r/programming • • Jun 09 '23

Apollo dev posts backend code to Git to disprove Reddit’s claims of scrapping and inefficiency

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r/programming • • Apr 26 '18

There’s a reason that programmers always want to throw away old code and start over: they think the old code is a mess. They are probably wrong. The reason that they think the old code is a mess is because of a cardinal, fundamental law of programming: It’s harder to read code than to write it.

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r/programming • • Jul 24 '18

YouTube page load is 5x slower in Firefox and Edge than in Chrome because YouTube's Polymer redesign relies on the deprecated Shadow DOM v0 API only implemented in Chrome.

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twitter.com
23.7k Upvotes

r/programming • • May 26 '16

Google wins trial against Oracle as jury finds Android is “fair use”

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arstechnica.com
21.4k Upvotes

r/programming • • Dec 26 '17

TIL there's a community called "dwitter" where people compose 140 character JavaScript programs that produce interesting visuals

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20.7k Upvotes

r/programming • • Sep 10 '15

Eye tracking software for sufferers of ALS/MND can cost tens of thousands of dollars, so I've spent 3.5 years of my spare time writing a free & open-source alternative - meet OptiKey (C#, Rx, WPF) (x-post from r/Software)

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reddit.com
19.9k Upvotes

r/programming • • Mar 17 '18

Cool website that explains algorithms as if they are IKEA instruction manuals

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idea-instructions.com
19.2k Upvotes

r/programming • • Feb 28 '21

How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%

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19.0k Upvotes

r/programming • • Jan 04 '18

Linus Torvalds: I think somebody inside of Intel needs to really take a long hard look at their CPU's, and actually admit that they have issues instead of writing PR blurbs that say that everything works as designed.

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r/programming • • Jun 10 '18

Inventor says Google is patenting work he put in the public domain

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arstechnica.com
18.1k Upvotes

r/programming • • Dec 20 '21

TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS

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twitter.com
16.2k Upvotes

r/programming • • Jan 07 '19

GitHub now gives free users unlimited private repositories

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thenextweb.com
15.7k Upvotes

r/programming • • Sep 01 '17

Reddit's main code is no longer open-source.

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reddit.com
15.3k Upvotes

r/programming • • Apr 13 '17

How We Built r/Place

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redditblog.com
15.0k Upvotes

r/programming • • Jul 24 '17

18yo arrested for reporting a bug in the new Budapest e-Ticket system

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14.0k Upvotes

r/programming • • Sep 24 '21

A single person answered 76k questions about SQL on StackOverflow. Averaging 22.8 answers per day, every day, for the past 8.6 years.

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13.9k Upvotes

r/programming • • Oct 16 '17

Severe flaw in WPA2 protocol leaves Wi-Fi traffic open to eavesdropping

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arstechnica.com
13.5k Upvotes

r/programming • • Jun 05 '23

r/programming should shut down from 12th to 14th June

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13.4k Upvotes

r/programming • • May 31 '23

Reddit may force Apollo dev and other third party clients to shut down

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9to5mac.com
12.5k Upvotes

r/programming • • Jan 01 '22

In 2022, YYMMDDhhmm formatted times exceed signed int range, breaking Microsoft services

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twitter.com
12.4k Upvotes

r/programming • • Aug 06 '20

20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tools, backdoor mentions in source code

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twitter.com
12.2k Upvotes

r/programming • • Oct 24 '21

“Digging around HTML code” is criminal. Missouri Governor doubles down again in attack ad

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12.0k Upvotes

r/programming • • Jul 25 '17

Adobe to end-of-life Flash by 2020

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11.5k Upvotes

r/programming • • Oct 08 '21

Unfollow Everything developer banned for life from Facebook services for creating plug-in to clean up news feed

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slate.com
11.0k Upvotes