Ask HN: Whats the smallest code that you looked at and said wow that's so clever

Posted by gl-prod on Friday October 07, 2022 @06:47AM
from the ask-hn dept.

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Re:Ask HN: Whats the smallest code that you looked at and sa... by theGeatZhopa on Friday October 07, 2022 @06:56AM (#33119623)

Not a code, but an AI-Like solution for any programmer's problems on windows systems.. ALT+F4.

(But generally, I think the lambda functions of python is kind of clever, short code. Some solutions based on lambda functions let me shiver in respect)

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Re:Ask HN: Whats the smallest code that you looked at and sa... by auroralimon on Friday October 07, 2022 @07:44AM (#33119960)

there lots of examples, in many languages, of Dijkstra’s Two Stack calculator. this one is in ?javascript? https://switzerb.github.io/imposter/algorithms/2021/01/12/di... a very elegant piece of code

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Re:Ask HN: Whats the smallest code that you looked at and sa... by mintaka5 on Friday October 07, 2022 @07:46AM (#33119971)

any self-replicating quine is amazing

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Re:Ask HN: Whats the smallest code that you looked at and sa... by ninethirty on Friday October 07, 2022 @10:08AM (#33121553)

BUSINESS CARD RAYTRACER https://fabiensanglard.net/rayTracing_back_of_business_card/

Tupper's Self-Referential Formula https://mathworld.wolfram.com/TuppersSelf-ReferentialFormula...

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Re:Ask HN: Whats the smallest code that you looked at and sa... by simonblack on Friday October 07, 2022 @08:12PM (#33128536)

Duff's Device.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%27s_device

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