#reinventthewheel — Public Fediverse posts

Yes, were elected to reinvent the wheel, and oh by the way, we are not very good at it!

US Government looks to centralize software vulnerability management with 'Gold Eagle' cybersecurity clearinghouse. https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/white-house-launches-gold-eagle-cybersecurity-clearinghouse-to-share-and-patch-ai-discovered-software-flaws

We already have this NOW - its called NIST NVE and CVE processes coordinated by MITRE. https://nvd.nist.gov/general #CyberSecurity #Security #NIST #MITRE #CVE #NVE #Software #AI #GoldEagle #CyberAttack #USGov #CyberThreat #DataSecurity #ReinventtheWheel

🤖 Oh, look! A website served from a 200KB binary because who needs "libc," "VM," or "runtime" anyway? 😏 Apparently, reinventing the wheel with a "free list" is the epitome of cutting-edge tech—20,000 requests and counting! 🚀✨
https://200kb.freelang.dev/ #cuttingEdgeTech #reinventTheWheel #binaryWebsites #minimalistArchitecture #HackerNews #ngated

Ah yes, the brave soul who dared to reinvent the wheel with "Pystd" 🚀, only to smash into the wall of conference rejection 🚫. Because who needs ISO standards when you can have "similar-ish" functionality with a side of crushed dreams? 🤡
https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2026/06/pystd-standard-library-similar-ish.html #reinventthewheel #Pystd #conferencefail #techhumor #crusheddreams #HackerNews #ngated

Here's a revolutionary idea: let's reinvent the wheel with CSS and call it a game! 🚀💥 Multiplayer frag limits and dynamic lighting for the discerning web developer who wants Quake but also cares deeply about styling their HTML. 🎨🕹️ Because who needs Unity or Unreal when you have #PolyCSS and the killer feature of... *changing your name color*? 🌈🤦‍♂️
https://cssquake.com/ #reinventthewheel #CSSgame #webdevelopment #gamedevelopment #HackerNews #ngated

🚀 Oh look, another "reinvent the wheel" guide for deep learning enthusiasts who think they're the next Newton of AI. Spoiler: 🤡 It's all about stumbling on Reddit tips, random #PyTorch versions, and hoping your model doesn't burn your GPU. 🔥
https://horace.io/brrr_intro.html #deeplearning #reinventthewheel #AItips #GPUburnout #Redditadvice #HackerNews #ngated

Oh, look! 🌟 Another heroic attempt to reinvent the wheel, now in C#—because we all know K wasn't cryptic enough 🧙‍♂️. But don't worry, you can still enjoy the balmy breeze of #GitHub #buzzwords while you marvel at this 'vector calculator'. 🚀
https://github.com/ERufian/ksharp #heroicattempt #reinventthewheel #CSharp #vectorcalculator #HackerNews #ngated

Lately I’ve been having the same problem across different #radio apps, at different scales: buffering.
Certain stations get stuck very often and it’s extremely distracting and annoying.

However, good old #VLC starts playing them almost instantly!
Sadly, the UI is ugly as sin (even with skins) and it lacks some key features to be a full replacement.

I wonder how difficult would it be to write my own player with radio-browser.info and libVLC in the backend 🤔

#ReinventTheWheel

Ah, yes, the age-old "what if I were a tech tycoon" #fantasy, because who doesn't dream of owning a #GitHub #knockoff with their imaginary billions? 💸✨ Clearly, this author believes rewriting GitHub from scratch is the epitome of #innovation, because why solve real-world problems when you can just reinvent the wheel? 🚀💡
https://matduggan.com/if-i-could-make-my-own-github/ #techtycoon #dreamers #reinventthewheel #HackerNews #ngated

👨‍💻 Someone thought it'd be a good idea to reinvent the wheel with "Localsend" because #AirDrop wasn't hipster enough. 🙄 Now, you too can struggle with #open-source #alternatives while pretending it makes you cooler than using the thing that just works. 🚀 #BecauseWeCan
https://github.com/localsend/localsend #Localsend #techhumor #reinventthewheel #HackerNews #ngated

