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Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation

https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/
920•km•6h ago•329 comments

/e/OS is a complete "deGoogled", mobile ecosystem

https://e.foundation/e-os/
282•doener•4h ago•147 comments

U.S. science agency moves to restrict foreign scientists from its labs

https://www.science.org/content/article/nist-moves-restrict-foreign-scientists-its-labs
97•JeanKage•3h ago•52 comments

How to talk to anyone and why you should

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/feb/24/stranger-secret-how-to-talk-to-anyone-why-yo...
170•Looky1173•5h ago•342 comments

Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)

https://www.noelberry.ca/posts/making_games_in_2025/
215•alvivar•3d ago•91 comments

Show HN: Omni – Open-source workplace search and chat, built on Postgres

https://github.com/getomnico/omni
71•prvnsmpth•4h ago•24 comments

Microsoft bans the word "Microslop" on its Discord, then locks the server

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/03/02/microsoft-gets-tired-of-microslop-bans-the-word-on-its-d...
221•robtherobber•2h ago•77 comments

Jolla phone – a full-stack European alternative

https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-sept-26
182•spinningslate•2h ago•72 comments

Mondrian Entered the Public Domain. The Estate Disagrees

https://copyrightlately.com/mondrian-public-domain-controversy/
83•Tomte•2d ago•16 comments

If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?

https://github.com/mandel-macaque/memento
322•mandel_x•12h ago•303 comments

Go-Native Durable Execution

https://www.dbos.dev/blog/how-we-built-golang-native-durable-execution
13•hmaxdml•4d ago•1 comments

Neocaml – Rubocop Creator's New OCaml Mode for Emacs

https://github.com/bbatsov/neocaml
40•TheWiggles•2d ago•3 comments

Computer-generated dream world: Virtual reality for a 286 processor

https://deadlime.hu/en/2026/02/22/computer-generated-dream-world/
122•MBCook•8h ago•16 comments

Right-sizes LLM models to your system's RAM, CPU, and GPU

https://github.com/AlexsJones/llmfit
191•bilsbie•14h ago•39 comments

WebMCP is available for early preview

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/webmcp-epp
319•andsoitis•15h ago•178 comments

How to record and retrieve anything you've ever had to look up twice

https://ellanew.com/2026/03/02/ptpl-197-record-retrieve-from-a-personal-knowledgebase
90•Curiositry•9h ago•33 comments

An interactive intro to Elliptic Curve Cryptography

https://growingswe.com/blog/elliptic-curve-cryptography
56•vismit2000•7h ago•11 comments

Show HN: Timber – Ollama for classical ML models, 336x faster than Python

https://github.com/kossisoroyce/timber
147•kossisoroyce•12h ago•27 comments

Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

https://ghostty.org/docs
783•oli5679•1d ago•326 comments

Show HN: Web Audio Studio – A Visual Debugger for Web Audio API Graphs

https://webaudio.studio/
9•alexgriss•1h ago•0 comments

Everett shuts down Flock camera network after judge rules footage public record

https://www.wltx.com/article/news/nation-world/281-53d8693e-77a4-42ad-86e4-3426a30d25ae
307•aranaur•9h ago•90 comments

Process-Based Concurrency: Why Beam and OTP Keep Being Right

https://variantsystems.io/blog/beam-otp-process-concurrency
57•linkdd•8h ago•32 comments

Tove Jansson's criticized illustrations of The Hobbit (2023)

https://tovejansson.com/hobbit-tolkien/
192•abelanger•2d ago•95 comments

Pluralism and the Modern Poet

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n03/seamus-perry/pluralism-and-the-modern-poet
9•Caiero•3d ago•0 comments

Evolving descriptive text of mental content from human brain activity

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260226-how-ai-can-read-your-thoughts
30•ggm•7h ago•25 comments

Enable CORS for Your Blog

https://www.blogsareback.com/guides/enable-cors
68•cdrnsf•2d ago•26 comments

Microslop Manifesto

http://microslop.com/
4•gostsamo•11m ago•0 comments

Why does C have the best file API

https://maurycyz.com/misc/c_files/
133•maurycyz•17h ago•105 comments

Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules

https://mlu-explain.github.io/decision-tree/
514•mschnell•1d ago•78 comments

Little Free Library

https://littlefreelibrary.org/
138•TigerUniversity•14h ago•71 comments
Open in hackernews

Microsoft bans the word "Microslop" on its Discord, then locks the server

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/03/02/microsoft-gets-tired-of-microslop-bans-the-word-on-its-discord-then-locks-the-server-after-backlash/
215•robtherobber•2h ago

Comments

jinxmeta•2h ago
idiots
jjgreen•2h ago
Micro$lop then.
7bit•1h ago
After that. Microshlong
cedws•1h ago
Macroslop
raxxorraxor•2h ago
Was hitting too close to home it seems...

