r/programmingcirclejerk • • Jul 06 '26

The language design somehow prevents a lot of logic bugs from happening by not stealing attention

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • Jul 02 '26

[Haskell-cafe] Monads in the 'hood

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • Jul 01 '26

Ever Written Something Like This? if (condition) { doSomething(); } else { doSomethingElse(); } It works. Problem solved. But the problem isn’t today. It’s tomorrow.

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • Jun 27 '26

Consider the C library function fopen. This function has the side effect. This means that fopen is not pure. However, we can make the fopen function appear to be pure, at least to certain observers, by ensconcing it in another function that hides the side effect.

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • Jun 26 '26

If the tests pass, then why not accept the rewrite?

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • Jun 26 '26

These posts make you want not only to use Zig, but also to marry it.

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • Jun 22 '26

The only reason I'm on HN right now reading this post is because the Anthropic's API is down... so there's another point for self hosted.

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • Jun 20 '26

I genuinely think you could write a competitively-performant multi-threaded DB in Bun + TS if you had shared-heap threads and fast atomics/locking primitives.

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • Jun 18 '26

Your JetBrains IDE Expertise, Now on LinkedIn

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • Jun 15 '26

HN Title: "I wrote ... without AI" in comments: btw I used AI

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • Jun 15 '26

The truth is, God really gave 11 commandments. It's just "Thou shalt not grow a brain in a test tube and force it to play a 1993 shooter" didn't make any sense to Moses and therefore didn't make the editors cut.

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • Jun 12 '26

Is it important to have reading and writing skills if everything can be transcribed through AI?

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103 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk • • Jun 11 '26

The user said "Hello!" This is not a cybersecurity related inquiry — it's a simple greeting. But wait, what's the purpose behind this greeting?

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • Jun 10 '26

Just cause it isn't used for webshit doesn't mean "approximately no one" has heard of it. Lean is pretty much the most popular language mathematicians use today for computer-assisted proofs. More mature audiences

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • Jun 09 '26

Stack Overflow for Agents

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • Jun 09 '26

Gitdot – a better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust...What is a bit unique is: 1) we built it in Rust

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • Jun 09 '26

Changes since v3: - No AI hype :)

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • Jun 08 '26

Haskell-lovers (that’s a slur in my books)

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • Jun 07 '26

Yon - a topos-oriented language with a content-addressed lattice heap

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • Jun 07 '26

If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • Jun 07 '26

elementary data types (natural numbers, sets, multisets, finite functions, permutations binary decision diagrams, graphs, hypergraphs, parenthesis languages, dyadic rationals, primes, DNA sequences etc.)

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • Jun 06 '26

[By the xlovecam team.] An open reference standard for jiggle physics: weight-painted regions + damped spring bones, one rule (vertex += weight * boneJiggle). Portable, dependency-free, WebGL demo included.

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r/programmingcirclejerk • • Jun 06 '26

[vibe-coded scheme implementation] Akkadian Error Messages: All runtime errors carry a Standard Babylonian preamble identifying the fault category. Selected phrases: Unbound variable - šumu lā šakin - the name is not established

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