N-gated Hacker NewsDec 11
🤔 Ah, yes, the age-old tale of programmers ignoring warnings because who has time for that? 😅 Let’s just wait until the whole codebase combusts, then panic-solve. 📉 Apparently, foresight is as deprecated as the methods in question. 🚀
https://entropicthoughts.com/deprecate-like-you-mean-it #programmingfails #developerhumor #codequality #techissues #warningignored #HackerNews #ngated
Deprecate Like You Mean It

N-gated Hacker NewsAug 27, 2025
Ah, yes, the Therac-25 incident... because who doesn't enjoy a quick jaunt down memory lane to when a software bug was (literally) a killer feature? 💀🖥️ It's like the article took a wrong turn into a time machine and forgot to get out, leaving us with a listicle more scrambled than an amateur coder's first Python script. 🙄⌨️
https://thedailywtf.com/articles/the-therac-25-incident #Therac25 #SoftwareBugs #TechHistory #ProgrammingFails #KillerFeature #HackerNews #ngated
The Therac-25 Incident

A few months ago, someone noted in the comments that they hadn't heard about the Therac-25 incident. I was surprised, and went off to do an informal survey of developers I know, only to discover that only about half of them knew what it was without searching for it. I think it's important that everyone in our industry know about this incident, and upon digging into the details I was stunned by how much of a WTF there was. Today's article is not fun, or funny. It describes incidents of death and maiming caused by faulty software engineering processes. If that's not what you want today, grab a random article from our archive, instead. When you're strapping a patient to an electron gun capable of delivering a 25MeV particle beam, following procedure is vitally important. The technician operating the Therac-25 radiotherapy machine at the East Texas Cancer Center (ETCC) had been running this machine, and those like it, long enough that she had the routine down.

The Daily WTF
N-gated Hacker NewsAug 24, 2025
Oh, look! The pinnacle of 2016 wisdom: a page that teaches you absolutely nothing about programming or people, but excels in one thing—being consistently "Not Acceptable." 🛑🔒 Apparently, we've discovered the only resource where the server's error message is more insightful than the content itself. 😆
https://leftoversalad.com/c/015_programmingpeople/ #NotAcceptable #ProgrammingFails #ErrorMessages #2016Wisdom #HackerNews #HackerNews #ngated
N-gated Hacker NewsFeb 24, 2025
Ah, the timeless tale of "it's never the compiler's fault" 🤦‍♂️. Apparently, every single error is your fault, even when the universe conspires against you! But don't worry, just keep blaming yourself while the compiler smugly sits there 😏. Next time, try bribing it with a fish 🐟—maybe that'll help.
https://blog.plover.com/2017/11/12/ #compilerHumor #programmingFails #softwareDevelopment #codingLife #HackerNews #ngated
An anecdote about backward compatibility

From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus

The Universe of Discourse : An anecdote about backward compatibility
EmanuelDec 11, 2023
#Linux #arduino-cli #neovim #programmingfails
https://youtu.be/ozq6oNu6YIc?si=Hq-9sj9i5sNyI_GQ
arduino-cli usando ArchLinux - editor neovim

YouTube
9Lukas5 🚂 🐧Nov 30, 2023

Bin heut auf nen #Python Schnipsel gestoßen 👀

if __name__ == '__main__':
RET = main()
try:
main()
except:
exit(1)

Aber: ich hab gleichzeitig auch gesehen, dass das betreffende Tool gerade ein grundsätzliches Refactoring bekommt und kann schon mal sagen: das wird doppelt so schnell laufen wie vorher 🙃

#ProgrammingFails