Hacker News: castathrowawayhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=castathrowawayHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 02 May 2026 20:59:50 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by castathrowaway in "Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ever seen work?"]]>That 2 MB might be messier than you suggest. It seems like people close to the project spent time trying to clean it up:

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/6853

]]>Mon, 19 Nov 2018 04:02:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18484147castathrowawayhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18484147https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18484147<![CDATA[New comment by castathrowaway in "Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ever seen work?"]]>The KDB+ database has been around for 20 years.

The executable is ~ 500kb.

Enterprise software is gross.

]]>Thu, 15 Nov 2018 04:14:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18456808castathrowawayhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18456808https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18456808