But to be fair, corporate discords have to be like that. Why not create your own channel with your colleagues instead? This discussion would be "private" and corporate can just ignore it.

blitzar•1h ago
> create your own channel with your colleagues instead

Dont even think about it ... it will be private till it isnt then, it will be the reason you are fired. Its corpo world - shut your mouth and dont put anything on a permanent record you dont have to.

oytis•1h ago
Like, why have a public discussion if we can have a private one? Public discussions are important, especially as AI is largely a political project
p-t•44m ago
i'd argue a discord is never really "public", since there's still a barrier to entering and it's easy to get banned
blell•2h ago
Wow, so someone opened a discord server for a community and banned an insulting word for the community? This must be a first.
Gualdrapo•1h ago
Is "Microslop" really insulting, though?
5o1ecist•1h ago
Truth hurts the immature, which is also why censorship is rampant.
blell•1h ago
I would say that “microslop” is akin to the old term “micro$oft”, which was a good sign of immaturity of whoever used it.
windowliker•1h ago
It's insulting to good, honest slop.
Manfred•1h ago
Why wouldn’t it be? It’s a mean derivation of their company name.
4gotunameagain•1h ago
It would be mean if they weren't actually vibecoding copilot & md into notepad, introducing an RCE vulnerability.

In notepad.

TOMDM•1h ago
Why get yourself twisted like this?

They can do a bad thing, and then you can make fun of it with an insult.

Own it, the insult is warranted, why hide and pretend it's not an insult.

If Microsoft is consistently shipping slop, then they deserve insults over it; not every "bad" thing is always unwarranted. Locking someone in a box is "bad", prison is a necessary thing that benefits society. Insults are "bad" and sometimes warranted.

FpUser•43m ago
They did not rewrite Notepad in Rust? Seems to be an easy target
seanclayton•1h ago
It's as insulting as M$ is
cinntaile•1h ago
How is M$ insulting? It just looks like a leetspeak version of MS.
matsemann•52m ago
And other insults are just words as well. It's the intention, history, connotation etc. behind words that give them meaning. M$ is meant as an insult, hence it's insulting. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/M$
riffraff•23m ago
It is supposed to indicate Microsoft cares only about money, which to me too, seems in the same league as microslop, i.e. mildly insulting but really not rude enough to be worth censoring.
fireflash38•1h ago
Maybe they should stop insulting their users with the slop they put out and charge for then.
angstrom•1h ago
Less insulting than Macroslop
TOMDM•1h ago
You can argue that banning insults is a bad look, bad move, that the insult is warranted or whatever, but are you really going to die on the hill that calling the company Microslop isn't insulting?
cluckindan•31m ago
insult (verb): to say or do something to someone that is rude or offensive

Corporate personhood at its finest.

hagbard_c•34m ago
If anything it is a diminutive for a company which really should have named itself Megaslop by now if not Gigaslop or even Teraslop. Poor little Microslop, are those people being nasty again?
7952•33m ago
The branding people will hate it. Although IMHO the best thing they could do is co-opt it as a feedback term and acknowledge that AI can be hit or miss.
2OEH8eoCRo0•1h ago
> someone

It's Microsoft's official Copilot Discord. Microsoft banned the word

lpcvoid•1h ago
Microslop doing Microslop things
ppap3•1h ago
Probably the AI blocked it
collabs•1h ago
> Probably the AI blocked it

Maybe this is the real reason why companies want to use AI so badly.

They save money on salary but also they get to point at something they won't tattle against the executives during a plea bargain?

wormpilled•1h ago
IDK what's funnier/more pathetic, them doing this or an entire article getting written about it.

MicroslopSlop

Joel_Mckay•6m ago
...the AI agent sock-puppets pushing false positive narratives about MicroslopSlopSlop, and trolling anyone that disagrees =3

"Bad Bot Problem" (Computerphile)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjQNDCYL5Rg

SanjayMehta•1h ago
so this exists:

microslop.com

jjgreen•1h ago
Well played
ralferoo•1h ago
Hehe, this reminds me of 30 years ago when people used to stylise it as Micro$oft or creatively misspell it as Microshaft, etc. Even on the Amiga, there was the filesystem that could read PC format disks that was called MessyDos. It just seems like the next generation has discovered what an easy name it is to make puns from.
st_goliath•1h ago
If you're German-speaking: "Klopilot" and "Vibrierkot" are some modern day personal favorites.

