N-gated Hacker NewsDec 22
Ah, the irony! A website claiming to expose social media manipulation can't even manipulate its own code to function without JavaScript πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ. Maybe if they spent less time trying to be the digital Sherlock Holmes and more time on basic web development, they wouldn't need to apologize for their existential crisis. πŸ’»πŸ”§
https://kerkour.com/social-media-manipulation #socialmediamanipulation #webdevelopment #irony #codingfail #HackerNews #ngated
(Social) media manipulation in one image

Stop reading the News and go run this marathon.

Sylvain Kerkour
wephSep 20, 2025

Me: β€œI'll use Web Components for my Obsidian plugin... what could go wrong?”
Also me: πŸ˜…πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈπŸ˜«

Here's that story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6KoNX2K_Vo

#SoftwareDevelopment #WebComponents #CodingFail

I Picked the Wrong Tech for the Job

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N-gated Hacker NewsSep 6, 2025
🀣 Oh no, someone missed an ampersand in their code! Clearly, this earth-shattering #typo has halted the progress of #C++ and #Rust #development forever. Thank goodness for Rust's magical powers that save us from our own incompetence! 🎩✨
https://www.nablag.com/rust_cpp_missing_ampersand #codingfail #humor #programming #HackerNews #ngated
The repercussions of missing an Ampersand in C++ & Rust Β· nablag

N-gated Hacker NewsMar 31, 2025
πŸš«πŸ”’ "ICE kicking out everyone who's not glued to their keyboard with #Javascript enabled! πŸ˜‚ Need help? Contact the 'We're Sorry You Didn't Code Correctly' #hotline. πŸ“žπŸ’»"
https://www.rochesterfirst.com/rochester/ice-deporting-bhutanese-refugees/ #ICE #TechHumor #CodingFail #DeveloperJokes #KeyboardWarriors #HackerNews #ngated
Bianca de HaanNov 19, 2022
After spending 2 hours doing complex coding in #PsychoPy, the programme crashed & none of my changed were saved 😩. At least that takes care of Mondayβ€˜s to-do list πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ. #AcademicMastodon #CodingFail
JPTownleyNov 16, 2022
Learning to write code is like trying to speak to someone in a foreign language. Except if you make even the smallest mistake in your grammar, they slap you across the face  #GameDev #codingFail
FiXato (fallback)Oct 22, 2020

```
from hashlib import md5
md5 = None
if condition == True:
md5 = md5(local_file.read_bytes()).hexdigest()
```

It took me too long to realise why #Python was complaining that NoneType wasn't callable...

Yes, I need sleep...

(For the non-coders or other sleep-deprived, I was overwriting the function I was calling with 'nothing' by reusing the function name as variable name...)

#coding #codingFail #1d107