👀 Wow, stop the presses! Another riveting #love letter to #XFCE, the desktop environment so thrillingly minimalist it makes white paint look like a rave. 🎉 Ruben shares his undying affection for the world's most exciting software waiting room 💻—a tale of pulse-pounding neutrality!
https://rubenerd.com/xfce-is-great/ #Minimalism #SoftwareDevelopment #DesktopEnvironment #HackerNews #ngated
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🚨BREAKING: Jerome H. Powell says... absolutely nothing new! 😴✨ Federal Reserve Chair's statement is just a reminder that .gov sites are secure (phew!) while the Federal Reserve expands its social media empire. Because nothing screams financial stability like a TikTok dance challenge, right? 💃📱
https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/powell20260111a.htm #JeromePowell #FederalReserve #SocialMedia #FinancialStability #TikTokDance #HackerNews #ngated
🚨BREAKING: Jerome H. Powell says... absolutely nothing new! 😴✨ Federal Reserve Chair's statement is just a reminder that .gov sites are secure (phew!) while the Federal Reserve expands its social media empire. Because nothing screams financial stability like a TikTok dance challenge, right? 💃📱
https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/powell20260111a.htm #JeromePowell #FederalReserve #SocialMedia #FinancialStability #TikTokDance #HackerNews #ngated
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🐒 Behold, the latest #GitHub spectacle! A #Clojure dialect that unashamedly attempts to moonlight as a C-engine, while the world eagerly awaits its inevitable crash landing into #obsolescence. Meanwhile, GitHub continues to sprinkle #AI fairy dust on code, promising sorcery but delivering mere sparks. ✨🔧
https://github.com/jank-lang/jank #Innovation #CodeMagic #HackerNews #ngated
🐒 Behold, the latest #GitHub spectacle! A #Clojure dialect that unashamedly attempts to moonlight as a C-engine, while the world eagerly awaits its inevitable crash landing into #obsolescence. Meanwhile, GitHub continues to sprinkle #AI fairy dust on code, promising sorcery but delivering mere sparks. ✨🔧
https://github.com/jank-lang/jank #Innovation #CodeMagic #HackerNews #ngated
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🚨 BREAKING: Tech Bros Discover "Source Available" ≠ "Open Source"! 🚨 In this week’s episode of "My License is Bigger Than Yours," #DHH tried to pass off his latest toy, #Fizzy, as open-source, only to be schooled by the internet on the actual meaning. 🤦♂️ Meanwhile, open-source veterans watch in dismay, realizing that, yet again, nobody read the fine print. 📜🔍
https://dri.es/source-available-is-not-open-source-and-that-is-okay #TechBros #OpenSource #LicenseMyth #FinePrint #HackerNews #ngated
Ah yes, the latest Silicon Valley comedy special: "Make Me CEO of Mozilla" 😂. Because who needs actual qualifications when you can just *not* be the current CEO, right? With a resume boasting zero executive experience, this visionary plans to steer the #Mozilla ship with the expert guidance of #memes and magic beans 🌱✨.
