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We can't send mail farther than 500 miles (2002)

https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles
188•giancarlostoro•2h ago•20 comments

Render Mermaid diagrams as SVGs or ASCII art

https://github.com/lukilabs/beautiful-mermaid
153•mellosouls•4h ago•21 comments

Maine’s ‘Lobster Lady’ who fished for nearly a century dies aged 105

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/28/maine-lobster-lady-dies-aged-105
101•NaOH•4h ago•6 comments

Xmake: A cross-platform build utility based on Lua

https://xmake.io/
17•phmx•3d ago•1 comments

Mecha Comet – Open Modular Linux Handheld Computer

https://mecha.so/comet
83•Realman78•3d ago•26 comments

Generative Music with the Muse

https://computerhistory.org/blog/generative-music-with-the-muse/
3•andsoitis•20m ago•0 comments

An Illustrated Guide to Hippo Castration (2014)

https://www.science.org/content/article/scienceshot-illustrated-guide-hippo-castration
29•joebig•4d ago•13 comments

Airfoil (2024)

https://ciechanow.ski/airfoil/
410•brk•16h ago•51 comments

Trinity large: An open 400B sparse MoE model

https://www.arcee.ai/blog/trinity-large
166•linolevan•1d ago•49 comments

DECwindows Motif

https://products.vmssoftware.com/decwindowsmotif
19•doener•3h ago•8 comments

Android's desktop interface leaks

https://9to5google.com/2026/01/27/android-desktop-leak/
212•thunderbong•1d ago•283 comments

Questom (YC F25) is hiring an engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/questom/jobs/UBebsyO-founding-engineer
1•ritanshu•3h ago

Show HN: A MitM proxy to see what your LLM tools are sending

https://github.com/jmuncor/sherlock
149•jmuncor•11h ago•65 comments

Did a celebrated researcher obscure a baby's poisoning?

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/02/did-a-celebrated-researcher-obscure-a-fatal-poisoning
130•littlexsparkee•1d ago•49 comments

Satellites encased in wood are in the works

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/01/21/satellites-encased-in-wood-are-in-the...
44•andsoitis•3d ago•20 comments

Mousefood – Build embedded terminal UIs for microcontrollers

https://github.com/ratatui/mousefood
192•orhunp_•13h ago•43 comments

Tesla ending Models S and X production

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/28/tesla-ending-model-s-x-production.html
214•keyboardJones•7h ago•316 comments

Show HN: Shelvy Books

https://shelvybooks.com
26•tekkie00•5h ago•10 comments

Somebody used spoofed ADSB signals to raster the meme of JD Vance

https://alecmuffett.com/article/143548
460•wubin•8h ago•113 comments

In a genre where spoilers are devastating, how do we talk about puzzle games?

https://thinkygames.com/features/in-a-genre-where-information-is-sacred-and-spoilers-are-devastat...
53•tobr•5d ago•47 comments

Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python

https://www.dimamik.com/posts/oban_py/
212•dimamik•14h ago•89 comments

Is it worth it? (2021)

https://griffin.com/blog/is-it-worth-it
4•todsacerdoti•3d ago•1 comments

Computer History Museum Launches Digital Portal to Its Collection

https://computerhistory.org/press-releases/computer-history-museum-launches-digital-portal-to-its...
136•ChrisArchitect•12h ago•25 comments

Bf-Tree: modern read-write-optimized concurrent larger-than-memory range index

https://github.com/microsoft/bf-tree
69•SchwKatze•8h ago•14 comments

LM Studio 0.4

https://lmstudio.ai/blog/0.4.0
121•jiqiren•12h ago•68 comments

UK Government’s ‘AI Skills Hub’ was delivered by PwC for £4.1M

https://mahadk.com/posts/ai-skills-hub
311•JustSkyfall•7h ago•93 comments

Hellenistic War-Elephants and the Use of Alcohol Before Battle

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-quarterly/article/hellenistic-warelephants-and-...
46•perihelions•5d ago•24 comments

