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Defeated The Whole Purpose Of Writing In Assembly
AI C++ Algorithms Programming
16 hours ago 1.0M views 0 shares
Defeated The Whole Purpose Of Writing In Assembly
So someone submitted an AI-generated assembly patch to dav1d (a video decoder), and it was slower than C. Let that sink in. Assembly—the language you write when you want to squeeze every last CPU cycle out of your code—got outperformed by C because an AI wrote it. The entire point of hand-writing assembly is to achieve performance that compilers can't match. You're basically telling the compiler "step aside, I'll optimize this myself." But AI-generated assembly? That's like hiring a robot chef to make instant ramen and somehow ending up with something worse than the microwave version. Turns out AI doesn't understand cache lines, instruction pipelining, or the dark arts of SIMD optimization. It just vomits out syntactically correct assembly that runs like it's stuck in molasses. Modern C compilers have decades of optimization wizardry baked in—AI has... vibes.

Free Me
Javascript Webdev React Hardware C++
6 days ago 220.5K views 1 shares
Free Me
You spent years mastering memory management, bit manipulation, and writing elegant systems-level code. You dreamed in assembly opcodes and could optimize C like a poet crafting verses. But the market had other plans. Now you're drowning in JavaScript frameworks that change every 3 months, shipping 20MB bundles for a todo app, and debugging why your React component re-renders 47 times. Your retro computer and circuit boards gather dust while you argue about whether to use Redux or Context API. The ads plastered everywhere just twist the knife deeper—because yes, you DO need to learn another frontend framework to stay employable. That's not the life you signed up for, but rent doesn't pay itself.

Aging As A Programmer Sucks
Programming Hardware C++ Debugging
27 days ago 284.1K views 0 shares
Aging As A Programmer Sucks
The brain's priority system evolves in fascinating ways. When you're fresh in the industry, you can remember every person's name at a networking event. Fast forward a few years of debugging segfaults and dealing with legacy code, and suddenly your brain has reallocated that precious memory space to store the exact locations of "FRIEND" and "FAMILY" labels in your mental heap, right next to the sacred knowledge of x86 assembly instructions. The joke here is that while you can't remember Jason's name anymore, you can instantly recall obscure technical details like how every 16 bytes is a new segment in x86 assembly. Your brain basically performed garbage collection on "useless" social information to make room for the really important stuff —like real-mode memory addressing and assembly opcodes. Who needs to remember people when you can remember that the x86 architecture uses segmented memory addressing where a physical address equals segment × 16 + offset? Peak programmer evolution: social skills deprecated, low-level knowledge optimized. 10/10 would forget your name again.

Moving To Rust
Rust Security C++ Programming
1 month ago 334.1K views 0 shares
Moving To Rust
FFmpeg dropping the ultimate April Fools' bomb: rewriting in Rust for "safety" while casually admitting it'll run 10x slower. Because nothing says "we care about you" like sacrificing all performance on the altar of memory safety. The crab emoji 🦀 is chef's kiss. And that last line? "All your videos will appear green - safety first, working software later." That's the Rust evangelism experience in a nutshell. Your segfaults are gone, but so is your ability to actually encode video. Posted on March 31, 2026 at 11:00 PM UTC. You know, the day before April 1st. Totally legit announcement timing. The Rust community probably shared this unironically for the first 12 hours.

Old School Embedded Dev
Hardware Rust Iot C++ Programming
1 month ago 532.6K views 0 shares
Old School Embedded Dev
Nothing says "I've seen things" quite like an embedded developer who writes raw Assembly and C while everyone else is importing half of npm for a button animation. Those helmet icons represent different languages trying to enter the embedded systems world, but the true gigachad move? Going straight to the metal with ASM and C. While the cool kids are debating whether Rust, Python, or whatever flavor-of-the-month language should be used for embedded, the grizzled veteran is sitting there with a rifle, ready to defend their 40-year-old codebase written in pure C with inline assembly. No garbage collection, no runtime, no safety nets—just you, the registers, and the cold hard truth that a single pointer mistake will brick a $10,000 device. Memory is measured in kilobytes, not gigabytes. Boot time is measured in milliseconds, not "eventually." And dependencies? What dependencies? You ARE the dependency.

Holy C Compiler
Programming C++
2 months ago 478.8K views 0 shares
Holy C Compiler
HolyC is the actual programming language created by Terry A. Davis for TempleOS, an entire operating system he built from scratch. The language was literally designed to "talk to God" through divine computing. So when you compile HolyC code, it's not just a build process—it's basically a religious experience. The "Assembly of God" church sign is chef's kiss perfect because HolyC actually compiles down to assembly code, just like C. It's a triple pun: the religious Assembly of God church, the low-level assembly language, and the fact that you're assembling (compiling) code written in a language literally called HolyC. The compiler is essentially performing a sacred ritual, transforming divine source code into executable gospel. Terry Davis was a genuinely brilliant programmer who created an entire OS with its own compiler, kernel, and graphics system—all while battling schizophrenia. TempleOS and HolyC are both fascinating and tragic pieces of computing history.

