Chapter 132 GitHub
Chapter 132 GitHub
Back in his dorm room, Su Hao slammed the door shut. Without even taking a sip of water, he pulled out a chair and immediately flipped open the laptop screen.
On his desk were various potato chips, snacks, and sports drinks that the rough-looking guys from the football team had forced upon him like offerings.
But he couldn't care less about any of that at the moment. The screen lit up, and on the dark terminal interface, the cursor was flashing incessantly, like a pulsating heartbeat.
"There must be other people in other parts of the world who need this too!"
Su Hao typed on the keyboard and entered the words "code sharing" into the search box.
The moment the Enter key was pressed, a massive amount of information flooded out like a tidal wave.
With keen eyes, Su Hao quickly searched, identified, and filtered through this ocean of information.
Until a name that was mentioned most often, and even revered as a holy site by countless geeks, firmly captured his attention:
GitHub.
The world's largest code hosting platform is jokingly referred to by insiders as the "world's largest gay dating website".
A completely open-source technological utopia.
Anyone can upload their hard-earned source code, and anyone can freely download, modify, and improve it.
There are no barriers, no thresholds, only the purest collision between ideas and code.
The registration page popped up, and it was time to fill in a username.
What should we call him?
Su Hao's fingers hovered above the keyboard, his gaze unconsciously shifting to the small yellow duck figurine placed on the edge of the desk.
The duck stood there blankly, its head tilted, its pair of tiny black eyes staring at him quietly.
In a daze, he seemed to see himself deep inside, hopelessly fascinated by the binary world and the beauty of mathematics.
Su Hao smiled silently.
"Okay, I'll use you."
With a flick of the finger, six letters were crisply typed out – Duckie.
After completing the account registration, Su Hao didn't pause for a moment. He immediately accessed local files and began to package and upload the underlying logic and algorithm of the "Yaya" APP.
In the project description section, he didn't write any lengthy, boastful nonsense; he simply typed out an extremely brief introduction:
[A scheduling algorithm dedicated to ensuring fair use of the laundry room for all students, Quack Quack! (Haha!)]
[Built-in revenue structure optimization model, and integrity indicator for judgment.]
[Anyone is welcome to refer to and improve upon this; feel free to use it.]
There was no exaggerated boasting, no superfluous explanation.
The few lines of text were concise and to the point, much like his coding style.
Tap, tap.
Press the Enter key gently.
Thousands of lines of code, containing top-level mathematical logic and system scheduling wisdom, have been officially submitted to this world's largest open-source community.
The blue progress bar slowly filled the screen. A few seconds later, the system emitted a soft "ding" sound and a notification box popped up indicating that the upload had been successful.
"nailed it."
Su Hao leaned back in his chair and stretched languidly.
Looking at his first public project, lying quietly in the open-source repository on the screen, he smiled with satisfaction.
Close the laptop and go to sleep!
……
The next morning.
Sunlight streamed through the gaps in the curtains, piercing his face. Su Hao yawned, rubbed his sleepy eyes, and habitually reached out to open the laptop screen.
The webpage refreshes automatically the moment the system wakes up.
Su Hao's fingers, which were resting on the touchpad, suddenly froze.
"What...what the hell is going on?!"
Su Hao, who is usually calm and collected, had his brows furrowed in a rare expression.
In the upper right corner of the GitHub page, the message icon that should have remained quietly gray was now emitting a glaring red light!
Meanwhile, the number in the upper right corner of the icon is climbing rapidly at an explosive speed!
He opened the notification bar, and a set of glaring data hit him like a punch:
[Stars (★1.2k)]
[Forks (Reissue) 340]
[Issues 57 Open]
[Pull Requests (merge requests) 23]
1.2k stars?!
Su Hao gasped.
Keep in mind, this is the world's largest open-source community!
Every day, thousands of projects are born and die here.
Overnight, a tiny project written to solve the trivial matter of "queueing for laundry" was uploaded by an ordinary personal account without even identity verification...
In just a few hours, it spread like a virus, from one person to ten, from ten to a hundred, and finally reached the screens of countless top developers around the world!
Even those renowned open-source gurus who usually only exist in technical blogs and legends, and are worshipped as patriarchs by countless programmers...
They all flocked in, lighting up this unassuming little warehouse like stars!
Su Hao scrolled the mouse down the page.
The comment section below has completely exploded into chaos.
Various languages, hysterical exclamations and wails intertwined, creating a lively atmosphere like a global geek carnival party!
...Holy crap! Where on Earth is this?! What kind of amazing school is this?!
They're incredibly extravagant to use such a large-scale underlying architecture program for a lousy laundry room reservation system?!
Do you guys usually use nuclear reactors to heat your bathwater?!
...[Upstairs, please stop! I cried while reading this code! The structure is so perfect it's almost insane!]
So what does my ten-year career at a major internet company even mean? I'm not even worth as much as a washing machine!!
[Hey author! Are you sure you don't want to apply for a commercial license patent for this?]
You've already open-sourced it so smoothly?!
If this were sold to one of those big Silicon Valley companies, you'd be living the high life of a villa by the sea, a yacht, and young models tomorrow!
...[Damn it, I clicked in here intending to show off and rewrite this thing in Rust.]
After reviewing the quality of this Python code and its algorithmic logic, I silently slapped myself twice, then clicked the red "X" in the upper right corner and went to sleep.
Excuse me, goodbye!
...[This is the most outrageous thing ever! He actually used Shannon entropy for laundry room scheduling, hahaha!]
The ultimate technique of using a nuclear bomb to kill a mosquito!
...[A pure dimensional reduction attack! It perfectly solves all the problems of probability distribution, resource optimization, system fairness, and the most disgusting low-level scheduling deadlock problem, leaving not a trace!]
Where did this Duckie come from?! I'm in awe!
Crazy!
Utter madness!
Su Hao stared at the rapidly scrolling comments on the screen, momentarily at a loss for what expression to make.
Last night, he simply thought "maybe it can help others," and casually sent it to bed. He never imagined it would trigger such a chain reaction.
This is a silent tsunami in the geek world!
The code he casually tossed up is spreading like wildfire across the internet at an alarming rate.
Within just one day, a unique codename called "DuckDuck Algorithm" began to dominate the charts on major overseas developer forums, social media, and programming communities!
And the name of the mysterious developer "Duckie," who has a yellow duck head on his head, came as a bolt from the blue...
It began to be repeatedly mentioned, speculated about, and even worshipped by countless Silicon Valley elites, tech bloggers, and geek communities!
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