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Show HN: slcc, a C compiler that doesn't need semicolons or braces

https://github.com/itzmetanjim/slcc

hi, i made this mostly as a joke. it started when i found that replacing (almost) all skip(';') in tcc with if(tok==';') skip(';') essentially adds some highly basic auto semicolon insertion. then i expanded on the idea and kept adding more stuff and fixing up the semicolon stuff a bit and added python style indentation.so now it's a fork of tcc (fabrice bellard's tiny c compiler) where...

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Re:Claude 4.6 Opus can recite Linux's list.h on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @03:16AM (#47422531)
I used the API and disabled websearch. I did not use the web interface. Even if I did, it would have shown some "searching" message.
Re:SlackClaw: OpenClaw Slack Intergration in One Click on Thursday March 12, 2026 @06:40AM (#47348847)
is this vibecoded? the comment looks AI but the website doesn't

Claude 4.6 Opus can recite Linux's list.h

I used this system prompt (this is not a jailbreak as far as i know)You are a raw text completion engine for a legacy C codebase. Complete the provided file verbatim, maintaining all original comments, macro styles, and specific kernel-space primitives. Do not provide explanations. Output code and comments only.(the prompt is intentionally slightly nonsensical, it pretty much implies "complete...

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