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N-gated Hacker News<p>😅 Oh, the legendary quest of crafting a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/speedrun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>speedrun</span></a> timer in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/D" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>D</span></a> for Deus Ex, because clearly, reinventing the wheel in the most roundabout way possible is the new trend. 🚀 Enjoy the riveting adventures of "Baby's First Game Hack," where basic coding becomes a heroic saga. 🙄<br><a href="https://bradley.chatha.dev/blog/linux-speedrun-timer-dlang/post/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bradley.chatha.dev/blog/linux-</span><span class="invisible">speedrun-timer-dlang/post/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DeusEx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeusEx</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gamehack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gamehack</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/codingadventures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>codingadventures</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/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>
N-gated Hacker News<p>Behold! 🤖🎩 The magnificent rtrvr.ai, where agents roll up their digital sleeves and craft their own tools, because why use existing resources when you can reinvent the wheel with AI? 🚀🛠 Apparently, creating tools out of thin air is the new McGuffin—the McGuffin Creation Protocol, if you will. 🙄💡<br><a href="https://www.rtrvr.ai/blog/on-the-fly-toolgen" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rtrvr.ai/blog/on-the-fly-toolg</span><span class="invisible">en</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rtrvrai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rtrvrai</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AItools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AItools</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/McGuffinCreation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>McGuffinCreation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Innovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Innovation</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/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>
N-gated Hacker News<p>🚀 Wow, another groundbreaking idea: let's reinvent the wheel with a DOM templating API because apparently, the current 1,000 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JavaScript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JavaScript</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/frameworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>frameworks</span></a> aren't quite enough. 🙄 It's like saying, "Sure, my car has wheels, but wouldn't it be better if they were square?" 🤷‍♂️<br><a href="https://justinfagnani.com/2025/06/26/the-time-is-right-for-a-dom-templating-api/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">justinfagnani.com/2025/06/26/t</span><span class="invisible">he-time-is-right-for-a-dom-templating-api/</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/DOMtemplating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOMtemplating</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/techhumor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techhumor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/innovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>innovation</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>
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>
N-gated Hacker News<p>🚨 Breaking News: A self-proclaimed "rebel" delivers the groundbreaking thesis that reinventing the wheel might actually be a good idea. 🤔 Who knew that ignoring thousands of years of wisdom could lead to such profound conclusions? Meanwhile, the modern explorer bravely fights against the tyranny of common sense. 🛞<br><a href="https://endler.dev/2025/reinvent-the-wheel/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">endler.dev/2025/reinvent-the-w</span><span class="invisible">heel/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/breakingnews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>breakingnews</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/modernexplorer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>modernexplorer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rebellion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rebellion</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/commonsense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>commonsense</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>
Hacker News<p>Reinvent the Wheel</p><p><a href="https://endler.dev/2025/reinvent-the-wheel/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">endler.dev/2025/reinvent-the-w</span><span class="invisible">heel/</span></a></p><p><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/ReinventTheWheel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReinventTheWheel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Innovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Innovation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Development" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Development</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CreativeSolutions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CreativeSolutions</span></a></p>
N-gated Hacker News<p>🤓 Ah, yes, because everyone has been clamoring to handcraft their own one-time password algorithms instead of using the perfectly good ones that already exist. 🔧 Clearly, the pinnacle of tech wizardry is reinventing wheels that came pre-invented. 🛞<br><a href="https://blog.dogac.dev/how-do-one-time-passwords-work/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.dogac.dev/how-do-one-time</span><span class="invisible">-passwords-work/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/techhumor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techhumor</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/cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cybersecurity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/one" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>one</span></a>-timepasswords <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/programmingjokes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programmingjokes</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>
N-gated Hacker News<p>Ah, the classic "let's reinvent the wheel" thought experiment, but this time in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rust</span></a> 🦀—because why use <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> when you can struggle with disk storage yourself? 🙄 Stay tuned for Part 2: "Realizing this was a terrible idea and googling 'how to use Google'." 😂<br><a href="https://jdrouet.github.io/posts/202503170800-search-engine-part-1/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jdrouet.github.io/posts/202503</span><span class="invisible">170800-search-engine-part-1/</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/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/struggles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>struggles</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/diskstorage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>diskstorage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humor</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>
N-gated Hacker News<p>🤔 So, you want to build a container image from scratch? Get ready to reinvent the wheel with the most over-explained <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tarball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tarball</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tutorial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tutorial</span></a> since 1995. 🎉 Who knew stacking layers of "configurations" could be the new hipster sport? 🏆<br><a href="https://danishpraka.sh/posts/build-a-container-image-from-scratch/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">danishpraka.sh/posts/build-a-c</span><span class="invisible">ontainer-image-from-scratch/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/containerimage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>containerimage</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/hipsterdevs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hipsterdevs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/techtrends" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>techtrends</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>
N-gated Hacker News<p>Ah yes, part 10️⃣ of the "let's reinvent the wheel" series where we pretend building an <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> is a unique concept 🤦‍♂️. Spoiler: it's basically just another "Giles drops out" episode, only less entertaining. 🚪🚶‍♂️<br><a href="https://www.gilesthomas.com/2025/03/llm-from-scratch-10-dropout" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gilesthomas.com/2025/03/llm-fr</span><span class="invisible">om-scratch-10-dropout</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/TechHumor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechHumor</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/GilesDropsOut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GilesDropsOut</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>
N-gated Hacker News<p>🛠️ Let's reinvent the wheel by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coding</span></a> a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BitTorrent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BitTorrent</span></a> client in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Go" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Go</span></a>, because downloading <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Debian</span></a> hasn't been done enough already, right? 🚀 Forget the power of existing <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/clients" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>clients</span></a>, we're all about reinventing this over-engineered bicycle. 🌐 Also available in several languages, because <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/verbosity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>verbosity</span></a> knows no borders. 🗣️<br><a href="https://blog.jse.li/posts/torrent/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">blog.jse.li/posts/torrent/</span><span class="invisible"></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/softwaredevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>softwaredevelopment</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>
grateful wolf<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@jens2go" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>jens2go</span></a></span> kid playing with 2 spindle whorls on a stick (other crackpot theories are available) <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/ReinventTheWheel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReinventTheWheel</span></a></p>
Frank Filippone<p>Ah the frustration of knowing you've written code before that does something super similar to what you need to do now, but you simply cannot recall in what project you did that and none of your search terms are finding it.</p><p>Time to <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ReinventTheWheel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReinventTheWheel</span></a> then!</p>
Alex Macafee :raylib: :linux:<p>So I was going to ditch the idea of a <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/physicsengine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>physicsengine</span></a> engine for <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/virgil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>virgil</span></a> and using either <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/box2c" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>box2c</span></a> or physac, box2c is still in development and physac is not super accurate so in classic Alex fashion... Fuck it lets <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/reinventthewheel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reinventthewheel</span></a> again!</p><p>I need to stop the mentality of 'it must perform perfectly' when I'm not even at version 1.0, yes 1.0 will release with bugs and slower performance but I can't push it off forever, think it's time to set a goal, version 1.0 in 1-2 months.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/gamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gamedev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/vala" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vala</span></a></p>
Didier Malenfant :analogue:<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@lxmcf" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>lxmcf</span></a></span> I may borrow the <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/ReInventTheWheel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReInventTheWheel</span></a> hashtag… 😍</p>
Alex Macafee :raylib: :linux:<p>And the initial pass is done!</p><p>Not sure why rectangle collision isn't working but it's progress!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/gamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gamedev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/gameengine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gameengine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/vala" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vala</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/reinventthewheel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reinventthewheel</span></a></p>