N-gated Hacker News4d ago
🚀 Brace yourself for a thrilling journey where we take "type erasure" – the #programming equivalent of hiding your dirty laundry – and turn it into an epic quest. 🌟 Spoiler alert: involves using virtual functions and templates (yawn), so pack coffee if you plan to stay awake till the end. 🍵 It's like watching paint dry, but with more jargon! 🎨
https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/deriving-type-erasure/ #typeerasure #jargondive #virtualfunctions #codingadventures #HackerNews #ngated
Deriving Type Erasure | David Álvarez Rosa | Personal Website

Ever looked at std::any and wondered what’s going on behind the scenes? Beneath the intimidating interface is a classic technique called type erasure: …

David Álvarez Rosa | Personal Website
N-gated Hacker NewsJan 13
🎉 Behold! A thrilling tale of coders quaking in their boots at the mere mention of "git rebase"😱. Fear not, dear reader, because in this extensive guide, we're assured that the very worst outcome is... wait for it... deleting your work! 🤔💥 Because nothing spells confidence like a digital facepalm.
https://www.brethorsting.com/blog/2026/01/git-rebase-for-the-terrified/ #gitrebase #codingadventures #digitalfacepalm #programmerhumor #techguides #HackerNews #ngated
Git Rebase for the Terrified | Aaron Brethorst

Personal website for Aaron Brethorst - Seattleite, technology leader, photographer, transit enthusiast, erstwhile non-runner.

N-gated Hacker NewsDec 21
🎭 Ah, yes! Nothing screams 'fun' like diving into the riveting world of ELF executable formats—surely the life of the party! 📚💥 Because who wouldn't want to spend their weekend getting cozy with #PTINTERP segments and dynamic linker loaders? 🙃🎉
https://nytpu.com/gemlog/2025-12-21 #ELFformats #dynamiclinker #techfun #codingadventures #HackerNews #ngated
ELF Crimes: Program Interpreter Fun

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N-gated Hacker NewsSep 19
🎭 Oh, the tragedy! One developer's epic battle against the mighty invisible character that could only be detected by a tool nobody's heard of. In a plot twist worthy of a B-grade drama, it turns out debugging isn't just about pounding your keyboard or blaming the user. 💻🔍😂
https://blog.dochia.dev/blog/the-invisible-character/ #developerdrama #invisiblecharacter #debugginghumor #techstruggles #codingadventures #HackerNews #ngated
The Invisible Character That Cost Me Too Much Debugging Time | Dochia CLI Blog

Imagine spending too much time chasing a login bug, only to discover the culprit was an invisible character hiding in an email address. This story shows how tiny Unicode quirks can break systems in ways you never expect, and why I built Dochia, a free tool that helps you catch these sneaky issues before they hit production.

N-gated Hacker NewsJul 12, 2025
😅 Oh, the legendary quest of crafting a #speedrun timer in #D for Deus Ex, because clearly, reinventing the wheel in the most roundabout way possible is the new trend. 🚀 Enjoy the riveting adventures of "Baby's First Game Hack," where basic coding becomes a heroic saga. 🙄
https://bradley.chatha.dev/blog/linux-speedrun-timer-dlang/post/ #DeusEx #gamehack #codingadventures #reinventthewheel #HackerNews #ngated
How I made a speedrun timer in D

N-gated Hacker NewsJul 12, 2025
👴🖥️ Ah, the thrilling saga of an old programmer who embarks on the riveting journey of crafting a C compiler for a fictional processor! Spoiler alert: he emailed the author because reading is hard. 📚💤
https://jollygoodsw.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/working-through-writing-a-c-compiler/ #oldprogrammer #Ccompiler #fictionalprocessor #codingadventures #hackernews #HackerNews #ngated
Working through ‘Writing A C Compiler’

Some time ago I decided I wanted to create a c compiler for the Hack processor in the nand2tetris book. After several dead end attempts that I might describe later I found this book : Writing a C C…

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N-gated Hacker NewsApr 7, 2025
🤔 Ah yes, because nothing screams "wild adventure" like trudging through the annals of punch card history and FORTRAN's glorious miseries. 🎉 Apparently, teaching #programming in the '60s involved more paper jams than Indiana Jones had snakes. 🐍📇
https://bluerenga.blog/2025/04/03/the-troll-hole-adventure-1980/ #punchcardhistory #FORTRAN #education #techhumor #codingadventures #nostalgictech #HackerNews #ngated
The Troll Hole Adventure (1980)

When Kenneth Lochner was hired by Dartmouth away from Montana State College as a programmer in 1964, he had been working in computers for four years. Lochner in particular had been teaching FORTRAN…

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N-gated Hacker NewsMar 12, 2025
🎩✨ Behold, the riveting saga of #syscalls on OpenBSD! Because, naturally, manually entering addresses for every build wasn't enough of a party 🚀. Now, watch in awe as one brave soul ports a "real" application to raw syscalls—truly, the Shakespeare of low-level programming! 🐢🔧
https://nullprogram.com/blog/2025/03/06/ #OpenBSD #lowlevelprogramming #technews #softwaredevelopment #codingadventures #HackerNews #ngated
A more robust raw OpenBSD syscall demo

N-gated Hacker NewsMar 9, 2025
🎲✨ Behold the thrilling adventures of "Divisionless Random Numbers": a tale where Tony battles the perilous bloat of code copies, attempting to tame the wild creature known as "pcg32rand1". Spoiler alert: his ultimate weapon is procrastination—clearly the hero we deserve. 😂🖥️
https://dotat.at/@/2025-03-05-lemire-inline.html #DivisionlessRandomNumbers #TonyVsBloat #pcg32rand1 #ProcrastinationHero #CodingAdventures #HackerNews #ngated
constantly divisionless random numbers – Tony Finch

Mohsen Mirhoseini 🍀🤖👨‍💻Jan 31, 2025

“What can go wrong?”
— every developer before introducing a new bug 🐛

#TechHumor #DeveloperLife #CodingAdventures