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200 Compiler Bugs

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/39
1•andsoitis•24s ago•0 comments

A New Map of 'Empty' Space Challenges a Tranquil Picture of the Galaxy

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-map-of-empty-space-challenges-a-tranquil-picture-of-the-gala...
1•pseudolus•4m ago•0 comments

Dispatch: A local GUI for manually running GitHub Actions workflows

https://github.com/skorotkiewicz/dispatch-workflows
1•modinfo•4m ago•0 comments

Provare – A Typechecker for Your Thoughts

https://provare-typechecker.vercel.app
2•wrtn•6m ago•0 comments

Self-Serve Drill Bits Are a CIAM Use Case

https://ciamweekly.substack.com/p/self-serve-drill-bits-are-a-ciam
1•mooreds•8m ago•0 comments

Surreal UbuWeb has been 'tocked

https://nonsens.ing/ubutok/
1•a_number_of_his•9m ago•1 comments

Mars dust may be less abrasive than lunar dust, spacesuit samples suggest

https://phys.org/news/2026-10-mars-abrasive-lunar-spacesuit-samples.html
1•bookmtn•10m ago•0 comments

The Megadonors Who Have Poured $1.2B into the Midterms

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/08/28/us/politics/billionaire-midterms-donors.html
1•doener•11m ago•0 comments

Should He Fix Churn, Change Pricing, or Rebuild His SaaS? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTVyLYDOd1M
1•mooreds•11m ago•0 comments

Cozy random passages from Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad books

https://bsky.app/profile/frogandtoadbot.bsky.social
1•mooreds•14m ago•0 comments

Google joins OpenAI and Anthropic in promising new scraping controls

https://www.engadget.com/2303225/google-openai-anthropic-ai-crawling-controls/
2•geox•19m ago•0 comments

The Exponential Time Hypothesis: How the (dis-)proof works [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEaTKrk492E
1•HotHotLava•26m ago•1 comments

NASA is asking for ideas to rescue Hubble

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/10/think-you-can-save-the-hubble-space-telescope-nasa-wants-to...
2•Gaishan•27m ago•0 comments

In LLM era, can software startup survive?

3•sjia•30m ago•3 comments

Nashi: Open-source file converter and editor app with a drag-wheel interaction

https://github.com/orkunisitmak/nashi-app
1•thunderbong•30m ago•0 comments

Bell Labs Contribution to the Architecture of Computation Theory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-contact_transistor
2•efren6•31m ago•0 comments

U.S. workers took home their smallest share of capital since at least 1947

https://fortune.com/article/why-did-us-workers-just-take-home-smallest-share-of-capital-since-194...
100•qlte•38m ago•15 comments

Its Investors Say Kalshi Is Worth $40B. Is an IPO Next?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/business/dealbook/kalshi-fundraising-ipo.html
1•bookofjoe•38m ago•1 comments

America's Sewer Systems Are Surprisingly Vulnerable to Cyber Attacks

https://policygradients.thefai.org/p/americas-sewer-systems-are-surprisingly
3•donchuru•39m ago•0 comments

France plans internet tax of 5.5 cents per gigabyte

https://www.heise.de/en/news/France-plans-internet-tax-of-5-5-cents-per-gigabyte-11507179.html
3•slymax•41m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What do you predict you'll be doing for work in 5 years?

3•thedreammachine•41m ago•2 comments

Show HN: TunaML – Renewable Energy Analytics

https://tunaml.com/
1•sheunl•44m ago•0 comments

AI Nerfs: Are Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini Nerfed Today?

https://ai-nerfs.com
1•MaxDevv•44m ago•0 comments

Show HN: My Sports OS – A platform for sports scientists, teams, and coaches

https://mysportsos.com/
1•mysportsos•47m ago•0 comments

Nine ways to break your systems code using volatile (2010)

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/28
1•andsoitis•51m ago•0 comments

Made-of-meat, a listserv for agentic eng practitioners

https://mom-hub.tryapexti.ai/
1•asah•51m ago•1 comments

Why are car keys so expensive to replace?

https://thehustle.co/originals/why-are-car-keys-so-expensive-to-replace
2•rmason•52m ago•0 comments

Stackless Python is an enhanced version of the Python programming language

https://github.com/stackless-dev/stackless/wiki/
1•Bluestein•53m ago•0 comments

Cited by AGI

https://citedbyagi.com/
2•gone35•53m ago•0 comments

A Guide to Undefined Behavior in C and C++

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/213
1•andsoitis•54m ago•0 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.

Comments

actionfromafar•1y ago
Finally!