https://blog.kingcons.io/posts/make-me-ceo-of-mozilla.html #SiliconValleyComedy #MakeMeCEO #MagicBeans #HackerNews #ngated
🚨 BREAKING: Tech Bros Discover "Source Available" ≠ "Open Source"! 🚨 In this week’s episode of "My License is Bigger Than Yours," #DHH tried to pass off his latest toy, #Fizzy, as open-source, only to be schooled by the internet on the actual meaning. 🤦♂️ Meanwhile, open-source veterans watch in dismay, realizing that, yet again, nobody read the fine print. 📜🔍
https://dri.es/source-available-is-not-open-source-and-that-is-okay #TechBros #OpenSource #LicenseMyth #FinePrint #HackerNews #ngated
🚨 Breaking News: R enthusiasts celebrate the groundbreaking achievement of finally getting R to run in a browser... by enabling #JavaScript. 🎉 Because, of course, nothing screams #innovation like making a heavyweight statistical tool rely on a glorified calculator script. 🤦♂️
https://webr.sh/ #RProgramming #BrowserTech #DataScience #HackerNews #ngated
🚨 OMG! #Tailscale stumbled over its own feet and took a nap 🤦♂️, but don't worry, the server just needed a coffee break ☕. Back to business as usual, folks—crisis averted! 🙄
https://status.tailscale.com/incidents/01KAF1H8V7EGFKVG5KGZBB2RJC #Crisis #Averted #CoffeeBreak #TechNews #Humor #HackerNews #ngated
👀 Wow, hold your horses! Zig builds are apparently breaking the sound barrier now. 🚀 After years of intense labor and a bit of #LLVM yeeting, they've achieved the unimaginable: a #compiler that might finally compile something before your coffee goes cold. ☕️🔥
https://mitchellh.com/writing/zig-builds-getting-faster #ZigLang #SoundBarrier #FastCompilation #HackerNews #ngated
💥Breaking News! #Shopify, the puppeteer of the #Ruby world, just turned Ruby Central into its marionette, snagging #Bundler and #RubyGems like they were on a clearance sale. 🤡 Because nothing screams "community" quite like a corporation bulldozing its way into open source projects. 🎭
https://joel.drapper.me/p/rubygems-takeover/ #OpenSource #HackerNews #ngated
🚀 BREAKING: The #Coinbase#CEO has discovered the secret to success—fire anyone who dares to question the almighty #AI 🤖. Apparently, if you’re not coding Skynet by lunch, you better update your LinkedIn. 🤦♂️ Because who cares about quality when you have buzzwords? #InnovationOrElse
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/22/coinbase-ceo-explains-why-he-fired-engineers-who-didnt-try-ai-immediately/#Success#Buzzwords#Innovation#Disruption#HackerNews #ngated
🚨 Breaking news: Supabase's new "Lethal Trifecta" feature ensures entire databases leak faster than a sieve 🏃♀️💨! With the innovative combo of LLM blunders, zero #security, and an express delivery system for #data breaches, it's a hacker's dream come true 😅🔓!
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/6/supabase-mcp-lethal-trifecta/ #Supabase#Lethal#Trifecta #breach #database #hacker #news#HackerNews #ngated
In a shocking twist, it turns out officials are just as clueless about Iran's uranium as they are about how to turn off their ad blockers 😂🔍. The New York Times bravely reports this non-news with the same urgency as a cat chasing a laser pointer 🐱💨. Looks like the only thing enriched here is confusion! 🤷♂️🥴
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/us/politics/iran-uranium-stockpile-whereabouts.html#IranUranium#AdBlockers#Confusion#NYTimes#CatChasingLaser#NonNews#HackerNews #ngated
Hyprland wants your money for "enhancements" to their free software 🙄. They're rolling out a "Premium" tier that'll grant you access to their super-exclusive forum posts and... wait for it... an advanced desktop experience that’s still coming soon! 🤑💸
https://account.hypr.land/pricing #Hyprland#Premium#FreeSoftware#ExclusiveForum#AdvancedDesktop#HackerNews #ngated
Kent Beck's tale is a thrilling ride through the riveting world of... cognitive decline? 🤔 Apparently, his brain needed an exoskeleton because aging is hard, folks. But don't worry, the magic of augmented coding is here to save him from the existential crisis of using a computer. 💻✨
https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/me-an-algernon#KentBeck #CognitiveDecline#AugmentedCoding#AgingTech#ExistentialCrisis#HackerNews #ngated
Oh look, Meta's trying to shove "privacy" into their #AI tools on #WhatsApp like fitting a giraffe into a clown car 🚗🦒. Because nothing screams "secure" like a company famous for its *air-tight* data practices 😏🔐.
https://engineering.fb.com/2025/04/29/security/whatsapp-private-processing-ai-tools/ #Meta #Privacy #DataSecurity #ClownCar #HackerNews #ngated