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Good and Bad Procrastination (2005)

https://paulgraham.com/procrastination.html
1•7777777phil•1m ago•0 comments

Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half

https://fullycharged.show/podcasts/podcast-361-why-electrification-could-cut-global-energy-use-in...
2•toomuchtodo•2m ago•1 comments

Create an Account [Satire/Game]

https://maurycyz.com/fun/account.html
1•Curiositry•5m ago•0 comments

The Duty of a Scholar

https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-10-31-The-Duty-of-a-Scholar.html
4•gslin•8m ago•0 comments

Control legacy Fender Mustang amps from the browser via WebHID

https://jorik.dev/refuse/
1•jtangelder•8m ago•1 comments

2.5 hrs of makeup: Japan teen struggles with social media beauty standards

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20261029/p2a/00m/0na/004000c
2•giuliomagnifico•9m ago•0 comments

Free Invoice Generator Online

https://gccinvoice.com/free-invoice-generator
1•yourmahbub•9m ago•1 comments

Hurry Curry – FOSS multiplayer cooking simulation game

https://hurrycurry.org/
1•basilikum•10m ago•0 comments

Writing Windows Applications in x64 Assembly in 2026

https://medium.com/@stefan_15505/writing-windows-applications-in-x64-assembly-in-2026-5ef2aff293cd
1•hofmann-dev•13m ago•0 comments

Tld.wiki – The wiki for Top-level Domains

https://tld.wiki
2•slithering•15m ago•1 comments

The Midnight Washerwomen [pdf]

http://danielgiraudon.weebly.com/uploads/3/1/6/3/3163761/lavandires_crbc.pdf
2•Eridanus2•16m ago•1 comments

The Limits of AI as an Economic Weapon

https://www.palladiummag.com/2026/10/30/the-limits-of-ai-as-an-economic-weapon/
4•billybuckwheat•19m ago•0 comments

The Smartest People in AI Believe This Is the World's Most Important Chart

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-anthropic-rsi-recursive-self-improvement-bff4e815
3•bookofjoe•21m ago•2 comments

Action Potentials for October

https://neurobiology.substack.com/p/action-potentials-for-october-e73
1•paulpauper•22m ago•0 comments

The reason(s) nothing gets built in San Francisco

https://sfstandard.com/2026/10/31/san-francisco-housing-construction-math/
2•marojejian•23m ago•1 comments

HTTP/3 is faster with some work and help from Cloudflare

https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/10/30/http/3-is-faster-with-some-work-and-help-from-cloud...
1•saikatsg•24m ago•0 comments

Trademarks and Symbols, Volume 2: Symbolical Designs (1973)

https://www.symbools.com/kuwayama-trademarks-symbols-vol-2/
1•NaOH•25m ago•0 comments

GPT-5.6 Sol can beat Factorio on peaceful mode

https://ryanmadden.net/gpt-56-beats-factorio/
3•ryanmadden•25m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Has Google started cleaning their search results from AI slop?

2•gosen•25m ago•1 comments

Police secure Poland's Constitutional Tribunal as protests erupt

https://apnews.com/article/poland-european-union-justice-protests-police-tribunal-67eda2e3a151e00...
2•aliasxneo•26m ago•0 comments

Ovio – The motion layer for developer websites

https://ovioui.vercel.app
1•Lwrless•26m ago•0 comments

Google's AI satellite sends a expensive haiku to Earth

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/31/googles-ai-satellite-sends-a-very-expensive-haik...
1•saikatsg•27m ago•0 comments

How the U.N. Legitimized Carbon Capture and Skewed Decades of Climate Policy

https://www.propublica.org/article/carbon-capture-storage-fossil-fuel-sally-benson
2•hn_acker•27m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Subfaro – track subscriptions and price hikes without linking a bank

https://subfaro.com/en/
1•giozadi•30m ago•0 comments

Shaun Thomas: Burnt Toast

https://www.pgedge.com/blog/burnt-toast
3•hn9zmdcaou•30m ago•0 comments

The Weird Little Guys of FOSS

https://drewdevault.com/weird-guys/
7•cowlevel•31m ago•0 comments

Most agent friendly VC website in the world

https://marathon.vc/
4•bugsense•33m ago•0 comments

Performance Degradation from Mutex in Hotpath of Mature Database Code

https://mariadb.org/how-mariadb-11-8-became-about-3x-faster-on-some-in-memory-workloads-fixing-a-...
2•birdculture•35m ago•0 comments

It's the Memory Latency, Stupid

https://pivotlake.io/blog/its-the-memory-latency-stupid/
3•ntur1337•37m ago•0 comments

A blind guy built a trading insights via email website

https://masonssignals.com
3•TheBlindDevelop•40m ago•1 comments
Open in hackernews

Would you believe try-catch-finally works in plain old C?

4•mf_taria•1y ago
I was digging through some of my old repositories and found a C language extension I wrote years ago. Even now, I think it’s kinda cool — and I’d love for you to check it out.

https://github.com/simpart/c-try

It recreates `try {}` / `catch {}` / `finally {}` in plain C using just macros and global variables. There's also a `$` macro to propagate errors between function calls — a bit like a mini DSL for error handling.

You can find a working example in `test.c`.

It doesn't support nesting or multithreading, and yes, it abuses macros. But hey, it's C.

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actionfromafar•1y ago
Finally!