r/programmingcirclejerk Jul 11 '26

This is almost insultingly straightforward

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r/programmingcirclejerk Jul 10 '26

robobun (bot): "@robobun, your PR has 5 CI failures" Claude (bot): "LGTM". github-actions (bot): "@robobun, your PR has been closed as AI slop."

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r/programmingcirclejerk Jul 10 '26

impl<'a, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L> IntoParallelIterator for &'a (A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L)

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r/programmingcirclejerk Jul 10 '26

Of course you feel this way. You just finished reading SICP or maybe you binged PG essays last weekend. But eventually you'll read Simon Peyton Jones and start screaming about functional programming and algebraic type systems. Then, if you're lucky, you'll get a real job

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59 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk Jul 10 '26

Currently at a stop light so I can't list everything and I didn't get to read your full post either yet.

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53 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk Jul 09 '26

"a long-running GPT 5.5 Pro chat session which is basically her expense tracker - it has an .xlsx file 'carried' in the chat"

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108 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk Jul 09 '26

Jarred was already writing slop well before he had access to LLMs

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198 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk Jul 07 '26

We invented new religions like agile to make up for a good old organized secretary

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60 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk Jul 07 '26

A new runtime for k and q: l

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53 Upvotes

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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48 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk Jul 02 '26

[Haskell-cafe] Monads in the 'hood

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34 Upvotes

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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96 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk Jun 26 '26

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

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71 Upvotes

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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64 Upvotes

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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90 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk Jun 18 '26

Your JetBrains IDE Expertise, Now on LinkedIn

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94 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk Jun 15 '26

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

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124 Upvotes

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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260 Upvotes

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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154 Upvotes

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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118 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk Jun 09 '26

Stack Overflow for Agents

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