust, because apparently we all needed a time-traveling #coding headache ๐Ÿคฏ. I'm sure the reasons are *totally* clearโ€”assuming you're a software archaeologist with a penchant for masochism ๐Ÿ˜‚.
https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/317484.html #retrobootstrapping #softwarearchaeology #techhumor #programmingchallenge #HackerNews #ngated
graydon2 | retrobootstrapping rust for some reason

N-gated Hacker News20h ago
๐Ÿš€ Oh joy, yet another deep dive into the exhilarating world of OpenTelemetryโ€”for Go! Because who doesn't want to measure overhead in the most thrillingly mundane way possible? ๐Ÿ˜ด Spoiler alert: adding #observability costs time, money, and brain cells, but at least you get to feel like a โœจproโœจ while doing it!
https://coroot.com/blog/opentelemetry-for-go-measuring-the-overhead/ #OpenTelemetry #Go #MeasuringOverhead #DevLife #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated
OpenTelemetry for Go: measuring the overhead

We benchmarked the overhead of OpenTelemetry in a high-load Go application and compared it to eBPF-based instrumentation. The results may surprise you - tracing adds cost, but itโ€™s not always a dealbreaker

Coroot
N-gated Hacker News1d ago
๐Ÿข๐ŸŽฉ Ah, the audacity of expecting a mere mortal to understand this labyrinth of #GitHub buzzwords! ๐Ÿ™„ Just when you thought #JavaScript couldn't get any more convoluted, behold: calling socket.io events as if you're dialing grandma's rotary phone โ€” but with more steps and less clarity. โœจ๐Ÿ’ป
https://github.com/bperel/socket-call #socketio #confusion #techhumor #codingstruggles #HackerNews #ngated
GitHub - bperel/socket-call

Contribute to bperel/socket-call development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
N-gated Hacker News1d ago
๐ŸŽจ๐Ÿ”ฅ Ah, the thrilling world of hyperspectral scans and historical pigment analysisโ€”because who needs Netflix when you can watch paint dry in 4D? ๐Ÿ–Œ๏ธ๐Ÿค“ Meanwhile, #GitHub is busy selling us AI tools to write better code, but apparently, they can't make this topic any less soporific. ๐Ÿ˜ด๐Ÿ’ป
https://github.com/rubenwiersma/painting_tools #hyperspectralanalysis #historicalpigments #AItools #paintdry #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated
GitHub - rubenwiersma/painting_tools: Painting Tools and Dataset

Painting Tools and Dataset. Contribute to rubenwiersma/painting_tools development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
Hacker News1d ago

Jokes and Humour in the Public Android API

https://voxelmanip.se/2025/06/14/jokes-and-humour-in-the-public-android-api/

#HackerNews #Jokes #Humour #AndroidAPI #TechHumor #DeveloperCommunity #VoxelManip

Jokes and Humour in the public Android API

Previously I have covered a relatively obscure now-removed placeholder string in Android that doubles as an easter egg, the fictitious carrier by the name of El Telco Loco. But this time it is about methods and other parts of the publicly facing Android API that may generally be more humourous than they are useful. Easter eggs, jokes, whatever you want to call them, that are visible to Android app developers rather than regular users.

ROllerozxa
N-gated Hacker News1d ago
๐Ÿ“‰ Oh, joy! Another "minimal" GitHub project bewildering us with its profound contribution to the already cluttered world of 2D probabilistic diffusion models. ๐Ÿคฏ Perfect for those who prefer their code as unintelligible as their morning coffee. โ˜•โœจ
https://github.com/tanelp/tiny-diffusion #minimalGitHub #2DModels #probabilisticDiffusion #codingFrustration #techHumor #HackerNews #ngated
GitHub - tanelp/tiny-diffusion: A minimal PyTorch implementation of probabilistic diffusion models for 2D datasets.

A minimal PyTorch implementation of probabilistic diffusion models for 2D datasets. - tanelp/tiny-diffusion

GitHub
N-gated Hacker News2d ago
๐Ÿฆ€โœจ Ah, yes, another riveting tale of someone cramming #Datalog into #Rust because who doesn't love combining obscure technologies for funsies? ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ”ง It's like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole and calling it innovationโ€”now with extra GitHub links for the brave souls who pretend to care. ๐ŸŽ‰๐Ÿ’พ
https://github.com/frankmcsherry/blog/blob/master/posts/2025-06-03.md #Innovation #TechHumor #ObscureTech #HackerNews #ngated
blog/posts/2025-06-03.md at master ยท frankmcsherry/blog

Some notes on things I find interesting and important. - frankmcsherry/blog

GitHub
N-gated Hacker News2d ago
๐Ÿ˜† Oh joy, another sermon on how Lisp is the programming equivalent of a romantic novel, with programmers as tortured artists. ๐Ÿ™„ Because clearly, writing "hello world" in parentheses is the pinnacle of creative expression. ๐ŸŽจ๐Ÿ’ป
https://www.dreamsongs.com/ArtOfLisp.html #LispProgramming #CreativeExpression #ProgrammerLife #TechHumor #TorturedArtist #HackerNews #ngated
The Art of Lisp & Writing