On a similar, nostalgic note, I recall boot screens for "Sinnlos 98" floating around, back when modifying the bootup logo was a thing.

adornKey•1h ago
"Der Ätsch-Browser".
fluoridation•1h ago
Don't forget Windoze.
ddtaylor•53m ago
Don't forget Winblows
lelanthran•42m ago
Another oldie

"If you play the Win98 CD backwards, it summons Satan. It's worse when you play it forwards - it installs Windows"

Ah, good times... :-)

jackdoe•30m ago
I had to reinstall win98 so many times I still remember the pirate key k4hvdq9tj96crx9c9g68rq2d3 by heart

good times :)

ValentineC•18m ago
I guess I was more of the FCKGW generation. :)
infinityplus1•37m ago
Internet exploder
Maken•11m ago
Internet Exploiter
pjmlp•39m ago
I used to have a M$ email signature 30 years ago, and pay, nowaydays I mostly use Windows on my laptop, because I am not willing to pay Apple prices even though I can afford them, and even last year I was dealing with GNU/Linux installation issues on a Gigabyte BRIX.
riffraff•29m ago
Last week on a comedy show (the daily show) they made a joke about bill gates "micro and soft" which was old in the 90s already, so I can confirm this is the case.
_imnothere•1h ago
Ok, Microslop
ppap3•1h ago
I don't take this lightly. These are the folks who are doing what they can to be part of the government. They simply cannot take criticism and this seems to be a pattern moving forward.
hwers•1h ago
The default of making a public discord for your project/company always seemed like a bad idea anyway. It’ll always devolve into some drama or distracting overhead to moderate it
lloydatkinson•1h ago
Discord/Reddit moderators living up to their obnoxious stereotype as usual.
marcyb5st•46m ago
I don't know for certain, but moderators (on a company Discord) are likely random people in a 3rd world country that are payed peanuts and that is their only income. If higher ups tell them "I don't want to see the Microslop word anywhere" they just do it.

You should be angry at the higher ups that instead of saying: "maybe they are right and we can do better" they decided to hide the problem through censorship. Which, btw, always has the opposite effect of putting what you are trying to hide in the spotlight.

Havoc•53m ago
Don’t they have better things to do? Maybe vibecode a taskbar that moves when you try to move away the mouse over it or perhaps a windows 12 installation procedure that requires a fecal sample and iris scan?
orwin•16m ago
I can really see them ship the first, that's at the same time very funny, and quite sad.
xattt•15m ago
“Your sample was insufficient. Please try again later.”
SSLy•9m ago
"please drink the verification can"
bartread•7m ago
> installation procedure that requires a fecal sample and iris scan

Do you work for Microsoft or something? Please do do not give them ideas.

quadruple•46m ago
What community is there to house around Microsoft Copilot? Seriously, why does Microsoft Copilot need a Discord Server? What do I talk about when I join the Microsoft Copilot server? What are we doing here?
xmcqdpt2•37m ago
Maybe all the users are OpenClaw instances?
TheAceOfHearts•11m ago
I'd imagine that there's some discussion about how to make the most out of the tool as well as discussion of experiments and capabilities. I'm not even sure what exactly "Microsoft Copilot" entails anymore because of the multiple rebrands, but having a place where you can discuss exploring plugins and other adjacent features seems useful.

Not quite the same, but recently I was recently looking around for communities centered around Claude Code for discussion about people's workflows as well as discussion about what plugins people are using and if they notice it making a significant difference.

Since the technology is still evolving, having an active community can help you discover new patterns and explore the space more effectively.

metaPushkin•42m ago
Absolutely the right decision, since anyone who used this word was expressing hateful speech. We are for freedom and should not allow all kinds of ultra-biased people to ruin it.
elcapitan•42m ago
Microstreisand?
tartoran•27m ago
I propose we refer to them as Microslop from now on.
lunias•20m ago
Tells you a lot about where their focus is at as a company.
rrgok•20m ago
365Slop all day every day all around
tpoacher•20m ago
Microslop.

Has a nice ring to it.

Thank you Streisand effect!

petepete•18m ago
Why is Microsoft using Discord and not Teams?
Maken•10m ago
Why would anyone use Teams?
lovegrenoble•17m ago
Micro$oft
fredgrott•6m ago
remember when they sued a HS student Mike Rowe for his microrowesoft website?