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Apple: Our philosophy is to provide software for our machines free (1976)

http://apple1.chez.com/Apple1project/Gallery/Gallery.htm
90•janandonly•2h ago•46 comments

Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games

https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/
170•doener•5h ago•31 comments

Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking

https://netbird.io/
542•l1am0•9h ago•202 comments

I taught my neighbor to keep the volume down

https://idiallo.com/blog/teaching-my-neighbor-to-keep-the-volume-down
48•firefoxd•40m ago•1 comments

What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent

https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-11-30-pi-coding-agent/
279•SatvikBeri•10h ago•118 comments

Show HN: ÆTHRA – Writing Music as Code

24•CzaxTanmay•2d ago•6 comments

MicroPythonOS graphical operating system delivers Android-like user experience

https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/29/micropythonos-graphical-operating-system-delivers-android...
117•mikece•3d ago•32 comments

Clearspace (YC W23) Is Hiring an Applied Researcher (ML)

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/clearspace/jobs/GOWiDwp-research-engineer-at-clearspace
1•anteloper•59m ago

FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap

https://gyptazy.com/blog/fosdem-2026-opensource-conference-brussels/
132•yannick2k•9h ago•64 comments

The Book of PF, 4th edition

https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition
173•0x54MUR41•11h ago•34 comments

Amiga Unix (Amix)

https://www.amigaunix.com/doku.php/home
78•donatj•8h ago•30 comments

Anciente map of Fairyland. Places from nursery rhymes, fairy tales etc.

https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:3f463773q
36•speckx•5d ago•8 comments

VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code

https://www.visualjj.com/
116•demail•4d ago•47 comments

Aging muscle stem cells shift from rapid repair to long-term survival

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-sprint-marathon-aging-muscle-stem.html
33•bikenaga•2h ago•7 comments

Light exposure and aspects of cognitive function in everyday life

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44271-025-00373-9
12•PaulHoule•49m ago•1 comments

List animals until failure

https://rose.systems/animalist/
286•l1n•18h ago•150 comments

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

https://research.google/blog/towards-a-science-of-scaling-agent-systems-when-and-why-agent-system...
4•gmays•1h ago•2 comments

Efficient String Compression for Modern Database Systems

https://cedardb.com/blog/string_compression/
3•jandrewrogers•2d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Voiden – an offline, Git-native API tool built around Markdown

https://github.com/VoidenHQ/voiden
13•dhruv3006•4h ago•7 comments

A web server on a single floppy disk

http://floppy.ddns.net/
63•ActionRetro•3d ago•29 comments

The history of C# and TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMqx8NNT4xY
152•doppp•5d ago•110 comments

Show HN: Zuckerman – minimalist personal AI agent that self-edits its own code

https://github.com/zuckermanai/zuckerman
50•ddaniel10•5h ago•35 comments

Jack Kerouac's 37 metre-long, first draft scroll of On the Road to be auctioned

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jan/30/jack-kerouac-on-the-road-first-draft-scroll-to-be-a...
33•mitchbob•2d ago•9 comments

Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions

https://www.quantamagazine.org/cells-use-bioelectricity-to-coordinate-and-make-group-decisions-20...
155•marojejian•19h ago•70 comments

In praise of –dry-run

https://henrikwarne.com/2026/01/31/in-praise-of-dry-run/
257•ingve•22h ago•143 comments

The philosophy behind ODF: openness, freedom and control – TDF Community Blog

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/01/24/the-philosophy-behind-odf/
5•cratermoon•29m ago•1 comments

Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025

https://wikiedu.org/blog/2026/01/29/generative-ai-and-wikipedia-editing-what-we-learned-in-2025/
214•ColinWright•22h ago•100 comments

Real engineering failures instead of success stories

https://failhub.substack.com/p/failhub-issue-1
27•birdculture•2h ago•7 comments

Pg_tracing: Distributed Tracing for PostgreSQL

https://github.com/DataDog/pg_tracing
115•tanelpoder•3d ago•14 comments

Mobile carriers can get your GPS location

https://an.dywa.ng/carrier-gnss.html
817•cbeuw•1d ago•480 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