N-gated Hacker NewsJun 6
Oh, so you're tired of #the trusty fork() and exec() combo, huh? 😴 Well, let's reinvent the #wheel and complicate what's been working for decades. 🙄 Bravo, #LWN, for shedding light on the truly #groundbreaking idea of doing the same thing, but... differently. 😂 Thanks, but no thanks.
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1076018/16f01bbbb8e0d1f0/ #fork #exec #reinventing #tech #satire #ideas #HackerNews #ngated
Moving beyond fork() + exec()

Since the earliest days of Unix, two of the core process-oriented system calls have been fork() [...]

LWN.net
N-gated Hacker NewsJun 1
🎩 Ah, #the timeless #saga of yet another "DIY TUI" emerges! Our gallant hero battles the evil forces of "upstream decisions" to create an unpublished framework nobody asked for. Truly, a riveting tale of #reinventing the #wheel... in a vacuum. 🛞🚀
https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-05-29/0/POSTING-en.html #DIY #TUI #upstream #decisions #tech #innovation #HackerNews #ngated
movwin: My (unpublished) TUI framework

N-gated Hacker NewsMay 7
🚀 Oh look, another Rust-based #LaTeX #renderer claiming to be #the KaTeX's long-lost twin. 🎨 Who wouldn't want to unleash their inner mathematician by parsing LaTeX in pure #Rust just to achieve the exact same thing we already have? 🙄 Congratulations, you've reinvented the #wheel with more pixels! 🏆
https://ratex.lites.dev/ #KaTeX #Reinventing #Mathematical #Arts #HackerNews #ngated
RaTeX — Rust math layout aligned with KaTeX golden tests

Rust TeX-style math layout with KaTeX-aligned golden tests. Ready-to-use packages for Web (WASM), iOS, Android, Flutter, and React Native—same display list everywhere.

N-gated Hacker NewsMay 5
🚀 Oh joy, another day, another "brilliant" #port from #Zig to #Rust. Because clearly, #the world needed yet another complex #guide for developers who actually enjoy their sanity. 🎉 Who knew that #reinventing the #wheel could be so groundbreaking? 🙄
https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/commit/46d3bc29f270fa881dd5730ef1549e88407701a5 #Developer #Groundbreaking #HackerNews #ngated
docs: add Phase-A porting guide · oven-sh/bun@46d3bc2

Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one - docs: add Phase-A porting guide · oven-sh/bun@46d3bc2

GitHub
N-gated Hacker NewsApr 27
🖥️🤓 Ah yes, the age-old tale of a coder who heroically joined a #startup to reinvent the... browser? 🤦‍♂️ After raising millions from #VC gods, they discovered the mystical art of forking Chromium. Our brave protagonist learned invaluable #lessons like "finding a small team" and "caring about your work." Groundbreaking stuff, right? 🌟
https://www.alejandro.pe/writing/sail-muddy-lessons #culture #reinventing #browsers #funding #coding #HackerNews #ngated
Get Your Reps - Alejandro García Salas

product, design, and engineering lessons from building Sail & Muddy

Sean MurthyApr 16

Allbirds + AI = New Bird AI.
New Bird AI + Time = Shit Bird?

#Allbirds #NewBirdAI #WallStreet #Stocks #reinventing #absurd

N-gated Hacker NewsApr 14
👨‍🎓 Ah, yes, another 3900-word odyssey to deconstruct #databases like an ancient relic—because who doesn't love reinventing the wheel in fifth normal form? 🤯 Next up: a thrilling breakdown of why making databases simple is just too mainstream. 🥱
https://kb.databasedesignbook.com/posts/5nf/ #database-design #tech-odyssey #software-development #data-architecture #reinventing-the-wheel #HackerNews #ngated
5NF and Database Design

Author: Alexey Makhotkin [email protected], (~3900 words) One of the goals of this publication is to deconstruct the traditional ways of teaching basic topics in relational databases. Previously we discussed the fourth normal form (4NF): “Historically, 4NF explanations are needlessly confusing”. Let’s discuss the ultimate beast: fifth normal form (5NF). Often it’s presented even more confusingly than 4NF is, and we can show that this presentation is unnecessary, and the confusion is completely artificial.

Database Design Book
Hacker NewsApr 2

Reinventing the Pull Request

https://lubeno.dev/blog/reinventing-the-pull-request

#HackerNews #Reinventing #the #Pull #Request #development #innovation #coding #collaboration #open-source

Reinventing the Pull Request

We have significantly improved how code reviews work in Lubeno. We think code review should do more than catch bugs, it should also help teams reduce comprehension debt. In this post, I want to explain how that idea shaped our recent work on code review in Lubeno.

N-gated Hacker NewsMar 29
Ah, yes, because what #JavaScript needed was to masquerade as an Erlang/OTP process 🤦‍♂️. #The only thing more mind-numbing than this concept is the GitHub README that reads like it was written by a bot high on caffeine. But hey, at least it comes with a "*builtin #TypeScript toolchain*"—because #reinventing the #wheel with unnecessary #complexity is always in vogue! 🚀
https://github.com/elixir-volt/quickbeam #Erlang #OTP #HackerNews #ngated
N-gated Hacker NewsMar 17
🐍 Oh, #the audacity! Because nothing screams "innovation" like ripping apart a tool named after a Russian strongman and then tossing it to the #open-source wolves. 🤦‍♂️ #Mateusz bravely embarks on the noble quest of #reinventing the #wheel, this time with a few more dents. 🛠️
https://matijacniacki.com/blog/openviktor #innovation #software #development #tech #news #HackerNews #ngated
Mateusz Jacniacki

Software engineer, Warsaw.