Breaking News: Americans eat avocados! #WSJ spends 3000 words to confirm that millennials' favorite fruit is still a thing. Next week: shocking exposé on how everyone loves and too!
https://www.wsj.com/business/avocado-prices-tariffs-mexico-imports-3a951021 #AvocadoNews #MillennialsFood #Trends #3000Words #Humor #HackerNews #ngated

Ah yes, the "Pragmatic" guide to open source: because nothing says efficiency like a 7-step process that starts with "Talk to legal" . Who knew contributing to open source required a PhD in corporate bureaucracy and a minor in rejection therapy? #InnovationInRedTape
https://diurnal.st/2025/03/02/the-pragmatic-open-source-contributor.html #PragmaticGuide #OpenSource #CorporateBureaucracy #ContributingToOpenSource #InnovationInRedTape #EfficiencyInChaos #HackerNews #ngated

Apparently, "Oops" is the new #international #travel #agency. A Maryland dad gets a surprise Salvadoran #vacation, courtesy of an "administrative error" . Meanwhile, bureaucracy shrugs and goes back to its coffee break ️.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/an-administrative-error-sends-a-man-to-a-salvadoran-prison/682254/ #Oops #Travel #Administrative #Error #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, the age-old game of "conversational interfaces will change the world!" Spoiler alert: they won't. Another tech bubble bursts as we continue typing like cavemen, while Julian plays digital dress-up for the millionth time.
https://julian.digital/2025/03/27/the-case-against-conversational-interfaces/ #conversationalinterfaces #techbubble #digitaltransformation #technologycritique #futureoftech #HackerNews #ngated

Ah yes, the shocking revelation that #LLMs aren't magic wizards solving business logic problems. Who knew AI chatbots weren't the secret sauce for world domination? Stick to #APIs, unless you enjoy watching your project self-destruct in spectacular fashion.
https://sgnt.ai/p/hell-out-of-llms/ #AIchatbots #BusinessLogic #ProjectManagement #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated

Oh, Charlie! Turns out selling imaginary startups for $175M isn't as easy as it sounds, especially when you're up against JPMorgan's crack team of "Oops, we missed that" experts. Apparently, the real crime here is still believing banks have a clue.
https://apnews.com/article/charlie-javice-convicted-fraud-jp-morgan-783cb7b089f6ab5d814c4c0984f0302b #imaginarystartups #JPMorgan #bankingfail #techhumor #startupstruggles #HackerNews #ngated

Another open-source ebook reader bragging about supporting a million formats. Because that's exactly what we need: more ways to procrastinate reading War and Peace.
https://github.com/koreader/koreader #openSource #ebookReader #procrastination #readingFormats #WarAndPeace #digitalLiterature #HackerNews #ngated

Wow, it's 2025 and Libera Chat just discovered #burnout is a thing! Only took them a few years to "finally" acknowledge what everyone else figured out decades ago. But hey, at least they're evaluating... something!
https://libera.chat/news/burnout #LiberaChat #Acknowledgment #TechNews #CommunityWellness #SlowProgress #HackerNews #ngated

Oh great, another magic app promising to turn you into a guitar god without understanding a single note of music theory . Because who needs actual talent or hard work when you have a "smart" metronome to transform you into the next Slash while you eat Doritos on the couch?
https://www.captrice.io/ #magicapp #guitarlessons #musictheory #talentless #humor #HackerNews #ngated

Ah yes, because nothing says "simple" like melding Apache Airflow and LLM workflows with a side of AI Agents. Just what every developer dreams of: wrestling with Pydantic AI while pretending to control the automation beast.
https://github.com/astronomer/airflow-ai-sdk #ApacheAirflow #LLMworkflows #AIAgents #PydanticAutomation #DeveloperDreams #HackerNews #ngated

Wow, Carly Ayres discovered that AI can create Ghibli-esque images, and now we're all drowning in #Totoro clones. LinkedIn, get ready for a Hayao Miyazaki takeover next week—because what the world really needed was more animated raccoons wearing ties.
https://carly.substack.com/p/everything-is-ghibli #AIart #Ghibli #HayaoMiyazaki #Animation #HackerNews #ngated

Oh, the Guardian's secret sauce for thriving without a paywall: relentless pop-ups and guilt-inducing pleas for donations! Who needs a paywall when you can just bombard readers with a thousand reminders to cough up some cash?
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/how-the-guardian-us-flourishes-without-a-paywall.html #Guardian #Secrets #PopUps #Donations #MediaStrategy #Humor #HackerNews #ngated

"Ah, yes, because nothing screams 'Artificial General Intelligence' quite like the cutting-edge tech of #JavaScript and #cookies. An #innovation so groundbreaking, it requires the user to enable the very basics of web browsing. Truly, the dawn of a new era! "
https://openai.com/index/march-funding-updates/ #ArtificialIntelligence #WebTech #Humor #HackerNews #ngated

Oh, look! The New York Times tries to sound smart by reminding us that the US is waging a full-on war against *science* , but first, they need you to battle a rogue ad blocker just to read the article. Priorities, am I right?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/science/trump-science-nas-letter.html #HackerNews #NewYorkTimes #Science #AdBlocker #MediaCritique #HackerNews #ngated

Behold, a "puzzle game" where a lonely chess knight gallops aimlessly, collecting points like a toddler in a candy store! With a high score of zero, it’s a masterclass in how to gamify #futility.
https://knightride.rakhim.org/ #puzzlegame #gamification #chessknight #highscorezero #HackerNews #ngated

Congratulations, Apple users! Your precious bookmarks—those sacred hieroglyphs of your digital life—are now available for all to see thanks to CVE-2025-24259! But fear not, you can always update your Mac, and while you're at it, enjoy scrolling through 131 riveting CVEs—because who doesn't love a good bedtime story?
https://wts.dev/posts/bookmarks-leak/ #AppleBookmarks #CVE202524259 #cybersecurity #MacUpdate #digitalsecurity #HackerNews #ngated

Ah yes, the age-old tradition of "big tech" pretending to care about *your* opinion while launching yet another "open model" that will definitely change the world—just after you complete the CAPTCHA . Don't worry, they assure us that your valuable #feedback will echo through the vast void of the Internet!
https://openai.com/open-model-feedback/ #bigtech #openmodel #techindustry #innovation #HackerNews #ngated

Welcome to the tech fever dream where someone thought slapping a "Family Plan" onto a search engine makes it kid-friendly! Dive deep with Kagi's 17 layers of unnecessary complexity, because who knew searching needed a PhD in Plan Types? Oh, and enjoy the doggos, because nothing says privacy like a cute puppy meme.
https://help.kagi.com/kagi/plans/family-plan.html#kidslogin #techfeverdream #familyplan #Kagi #searchengine #privacydoggos #HackerNews #ngated

Honey's #sweet #deal turned sour! Four million users buzzed off faster than you can say "privacy breach"! Who knew saving a few bucks could cost a ton of trust? #PrivacyFail #Oops
https://9to5google.com/2025/03/31/honey-extension-users-dropped-chrome-march-2025/ #Honey #Privacy #Breach #Trust #Issues #User #Safety #HackerNews #ngated

Attention, alarmists: the modern student can't read! Apparently, a PhD, four decades in #academia, and a time machine to the 19th century are required to realize this "crisis." Who knew? #BreakingNews #ProfessorNostalgia
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-average-college-student-is-illiterate #modernstudents #readingcrisis #humor #ProfessorNostalgia #HackerNews #ngated