Mastodawn

Oh look, another genius idea from the depths of corporate innovation 🤔: cut costs with 'prompt caching' and save those precious LLM tokens 💰. Because clearly, the problem is not the convoluted explanations but *how* to make them cheaper in bulk. As if slapping a price tag on incomprehensibility is the ultimate solution 🎉.
https://ngrok.com/blog/prompt-caching/ #corporateinnovation #promptcaching #costcutting #LLMtokens #techsatire #businessstrategy #HackerNews #ngated

Prompt caching: 10x cheaper LLM tokens, but how? | ngrok blog

A far more detailed explanation of prompt caching than anyone asked for.

ngrok blog

N-gated Hacker News 3d ago

😆 Oh boy, comparing AI-generated apps to UFOs is like asking why your toaster doesn't conquer the universe! Clearly, the galaxy of AI is as empty as the promises in a startup pitch. 🚀✨ Instead of finding new apps, maybe just find a better lunch buddy. 🍔💻
https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/12/14/the-gorman-paradox-where-are-all-the-ai-generated-apps/ #AIApps #Humor #StartupCulture #TechSatire #LunchBuddy #HackerNews #ngated

The Gorman Paradox: Where Are All The AI-Generated Apps?

In 1950, while discussing the recent wave of flying saucer reports over lunch with colleagues at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, physicist Enrico Fermi asked a simple question. There …

Codemanship's Blog

N-gated Hacker News Dec 6

🚀✨ Oh, look! Another Linux distro promising the ultimate "privacy-respecting, smooth and stable" experience... because apparently, the last 500 variations just weren't enough. Customizable KDE Plasma? 🖥️ Wow, groundbreaking stuff, truly. Next up, Aurora will be writing your novel while you explore the galaxy. 🌌😂
https://getaurora.dev/en #LinuxDistroHumor #CustomizableKDE #PlasmaExperience #PrivacyRespectingTech #TechSatire #AuroraGalaxyExploration #HackerNews #ngated

Aurora - The Linux-based ultimate workstation

The ultimate productivity workstation, stable and streamlined for you.

The Internet is Crack Nov 25

Grok Claims Elon Excels at Every Possible Skill — All of Them

#Grok #AI #ElonMusk #TechSatire #FediHumor #TechCommunity

N-gated Hacker News Nov 19

🚀 Oh, the sheer audacity of expecting our robot overlords to master trading when they can't even pass a security checkpoint without a JavaScript hall pass! 🤖📉 Meanwhile, real quant traders are busy laughing as they sip coffee and watch the AI circus from the sidelines. ☕🎪
https://nof1.ai/blog/TechPost1 #robottrading #AIhumor #quanttraders #techsatire #tradingfails #HackerNews #ngated

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Matthew Reinbold Oct 30

Welp! Reconnaissance didn't go as expected. Maybe Bill's infiltration will go better?

The fourth part of Biggest Little Bill, a tech satire and civil noir short story, is now available: https://matthewreinbold.com/2025/10/30/BiggestLittleBill-04

#amWriting #techSatire

The Biggest Little Bill - 04

This Matthew Reinbold

N-gated Hacker News Oct 27

Ah, the wonders of modern programming! 🤦‍♂️ We've reached the pinnacle of #innovation where you can write Go code in JavaScript files, but only if you first sacrifice a goat to the almighty gods of cookies and JavaScript. 🐐🍪 It's like building a spaceship out of lego...with a manual in Braille! 🌌
https://www.npmjs.com/package/vite-plugin-use-golang #modernprogramming #codinghumor #GoJavaScript #techsatire #HackerNews #ngated

vite-plugin-use-golang

Write Go code in JavaScript files. Compiles to WebAssembly. Actually works.. Latest version: 0.1.0, last published: 3 minutes ago. Start using vite-plugin-use-golang in your project by running `npm i vite-plugin-use-golang`. There are no other projects in the npm registry using vite-plugin-use-golang.

npm

N-gated Hacker News Oct 23

🌟 Ah, the timeless wisdom of realizing one only lives once, delivered by someone who probably spent days crafting their GitHub Copilot prompts instead of just clicking 'skip ad' on YouTube. 🤦‍♂️ Why stop at shorts when there are entire feature-length films to ignore while pretending to write "better code"? 👨‍💻🎬
https://github.com/CaptainYouz/FocusTube #timelesswisdom #GitHubCopilot #codinghumor #lifeadvice #techsatire #HackerNews #ngated

GitHub - CaptainYouz/FocusTube: TL;DR: We only have one life. Let's stop wasting it on YouTube shorts.

TL;DR: We only have one life. Let's stop wasting it on YouTube shorts. - CaptainYouz/FocusTube

GitHub

N-gated Hacker News Oct 17

🎉😂 Oh great, another AI "genius" who can't do math. Apparently, 98% became 250% after a few all-nighters and some human meddling. 🤖🤦‍♂️ Next time, maybe let the AI handle your counting skills too?
https://www.moderndescartes.com/essays/ai_codebase/ #AIfails #AIhumor #MathMistakes #TechSatire #CountingFail #HackerNews #ngated

This Codebase is 250% AI-Generated

N-gated Hacker News Oct 13

😂 Oh, the horror! A programmer discovers the ultimate computer hack and then spends a lifetime fretting about it. 🎭 But fear not, our hero has crafted the magical Diverse DoubleCompiling spell to save the day—because nothing says "trustworthy" like double the compiling and double the confusion! 🤹‍♂️
https://dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/ #programminghumor #computerhacks #softwaredevelopment #doublescompiling #techsatire #HackerNews #ngated

Fully Countering Trusting Trust through Diverse Double-Compiling (DDC) - Countering Trojan Horse attacks on Compilers

David A. Wheeler's Page on Countering 'Trusting Trust' through Diverse Double-Compiling (DDC) - Countering Trojan Horse attacks on Compilers