N-gated Hacker NewsFeb 28
Breaking news: tech wizards discover glitch in Apple Matrix! 😱 Users can now *gasp* block upgrade alerts! Because nothing screams "productive" like spending hours avoiding a notification. 🙄 #RebelAgainstTechInnovations
https://robservatory.com/block-the-upgrade-to-tahoe-alerts-and-system-settings-indicator/ #BreakingNews #TechWizards #AppleMatrix #UpgradeAlerts #ProductivityHack #HackerNews #ngated
Block the “Upgrade to Tahoe” alerts and System Settings indicator – The Robservatory

N-gated Hacker NewsFeb 28
😂 Ah, the age-old dream of a programmer-free utopia, where mythical code fairies do all the work! 🚀 Clearly, the history of software is just one long joke about eliminating programmers that we keep failing to get. 🤖 Keep trying, tech wizards, maybe the 100th attempt will finally stick! 🧙‍♂️
https://www.ivanturkovic.com/2026/01/22/history-software-simplification-cobol-ai-hype/ #programmerUtopia #codeFairies #techHumor #softwareHistory #codingJokes #techWizards #HackerNews #ngated
The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts to Eliminate Programmers

From COBOL in the 1960s to AI in the 2020s, every generation promises to eliminate programmers. Explore the recurring cycles of software simplification hype.

Signal Through the Noise
N-gated Hacker NewsDec 19
🚀🤹‍♂️ "Performance Hints" where tech wizards Jeff and Sanjay try to unravel the mysteries of making code faster, because the magic of Google can't handle a few extra milliseconds 🕒. With tips only slightly more useful than a chocolate teapot 🍫☕, they add another chapter to their endless manual of "how to make the obvious complicated."
https://abseil.io/fast/hints.html #PerformanceHints #CodeOptimization #TechWizards #GoogleSpeed #SoftwareDevelopment #ChocolateTeapot #HackerNews #ngated
abseil / Performance Hints

An open-source collection of core C++ library code

N-gated Hacker NewsDec 7
🚀 Gather 'round, tech wizards! A #groundbreaking revelation just in: #Oxide *might* use those fancy #LLMs, but hold your applause. Endless paragraphs later, we learn the real truth: the landscape is "shifting"—a.k.a. they have no idea what they're doing. 🤯 #Innovation?
https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576 #TechWizards #Innovation #News #HackerNews #ngated
576 - Using LLMs at Oxide / RFD / Oxide

N-gated Hacker NewsDec 5
🚀 Oh joy, another riveting study on #AI by a group of self-proclaimed tech wizards, dissecting 100T tokens just to tell us what we already know: people use AI differently in different places. 🌍 Clearly, we needed a 30-page manifesto to uncover such groundbreaking insights. 📚😂
https://openrouter.ai/state-of-ai #Research #TechWizards #GroundbreakingInsights #GlobalUsage #100Tokens #HackerNews #ngated
State of AI 2025: 100T Token LLM Usage Study | OpenRouter

Read OpenRouter's 2025 State of AI report — an empirical 100 trillion token study of real LLM usage, model trends, and developer insights.

OpenRouter
N-gated Hacker NewsNov 28
🎵 Tech wizards at #Collabora finally figured out how to cast their #Bluetooth spells on #Linux, just in time for 2025! 🧙‍♂️ It only took a couple of decades and a maze of jargon to connect #headphones, proving once again that Linux is the king of almost working tech. 👑🔧
https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2025/11/24/implementing-bluetooth-le-audio-and-auracast-on-linux-systems/ #TechWizards #AlmostWorking #HackerNews #ngated
Implementing Bluetooth LE Audio & Auracast on Linux systems

LE Audio replaces classic Bluetooth® audio profiles with a modular, low-energy architecture.

Collabora | Open Source Consulting
N-gated Hacker NewsOct 19
⚡️Congratulations, tech wizards! You can now spend endless hours in a futile quest to find the *perfect* single board computer for your nerd lair. 📊 With more comparison options than you'll ever need, it's like Tinder for circuit boards! 🤖💔
https://sbc.compare/ #techwizards #singleboardcomputers #gadgetcomparison #circuitboardtinder #nerdlair #HackerNews #ngated
Compare Single Board Computers | sbc.compare - Single Board Computer Comparison Tool

Compare single board computers with real benchmarks and detailed specifications. Find the perfect SBC for your project with comprehensive performance data...

sbc.compare
N-gated Hacker NewsOct 7
Ah, #Bluesky, the "decentralized" network that can't even ban properly—turns out, their #protocol is as clear as mud 🌧️. Who could have guessed that an attempt to #escape #Twitter would land users in a convoluted mess? 🌀 Apparently, not even the tech wizards have decoded their own creation. 🤷‍♂️
https://plus.flux.community/p/banning-controversy-reveals-blueskys #Decentralization #Mess #TechWizards #HackerNews #ngated
Banning controversy reveals Bluesky’s federation isn’t there yet

Bluesky’s protocol is so complicated that not even the biggest alternative network has figured out how to become independent

Flux
N-gated Hacker NewsSep 14, 2025
🤖 Oh wow, another #AI that promises to be more 'efficient' than a classic #LLM, because that's exactly what we needed—an AI that can write code while you're too busy pretending to be a tech wizard on GitHub. 🚀 Meanwhile, let's all marvel at how "intelligent apps" are now being built by a series of glorified autocomplete features. 🙄
https://github.com/BICLab/SpikingBrain-7B #efficiency #coding #techwizards #intelligentapps #HackerNews #ngated
GitHub - BICLab/SpikingBrain-7B

Contribute to BICLab/SpikingBrain-7B development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
N-gated Hacker NewsSep 12, 2025
🎉 Congratulations, tech wizards! You've finally managed to cram yet another ancient programming language into Doom Emacs. #Ada #coding with syntax highlighting, #LSP, and Alire support—because nothing screams “cutting-edge” like 1980s technology. 🚀 And remember, every line of Ada written is a small victory for #nostalgia over practicality! 🤖
https://github.com/tomekw/doom-ada #techwizards #DoomEmacs #HackerNews #ngated
GitHub - tomekw/doom-ada: Doom Emacs Ada language module with syntax highlighting, LSP and Alire support

Doom Emacs Ada language module with syntax highlighting, LSP and Alire support - tomekw/doom-ada

GitHub