Re:Show HN: I built a small browser engine from scratch in C++
by lotusw0w on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @02:09PM
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Name one college/university program with homework as impressive as this. This is a serious request
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Re:Show HN: I built a small browser engine from scratch in C++
by eichin on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @03:41PM
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To combine with the "but did he build a cpu" thread, back-in-the-day the term project for MIT 6.004 was "build a CPU with TTL", with a very open-ended "performance race" extra credit project at the end. (At least one of the highest scorers went on build a network performance hardware company and sold it to Broadcom :-)
(If the "build a CPU" part doesn't impress, it was common to build an entire compiler toolchain to go with it; also it was long enough ago that a web browser really was a weekend project :-)