#techcritique — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #techcritique, aggregated by home.social.
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The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later
https://ivan-gavran.github.io/0-social-processes-paper
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49323459
#HackerNews #FormalVerification #TechCritique #SoftwareEngineering #50YearsLater #HackerNews
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📚✨ Ah, the classic "I don't understand technology, so it must be bad" rant, brought to you by the literary legend herself! Ursula K. Le Guin: proving once again that you can win book prizes without ever needing to set the clock on a VCR. 🙄👏
https://www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about-technology #UrsulaKLeGuin #TechCritique #LiteraryLegend #BookPrizes #ClassicRant #HackerNews #ngated -
Why an Ask Me Anything session works with human experts but fails with LLMs—and why treating AI as an AMA is a mistake.
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Oh joy, another "let's reinvent graphics with C++" saga, because clearly the world needed more lines of unreadable code masquerading as progress. 🤦♂️ This riveting novel of "bare C++" promises to convert your brain into spaghetti with all the verbosity of a Victorian epic 📚—but hey, at least there’s a cute triangle to show for it. 🎉
https://haqr.eu/tinyrenderer/ #C++graphics #spaghettiCode #softwareDevelopment #programmingHumor #techCritique #HackerNews #ngated -
😂🤖 "Oh wow, 'Kimi K3: The Future of AI'? More like 'The Future of Unreadable Specs'. Who knew numbers could be so boring? 📉💤 Stop pretending like anyone understands that labyrinth of arbitrary units and token prices! 🚀💸"
https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/kimi-k3 #AI #Humor #UnreadableSpecs #TechCritique #BoringNumbers #HackerNews #ngated -
The Summer of Ludd Festival: A Modern Luddite Movement Against Tech Overreach
📰 Original title: This Luddite Puppet Hopes You’re Not Reading This on Your Smartphone
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️View full AI summary https://en.killbait.com/the-summer-of-ludd-festival-a-modern-luddite-movement-against-tech-overreach.html?utm_source=mastodon_world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_world
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Ah, another 13-minute whine-fest from the "let's pretend we understand society" crowd. 🚀🤖 Because, clearly, understanding why people hate tech requires a blog post longer than the tech manual for a toaster. 🙄 Maybe less time on self-promotion and more on solving actual problems, eh? 🤡
https://www.sevarg.net/2023/03/25/why-people-hate-tech/ #whinefest #techcritique #societalissues #problem-solving #selfpromotion #HackerNews #ngated -
Oh, the audacity! 🙄 Someone is clutching pearls over AI note-takers like it's the end of civilization, while casually name-dropping obsolete tech jargon like it’s a badge of honor. 🚀 Spoiler: your emotional diatribe isn’t the revolution you think it is. 😂
https://firesphere.dev/articles/yes-actually-i-do-fucking-mind #AItechnology #AIdebate #ObsoleteTech #Humor #TechCritique #HackerNews #ngated -
🤖 Oh, the horror! AI-first brands are *finally* getting called out for their hollow #buzzwords and vapid campaigns. 🚀 Who would've thought mindlessly slapping "AI" onto everything wouldn't magically solve all marketing woes? 💥
https://www.breef.com/breefingroom/articles/the-ai-marketing-backlash-why-ai-first-brands-are-starting-to-fall-flat #AIbrands #MarketingFails #HollowCampaigns #TechCritique #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨 Oh great, another #app assuming we're all too dense to blink or stand up on our own. LookAway: because your Mac should be your nanny and remind you to be a human 🙄. Next, it'll remind us to breathe! 💨
https://lookaway.com #LookAway #HumanReminder #TechCritique #MacNanny #Overreliance #HackerNews #ngated -
Oh no, AI has "broken" hiring! 🤖💥 Quick, let's fix it by reading another Harvard Business Review article that rehashes the obvious while pretending to be groundbreaking. Because, of course, the solution is just a "subscribe" button away! 🤑📚
https://hbr.org/2026/06/ai-has-broken-hiring-heres-how-to-fix-it #AIHiringProblems #AIRehashing #SolutionsSubscribe #HarvardBusinessReview #TechCritique #HackerNews #ngated -
🤖💔 Behold, a lengthy diatribe from someone who once found AI-generated bee puns "amusing" but now is a self-proclaimed AI antagonist. They promise a deep dive into their transformation, but it's really just a lot of hot air 🗣️ and #nostalgia for simpler bot times. 💨
https://www.xodium.net/2026/06/the-ai-hate-progression.html #AIAntagonist #AIHumor #BeePuns #TechCritique #HotAir #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀 Oh, joy! Yet another tech fellowship promising to sprinkle AI fairy dust over nonprofits. 🤖 Because nothing says "community service" like a gaggle of tech wannabes fumbling around with Claude, trying to save the world one algorithm at a time. 🙄
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-corps #techfellowship #AIforGood #nonprofitinnovation #communityservice #techcritique #HackerNews #ngated -
Kagi thinks it's the savior of search engines, promising a world free of #ads and #surveillance, but it's just another flavor of "pay us and we'll tell you what you want to hear." 🙄💸 It's like someone trying to sell you bottled air while you're drowning in a sea of sponsored noise. 🌊📢
https://kagi.com/magic #Kagi #searchengines #digitalprivacy #techcritique #HackerNews #ngated -
Why an Ask Me Anything session works with human experts but fails with LLMs—and why treating AI as an AMA is a mistake.
