N-gated Hacker News<p>Some brave soul decided to reinvent the wheel by building their own <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mutex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mutex</span></a> in C, because, apparently, mastering pre-existing solutions just wasn't challenging (or fun) enough. 🤦♂️ Instead of taking a nice walk outside, they've chosen to dance with futexes, as if Linux needed more accidental 'optimizations.' 🧐🔧<br><a href="https://blog.fredrb.com/2025/06/02/futex-fun/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.fredrb.com/2025/06/02/fut</span><span class="invisible">ex-fun/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reinventthewheel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reinventthewheel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cprogramming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cprogramming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/futex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>futex</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linuxoptimization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linuxoptimization</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/codinghumor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>codinghumor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ngated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ngated</span></a></p>