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Saturday January 24th, 2026

Vibe Graveyard Dan Lyke / comment 0

Welcome to the Vibe Graveyard

A haunting collection of startup disasters, coding catastrophes, and executive decisions that went spectacularly wrong. Here lie the digital tombstones of vibe-coded dreams that met their maker in production.

"The device, which Heyneman said does not work..." Dan Lyke / comment 0

‘I’m very stupid’: SF tech founder jailed in Davos for bomb-lookalike device — After leaving a prototype unattended at the World Economic Forum, Sebastian Heyneman was held by Swiss authorities for 13 hours.

The device, which Heyneman said does not work, is meant to recognize the unique characteristics of a silicon chip to prevent financial fraud.

Of course what's working is also vibe-coded.

Via.

Friday January 23rd, 2026

Sycophancy Feast Dan Lyke / comment 0

fluffy 💜 @fluffy@plush.city

LLM-powered cat food

Sycophancy Feast

http: Earth Dan Lyke / comment 0

"Miss Movie Masochist" @socketwench@masto.hackers.town

Housemate:

"The existence of http and https implies the existence of http3, http: Resurrection, and http vs. Predator.

Discuss."

fascinating discrepancy Dan Lyke / comment 0

Francisco Tolmasky @tolmasky@mastodon.social

One of the places AI has arguably been most widely deployed is law enforcement, yet no one has pointed to this as evidence of a coming “end to police jobs” like they do for all other fields. What a fascinating discrepancy.

UTF-8 testing Dan Lyke / comment 1

Seeing where my leakage is on UTF-8 stuff, 'cause something's broken... 🍔🐝❤️🍔🐝❤️🍔🐝❤️🍔🐝❤️🍔🐝❤️

Incriminating footage of the NYPD Dan Lyke / comment 0

NYC sues Dr. Phil’s son to block release of ‘extremely problematic’ NYPD footage

The sensitive footage comes from a now defunct city-backed TV show helmed by Jordan McGraw.

You mean the department that provided the security detail for Eric Adams that was then part of a cryptocurrency kidnapping/extortion scheme has shame? Color me shocked.

Also, release the fucking things, we've known the NYPD was super rotten for decades.

Via the ever awesome Tara Calishain.


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