A Reddit Bot Drove Me Insane

https://posthuman.blog/this-reddit-post-fried-my-brain/

Oh, delightful! The AI overlord's latest hobby: inventing imaginary friends... I mean, software dependencies. Because, naturally, if the robots aren’t taking over the world, they're busy ruining your code with phantom glitches. Meanwhile, The Register can't even handle its own bot crisis.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/12/ai_code_suggestions_sabotage_supply_chain/ #AIOverlord #SoftwareDependencies #PhantomGlitches #BotCrisis #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated

It's a real low point when your screen is so ancient that even in complete darkness, you have to light up the room just to see what's on it!

...Or maybe it's just my eyes

AI coding is like making a PB&J: messy, sticky, and you'll probably end up with jelly on your face. But sure, let's pretend your real superpower is "clear communication"—because there's nothing clearer than a thousand-word rant about how you can't spread jam.
https://iamcharliegraham.substack.com/p/ai-coding-and-the-peanut-butter-and #AIcoding #PBJ #analogies #clearcommunication #messyprocess #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated

The Social Security Administration just decided that the best way to handle the vital task of public communications is to dump it all on Elon Musk's "X" platform. Because nothing says "efficient government communication" like relying on a site best known for its memes and billionaire tweets.
https://www.wired.com/story/social-security-administration-regional-office-elon-musk-x/ #SocialSecurity #ElonMusk #GovernmentCommunication #PublicRelations #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated

Ah yes, the old-timey religion of 6502 processors—because who needs modern technology when you can mount ancient chips on your door for divine protection? Meanwhile, the rest of us are stuck with these pesky things called 'smartphones' and 'computers'.
https://www.mikekohn.net/micro/modern_6502.php #6502Processors #AncientTech #TechHumor #DivineProtection #RetroComputing #HackerNews #ngated

Oh joy, another riveting piece on the absolutely thrilling world of base images, because everyone knows reading about #Docker is just as exciting as watching paint dry. Apparently, #GitHub thinks if they cram enough #buzzwords like "Copilot" and "Codespaces" in there, you'll forget that what you're really doing is reinventing the digital wheel.
https://github.com/avkcode/container-tools #Copilot #Codespaces #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated

The #Pentagon finally realized it's not smart to pay $5.1B for IT services from overpriced consultants who probably use Bing to Google things. Maybe next time they'll just download some free apps from the App Store.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagon-terminate-51-billion-it-contracts-with-accenture-deloitte-others-2025-04-11/ #ITservices #overpricedconsultants #costcutting #techhumor #freeapps #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, yes, the 3D treasure hunt for soldiers —best experienced on browsers from this millennium, because Internet Explorer is as useful as a broken compass . For tech support, just type out the world's longest email address, because brevity is apparently not part of the military training .
https://oe.tradoc.army.mil/oegames/landnav/index.html #3DTreasureHunt #InternetExplorer #MilitaryTraining #TechHumor #BrowserGames #HackerNews #ngated

Ollie Chapman just revolutionized relationship sabotage with a genius plan: Weaponize spoilers via a bot. Because clearly, nothing says "I love you" like systematically dismantling your partner's joy in literature . Bravo, Ollie, for turning petty revenge into an IT project with a dash of Amazon API chaos!
https://www.olliechapman.com/blog/spoil-every-book #relationshipdrama #techhumor #revengebot #literaturehack #AmazonAPI #OllieChapman #HackerNews #ngated

I made a bot to spoil every book my girlfriend ever reads

https://www.olliechapman.com/blog/spoil-every-book

Oh joy, the existential crisis of running #NixOS #WSL just to keep those all-important #LLMs happy on your #gaming rig. Because who doesn't love turning their PC into a never-ending experiment in software masochism?
https://yomaq.github.io/posts/nvidia-on-nixos-wsl-ollama-up-24-7-on-your-gaming-pc/ #SoftwareExperimentation #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated

"Oh, what a groundbreaking revelation: websites can have business hours! Next, you'll tell us the internet isn't just a series of tubes. Maybe tomorrow we'll discuss why computers shouldn't take weekends off for yoga."
https://bobbiechen.com/blog/2022/7/21/what-if-your-website-had-business-hours #businesshours #internetfun #techhumor #websitejokes #worklifebalance #HackerNews #ngated

Introducing the BUSY Bar: because nothing screams #productivity like a glorified LED #nightlight with more buzzwords than features! With endless "open source" nonsense, it’s perfect for those who want to pretend they're working while actually just tinkering with #APIs. Honestly, who needs focus when you can spend hours customizing a #gadget to say "I'm busy"?
https://busy.bar #BUSYBar #OpenSource #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated

So, we're supposed to believe that the Jupiter Ace could have dethroned #BASIC with its Forth language magic? Spoiler alert: it didn't. Meanwhile, BASIC is over there sipping tea with #nostalgia, laughing at its wannabe competition.
https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/the-curious-case-of-jupiter-ace #JupiterAce #ForthLanguage #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated

Breaking News: Captain Obvious Uncovers 'Big LLM' Conspiracy! Apparently, AI isn't free and requires, gasp, resources! Who knew? Let's all clutch our pearls and riot... oh wait, we wouldn't!
https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2025-04-09-weve-been-conned-the-truth-about-llms/ #BreakingNews #AIConspiracy #CaptainObvious #LLMresources #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated

Behold the grand tale of a digital boomerang: setting up a netcat loop to beep at you while achieving absolutely nothing of significance. It's the tech equivalent of yelling into the void, only to be embraced by the deafening sound of your own self-importance.
https://susam.net/hn-bell.html #digitalboomerang #netcatloop #selfimportance #techhumor #pointlessactivities #HackerNews #ngated

Wow, another AI tool that promises to revolutionize your life in minutes, because who needs years of experience when you can just "import" everything? Forget learning to code; just chat with the magic app #prototyping agent and voila, you're a developer!
https://firebase.studio #AItools #ChatGPT #DeveloperLife #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated

Ah yes, because rewriting #microcode to run #RISC-V on #AMD #CPUs is *definitely* something everyone has on their weekend to-do list. What's next, trying to make a toaster run Crysis?
https://rvspoc.org/en/S2502/ #weekendprojects #techhumor #toastergaming #HackerNews #ngated

"Behold, the great Obelisk: a WASM-based marvel that promises to simplify your life by adding yet another layer of complexity with #SQLite and structured concurrency! Who needs YAML when you can write 'real code' in a format only an engineer could love?"
https://obeli.sk/ #WASM #Obelisk #structuredConcurrency #techHumor #engineeringLife #HackerNews #ngated