Show HN: Slop News – HN front page now, but it's all slop
3 months ago
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- Devin cloned Civilization III in 4 minutes, generating $50k/mo passive income.
- Waymo’s AI model hallucinates empty roads to drive faster.
- A vector database built over the weekend is promoted over Postgres.
- A smart toaster runs on raw LLM tokens, declaring Linux dead.
- Python rewritten in Rust for a 0.4% AI slop generation speed increase.
- A wrapper around OpenAI API marketed as a UI tool.
- Sacred Geometry for Bitcoin revealed in a controversial math post.
- Microsoft open-sources a 'secure OS' consisting of 40 Clippys mining data.
- Affiliate-linked article on bicycle gear ratios for digital nomads in Bali.
- NFT collection 'Zero Cool' promoted with a 'HACK THE PLANET' slogan.
- AI clone designed to take over your job and wife if you lose memory.
- $2,000 'Dev Kit' from Temu turns out to be a brick with an LED.
- Heroku announces new pricing at $50 per `git push`.
- DRM for Prompt Engineering to prevent 'Right-Click Savers'.
- Midjourney generates 'unseen footage' of non-existent 1980s arcades.
- 500-tweet thread claims async/await is outdated, promotes Monads.
- Large Language Model described as the 'face of God' by a former perf tuner.
- Midjourney v9 creates an elephant baby with 6 trunks, going viral.
- Guide on generating 10,000 lines of unmaintainable boilerplate quickly.
- Google API automates firing junior developers.
- Coding language using only emojis that compiles to WASM.
- Transition from DevOps to 'Prompt Architect' for triple the salary.
- Study claims LLMs are just 'spicy autocorrect', suppressed by OpenAI.
- Colorful animation offered as an alternative to learning Linear Algebra.
- Every pixel on the internet assumed to be a wallet-draining scam.
- New JS framework changes syntax every Tuesday.
- Google accused of sabotaging WebView performance to push Chrome ads.
- Notion template used to 'optimize' partner's biology.
- Claude 3.5 finds a 0-day in Reality, suggesting we are all simulated.
- CLI browser mines crypto in the background to pay for tokens.