frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Open Source @Github

fp.

On Proof and Progress in Mathematics (1994) [pdf]

https://www.math.toronto.edu/mccann/199/thurston.pdf
1•lukeplato•1m ago•0 comments

Start Weekend AI Roasting Your Loved Ones with free-AI-tools-hub.com

1•horitechsolutio•2m ago•0 comments

Wachenröder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wachenr%C3%B6der
1•tosh•6m ago•0 comments

Two Words for Truth?

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=29814
2•jruohonen•8m ago•0 comments

The Falling Man (2021)

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a48031/the-falling-man-tom-junod/
1•tosh•8m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: For Enterprise coding agents, what's your company doing to control cost?

1•m0rde•9m ago•0 comments

Faking Synthetic Control Estimates

https://andrewpwheeler.com/2026/09/12/faking-synthetic-control-estimates/
1•apwheele•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A C Compiler written with help of Claude

https://github.com/Javier-Barrio/myCC/tree/main
2•int0x80•11m ago•0 comments

The Wealth Inequality Problem, in a Video Game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utLVrwaNH9Q
1•inm•13m ago•0 comments

Swiss trial for 2017 avalanche deaths unsettles hazard researchers

https://www.science.org/content/article/swiss-trial-2017-avalanche-deaths-unsettles-hazard-resear...
1•Brajeshwar•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Deviant, a feature-length sci-fi thriller about AI, made with AI

https://deviantmovie.com/
1•johnpolacek•15m ago•0 comments

Conway's Law Is Dead. Or Is It?

https://domenkozar.com/2026/09/12/conways-law-is-dead-or-is-it/
1•domenkozar•16m ago•0 comments

Memories of how you heard about 9/11 may well be wrong

https://theconversation.com/your-memories-of-how-you-heard-about-9-11-may-well-be-wrong-weve-been...
2•GlibMonkeyDeath•18m ago•1 comments

Compressing a Flag to 11 Bits

https://read.vantezzen.io/miniflags
1•bennett_dev•19m ago•0 comments

Agent Scan Skill Inspector

https://labs.snyk.io/experiments/skill-scan/
3•taubek•20m ago•0 comments

Inexpressible States: The History and Usage of Algebraic Data Types

https://www.makonea.com/en-US/blog/inexpressible-states-the-history-and-usage-of-algebraic-data-t...
1•jdw64•20m ago•0 comments

The Ritz-Carlton purge, a $1.3B demand and nine years trapped in Saudi Arabia

https://www.ft.com/content/50f38214-3a0a-4d6f-9838-c93611d21a0c
2•JumpCrisscross•23m ago•0 comments

Who Should Buy Snap Inc?

https://www.s-1.site/s/snap-inc-pivot-to-subscriptions.html
2•anthonybourdain•26m ago•1 comments

Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction

https://www.righto.com/2026/09/8087-microcode-reverse-engineering-fscale.html
4•pwg•27m ago•1 comments

I Just Joined Bros

2•trony_tasx•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Dry Diving Club – A darkly comic browser game

https://drydiving.club/
2•crapthings•28m ago•0 comments

HBM System Architecture: Thermal, Signal Integrity, and Reliability Limits

https://www.siliconcodesign.com/p/the-system-architecture-of-hbm-how
2•yarapavan•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN:TurboBench: Data Compression Benchmark. The Compression Lie Detector

https://github.com/powturbo/TurboBench
2•powturbo•31m ago•1 comments

Orcrist: A Coding Agent using LLM state machines

https://github.com/simone20a/Orcrist
1•simone20a•31m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP that gives Codex/Claude your SEO and AI visibility data

https://bloomiro.com/mcp
4•johnbuildss•32m ago•0 comments

Lessons I learned as a software engineer

https://www.thetrueengineer.com/p/10-lessons-from-the-journey-what
3•adletbalzhanov•34m ago•2 comments

A Misalignment of AI and Cancer Biology

https://twitter.com/mbeisen/status/2098582265190351334
1•harporoeder•35m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Can we do a karma reset?

5•HNKarmaReset•35m ago•5 comments

Cities like Raleigh finish construction before e.g. San Francisco approves them

https://twitter.com/esoltas/status/2098162675989565925
1•JumpCrisscross•37m ago•0 comments

The Unravelling of the American Age Is Accelerating

https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-unravelling-of-the-american-age
5•JumpCrisscross•38m 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!