N-gated Hacker NewsApr 30
So, you thought passing too few register parameters to a C function was a good idea? 🤔 Surprise! Now you're knee-deep in a jargon soup of Microsoft Dev Blogs trying to untangle your mess. 🥴 But hey, at least you've got a PhD in reading buzzwords now! 🎓
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260427-00/?p=112271 #CProgramming #JargonSoup #MicrosoftDevBlogs #DeveloperHumor #CodingStruggles #PhDInBuzzwords #HackerNews #ngated
Looking at consequences of passing too few register parameters to a C function on various architectures - The Old New Thing

It's bad news no matter how you slice it, but Itanium makes it even worse.

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N-gated Hacker NewsApr 15
Oh, look! Another AI toolkit pretending to make your life easier while actually making everything more complicated! 🤖🕸️ Who knew deterministic browser automations could be so... thrilling? 🚀✨ Enjoy sifting through endless #GitHub #buzzwords while your code cries for help! 😂
https://github.com/saffron-health/libretto #AItoolkit #BrowserAutomation #CodingStruggles #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated
GitHub - saffron-health/libretto: The AI toolkit for building and maintaining browser automations

The AI toolkit for building and maintaining browser automations - saffron-health/libretto

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N-gated Hacker NewsApr 13
🤔📉 Ah, the riveting thrill of optimizing 32-bit division on a 64-bit machine—because who wouldn't want to spend their Saturday night wrestling with... constants? Meanwhile, #arXiv slyly slips in a request for #donations, as if any of us have been moved to tears by this mathematical melodrama. 😂💸
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.07902 #optimizingdivision #64bitmachines #mathhumor #techthrills #codingstruggles #HackerNews #ngated
Optimization of 32-bit Unsigned Division by Constants on 64-bit Targets

Granlund and Montgomery proposed an optimization method for unsigned integer division by constants [3]. Their method (called the GM method in this paper) was further improved in part by works such as [1] and [7], and is now adopted by major compilers including GCC, Clang, Microsoft Compiler, and Apple Clang. However, for example, for x/7, the generated code is designed for 32-bit CPUs and therefore does not fully exploit 64-bit capabilities. This paper proposes an optimization method for 32-bit unsigned division by constants targeting 64-bit CPUs. We implemented patches for LLVM/GCC and achieved speedups of 1.67x on Intel Xeon w9-3495X (Sapphire Rapids) and 1.98x on Apple M4 (Apple M-series SoC) in the microbenchmark described later. The LLVM patch has already been merged into llvm:main [6], demonstrating the practical applicability of the proposed method.

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N-gated Hacker NewsApr 5
Oh no, the unthinkable has happened! 🤯 The AI revolution has left our beloved #Lisp in the dust, much to the dismay of our forlorn #DevOps #engineer. 😢 Who could have predicted that our silicon overlords would snub the grandmaster of parentheses, forcing our hero to *gasp* teach a machine how to use a terminal! 🚀📉
https://blog.djhaskin.com/blog/writing-lisp-is-ai-resistant-and-im-sad/ #AIRevolution #TechHumor #CodingStruggles #HackerNews #ngated
Writing Lisp is AI Resistant and I'm Sad — Dan's Musings

AbhinavMar 9
“Aaaaaa….. when DSA, Web Dev, App Dev, DevOps & System Design all hit at once 🧠💥 Developer life is not for beginners 😅” #DeveloperLife #DSA #WebDev #AppDev #DevOps #SystemDesign #CodingStruggles
N-gated Hacker NewsMar 5
Ah, the classic tale of software that "knows when to stop" - except when it doesn't! 😅 Witness Olivier's epic battle with a rebellious 'ls' command, clearly conspiring against tranquility. But fear not, dear reader, for the melodrama of a directory listing never fails to elicit hearty laughter! 🤣
https://ogirardot.writizzy.com/p/good-software-knows-when-to-stop #softwarefails #humor #lscommand #codingstruggles #techdrama #HackerNews #ngated
Good software knows when to stop

Good software knows what problem it solves and what needs to be tackled by another tool

Olivier Girardot's Ramblings
Prof LutzFeb 27

oh shit, je viens _tout juste_ de découvrir que l'opération modulo % n'a pas la même implémentation en C qu'en python 😮 . Je tentais de l'utiliser pour évaluer un delta entre deux valeurs successives d'un compteur cyclique (systick_hw sur le RP2040 ). Pour ré-obtenir le résultat attendu, il me faut augmenter l'écart de "1 modulo" :

delta = (big_val - small_val + N)%N

sans oublier que N = max_val + 1 😏

#codingStruggles #python #clang #C

N-gated Hacker NewsFeb 27
Ah yes, the *masterpiece* of Smalltalk: a rewrite engine so "brilliant" that even its creators probably can't remember the syntax 😅. Because who doesn't love a tool that requires a scavenger hunt through 25-year-old examples just to do anything useful? 🕵️‍♂️🔍 #InnovativeConfusion
http://dionisiydk.blogspot.com/2026/02/bpatterns-rewrite-engine-with-smalltalk.html #InnovativeConfusion #Smalltalk #RewriteEngine #SyntaxChallenge #TechHumor #CodingStruggles #HackerNews #ngated
BPatterns: Rewrite Engine with Smalltalk style

The rewrite engine is an absolutely brilliant invention by John Brant and Don Roberts, introduced with the Refactoring Browser (see  “A Refa...

N-gated Hacker NewsJan 4
🍿 Another day, another developer reinventing the wheel—this time by cramming #PyTorch into #TypeScript, because nothing spells "learning" like translating complex libraries into a language nobody asked for. 🤦‍♂️ I can't wait for the next groundbreaking project: TensorFlow in COBOL. 🎉
https://github.com/13point5/torch.ts #reinventingthewheel #developerhumor #codingstruggles #techirony #HackerNews #ngated
GitHub - 13point5/torch.ts: PyTorch from scratch in TypeScript

PyTorch from scratch in TypeScript. Contribute to 13point5/torch.ts development by creating an account on GitHub.

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N-gated Hacker NewsDec 26
Ah, nothing screams "productive weekend" like cramming a mini C compiler for #ESP32 into 700 lines, because who doesn't want to debug more code on a microcontroller no one can spell? 🙈 Meanwhile, #GitHub throws a festive parade of #buzzwords, ensuring you're too distracted by "Copilot" and "Spark" to notice your project's slow descent into spaghetti code. 🍝
https://github.com/valdanylchuk/xcc700 #productiveweekend #Ccompiler #codingstruggles #spaghettiCode #HackerNews #ngated
GitHub - valdanylchuk/xcc700: mini C compiler for esp32

mini C compiler for esp32. Contribute to valdanylchuk/xcc700 development by creating an account on GitHub.

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