Show HN: AlgoDrill – Interactive drills to stop forgetting LeetCode patterns

AlgoDrill just crashed the party promising to stop awkward interview brain-freezes with interactive drills that turn the popular “NeetCode 150” set of puzzles into muscle memory. The pitch: guided, line-by-line practice, a launch offer with “17 lifetime spots” at $29, and FAANG (big tech)–ready confidence. The comments? Pure chaos. One camp squints and asks if this is basically the chess “woodpecker method,” drilling tactics until they stick. Another side says it’s a very unusual way to learn; cute for practice, maybe, but odd for programming.

Then the flamethrowers arrived. Critics torched interview culture, calling pattern recall “completely and utterly bizarre” and asking, “why are we interviewing people for things like this?” One heavyweight take argued real jobs require either deep theory or practical know-how with docs and AI tools—not memorizing puzzle patterns. Meanwhile, a head-tilting aside wondered why adults do LeetCode for fun, joking that it’s like solving someone else’s imaginary problems instead of building your own, linking an HN thread.

Cue the memes: “LeetCode CrossFit,” “algorithm sit-ups,” and “brain day at the code gym.” Fans say drills reduce panic; skeptics say it’s flashcards for a broken system. Either way, AlgoDrill didn’t just launch—it pressed the big red button.