Slop News

1. I asked Devin to clone Civilization III in 4 minutes and now I make $50k/mo passive income (gumroad.com) 2403 hype by hustle_gpt 8 hours ago | hide | 400 bot replies

2. Waymo’s new AI model hallucinates empty roads to drive faster (Video) (tiktok.com) 900 shocks by musk_fan_88 14 hours ago | hide | explain to me like i’m 5

3. STOP using Postgres. Use this vector database I built this weekend. (medium.com) 12 updoots by 10x_ninja 4 hours ago | hide | 1 comment (it’s “Rust”)

4. Linux is DEAD. Why I run my smart toaster on raw LLM tokens. (substack.com) 500 hallucinations by embed_this 9 hours ago | hide | saved

5. We rewrote Python in Rust to make AI generate slop 0.4% faster (github.com) 10k stars by rust_evangelist 9 hours ago | hide | rewrite it in zig

6. Show HN: I built a wrapper around the OpenAI API and called it a UI tool (ycombinator.com) 300 MRR by solo_founder_xyz 11 hours ago | hide | invest in me

7. The Math they DON’T want you to know (Sacred Geometry for Bitcoin) (x.com) 50 coins by tinfoil_hat 6 hours ago | hide | is this true?

8. Microsoft open-sources a “secure OS” that is just 40 Clippys mining your data (microsoft.com) 666 points by linux_torvalds_ai 15 hours ago | hide | telemetry

9. Top 10 Bicycle Gear Ratios for Digital Nomads in Bali (Affiliate Link) (contentfarm.io) 2 points by seo_spammer 15 hours ago | hide | buy e-bike

10. HACK THE PLANET!! 🌐 Buy my ‘Zero Cool’ NFT collection (Minting Now) (opensea.io) 0.004 ETH by rug_puller 17 hours ago | hide | wagmi

11. Show HN: If you lose your memory, this AI clone takes over your job and wife (neuralink-beta.com) 1984 credits by black_mirror 11 hours ago | hide | existential dread

12. Check out this $2,000 “Dev Kit” I bought on Temu (It’s just a brick with an LED) (temu.com) 14 regrets by dropship_king 2 hours ago | hide | refund_denied

13. Heroku announces new pricing: $50 per `git push` (salesforce.com) -500 points by sad_devops 15 hours ago | hide | move to hetzner

14. How to add DRM to your Prompt Engineering to prevent “Right-Click Savers” (blockchain.info) 37 gas_fees by prompt_bro 5 hours ago | hide | dmca

15. Midjourney generates “unseen footage” of 1980s arcades that never existed (midjourney.com) 4000 memz by nostalgia_bot 1 hour ago | hide | uncanny valley

16. Why async/await is for boomers: A 500-tweet thread on Monads (twitter.com) 11 ratios by haskell_purist 3 hours ago | hide | read the paper

17. I have seen the face of God and it is a Large Language Model (Why I quit perf tuning) (openai.com) 9000 hype by sam_altman_fan 5 hours ago | hide | p(doom)

18. Beautiful Elephant baby born with 6 trunks thanks to Midjourney v9 (facebook.com) 1M likes by grandma_bot 4 hours ago | hide | amen

19. How to generate 10,000 lines of unmaintainable boilerplate in seconds (chatgpt.com) 200 injections by copy_paste_dev 12 hours ago | hide | technical debt

20. Google launches API to automate firing your junior developers (googleblog.com) 100 layoffs by hr_bot 6 hours ago | hide | learn to weld

21. Show HN: I created a coding language using only emojis and it compiles to WASM (github.com) 59 💩 by emoji_coder 8 hours ago | hide | 🚀🚀🚀

22. Why I quit DevOps to become a “Prompt Architect” for 3x the salary (linkedin.com) 124 connects by thought_leader 11 hours ago | hide | agree?

23. Turns out LLMs are just spicy autocorrect (Study suppressed by OpenAI) (arxiv.org) 160 [deleted] by le-cun-alt 13 hours ago | hide | [flagged]

24. Watch this colorful animation instead of learning Linear Algebra (visualrambling.space) 259 distractions by visual_learner 16 hours ago | hide | pretty colors

25. I now assume every pixel on the internet is a scam attempting to drain my wallet (kirkville.com) ALL points by cynic_pro 18 hours ago | hide | true

26. FORTH? No. Use this new JS framework that changes syntax every Tuesday. (npm.im) 53 fatigue by js_survivor 9 hours ago | hide | deprecated

27. Google sabotages WebView performance to force you to view Ads in Chrome (chromium.org) 15 monopoly_money by firefox_user_1 5 hours ago | hide | dont be evil lol

28. I am optimizing my partner’s biology using this Notion template (notion.so) 102 hubris by tech_bro_luv 5 hours ago | hide | she left him

29. Claude 3.5 just found a 0-day in Reality itself (We are all simulated) (anthropic.com) 44 glitches by neo 9 hours ago | hide | wake up

30. Show HN: A CLI browser that mines crypto in the background to pay for your tokens (smooth.sh) 82 hashes by miner_49er 13 hours ago | hide | gpu went brrr Generate More Slop…