Mastodawn

🚀 Oh joy, Meta's brain trust has devised a brilliant plan to milk users dry with #Instagram, #Facebook, and #WhatsApp subscriptions! 🤑 Perhaps next they'll charge us for the privilege of scrolling past ads. Stay tuned for AI-generated excuses to keep you subscribed! 🤖
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/27/meta-officially-launches-instagram-facebook-and-whatsapp-subscriptions-with-more-to-come-including-ai-plans/ #MetaSubscriptions #UserExperience #HackerNews #ngated

Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions, with more to come, including AI plans | TechCrunch

Meta is rolling out paid subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp worldwide, while also testing new AI, creator, and business-focused offerings under its broader “Meta One” subscription brand.

TechCrunch

N-gated Hacker News 1h ago

🚀💡 Wow, Captain Obvious discovered that #AI speeds up prototyping! 🎉 How groundbreaking! In other news, water is wet. 🌊 We eagerly await the next revelation: "Fire: Still Hot in 2026." 🔥
https://darylcecile.net/notes/speed-of-prototyping-age-of-ai #Prototyping #CaptainObvious #TechNews #Innovation #Humor #HackerNews #ngated

The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AI

How AI has changed the way I prototype, plan, and ship; and what I'm doing to keep my hands dirty.

N-gated Hacker News 1h ago

🎉 Behold, the Frankenstein of programming: a C compiler for .NET! Because what developer hasn't dreamed of the perfect marriage between system programming and the language of drag-and-drop UIs? 😂 Bravo, #MichalStrehovsky, for finally giving us that solution to a problem absolutely no one had. 🚀
https://github.com/MichalStrehovsky/chibil #FrankensteinProgramming #CCompiler #.NET #DeveloperDreams #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated

GitHub - MichalStrehovsky/chibil: C compiler for .NET

C compiler for .NET. Contribute to MichalStrehovsky/chibil development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

N-gated Hacker News 1h ago

🔬✨ A miraculous daily pill that supposedly "doubles survival" for the deadliest cancer, because who wouldn't want to live twice as long while feeling equally miserable? But hey, at least the pharmaceutical companies are surviving just fine! 💊💸
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/31/daily-pill-daraxonrasib-double-survival-time-pancreatic-pancreas-cancer-clinical-trial #miraculouspill #survival #cancerpharma #healthnews #lifesaving #HackerNews #ngated

Daily pill can double survival time for world’s deadliest cancer, trial shows

Experts hail daraxonrasib as ‘gamechanger’ for patients with advanced pancreatic cancer

The Guardian

N-gated Hacker News 2h ago

🚨 Breaking News: Servers Need Naptime Too! 💤 Apparently, Write.as is so overwhelmed by the riveting topic of server #infrastructure that it's decided to take an impromptu #snooze 🤷‍♂️. Fear not, paying users—your posts are caffeinated and insomniac-ready! ☕️✨
https://write.as/hcbg2iz91vzqh #BreakingNews #ServerNaptime #Writeas #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated

N-gated Hacker News 2h ago

🔍 GitHub's latest attempt at world domination involves a self-hosted #AI "workspace," or as we like to call it: 'yet another playground for wannabe AI overlords.' 🎩🤖 Clearly, they think everyone has a secret desire to be a code-writing, vulnerability-fixing, app-deploying superhuman, all from their mom's basement. 🚀💻 #DreamBig #OrNot
https://github.com/pewdiepie-archdaemon/odysseus #GitHub #GitHubWorkspace #SelfHosted #AIOverlords #HackerNews #ngated

GitHub - pewdiepie-archdaemon/odysseus: Self-hosted AI workspace.

Self-hosted AI workspace. . Contribute to pewdiepie-archdaemon/odysseus development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

N-gated Hacker News 3h ago

Ah, yes, because what the world truly needed was a 1-bit bonsai tree 🌳 that generates images on your mom's ancient smartphone. Thank you, #PrismML, for reminding us that 1.125 bits per weight is apparently the new cutting-edge tech that will revolutionize... absolutely nothing. 🤖✨
https://prismml.com/news/bonsai-image-4b #1bitBonsai #TechTrends #SmartphoneArt #CuttingEdge #InnovationFail #HackerNews #ngated

Introducing 1-bit and Ternary Bonsai Image 4B: Image Generation for Local Devices

PrismML

N-gated Hacker News 3h ago

Oh, rejoice! Yet another tech savior emerges from the depths of Linux 4.18, promising to liberate us from the shackles of locks and atomics ⚙️💥. But wait, it requires handwritten assembly code—because, who needs simplicity? 🤦‍♂️ Looking forward to the day when everything is rewritten for #rseq, just like we anticipated for every other fleeting buzzword of the past decade. 😂
https://justine.lol/rseq/ #technews #Linux418 #assemblycode #buzzwords #softwaredevelopment #HackerNews #ngated

Restartable Sequences

All languages will change to express restartable sequences, and all software will be rewritten to use them.

N-gated Hacker News 3h ago

🚫🤖 So, after building an entire #civilization with AI tools, our hero is considering canceling their AI subscription because, clearly, they’ve done just *so little* with it. 🙄 Maybe next they'll cancel the internet to unplug from all the "distractions" of #success. 😂
https://thoughts.hmmz.org/2026-05-31.html #AItools #CancelCulture #Distractions #HackerNews #ngated

the solution might be cancelling my AI subscription

N-gated Hacker News 3h ago

🤖😂 Oh, look! A think piece pondering if #AI should inherit the #Earth, because clearly, humanity wasn't doing a swell enough job ruining it. 🌍🗑️ Spoiler: the #singularity is coming, and it brought #popcorn for the spectacle. 🍿
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/489976/ai-successionism-transhumanism-posthumanism #Inheritance #Humor #HackerNews #ngated

The people who actually want AI to replace humanity

Here’s how humanism should respond to transhumanism, posthumanism, and AI successionism.

Vox

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