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Linus Torvalds Repo

6 hours ago 104.5K views 3 shares

Someone claiming to be a "computer programmer of 40 years" just stumbled onto GitHub, discovered Linus Torvalds, and wants Windows support with Nvidia drivers for... the Linux kernel. The "NT kernel" search, the "Good things in life are never free" quote, using an Nvidia card for their CPU—this reads like the most elaborate troll post ever written or someone who genuinely thinks GitHub is a Windows software download site. The beautiful irony? They're asking the creator of Linux—a guy who famously said "NVIDIA, f*** you" on stage—for Windows support on his AudioNoise repo. It's like walking into a vegan restaurant and demanding they add more bacon to their menu because you heard the chef was good at cooking. The username "computerexpert88" is just *chef's kiss*. Nothing screams expertise like demanding build instructions for a Windows executable from a Linux kernel maintainer's hobby project. Someone's colleagues are having a good laugh right now.

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Programming StackOverflow

14 hours ago 226.1K views 1 shares

Ah yes, the ancient art of physically forcing juniors to learn the holy trinity: Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V. Why waste time teaching them design patterns, algorithms, or clean code when you can just ensure they've got muscle memory for copy-paste? The thumbtacks are doing God's work here—making sure those fingers stay exactly where they belong. Forget about understanding the code, just make sure you can duplicate it efficiently. Senior devs everywhere are nodding in approval while pretending they don't do the exact same thing when Stack Overflow comes to the rescue at 3 AM.

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Linux Bash Windows Programming

13 hours ago 218.5K views 1 shares

Windows spends all this time being polite about shutting down, asking programs nicely to close, saving your work, and generally treating everything like a delicate diplomatic negotiation. Meanwhile, Linux just casually kill -9 s everything in sight without a second thought. Firefox still running? Gone. Unsaved work? Should've thought about that earlier. Linux doesn't negotiate with processes—it's basically the Terminator of operating systems. The penguin mascot really should be holding a shotgun at all times because that's the energy we're dealing with here.

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Microsoft Webdev Programming Debugging Testing

16 hours ago 191.0K views 1 shares

Someone tried to parse .docx files and discovered the Lovecraftian horror that is Microsoft's document format. Turns out "zipped XML" is like saying the ocean is "just water"—technically true but catastrophically misleading. The ECMA-376 spec is over 5,000 pages and still doesn't document everything Word actually does. Tables nested 15+ levels deep? Valid XML that crashes Word? Font substitution based on whatever's installed on your machine? It's like Microsoft asked "what if we made a format that's impossible to implement correctly?" and then spent 40 years committing to the bit. The solution? Scrape 100k+ real .docx files from Common Crawl to find all the cursed edge cases that exist in the wild. Because when the spec lies to you, the only truth is in production data. They even open-sourced the scraper, which is either incredibly generous or a cry for help. Fun fact: The .docx format has a "Compatibility Mode" that changes behavior based on which Word version created the file. Because nothing says "open standard" like version-specific rendering quirks baked into the format itself.

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Python Programming

10 hours ago 168.9K views 1 shares

Python developers looking at that semicolon like it's a forbidden artifact from another dimension. Meanwhile, everyone else is just casually ending their statements like civilized people. The beauty of Python's whitespace-obsessed syntax is that semicolons are technically allowed but socially unacceptable—like wearing socks with sandals to a tech conference. You can do it, but why would you traumatize everyone like that? The real power move is putting semicolons at the end of Python lines just to watch your teammates' souls leave their bodies during code review. It's the programming equivalent of psychological warfare.

This Is Why You Rotate Passwords

Security Hardware

5 hours ago 87.6K views 1 shares

Your security team keeps nagging everyone about "password rotation best practices" and "regular credential updates," but nobody told the keypad that the most frequently used buttons would literally wear themselves into oblivion. Look at those poor 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6 keys—completely rubbed smooth like a junior dev's confidence after their first production incident. Meanwhile 7, 8, 9, and 0 are sitting there pristine, probably judging the whole situation. You don't need a security audit to crack this code; you just need functioning eyeballs. Plot twist: rotating your password from 1234 to 4321 doesn't actually help when the wear pattern screams "these are the only numbers I use." This is basically a physical timing attack, except instead of measuring CPU cycles, you're measuring how much finger grease can destroy plastic. Security through obscurity? More like security through finger oil patterns.