🛠️🥲 Ah yes, the valiant six-year quest to reinvent the wheel, all so our hero could avoid the tyranny of clicking a few buttons on #Trello. But wait, you'll need #JavaScript and cookies to join this odyssey—because who doesn't love a side of #irony with their bespoke #Kanban board? 🍪🔍
https://www.npmjs.com/package/ooko #reinventthewheel #odyssey #HackerNews #ngated

Ah yes, because clearly the world needed a #database that "thinks" like a game engine 🤔. Apparently, the secret sauce involves #buzzwords like "ACID" and "submicrosecond latency" 🍵, which we all know are just code for "watch us reinvent the wheel with extra jargon." 🚀💥
https://nockawa.github.io/blog/what-game-engines-know-about-data/ #gameengine #ACID #latency #reinventthewheel #HackerNews #ngated

👨‍💻💾 Oh, you need to reinvent the wheel for detecting file changes on macOS? 🙄 Congrats on discovering #kqueue, the tool that's literally older than your dev career! But hey, at least you got a blog post out of it. 🚀🎉
https://www.vegardstikbakke.com/kqueue/ #reinventthewheel #macOS #filechanges #devlife #blogpost #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated

So they pointed a digital clairvoyant named Claude Code at a bunch of code repositories and it chose... to DIY everything? 🚀🔧 Apparently, when asked for feature flags, it builds its own config system out of sheer stubbornness—because why use tools when you can reinvent the wheel on every project? 🤦‍♂️ CustomDIY FTW!
https://amplifying.ai/research/claude-code-picks #digitalclairvoyant #DIYcoding #featureflags #customtools #reinventthewheel #HackerNews #ngated

🎩✨ Ah, the age-old quest to reinvent the wheel because modern apps are just too darn slow, according to the tech prophets who believe in the gospel of #Qt #C++ and #QML. 🚀✨ Apparently, creating a cross-platform, "native-like" block editor from scratch is the only way to show those lazy web apps who's boss. 🙄💡
https://rubymamistvalove.com/block-editor #reinventthewheel #crossplatform #development #blockeditor #techtrends #HackerNews #ngated

🐢📦 Wow, someone wrote a memory allocator in C! 🧠🔧 Because, you know, the world has been desperately waiting for the millionth version of something that already exists. 😂 With GitHub's help, it's easier than ever to reinvent the wheel, but make it square! 🙄
https://github.com/t9nzin/memory #memoryallocator #Cprogramming #GitHub #innovation #reinventthewheel #humor #HackerNews #ngated

Oh, look! Another dev who thinks they can "reinvent the wheel" by cobbling together a #JavaScript runtime in C. #🚀 Because clearly, the world was just waiting for yet another half-baked Node.js clone that'll never make it past the devlogs. 🙄 #Revolutionary
https://devlogs.xyz/blog/building-a-javaScript-runtime #ReinventTheWheel #CNodeJS #Development #Fail #HalfBaked #HackerNews #ngated

🌐🤦‍♂️ Behold: yet another "lightweight" web framework in C, because clearly, the world was desperately in need of one more way to reinvent the wheel. Congratulations on solving a problem no one had, with a language nobody asked for. 🚀💻
https://github.com/ashtonjamesd/lavandula #lightweightframework #Cprogramming #reinventthewheel #webdevelopment #innovation #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, the classic "let's reinvent the wheel but in Haskell" saga! 🚀 Spend 21 riveting minutes deciphering why creating yet another #bytecode #VM is the pinnacle of groundbreaking innovation—because clearly, arithmetic needed a bytecode makeover. 🤖✍️
https://abhinavsarkar.net/posts/arithmetic-bytecode-vm-compiler/ #reinventthewheel #Haskell #innovation #programming #humor #technews #HackerNews #ngated

