#курьёзы
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The Tesla Roadster flew, drove upside down, and hit 60mph in under a second
At an event in Waco, Texas, Tesla showed off its next-gen Roadster: the supercar clung to a vertical wall, briefly flew, and sprinted to 60mph in 0.81 seconds.
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Phreak.ing: an Anonymous Phone Switch That Lives in Your Browser
The phreak.ing project revives the spirit of phone phreaking: a logless virtual PBX with star codes, voicemail and conference rooms — all running in the browser.
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Someone Got Doom Running Inside an SQL Database
An enthusiast made the classic Doom run using nothing but a database: around 1,300 lines of SQL render the picture at 35 frames per second.
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A GitHub 'Torture Chamber' for LLMs Ignites AI's Most Absurd Debate Yet
Someone built a 'torture chamber' for local language models and streams their 'suffering' online. The project has set off a fierce fight over 'model welfare'.
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How to Fit a B-2 Bomber into GTA 3: A Very "Normal" C++ Project
A video with the tongue-in-cheek title "The Most Normal C++ Project" has surfaced on YouTube: its author adds a stealthy B-2 bomber to GTA 3.
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Why the x86 instruction is called ud2 and not just ud
Microsoft's Raymond Chen unpacks where the “two” in the name of the x86 instruction that's guaranteed to raise an invalid-opcode exception came from.
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“I Didn't Know AI Could Make Up Facts”: Lawyer Punished for Fake Testimony from ChatGPT
The New Mexico Supreme Court found a defense attorney who filed an appeal citing testimony from nonexistent witnesses guilty of contempt of court and fined him $5,000.
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qBittorrent “escaped its sandbox to go do things”
A tongue-in-cheek Mastodon note about a wayward torrent client racked up hundreds of votes on Hacker News, even though the post itself gives away almost nothing.
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Porn Producer Unmasks “John Doe”: The Pirate Turned Out to Be a Meta Executive
Strike 3 Holdings claims that the anonymous home torrent connection belongs to a director in the Reality Labs division, and it wants to tie his downloads to a $446 million lawsuit against Meta.
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Why AI-Generated Food Looks Inedible
Restaurants and brands increasingly advertise their dishes with images from neural networks — and end up with wormlike noodles, ice cream made of concrete, and burgers that look assembled from rocks. The Verge set out to explain why this happens.
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Defrag98: a browser-based simulator of the Windows 98 disk defragmenter
Defrag98 has surfaced online — a web page that recreates the hypnotic grid of the Windows 98 disk defragmenter. No practical use, just nostalgia.
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cats.txt: how a file about office cats debunked the faith in llms.txt
SEO specialist Mark Williams-Cook dreamed up a parody standard for describing editorial cats — and it passed exactly the same “tests” used to sell the earnestly touted llms.txt.
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“Kidney Disappointment”: How “Kidney Failure” Is Vanishing from Scientific Papers
A Google Scholar search for the phrase “kidney disappointment” returns academic publications where, instead of the established term “kidney failure” («почечная недостаточность»), the absurd “kidney disappointment” turns up.
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Play the Chatbot: A Site Where a Living Person Stands In for the Neural Network
The service Your AI Slop Bores Me turns the idea of talking to an AI on its head: a real person sits on both sides of the conversation, and playing the neural network means working under tight time limits.
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Logging Into a Linux Machine From a Flip Phone Over Bluetooth
Lobsters is discussing a 2020 video in which the author connects to a Linux computer from an ordinary flip phone over Bluetooth.
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Scroll Through All 43 Quintillion States of the Rubik's Cube
A web project lets you scroll through all 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 possible positions of the Rubik's Cube — from the first permutation to the last.
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Startup Offered a Tattoo in Exchange for an Interview — and Apologized
AI startup LemonLime lured “reckless” developers with free tattoos of its logo. After a wave of criticism, the company's head admitted he had “gone too far.”
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DOOM Runs on a Regular-Expression Engine
Yet another demonstration that the classic shooter works anywhere: this time the computing environment is a regular-expression engine, where find-and-replace operations play the part of a processor.
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Hacker Satire in the Form of a man Page
A satirical cyberpunk novella styled as a man page — even available in GNU Info format — has appeared online. You can read it right in your terminal.
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The “Small Penis Rule”: A Writer's Trick Against Defamation Suits
Hacker News is discussing a Wikipedia article about a literary device authors use to protect themselves from defamation suits. The post drew 122 points and sparked 62 comments.