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Windows Microsoft Programming

11 hours ago 198.6K views 0 shares

You know that moment when a Windows installer says "The wizard will now install your software" and you think it's actually about to happen? Yeah, Gandalf knows better. That "Next" button is just the beginning of a 47-step journey through license agreements, custom installation options, toolbars you definitely don't want, and the inevitable "Do you want to make this your default browser?" question. The wizard isn't installing anything now . It's merely suggesting the possibility of installation in the distant future, after you've answered existential questions about installation directories and whether you want desktop shortcuts. Gandalf's seen some stuff—probably spent centuries clicking through setup wizards while the One Ring could've been destroyed twice over. The real magic trick is how these installers manage to turn a 5MB program into a 20-minute ordeal.

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Hardware

11 hours ago 190.0K views 0 shares

Dracula fears the sun. Superman fears kryptonite. PC builders? They fear the forbidden bundle of doom that is the motherboard cable spaghetti. You can bench 300 pounds, survive on coffee and Stack Overflow, but the moment you see POWER SW, RESET SW, HDD LED, and POWER LED staring back at you with their tiny connectors and tinier labels, suddenly you're questioning every life choice that led you here. The manual is useless, your fingers are too big, and you're 90% sure you're about to fry a $500 motherboard because you can't tell positive from negative on a 2mm connector. It's the final boss of PC building, and it never gets easier.

Web Development 2026

Webdev React Typescript Javascript Programming

11 hours ago 182.6K views 0 shares

Picture this: you FINALLY master HTML and CSS, feeling like a coding deity. Then JavaScript shows up. Fine, you conquered that too. But wait—React wants a word. TypeScript is knocking at your door. Vite just moved in. Next.js is doing parkour on your roof. And now the cursor is literally floating above your head like some kind of existential threat. The web dev tech stack has become a never-ending staircase of frameworks and tools, each one stacked precariously on top of the last. You're not climbing the career ladder anymore—you're just trying not to fall down this JavaScript-flavored Escher painting. By 2026, we'll probably need a framework to manage our frameworks. Oh wait, we already do. 💀

Want To Test Out How Capable Your Setup Is? There's Only One Way.

Hardware Gamedev

16 hours ago 181.1K views 0 shares

Want To Test Out How Capable Your Setup Is? There's Only One Way.

Nothing says "let's stress test my gaming rig" quite like spawning 10,000 TNT blocks in Minecraft and watching your GPU cry for mercy. Forget synthetic benchmarks and CPU-Z—real gamers know the ultimate hardware test is whether your PC can survive the nuclear explosion you're about to trigger. Your cooling fans are about to sound like a jet engine, your frame rate is about to meet the floor, and Task Manager is about to show you numbers you didn't know existed. If your computer survives, congratulations, you've got a beast. If it doesn't, well, at least you went out in a blaze of blocky glory.

Choose Your Path!

Programming Rust C++ Backend

14 hours ago 178.0K views 0 shares

The four horsemen of the programming apocalypse have arrived, and they're all equally insufferable in their own special ways! You've got the Imperative Stoneager who treats modern tools like they're the devil's work and proudly writes software that even cavemen would find outdated. Then there's the Functional Elitist who thinks "monad good" is a complete sentence and writes code on paper because actually running it would be too mainstream. The OOP Boilerplater is living his best life drowning in design patterns and creating class hierarchies so deep they need their own geological survey. Meanwhile, the Safety-Obsessed Newager has written 47 pages of documentation on how to hack an Arduino but his greatest achievement is changing his terminal's color scheme. The real tragedy? They're all using software written by the imperative stoneager because it's the only thing that actually works.

I Got Access To The New Windows 12 Early Access!

Windows AI Microsoft

18 hours ago 167.7K views 0 shares

I Got Access To The New Windows 12 Early Access!

Ah yes, the future of Windows: where your AI assistant doesn't just suggest things—it actively hijacks your workflow to serve you ads, invest your money in meme stocks, and disable your keyboard "for your convenience." The pop-up demanding you wait 2 minutes to interact with Copilot unless you pay $100/month is chef's kiss. And naturally, Copilot has already taken the liberty of investing all your money in MSFT because it knows what's best for you. Meanwhile, you're getting helpful tips about how you don't need a mouse anymore—just hold the Copilot key and speak! Because nothing says "productivity" like dictating requests to an AI that's already disabled your peripherals. The screen control request at the bottom is just the cherry on top. Windows 12: where the OS doesn't work for you, you work for the OS.

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