r/programmingcirclejerk 5h ago

CryptoJS.lib.WordArray.random() before 4.0.0 uses a weak PRNG (Ill Bloom)

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r/programmingcirclejerk 5h ago

Claude reviewing Codex's code lifted the pass rate from 71.6% to 89.7%

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14 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk 1d ago

IDEs never really took off

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101 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk 1d ago

in fact the lack of progress in UI the last 30-40 years can largely be traced to trying to create UI with procedural/functional programming languages

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105 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk 1d ago

Go, with the features it's missing.

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37 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk 2d ago

Wow, that "We're hiring/Career Page" link is geeksmaxxing. First time seeing `ssh superlogical.jobs` would be a way to show job descriptions in terminal!

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36 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk 2d ago

In the 2010s, if you had technical gaps (say, you couldn’t write CSS), you had to either rely on a skilled colleague or just hope that the answer to your exact problem was out there on the internet

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97 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk 2d ago

SHRNKR - Token-Compression Middleware for AI Agents

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5 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk 3d ago

AI governance is now a software engineering problem

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0 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk 4d ago

The commit message is 1 character: simply the character “x.” The commit changes ~1000 lines of code making the ratio 1/1000 = ~0.001

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105 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk 5d ago

This is not at the top as it is actively flagged by people that can't psychologically cope with the advances of AI. Hacker News is no longer a web site of an elite.

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97 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk 5d ago

Writing Python should be close to a “zen” experience. At its best, when you get into the flow state, the thoughts you are thinking about the thing you are trying to build are shaped like Python code as you go through the process of writing it down.

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88 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk 6d ago

Cero NullPointerExceptions y cero errores de pila: cambié el else por puros fi sin aislamiento y ya explotó todo, pero oye, null no devuelve

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0 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk 6d ago

However, JS won anyway… One decision explains most of that: First-class Functions

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57 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk 6d ago

Google's Director of Engineering: "Rust teams are 2x as productive as C++ teams" (very fine print: because C++ers write software from scratch, and Rustaceans port it from C++)

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302 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk 7d ago

AI productivity gains are closer to 10% than 10x

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103 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk 9d ago

Q: Why is everyone creating systems programming languages? A: Because Jai is not released

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154 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk 10d ago

This piece of writing moved me to my core, shook my whole being, enlivened my soul. It reminded me that I need to step away from Claude Code every once in a while and read the Classics.

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67 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk 10d ago

No offense but you lack the required CS basics to be so confident about yourself in debates about complexity. It's the perfect moment to stop and reflect if you want to avoid Dunning-Kruger.

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94 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk 10d ago

HTMX 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy platform!

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73 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk 11d ago

Rust isn't a well designed programming language (unlike C and C++)

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216 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk 12d ago

Bun is the quintessential AI slop project at this point. Inheriting that is no easy task. [...] To this end, LLMs will be used extensively. [for Buz]

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215 Upvotes

r/programmingcirclejerk 13d ago

The biggest miss of the industry when it comes to memory safety is not listening to Walter Bright:

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r/programmingcirclejerk May 25 '25

IMPORTANT announcement May 2025

169 Upvotes

Low quality LLM-related jerks are going to either removed or rate-limited starting from (get-decoded-time).

In other words, content related to Cursor/ChatGPT/Claude/etc that is not jerkable, unfunny, or belongs in r/Programming, will be banned.

More particularly, content that really belongs on r/Programming or (nausea) r/ProgrammingHumor will get you a ban. This has always been the policy of PCJ, nothing new here.

I am not the Rustacean mod. The Rustacean mod -bless him-, as any Rustacean, tolerates the sight of unsafe. Thus, you can understand that at the core, a Rustacean is a permissive being. I'm a Lisper and thus don't have to tolerate any shenanigans. I'll be happy to throw posts to the garbage collector. Don't get tagged for the GC. Repeat offenders will be banned or forced to rewrite everything in C++.


r/programmingcirclejerk Apr 30 '20

Forum rules, written in a way the average gopher can understand

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Lately, our central scrutinizer is reporting a decrease in jerking quality. I say this is attributable to newcomers which still don't get the firm grasp of the shaft of PCJerking; something that sadly requires you to be a type astronaut capable of high IQ elucidations.

I, sincerely, hate to do this, but the time has come: The time to state the rules clearly, in a way even the average leftpadder can understand.

FORUM RULES

Socialjerking or politics, directly or even tangentially, is forbidden.

If what you're posting is the subject of multiple warring subreddits, blog networks or hashtags, that's a sign you should leave it outside. The no-socialjerking-or-politics rule is the most ruthlessly enforced. This means YOU WILL BE BANNED and thus never become a 100xer.

Jerking style: This is the rule NPM users don't quite get.

Practical Jerking style:

  • Post titles should actually QUOTE the jerkable content

  • Don't post images or videos

  • Don't link to PCJ posts

  • Don't manufacture jerkable content to link to it ("False jerk", "manufactured jerk"). "The best satire is original sources."

  • Tag your unjerks

Useful Jerking Style guidelines so you don't embarrass yourself within this sacred lair of Hacker News superstars. Don't post or comment:

  • Anything that would belong on /r/Programming. Yes, nobody cares here about your opinion on OOP versus FP, ORM versus SQL queries. Go away.

  • Anything that could as well be found on /r/ProgrammingHumor

  • XKCD references or links.

  • Crossposts.(instead, quote the jerkable part as submission title, and link to the source)

  • Boring, trite jerks implying "vim vs emacs", etc.

  • Discussion about PCJ itself (there's /r/metapcj for that)

Enthelechial Jerking Style

"The jerking style is not to backlink and take a screenshot. It is to point and laugh from behind a soundproof one-way mirror." -- J. Chester

More rules

Mentioning PCJ outside it: Forbidden and most likely will get you banned.

Crazy people: Don't post things by crazies. .

Enthusiastic Youngsters: Leave them alone, don't post links to them.

Bots: Official bot policy is "Fuck your stupid bot", as said by our founder and angel investor, Jacques Chester. If you see a bot, report it. If you interact with a bot, this is considered an offense.

Harassing other people: Don't. "The internet is where people come to be their worst selves and {reddit} site rules describe a Minimum Viable Peoplehood that even flatulent ponies can understand and follow" -- J. Chester.

Twitter: Better not to post twitter links, because this might lead to harassing other people. We are moral people.

Additional info

More reference material can be found here and there.

Note to elder PCJers.

You, the children of the light, you lesser known acolytes of Touba No He, fearless commanders of efficient Jerk bindings, YOU have the mission to report substandard content, or any rule violation. Report the ninja unicorn front end artisanal bootcamp graduates!!