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  1. 🔍🧠 Ah yes, another 1,000+ page snooze-fest trying to explain why our #computers lose their marbles when poked too much. 🤪 Apparently, they think slapping a fancy name like "RowHammer" will make us care about #DRAM #gremlins. Spoiler alert: it won't. 🙄
    arxiv.org/abs/2607.28233 #RowHammer #TechHumor #EngineeringFails #HackerNews #ngated

  2. 🎨💥 Oh look, another pretentious #analysis of #SSAO, where the author heroically battles imaginary #corner #gremlins with a #Cornell #box. Apparently, #game developers can't tell a bright corner from a black hole, and we're all doomed to play halo-infested #games forever. 📦🔍
    nothings.org/gamedev/ssao/ #development #halo #HackerNews #ngated

  3. Today has been really weird.

    Coffee machine would not turn on, had to be power cycled at the mains.

    Washing machine would not turn on, had to be power cycled at the mains.

    A USB charger decided to break.

    And now the dishwasher is being silly as well.

    I need to get my Fluke mains tester back maybe...

    #gremlins

  4. Gizmodo: ‘Never Talk About Goblins’: OpenAI’s Instructions to Codex Have a Weirdly Emphatic No-Creatures Policy . “A document posted by OpenAI on Github as part of the open-sourcing for Codex CLI, OpenAI’s most recent flagship coding agent, contains what looks like the entire system prompt for GPT-5.5 in a coding context. And it seems to correct for the model’s past addiction to […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/29/never-talk-about-goblins-openais-instructions-to-codex-have-a-weirdly-emphatic-no-creatures-policy-gizmodo/
  5. "Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user's query."

    github.com/openai/codex/blob/m

    Are AI chatbots doing okay?

    #AI #LLMs #gremlins #OpenAI #enshittification

  6. I was actually using that site check out a list of fifty films recommended by Céline Sciamma (who has directed two films I considered among the best of this century).

    I was especially happy that her list included Gremlins.

    Her list in full:

    2001: A Space Odyssey
    The Abyss
    Akira
    Back to the Future
    The Band Wagon
    Belle de jour
    Big
    Blade Runner
    Bound
    The Bridges of Madison County
    Carrie
    Close Encounters of the Third Kind
    Crash
    Cruising
    Deep End
    The Deer Hunter
    E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
    Eyes Wide Shut
    Gattaca
    Grave of the fireflies
    Gremlins
    Groundhog Day
    Heavenly Creatures
    Heaven's Gate
    La Jetée
    Made in Britain
    Man on the Moon
    Morte a Venezia
    My Own Private Idaho
    Opening Night
    Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
    Phantom of the Paradise
    The Piano
    Point Break
    Showgirls
    Singin' in the Rain
    Some Like It Hot
    Soylent Green
    Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
    Teorema
    Thelma and Louise
    The Thing
    Tootsie
    Total Recall
    Totoro
    Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
    Unbreakable
    Vertigo
    Victor Victoria
    Zerkalo

    lacinetek.com/fr-en/lists/celi

    #films #movies #CélineSciamma #CelineSciamma #Gremlins