Spinning around: Please don’t – Common problems with spin locks

https://www.siliceum.com/en/blog/post/spinning-around/
100•bdash•13h ago•40 comments

Putting Gemini to Work in Chrome

https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/chrome/gemini-3-auto-browse/
6•diwank•3h ago•5 comments

When Every Network is 192.168.1.x

https://netrinos.com/blog/conflicting-subnets
96•pcarroll•16h ago•80 comments
Open in hackernews

A Taxonomy of Bugs

https://ruby0x1.github.io/machinery_blog_archive/post/a-taxonomy-of-bugs/index.html
52•lissine•8mo ago

Comments

mannykannot•8mo ago
Here's a step 0 for your debugging strategy: spend a few minutes thinking about what could account for the bug. Prior to its occurrence, you are thinking about what could go wrong, but now you are thinking about what did go wrong, which is a much less open-ended question.
marginalia_nu•8mo ago
I've had large success by treating the bug as a binary search problem as soon as I identify an initial state that's correct and a terminal state that's incorrect. It seems like a lot of work, but that's underestimating just how fast binary searches are.

Depends of course on the nature of the bug whether it's a good strategy.

readthenotes1•8mo ago
I was such a bad developer that I realized I had to automate the re-running of parts of the system to find the bugs.

Of course, the code I wrote to exercise the code I wrote had bugs, but usually I wouldn't make offsetting errors.

It didn't fix all the problems I made, but it helped. And it helped to have the humility when trying to fix code to realize I wouldn't get it the first time, so should automate replication

bheadmaster•8mo ago
> I had to automate the re-running of parts of the system to find the bugs

Congratz, you've independently invented integration tests.

tough•8mo ago
I don't always test but adding a lil test after finding and fixing a bug so you don't end up there again a second time is a great practice
bheadmaster•8mo ago
Congratz, you've invented regression tests.
quantadev•8mo ago
Congrats, you've found someone who failed to invoke a buzzword that you know.

EDIT: But Acktshally `the code I wrote to exercise the code I wrote` is a description of "Unit Testing", not integration testing.

bheadmaster•8mo ago
Unit/integration tests are anything but a buzzword. And my intentions were not to belittle, but to praise.

Some actions simply make so much sense to do, that any sensible person (unaware of the concept) will start doing them given enough practice, and in process they "reinvent" a common method.

keybored•8mo ago
> And my intentions were not to belittle, but to praise.

With the stock eyeroll dismissal phrase.

quantadev•8mo ago
As far as you knew that guy was aware what Unit Testing was since well before you were born. lol. I'm sure he appreciates all your nice compliments.
bheadmaster•8mo ago
Good thing he has knights in shining armor like you to defend him from my nasty insults.
quantadev•8mo ago
Good thing you can admit what you were doing.
bheadmaster•8mo ago
Good thing you can understand sarcasm.
quantadev•8mo ago
but your sarcasm was truthful.
bheadmaster•8mo ago
but it wasn't.
quantadev•8mo ago
Well in that case...Congratz, you've invented sarcasm.
bheadmaster•8mo ago
Congratz, you've invented obnoxiousness.
quantadev•8mo ago
Not "independently reinvented" ?
readthenotes1•8mo ago
I was aware of unit testing before it had a name ... Desperation is the mother of intervention
quantadev•8mo ago
Yep, I "independently reinvent" the wheel every day I guess, because I, ya know...use wheels.
alilleybrinker•8mo ago
There's also the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE), a long-running taxonomy of software weaknesses (meaning types of bugs).

https://cwe.mitre.org/

Animats•8mo ago
The Third-Party Bug

Is the party responsible for the bug bigger than you? If yes, it's your problem. If no, it's their problem.

marginalia_nu•8mo ago
A subcategory of the design flaw I find quite a lot is the case where the code works exactly as intended, it's just not having the desired effect because of some erroneous premise.
djmips•8mo ago
John Carmack uses a debugger