🐒 Welcome to the 'Typechecker Zoo' 🦓 where we pretend that reinventing the wheel is a fun pet project! With more keyboard shortcuts than actual content, this "romp" is all about making toy models of things that already exist. 🎪 Why use modern tools when you can play with toy languages instead? 🙃
https://sdiehl.github.io/typechecker-zoo/ #TypecheckerZoo #ReinventTheWheel #ToyLanguages #FunProjects #KeyboardShortcuts #HackerNews #ngated

😅 Oh, the legendary quest of crafting a #speedrun timer in #D 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. 🙄
https://bradley.chatha.dev/blog/linux-speedrun-timer-dlang/post/ #DeusEx #gamehack #codingadventures #reinventthewheel #HackerNews #ngated

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. 🙄💡
https://www.rtrvr.ai/blog/on-the-fly-toolgen #rtrvrai #AItools #McGuffinCreation #Innovation #ReinventTheWheel #HackerNews #ngated

🚀 Wow, another groundbreaking idea: let's reinvent the wheel with a DOM templating API because apparently, the current 1,000 #JavaScript #frameworks aren't quite enough. 🙄 It's like saying, "Sure, my car has wheels, but wouldn't it be better if they were square?" 🤷‍♂️
https://justinfagnani.com/2025/06/26/the-time-is-right-for-a-dom-templating-api/ #reinventthewheel #DOMtemplating #techhumor #innovation #HackerNews #ngated

Some brave soul decided to reinvent the wheel by building their own #mutex 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.' 🧐🔧
https://blog.fredrb.com/2025/06/02/futex-fun/ #reinventthewheel #Cprogramming #futex #Linuxoptimization #codinghumor #HackerNews #ngated

🚨 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. 🛞
https://endler.dev/2025/reinvent-the-wheel/ #breakingnews #reinventthewheel #modernexplorer #rebellion #commonsense #HackerNews #ngated

Reinvent the Wheel

https://endler.dev/2025/reinvent-the-wheel/

#HackerNews #ReinventTheWheel #Innovation #Technology #Development #CreativeSolutions

🤓 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. 🛞
https://blog.dogac.dev/how-do-one-time-passwords-work/ #techhumor #reinventthewheel #cybersecurity #one-timepasswords #programmingjokes #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, the classic "let's reinvent the wheel" thought experiment, but this time in #Rust 🦀—because why use #Google 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'." 😂
https://jdrouet.github.io/posts/202503170800-search-engine-part-1/ #reinventthewheel #programming #struggles #diskstorage #humor #HackerNews #ngated

🤔 So, you want to build a container image from scratch? Get ready to reinvent the wheel with the most over-explained #tarball #tutorial since 1995. 🎉 Who knew stacking layers of "configurations" could be the new hipster sport? 🏆
https://danishpraka.sh/posts/build-a-container-image-from-scratch/ #containerimage #reinventthewheel #hipsterdevs #techtrends #HackerNews #ngated

Ah yes, part 10️⃣ of the "let's reinvent the wheel" series where we pretend building an #LLM is a unique concept 🤦‍♂️. Spoiler: it's basically just another "Giles drops out" episode, only less entertaining. 🚪🚶‍♂️
https://www.gilesthomas.com/2025/03/llm-from-scratch-10-dropout #ReinventTheWheel #TechHumor #HackerNews #GilesDropsOut #HackerNews #ngated

🛠️ Let's reinvent the wheel by #coding a #BitTorrent client in #Go, because downloading #Debian hasn't been done enough already, right? 🚀 Forget the power of existing #clients, we're all about reinventing this over-engineered bicycle. 🌐 Also available in several languages, because #verbosity knows no borders. 🗣️
https://blog.jse.li/posts/torrent/ #reinventthewheel #softwaredevelopment #HackerNews #ngated

@jens2go kid playing with 2 spindle whorls on a stick (other crackpot theories are available) #ReinventTheWheel

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.

Time to #ReinventTheWheel then!