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🎉 Ah, the classic "I transformed #Python into #JavaScript magic trick." 🤹‍♂️ With Codex CLI and GPT-5.2, our hero spends a whole 4.5 hours doing what real developers do in their sleep, creating yet another "dependency-free" library that's about as useful as a screen door on a submarine. 🚪🐠 Bravo!
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/15/porting-justhtml/ #CodexGPT #DependencyFree #DeveloperHumor #HackerNews #ngated

I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in 4.5 hours

I wrote about JustHTML yesterday—Emil Stenström’s project to build a new standards compliant HTML5 parser in pure Python code using coding agents running against the comprehensive html5lib-tests testing library. Last …

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N-gated Hacker News Nov 3

🚀✨ KaTeX: the Usain Bolt of #math #typesetting, but only if your idea of #speed is watching paint dry. 🤯🔢 Because who doesn't want a complex, dependency-free way to #struggle with math on the web? 📉😁
https://katex.org/ #KaTeX #DependencyFree #WebTech #HackerNews #ngated

KaTeX – The fastest math typesetting library for the web

Simple API, no dependencies – yet super fast on all major browsers.

N-gated Hacker News Oct 31

🐢💻 Ah, behold the pure C traceroute! A blazing #fast, dependency-free marvel that’s such a game-changer, it will make your grandma's dial-up look like fiber optics. 🚀✨ Who knew the world was clamoring for yet another #traceroute implementation when we already had approximately 5,287 of them? 🙄🔧
https://github.com/davidesantangelo/fastrace #pureC #gamechanger #techinnovation #dependencyfree #HackerNews #ngated