andreareinaSep 2020Strongly recommends
If you haven't seen it yet, the retroencabultaor video [1] is a masterclass on how to do it. [1] ▶ this video
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Rockwell Retro Encabulator
Rockwell Retro Encabulator on HackerTube: recommended by 1 Hacker News commenter across 1 month, 2010–2025.
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A spoof industrial promo for the Rockwell Retro Encabulator, a deadpan stream of technobabble about an imaginary machine. It is a classic engineering in-joke.
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN uses it as a joke whenever jargon-heavy or meaningless technical pitches appear, and praises it as a masterclass in technobabble.
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“the retroencabultaor video [1] is a masterclass on how to do it.”
What HN commenters said
18 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
n1xis10tDec 2025Joke
Indeed, complexity (both cyclomatic and post-frontal) must be reduced such that the two spurving bearings make a direct line with the panametric fan. For more details consult this instructional video: ▶ this video
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paranoidrobotApr 2025Joke
There are youtube channels with old TV Ads. Some of those will be non-existant. You could also go down the Turbo Encabulator rabbit hole: [link] ▶ this video
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_fizz_buzz_Jan 2024Joke
But that is my point, ChatGPT connected the rockwell retro encabulator[0] in reverse, which will of course make the resonance tank split capacitor bridge oscillate out of sync with the active input bias triodes. This will of course immediately fry the dual-bifet transistor driver stage. Not sure why they call this AI. [0] ▶ this video
in “AI 'hallucinated' fake legal cases filed to B.C. court in Canadian first” · View on HN
kibwenDec 2023Joke
The video is good, but I couldn't help but draw a parallel to the famous Rockwell Retro Encabulator: ▶ this video
in “Hyundai Uni Wheel electric drive system could revolutionize EV design” · View on HN
pwatsonwailesOct 2023Joke
Nah, they need Rockwell Automation's retro encabulator. The inverse reactive current it produces (designed for use in unilateral phase detractors) should also be capable of automatically synchronising cardinal gram meters. My guess would be that the gram meters have become unsynchronised. ▶ this video
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dleeftinkSep 2023Joke
I'm okay with jargon, but the ratio can be off sometimes. When the ratio becomes too skewed, there's risk of side-fumbling or even encabuloration [0]. [0]: ▶ this video
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hyperdimensionJul 2023Joke
He used the Retro Encabulator to generate this text. ▶ this video (my favorite version) It's an old engineering in-joke. Edit: oops, thought your comment was a reply to 'mindcrime. I'm keeping it here though for the lucky (very lucky in this case) 10,000.
in “55 GiB/s FizzBuzz (2021)” · View on HN
efitzMay 2023Joke
Hahaha "The first step of Byzantine Fault Tolerance is tolerance" omg. That cracked me up. Reminded me of the Rockwell Encabulator: ▶ this video
in “A guidance language for controlling LLMs” · View on HN
londons_exploreMar 2023Joke
The obvious way to subvert this is by infiltrating the expert pool. Send in your own guys, who will vote to give all the money to you for inventing the critical retro encabulator[1]. I think the only defence is to make the expert pool large (ie. thousands of people), with a good chunk from academia, and have the expert pool anonymous, with the 'votes' of each expert also anonymous (so they can't go to their boss and show how they voted entirely for their own company). And finally, have some system to throw out the 20% highest and lowest votes before taking an average of the rest. [1]: ▶ this video
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myrandomcommentJan 2022Joke
Here is the fun take - ▶ this video And the original - [link] Also curious as this was on Twitter the other day...how social mixed if this is the OPs reason for sharing.
in “Turboencabulator” · View on HN
whalesaladJun 2021Joke
> As a result, we propose regularizing plain Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) networks by searching for the optimal combination/cocktail of 13 regularization techniques for each dataset using a joint optimization over the decision on which regularizers to apply and their subsidiary hyperparameters. Pardon? ▶ this video
in “Regularization is all you need: simple neural nets can excel on tabular data” · View on HN
ajcpApr 2021Joke
> Supposedly he was doing collars (split-strike conversions) to make this money, but it just seemed implausible to me at the time, since I traded options. I figured he just punted futures, nice and easy way to sorta hug the index (I hadn't seen his "returns"), maybe Martingale it and get lucky until you're not so lucky. For all I know you might as well be talking about a Rockwell Retro Encabulator[1] 1. ▶ this video
in “Bernie Madoff has died” · View on HN
aeoleonnFeb 2021Joke
So cringe-inducing! "best in breed" "pre-integrated" "...unlocks intelligence ingrained in..." such presentations remind me of Rockwell's Retro Encabulator: ▶ this video
in “Judge: Citibank isn't entitled to $500M it sent to various creditors last August” · View on HN
hawktheslayerDec 2020Joke
This was excellent to watch, though the whole time it made me think of this classic engineering video: ▶ this video
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HCIdivision17Feb 2016Joke
Rockwell Automation did some work to modernize this with the ironically named retro-encabulator [0]. It follows the same principles, but uses the off-the-shelf parts we've come to appreciate from RA affiliates. GE was the main supplier of this updated version [1], and reviews show that its performance was excellent in the field. [0] ▶ this video [1] [link] EDIT: There's quite a lot of controversy convering this area of reseach in the following decades. A more technical overview [2] on the turbo-encabulator's operations is discussed in an article covering Chrysler's tulmultuous efforts to apply it to their automotive line. The short of it is that despite being an impressive leap forward in technology, if mass produced it would generate dangerous quantities of DHMO [3]. It just goes to show how a small unexpected side effect can derail even well researched technical solutions. [2] [link] [3] [link]
in “The Turbo-Encabulator in Industry (1944)” · View on HN
vox_mollisNov 2015Joke
The reported poor performance of both red mercury nuclear devices and the ADE 651 are due to the integrators' failure to power them with the output of a properly-calibrated Turboencabulator. Ref: [link] ▶ this video
in “The Doomsday Scam” · View on HN
harpastumDec 2010Joke
This reminds me a lot of turbo/retroencabulator [1]. After you've watched the video (don't go first or it will spoil it), you can check out the wikipedia article.[2] [1] ▶ this video [2] [link]
in “Git in layman's terms: isomorphic contours in source-code phase space” · View on HN