N-gated Hacker News3d ago
🚨 BREAKING: An epic saga of #vaporware continues as 'Claude Fable 5' triumphantly joins the illustrious ranks of software that doesn't exist. 🏆 In a stunning plot twist, techies are left to ponder the profound mystery of how one can critique a product that’s more elusive than #Bigfoot. 🕵️‍♂️ Spoiler alert: it’s still not found! 🙃
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5 #techhumor #softwaremystery #ClaudeFable5 #HackerNews #ngated
Show threadyuman6d ago
@g7izu dogdamn, no idea where them graphs are from, but that's some gorgeous UI! #cassettefuturism and #vaporware esthetics
Dr PinkJun 3

#LGBTQ English #Wikipedia deletion alert

Could you save this LGBTQ related #English Wikipedia article from deletion?

List of media notable for being in development hell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_media_notable_for_being_in_development_hell
Discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_media_notable_for_being_in_development_hell

#Video #Vaporware

List of media notable for being in development hell - Wikipedia

Show threadMartin VogelMay 23

Triebwerksausfall und unkontrollierter Absturz – also nach SpaceX-Maßstäben ein erfolgreicher Testflug.

https://www.zeit.de/wissenschaft/2026-05/starship-spacex-elon-musk-rakete-testflug-erfolg

#Starship #SpaceX #RUD #Vaporware

SpaceX : Riesenrakete Starship absolviert Testflug trotz Triebwerksausfall

Die größte Rakete aller Zeiten flog ins All und landete fast planmäßig im Meer. Das Manöver galt als wichtigste Prüfung vor dem Börsengang von Elon Musks Weltraumkonzern.

DIE ZEIT
N-gated Hacker NewsMay 12
🎉🥳 Behold, the grand unveiling of #Googlebook, a revolutionary product that will definitely arrive in 2026 and not at all scream "vaporware"! 🚀✨ But hey, at least you get to enjoy an endless loop of silent videos while repeatedly confirming your age and surrendering your soul to Google's Terms & Conditions. 🤦‍♂️📜
https://googlebook.google/ #Vaporware #TechNews #Innovation #PrivacyConcerns #HackerNews #ngated
Googlebook: Designed for Gemini Intelligence | Coming Fall 2026

Meet Googlebook: A new kind of laptop designed for Gemini Intelligence. Built with heavyweight power and perfectly in sync with your Android Phone. Sign up for updates and stay in the know.

Googlebook
WinFuture.deMay 11
Rund 590.000 Vorbesteller warten seit Sommer 2025 auf das #T1-#Smartphone von #Trump Mobile. Jetzt räumt der Hersteller ein: Es gibt keine Garantie, dass das Gerät je kommt. #Vaporware https://winfuture.de/news,158632.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia
Trump-Phone-Hersteller: 'Keine Garantie, dass das Gerät je gebaut wird'

Das T1-Smartphone von Trump Mobile lässt weiter auf sich warten. Nach mehrfachen Verschiebungen hat der Hersteller nun die Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen angepasst. Die Auslieferung der Geräte an Vorbesteller wird damit nicht länger garantiert.

WinFuture.de
Brian Greenberg Apr 24

One founder just called out something the VC community has been quietly living with for a while. AI startups are reporting CARR, which counts revenue that hasn't been invoiced and may never be, to the press while labeling it ARR. The gap between those two numbers, per the CEO who went public about it, can run 3 to 5x.

Here's the part that should make you uncomfortable if you're buying AI tools or evaluating vendors: the VCs aren't getting fooled. They read the contracts. The people getting fooled are journalists writing the coverage you're using to make procurement decisions, and employees who think they're joining a rocketship.

A few things worth sitting with:
- Free pilots counted as revenue is not a new trick. It just has a better outfit now.
- If you're a CIO evaluating an AI vendor's "momentum," ask one question: is that ARR live and invoiced, or contracted?
- The companies chasing inflated benchmarks they can't actually hit are the ones that will blow up your implementation 18 months in.

We've been here before. The numbers looked great right up until they didn't.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91532292/ai-startups-arr-carr-scott-stevenson
#AI #Leadership #Cybersecurity #VC #PE #startup #vaporware

AI startups are inflating a key revenue metric to win VC attention, says this founder

Founders are blurring ARR with future contract revenue to boost headline numbers, according to Spellbook CEO Scott Stevenson.

Fast Company
Zack Feddich 📯Apr 24
Es gibt einen neue letzte Frist. Kann man schon Namensvorschläge für das spanisch-französisch-deutsche Kampfflugzeug #FCAS einreichen? Wie wäre es mit »Duke Nukem Fighter«? #Vaporware

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vk2mooi24pafrjmhpg4ymrv3/post/3mkac7rgse72s
Show threadBuridan's procrastinator ⁂Apr 17

@telepolis

Mehr kostenloses Marketing für den "KI"-Scam ...

Der ganze Softwarestack ist überkomplex, es ist immer nur eine Frage der Zeit bis jemand einen Weg findet, mehr Lücken zu entdecken.

Die Lösung ist nicht kopfloses Herumhühnern und irgendeine - stand Heute - #Vaporware zu überhöhen, sondern das mal anzugehen ...

ohne "Anthropic". Die legen Brände (vielleicht in diesem Fall viel Rauch?) und wollen jetzt der Welt selber (rationiert!!) das Löschwasser verkaufen.

Haha.

N-gated Hacker NewsApr 16
🚀 Ah, the ever-elusive #FIXAPL #beta, the software equivalent of Schrödinger's cat: it exists, but good luck finding anyone who actually uses it. 🙃 More #vaporware from the tech world, proving once again that some betas are better left in the alpha stages. 😂
https://fixapl.netlify.app/ #TechHumor #SoftwareDevelopment #SchrödingersCat #HackerNews #ngated
FIXAPL (beta)

A simple APL derivative, built on fixed-arity functions