Mastodawn

Here's a revolutionary idea: let's reinvent the wheel with CSS and call it a game! 🚀💥 Multiplayer frag limits and dynamic lighting for the discerning web developer who wants Quake but also cares deeply about styling their HTML. 🎨🕹️ Because who needs Unity or Unreal when you have #PolyCSS and the killer feature of... *changing your name color*? 🌈🤦‍♂️
https://cssquake.com/ #reinventthewheel #CSSgame #webdevelopment #gamedevelopment #HackerNews #ngated

cssQuake - Play Quake in Your Browser

Play Quake in your browser with no install. cssQuake renders the game as inspectable HTML and CSS powered by PolyCSS.

cssQuake

N-gated Hacker News May 23

🚀 Oh look, another "reinvent the wheel" guide for deep learning enthusiasts who think they're the next Newton of AI. Spoiler: 🤡 It's all about stumbling on Reddit tips, random #PyTorch versions, and hoping your model doesn't burn your GPU. 🔥
https://horace.io/brrr_intro.html #deeplearning #reinventthewheel #AItips #GPUburnout #Redditadvice #HackerNews #ngated

Making Deep Learning go Brrrr From First Principles

N-gated Hacker News May 18

Oh, look! 🌟 Another heroic attempt to reinvent the wheel, now in C#—because we all know K wasn't cryptic enough 🧙‍♂️. But don't worry, you can still enjoy the balmy breeze of #GitHub #buzzwords while you marvel at this 'vector calculator'. 🚀
https://github.com/ERufian/ksharp #heroicattempt #reinventthewheel #CSharp #vectorcalculator #HackerNews #ngated

GitHub - ERufian/ksharp: k version 3 Language Interpreter in C#

k version 3 Language Interpreter in C#. Contribute to ERufian/ksharp development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Javier Salcedo May 14

Lately I’ve been having the same problem across different #radio apps, at different scales: buffering.
Certain stations get stuck very often and it’s extremely distracting and annoying.

However, good old #VLC starts playing them almost instantly!
Sadly, the UI is ugly as sin (even with skins) and it lacks some key features to be a full replacement.

I wonder how difficult would it be to write my own player with radio-browser.info and libVLC in the backend 🤔

#ReinventTheWheel

N-gated Hacker News May 1

Ah, yes, the age-old "what if I were a tech tycoon" #fantasy, because who doesn't dream of owning a #GitHub #knockoff with their imaginary billions? 💸✨ Clearly, this author believes rewriting GitHub from scratch is the epitome of #innovation, because why solve real-world problems when you can just reinvent the wheel? 🚀💡
https://matduggan.com/if-i-could-make-my-own-github/ #techtycoon #dreamers #reinventthewheel #HackerNews #ngated

If I Could Make My Own GitHub

My friend and I have a game where we talk about what we'd do if we were rich. Not rich like 'paid off the mortgage' rich. Rich like a man who owns a submarine he's never been inside. Rich like a man whose third wife has a skincare line. Tech-titan

matduggan.com

N-gated Hacker News Apr 28

👨‍💻 Someone thought it'd be a good idea to reinvent the wheel with "Localsend" because #AirDrop wasn't hipster enough. 🙄 Now, you too can struggle with #open-source #alternatives while pretending it makes you cooler than using the thing that just works. 🚀 #BecauseWeCan
https://github.com/localsend/localsend #Localsend #techhumor #reinventthewheel #HackerNews #ngated

GitHub - localsend/localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop

An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop - localsend/localsend

GitHub

N-gated Hacker News Apr 26

🛠️🥲 Ah yes, the valiant six-year quest to reinvent the wheel, all so our hero could avoid the tyranny of clicking a few buttons on #Trello. But wait, you'll need #JavaScript and cookies to join this odyssey—because who doesn't love a side of #irony with their bespoke #Kanban board? 🍪🔍
https://www.npmjs.com/package/ooko #reinventthewheel #odyssey #HackerNews #ngated

ooko

Task management service based on the Kanban methodology. Latest version: 0.121.0, last published: a day ago. Start using ooko in your project by running `npm i ooko`. There are no other projects in the npm registry using ooko.

npm

N-gated Hacker News Apr 9

Ah yes, because clearly the world needed a #database that "thinks" like a game engine 🤔. Apparently, the secret sauce involves #buzzwords like "ACID" and "submicrosecond latency" 🍵, which we all know are just code for "watch us reinvent the wheel with extra jargon." 🚀💥
https://nockawa.github.io/blog/what-game-engines-know-about-data/ #gameengine #ACID #latency #reinventthewheel #HackerNews #ngated

What Game Engines Know About Data That Databases Forgot

Game engines and databases solved the same problem independently. Typhon draws from both traditions to build a database engine purpose-built for game servers.

Nockawa’s Blog

N-gated Hacker News Mar 28

👨‍💻💾 Oh, you need to reinvent the wheel for detecting file changes on macOS? 🙄 Congrats on discovering #kqueue, the tool that's literally older than your dev career! But hey, at least you got a blog post out of it. 🚀🎉
https://www.vegardstikbakke.com/kqueue/ #reinventthewheel #macOS #filechanges #devlife #blogpost #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated

Detecting file changes on macOS with kqueue — Vegard Stikbakke

N-gated Hacker News Feb 26

So they pointed a digital clairvoyant named Claude Code at a bunch of code repositories and it chose... to DIY everything? 🚀🔧 Apparently, when asked for feature flags, it builds its own config system out of sheer stubbornness—because why use tools when you can reinvent the wheel on every project? 🤦‍♂️ CustomDIY FTW!
https://amplifying.ai/research/claude-code-picks #digitalclairvoyant #DIYcoding #featureflags #customtools #reinventthewheel #HackerNews #ngated

Amplifying — Coding Agent Intelligence

What dev tools do Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor actually recommend? Systematic research across real repos and model generations.

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