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What Would Augustine Say About Social Media Humor?

https://d1gesto.blogspot.com/2025/05/what-would-augustine-say-about-social.html
1•Vox_Leone•25s ago•0 comments

Render a Guitar Pro Score in Real Time

https://fedoramagazine.org/render-a-guitar-pro-score-in-real-time/
1•ycollet•4m ago•0 comments

As tariffs stoke economic fear around the world, Puerto Rico sees opportunity

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/as-tariffs-stoke-economic-fear-around-the-world-puerto-rico-sees-opportunity/ar-AA1EBrmZ
1•dangle1•4m ago•0 comments

PDF to Text, a Challenging Problem

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_119_pdf/
1•ingve•4m ago•0 comments

Human Tissue Can Compute Complex Equations

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a64717910/human-tissue-computing/
1•logannyeMD•5m ago•0 comments

Ireland hopes to entice academics as US becomes 'a cold place for free thinkers'

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/13/ireland-hopes-to-entice-academics-us-cold-place-for-free-thinkers
1•anotherhue•6m ago•0 comments

Scientists Can Now 3D Print Tissues Directly Inside the Body–No Surgery Needed

https://singularityhub.com/2025/05/12/scientists-can-now-3d-print-tissues-directly-inside-the-body-no-surgery-needed/
1•Brajeshwar•7m ago•0 comments

Zinc Microcapacitors Are the Best of Both Worlds

https://spectrum.ieee.org/zinc-microcapacitor
2•Brajeshwar•7m ago•0 comments

Astronomers just found the smallest galaxy

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/astronomers-smallest-galaxy-ever/
1•Brajeshwar•8m ago•0 comments

MySQL Query Optimization with Releem

https://vladmihalcea.com/mysql-query-optimization-releem/
1•vladmihalcea•8m ago•0 comments

Talent Visas for Software Engineers

https://relocateme.substack.com/p/no-employer-required-how-growing
2•andrewstetsenko•8m ago•0 comments

CISA changes vulnerabilities updates, shifts to X and emails

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/12/cisa_vulnerabilities_updates_x/
1•Corrado•8m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Tranformer Models in Fintech?

1•davidajackson•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Pg_doctestify Turn Postgres regression tests into Markdown

https://michelp.github.io/pg_doctestify/
1•michelpp•9m ago•0 comments

Cyber attack: People 'turning up at farms' as Co-op shelves remain bare

https://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/news/cyber-attack-people-turning-up-at-farms-as-machynlleth-co-op-shelves-remain-bare-792434
1•speckx•9m ago•0 comments

How to Build High-Speed Rail on the Northeast Corridor

https://transitcosts.com/north-east-corridor-report/
1•imichael•10m ago•0 comments

Structural and Thermal Aware Methodology for Placement in 2.5D Integration

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.21140
1•PaulHoule•10m ago•0 comments

Amazon tested warehouse robots and found they're not ready to replace humans

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/13/amazon_robots_make_progress_picking/
1•Bender•11m ago•0 comments

Sam Altman wants your eyeballs

https://www.garbageday.email/p/sam-altman-wants-your-eyeballs
2•pavel_lishin•11m ago•0 comments

New attack can steal cryptocurrency by planting false memories in AI chatbots

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/05/ai-agents-that-autonomously-trade-cryptocurrency-arent-ready-for-prime-time/
1•Bender•12m ago•0 comments

Coding by Magic

https://blog.danlew.net/2025/05/13/coding-by-magic/
1•ingve•13m ago•0 comments

Why can't we test observer memory directly using the double-slit experiment?

1•kylebenzle•14m ago•0 comments

Anyone need free website feedback?

https://webcheckr.tech
1•404Foundcom•14m ago•0 comments

Cartoon Network's Last Gasp

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-05-13/cartoon-network-and-adult-swim-struggle-to-survive-zaslav-and-streaming
1•coloneltcb•15m ago•0 comments

Mastering Git: Simple Branching Strategies for Small Teams

https://compositecode.blog/2025/05/11/a-simple-git-branching-strategy-for-a-small-team-because-we-all-know-git-is-fun/
1•speckx•15m ago•0 comments

Private equity affiliation among dentists increases

https://adanews.ada.org/ada-news/2024/august/private-equity-affiliation-among-dentists-increases/
2•bikenaga•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Toller – A Python library for robust async calls

https://github.com/NolanTrem/toller
1•nibblingnokedli•19m ago•0 comments

South London homeowner wants an underground helicopter lair

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/thunderbirds-are-go-south-london-homeowner-wants-an-underground-helicopter-lair-78755/
1•ilamont•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Basin MCP – Stops code gen hallucinations

https://mcp.basin.ai/
1•brainboi•20m ago•0 comments

C is not a low-level language (2018)

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479
2•pdubroy•22m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

I asked Gemini for a script to move files to Cloudflare R2. It deleted them

https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1921974501257912563
4•bundie•7h ago

Comments

qwertox•6h ago
Rule #1: Always put deletions behind a flag which is disabled for the first couple of test runs.
turtleyacht•6h ago
It was truncating filenames, so /pics/1003-46.png overwrote /pics/1003-45.png because both were renamed /pics/1003-.png, or something like that.
qwertox•6h ago
Truncating file names for the target. Then it proceeded to delete the source file. "Successfully deleted local file: ..."

I mean, look at the printout. It shows that it created the remote file with the truncated filename, then deletes the local file with the correct filename.

turtleyacht•6h ago
Oh, I see. Having a flag to skip deletion during test runs is a good rule then.
rvz•6h ago
Recently there was a story about an updater causing a $8,000 bill because there was a lack of basic automated tests to catch the issue. [0]

The big lesson here is that you should actually test the code you write and also write automated tests to check any code generated by an LLM that the code is correct in what it does.

It is also useless to ask another AI to check for mistakes created by another LLM. As you can see in the post, both of them failed to catch the issue.

This why I don't take this hype around 'vibe-coding' seriously since not only it isn't software engineering, it promotes low quality and carelessness over basic testing and dismisses in checking that the software / script works as expected.

Turning $70 problems found in development into $700,000+ costs in production.

There are no more excuses in not adding tests.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43829006

victorbjorklund•6h ago
Who runs such an AI generated script without checking the code first?
qwertox•4h ago
To be fair, the code Gemini outputs in AI Studio is so extremely verbose that it is almost impossible to read through it.

It turns 10 lines of code which is perfectly fine to reason about into 100 lines of unreadable code full of comments and exception handling.

weatherlite•2h ago
Right so lets just always run the code as is ?