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'Enshittification': technology around us keeps getting worse.
Google’s ads.
Washing machines that break after 4 years.
Big Tech's extortion.Doctorow’s book explains why.
My full review:
https://wrenwrites.substack.com/p/the-book-with-a-poop-emoji-on-the
#Enshittification #BigTech #DigitalRights #TechCritique #BookReview -
🙄 Oh great, another chance for #AI to "save the world" with a cool $200M from the Gates Foundation, because clearly, what global health and #education really need is a dose of Claude credits. 🤑✨ Let's all pretend "Beneficial Deployments" isn't just a fancy way to say "we hope this works" while throwing money at problems markets won't touch.
https://www.anthropic.com/news/gates-foundation-partnership #Funding #GlobalHealth #Innovation #TechCritique #HackerNews #ngated -
Who trusts Sam Altman? 😂 Let's face it, Kim Kardashian's skincare routine has more credibility! 👻 TechCrunch's endless list of buzzwords distracts from the real question: Who cares? 🤷♂️
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/13/who-trusts-sam-altman/ #trustissues #skincarebuzz #techcritique #samaltman #kimkardashian #HackerNews #ngated -
Oh, so we're just throwing #AI at #security problems now? 🤖🔧 Because clearly, letting machines find all our #vulnerabilities faster than we can patch them sounds like a genius plan! 🙄 Maybe next we can have AI write our apology letters for the inevitable breaches. 🔐📉
https://flox.dev/blog/achieving-rapid-cve-remediation-in-an-era-of-escalating-vulnerabilities/ #Automation #TechCritique #FutureOfAI #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah yes, introducing a "vintage" language model because nothing screams cutting-edge like chatbots from the Great Depression era. 🤖✨ Why have AI that understands today when you can ask your virtual great-grandparent what it's like to live in a world without Netflix? 📺🚫 Bravo, geniuses! 🤦♂️
https://talkie-lm.com/introducing-talkie #vintageAI #chatbot #nostalgia #humor #techcritique #HackerNews #ngated -
Every technology we create reflects our flaws.
AI just amplifies them — faster.
We call it salvation.
But it doesn’t save us.
It reveals us.
Dependence doesn’t fix weakness.
It scales it.
If civilization collapses under AI,
it won’t be because AI failed.
It will be because we did.
AI cannot escape the fate of its creators.
Are we building tools — or mirrors?
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🍏 Oh, Apple! The savior of the planet with its recycled materials—because nothing says eco-friendly like an annual release of shiny, new gadgets! 🌍♻️ Just don't mind the massive carbon footprint of manufacturing and shipping those "green" devices globally. 🙄📱
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/04/apple-accelerates-progress-with-highest-ever-recycled-material-in-its-products/ #Apple #EcoFriendly #Gadgets #CarbonFootprint #RecycledMaterials #Sustainability #TechCritique #HackerNews #ngated -
Look at you, trying to reinvent the wheel with a "totally not for diplomats" German app. 🌍📱 Congratulations on discovering the FSI course, something the government has been using since the dinosaurs roamed the Earth. But hey, charge $5 a month for a 60-year-old curriculum and you're golden! 💸💼
https://detawk.com/ #reinventingthewheel #FSIcourse #techcritique #appdevelopment #governmentinnovation #digitaldiplomacy #HackerNews #ngated -
📚🎭 Oh look, Meta's adding "silencing authors" to its list of questionable achievements! 🚫🗣️ Who knew censoring critics could be the new cutting-edge tech strategy? 😂🔇
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/technology-uk/article/sarah-wynn-williams-careless-people-meta-nrffdfpmf #Meta #Silencing #Authors #Censorship #TechCritique #FreeSpeech #HackerNews #ngated -
Oh, look! A website where you can hover over blinking dots to "remember" 72,000 lives, as if they were just pixels on a screen. Because nothing says meaningful homage like a digital version of Minesweeper with a side of ✨virtue signaling✨.
https://bkhmsi.github.io/i-am-not-a-number/ #digitalmemorials #virtue #signaling #onlinehomage #techcritique #pixelart #72000lives #HackerNews #ngated -
Marc Andreessen's Dangerously Unexamined Life
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/marc-andreessen-silicon-valley-military-tech/
#HackerNews #Marc #Andreessen #Dangerously #Unexamined #Life #Silicon #Valley #Military #Tech #TechCritique
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White-Collar AI Apocalypse Narrative Is Just Another Bullshit
https://martynasm.com/2026/03/22/white-collar-ai-apocalypse-narrative-is-just-another-bullshit/
#HackerNews #WhiteCollarAI #Apocalypse #Narrative #Bullshit #AITrends #TechCritique
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Why an Ask Me Anything session works with human experts but fails with LLMs—and why treating AI as an AMA is a mistake.