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Real engineering failures instead of success stories

https://failhub.substack.com/p/failhub-issue-1
16•birdculture•1h ago

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jmward01•36m ago
The great thing that a site like this can bring is helping to discover and refine anti-patterns [1]. I am a huge fan of showing valid paths to take to speed up learning, but showing dead ends, or at least sub-optimal paths, is often very helpful as well.

One criticism I have though is that documenting a failure doesn't mean you actually realized what truly went wrong and even if you accurately describe what went wrong that doesn't mean you have a real solution to that problem. Often the reason things went wrong were far more nuanced and the fix is not obvious. Adding an untested lesson at the end of each of their failures is premature. I'd call them, at best, observations and next steps to try. They are only lessons after they have truly been tested and successfully navigated around the original failure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-pattern

SF Telephone Directory (1905)

https://archive.org/details/sanfranciscotele1905paci_0
1•gardnr•2m ago•1 comments

Not a Drill

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/opinion/midterms-election-influence-trump.html
3•yodon•2m ago•1 comments

Gladys West, GPS pioneer and one of NASA's famed 'Hidden Figures,' dies at 95

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1•bookmtn•5m ago•0 comments

The Case for Greenland

https://www.campbellramble.ai/p/the-case-for-greenland
1•surprisetalk•6m ago•0 comments

Launching CivicMapper: Visualizing Land Values in 3D

https://progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/launching-civicmapper-visualizing
1•surprisetalk•6m ago•0 comments

The natural home for AI agents is your Reminders app

https://interconnected.org/home/2026/01/15/reminders
1•surprisetalk•6m ago•0 comments

Same Radio, Different Citizens

https://blog.cosmos-institute.org/p/same-radio-different-citizens
1•surprisetalk•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Bad Apple but it's boids simulation

https://badapple.priyavkaneria.com/
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MØRK – Distraction-Free Writing Space

https://www.morkeditor.com/
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Triton Bespoke Layouts

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1•matt_d•10m ago•0 comments

Match, Hinge, OkCupid, and Panera Bread breached by ransomware group

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/01/match-hinge-okcupid-and-panera-bread-breached-by-r...
1•c420•11m ago•0 comments

Pretty soon, heat pumps will be able to store and distribute heat as needed

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2•PaulHoule•12m ago•0 comments

When Software Engineers Don't Look at the Software

https://nicoritschel.com/writing/when-software-engineers-dont-look-at-the-software
1•nicoritschel•13m ago•0 comments

Physiology, Resting Potential

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30855922/
1•rolph•15m ago•0 comments

Greenspun's Tenth Rule

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule
1•pinkmuffinere•17m ago•0 comments

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https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Hurd-In-2026
1•sergiogdr•17m ago•0 comments

March for Billionaires

https://marchforbillionaires.org/
5•Frondo•18m ago•4 comments

The Gods Are Restless for the Original Fantasy Lit of Lord Dunsany

https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-the-gods-are-restless-for-the-original-fan...
1•bryanrasmussen•20m ago•0 comments

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https://happihacking.com/blog/posts/2025/the-gnome-village/
1•rapnie•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I analyzed 6 years of Hacker News data and here's what I found

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2•Tusharmagar•20m ago•0 comments

Forget Technical Debt

https://www.ufried.com/blog/forget_technical_debt/
1•todsacerdoti•20m ago•0 comments

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https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-cassandra-of-the-machine
1•andsoitis•26m ago•0 comments

Is X Falling Apart? Inside the Latest Outage and What It Means

https://comuniq.xyz/post?t=778
3•01-_-•27m ago•0 comments

Towards a science of scaling agent systems: When and why agent systems work

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1•gmays•27m ago•0 comments

Talos – Universal UI testing agent (works on any stack via Vision)

https://github.com/Talos-Tester-AI/Talos
1•alexst07•27m ago•1 comments

Why Tech (&) Media is complicated – Om

https://om.co/2026/02/01/why-tech-media-is-complicated/
2•MaysonL•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: DeskTab – See the browser tabs like apps on a phone home screen

1•aiibe•28m ago•0 comments

How a BlackRock Loss Reignited Worries About What Is Hiding in Private Credit

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2•zerosizedweasle•31m ago•0 comments

Forcing and Diagnosing Failure Modes of Fourier Neural Operators

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.11428
1•TimorousBestie•32m ago•1 comments

A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words

https://forkingmad.blog/wordle-crisis/
2•cyanbane•33m ago•0 comments