Lock This Damnidiot Up
AI Programming Python Debugging
2 months ago 422.4K views 0 shares
Lock This Damnidiot Up
Someone's having a full existential crisis on LinkedIn about how Python is going to replace assembly language. The hot take here is that AI-generated code is just like compiler output—we blindly trust it without understanding what's underneath. The comparison is actually kind of brilliant in a terrifying way. Just like we stopped worrying about register allocation when compilers got good, this person thinks we'll stop understanding our own code when AI gets good enough. The "10x developer" becomes a "10x prompter" who can't debug their copilot's output. Yikes. But here's the kicker: they're calling it a "transition, not a bug." The whole "software engineering is being rewritten" spiel sounds like someone trying to justify why they don't need to learn data structures anymore because ChatGPT can write their algorithms. The craft isn't dying, it's just "moving up the stack"—which is corporate speak for "I don't want to learn how hash tables work." The irony? This philosophical manifesto was probably written by someone who's never touched assembly or C, yet they're confidently declaring Python will become the new assembly. Sure, and JavaScript will become the new machine code. 🙄

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Do Not Name Your Assembly Files This
Linux Security Bash Programming
3 months ago 385.0K views 1 shares
Do Not Name Your Assembly Files This
Someone really went ahead and named their assembly file org.asm and now it's sitting there with executable permissions like a loaded gun. The problem? On Unix systems, if you accidentally type ./org.asm instead of opening it in an editor, you're about to execute random assembly code. It's like naming your pet tiger "Fluffy" – technically you can do it, but it doesn't make it any less dangerous. The real kicker is that org.asm sounds innocent enough, probably short for "organization" or something equally boring. But those -rwxr-xr-x permissions are screaming "I'm executable!" Meanwhile, paste.asm is chilling right below it, probably containing clipboard management code, which is somehow less terrifying than whatever organizational chaos is about to unfold. Pro tip: If your file extension already screams "source code," maybe don't give it a name that makes it sound like a command you'd actually want to run. Save the cryptic three-letter names for your startup.

Looking At You Overlapping Segments
Hardware C++ Programming
3 months ago 351.3K views 0 shares
Looking At You Overlapping Segments
So you discover that in 16-bit real mode, the BIOS handles hardware directly and your OS doesn't need device drivers. Sweet! Freedom from driver hell, right? Then you learn about 16-bit memory segmentation and suddenly that smile disappears faster than your will to live. For the uninitiated: in real mode, memory addresses are calculated using segment:offset pairs, and because both are 16-bit values, segments can overlap in the most cursed ways possible. You can have multiple segment:offset combinations pointing to the same physical address. It's like having 5 different street addresses for the same house, except the mailman is your CPU and it's having an existential crisis. Suddenly writing device drivers doesn't seem so bad anymore. At least those make logical sense. Overlapping segments? That's just sadism with extra steps.

Vibe Assembly
Programming AI C++ Python
3 months ago 514.1K views 0 shares
Vibe Assembly
Someone just asked the forbidden question that would make every compiler engineer have an existential crisis. If compilers turn Python into machine code, and LLMs turn English into Python, why not just... skip the middleman and write everything in assembly? Or better yet, binary? The logic is technically sound but hilariously misses the entire point of abstraction layers. Sure, we could all write in assembly, just like we could all hunt our own food and make fire with sticks. But some of us have deadlines, sanity to preserve, and a deep appreciation for not manually managing registers for a simple "Hello World." High-level languages exist because humans are terrible at thinking like machines, and machines are terrible at understanding human intent. The whole point is to let each layer do what it's good at. Otherwise, we'd still be toggling switches on punch cards while debugging segfaults in our sleep.

Vibe Assembly
Programming AI C++
3 months ago 372.9K views 0 shares
Vibe Assembly
Someone just discovered the philosophical loop of compilation and decided to get a little too smart for their own good. If compilers turn Python into machine code, and LLMs turn English into Python, why not just... write everything in assembly and call it a day? Because we're not masochists, that's why. Sure, you could spend three weeks debugging a segfault caused by a misaligned register, or you could write readable code that doesn't make your coworkers want to quit. High-level languages exist for a reason: abstraction is a feature, not a bug. The "No!" is the collective response of every developer who's ever had to maintain legacy assembly code at 3 AM. We invented layers of abstraction so we could actually ship products before the heat death of the universe.

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How To Go Deeper Guys
Hardware C++ Programming
3 months ago 492.3K views 0 shares
How To Go Deeper Guys
You know you've reached peak programmer enlightenment when someone asks you to "go deeper" and you're already writing raw machine code. Like, what's next? Flipping transistors by hand? Communicating directly with electrons using telepathy? For context: machine code is literally the lowest level you can go—it's pure binary instructions that the CPU executes directly. Below that is just physics and existential crisis. So when you're already at rock bottom and someone wants you to dig deeper, you might as well grab a shovel and start mining for silicon. The only way to go deeper from machine code is to become one with the hardware itself. Maybe start manually setting voltage levels on the motherboard? Or perhaps rewrite the laws of quantum mechanics? Good luck with that.