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Beyond Agentic Coding

https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/beyond-agentic-coding
1•todsacerdoti•1m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw ClawHub Broken Windows Theory – If basic sorting isn't working what is?

https://www.loom.com/embed/e26a750c0c754312b032e2290630853d
1•kaicianflone•3m ago•0 comments

OpenBSD Copyright Policy

https://www.openbsd.org/policy.html
1•Panino•3m ago•0 comments

OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% of Apps Will Disappear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uzGDAoNOZc
1•schwentkerr•7m ago•0 comments

What Happens When Technical Debt Vanishes?

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11316905
1•blenderob•8m ago•0 comments

AI Is Finally Eating Software's Total Market: Here's What's Next

https://vinvashishta.substack.com/p/ai-is-finally-eating-softwares-total
1•gmays•9m ago•0 comments

Computer Science from the Bottom Up

https://www.bottomupcs.com/
2•gurjeet•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a toy compiler as a young dev

https://vire-lang.web.app
1•xeouz•11m ago•0 comments

You don't need Mac mini to run OpenClaw

https://runclaw.sh
1•rutagandasalim•12m ago•0 comments

Learning to Reason in 13 Parameters

https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04118
1•nicholascarolan•14m ago•0 comments

Convergent Discovery of Critical Phenomena Mathematics Across Disciplines

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22389
1•energyscholar•14m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Will GPU and RAM prices ever go down?

1•alentred•14m ago•0 comments

From hunger to luxury: The story behind the most expensive rice (2025)

https://www.cnn.com/travel/japan-expensive-rice-kinmemai-premium-intl-hnk-dst
2•mooreds•15m ago•0 comments

Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi...
5•mindracer•16m ago•2 comments

A New Crypto Winter Is Here and Even the Biggest Bulls Aren't Certain Why

https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/a-new-crypto-winter-is-here-and-even-the-biggest-bulls-are...
1•thm•16m ago•0 comments

Moltbook was peak AI theater

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/
1•Brajeshwar•17m ago•0 comments

Why Claude Cowork is a math problem Indian IT can't solve

https://restofworld.org/2026/indian-it-ai-stock-crash-claude-cowork/
1•Brajeshwar•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Built an space travel calculator with vanilla JavaScript v2

https://www.cosmicodometer.space/
2•captainnemo729•17m ago•0 comments

Why a 175-Year-Old Glassmaker Is Suddenly an AI Superstar

https://www.wsj.com/tech/corning-fiber-optics-ai-e045ba3b
1•Brajeshwar•17m ago•0 comments

Micro-Front Ends in 2026: Architecture Win or Enterprise Tax?

https://iocombats.com/blogs/micro-frontends-in-2026
2•ghazikhan205•20m ago•0 comments

These White-Collar Workers Actually Made the Switch to a Trade

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/white-collar-mid-career-trades-caca4b5f
1•impish9208•20m ago•1 comments

The Wonder Drug That's Plaguing Sports

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/ostarine-olympics-doping.html
1•mooreds•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Which chef knife steels are good? Data from 540 Reddit tread

https://new.knife.day/blog/reddit-steel-sentiment-analysis
1•p-s-v•21m ago•0 comments

Federated Credential Management (FedCM)

https://ciamweekly.substack.com/p/federated-credential-management-fedcm
1•mooreds•21m ago•0 comments

Token-to-Credit Conversion: Avoiding Floating-Point Errors in AI Billing Systems

https://app.writtte.com/read/kZ8Kj6R
1•lasgawe•21m ago•1 comments

The Story of Heroku (2022)

https://leerob.com/heroku
1•tosh•22m ago•0 comments

Obey the Testing Goat

https://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/
1•mkl95•22m ago•0 comments

Claude Opus 4.6 extends LLM pareto frontier

https://michaelshi.me/pareto/
1•mikeshi42•23m ago•0 comments

Brute Force Colors (2022)

https://arnaud-carre.github.io/2022-12-30-amiga-ham/
1•erickhill•26m ago•0 comments

Google Translate apparently vulnerable to prompt injection

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/tAh2keDNEEHMXvLvz/prompt-injection-in-google-translate-reveals-ba...
1•julkali•26m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

JavaScript Debugger – A tool that explains JavaScript errors in plain English

1•adham_monged•1mo ago
I’ve been learning frontend development, and one thing that consistently slowed me down was trying to understand JavaScript error messages. Some are clear, but many feel cryptic when you’re still early in your journey. I wanted something that didn’t just tell me what the error was, but why it happened and what I should look at next.

So I built a small browser‑based tool that takes a JS error and explains it in simpler language. It also suggests possible causes and things to check. Everything runs locally in the browser — no backend, no data stored.

What it does:

Parses the error message

Explains it in plain English

Suggests likely causes

Offers possible next steps

Simple, minimal UI

Works entirely client‑side

I'd appreciate feedback on literally anything on the tool.

Link: https://jsdebugger.netlify.app

There’s a feedback section on the site as well. I’m actively improving it and would love to hear what the HN community thinks.

Comments

genezeta•1mo ago
I'm sorry to be so blunt but this seems almost useless.

I just tried something like...

  let someArray = [
    "one",
    "two",
    "three"
  ];
...and it warns that it's missing semicolons on all those lines -except for the last one, obviously-. And the fix is...

  Your code:
  let someArray = [
  Fix:
  let someArray = [; 
But then I tried something with an actual syntax error.

It says...

  Syntax Error
  Line 1
  ERROR
  JavaScript cannot read this line because something is typed wrong.
...which doesn't seem very helpful, not even pointing where in the line the error lies (which acorn does tell you). So I open the dropdown to see the explanation and fixes. The explanation is...

  The code breaks basic JavaScript rules.
...and the suggested fixes are...

  Fix the typo. Look for missing or extra symbols like ), }, ], or ;.
So I wonder, what does this actually say beyond the original "syntax error"? How is it helpful at all?

Also, looking at the code I find all sort of failing rules which just don't work.

"Assignment in condition":

This will show a warning, while being perfectly fine:

  if (flag) a = null;
This will not show a warning at all:

  if (a = 2) b = 3;
Then there's the rules for unused variables and for undeclared variables. Those simply do not work at all. They never find anything. It looks like you're expecting acorn to modify your code so that you can later go through it line by line but it just doesn't work that way.