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Television is 100 years old today

https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2026/01/tv100.html
455•qassiov•9h ago•152 comments

The Hidden Engineering of Runways

https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/1/20/the-hidden-engineering-of-runways
150•crescit_eundo•6d ago•35 comments

AI code and software craft

https://alexwennerberg.com/blog/2026-01-25-slop.html
45•alexwennerberg•6h ago•14 comments

ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/26/chatgpt-containers/
128•simonw•5h ago•102 comments

People who know the formula for WD-40

https://www.wsj.com/business/the-secret-society-of-people-who-know-the-formula-for-wd-40-e9c0ff54
63•fortran77•3h ago•123 comments

There is an AI code review bubble

https://www.greptile.com/blog/ai-code-review-bubble
143•dakshgupta•8h ago•116 comments

JuiceSSH – Give me my pro features back

https://nproject.io/blog/juicessh-give-me-back-my-pro-features/
195•jandeboevrie•6h ago•89 comments

RIP Low-Code 2014-2025

https://www.zackliscio.com/posts/rip-low-code-2014-2025/
112•zackliscio•8h ago•56 comments

Dithering – Part 2: The Ordered Dithering

https://visualrambling.space/dithering-part-2/
97•ChrisArchitect•5h ago•14 comments

Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/01/apple-introduces-new-airtag-with-expanded-range-and-improv...
233•meetpateltech•10h ago•324 comments

Show HN: TetrisBench – Gemini Flash reaches 66% win rate on Tetris against Opus

https://tetrisbench.com/tetrisbench/
61•ykhli•5h ago•28 comments

MapLibre Tile: a modern and efficient vector tile format

https://maplibre.org/news/2026-01-23-mlt-release/
393•todsacerdoti•14h ago•79 comments

The Adolescence of Technology

https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology
122•jasondavies•7h ago•76 comments

Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:okydh7e54e2nok65kjxdklvd/post/3mdd55paffk2o
408•todsacerdoti•6h ago•147 comments

Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-11s-botched-patch-tuesday-update-nigh...
125•01-_-•9h ago•104 comments

France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.

https://twitter.com/lellouchenico/status/2015775970330882319
488•bwb•8h ago•421 comments

Qwen3-Max-Thinking

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3-max-thinking
406•vinhnx•9h ago•361 comments

I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data. Then I called my doctor

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/i-let-chatgpt-analyze-a-decade-of-my-apple-watch-data-t...
21•zdw•2h ago•13 comments

Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude Code in a month

https://blog.vjeux.com/2026/analysis/porting-100k-lines-from-typescript-to-rust-using-claude-code...
146•ibobev•10h ago•99 comments

OpenFlexure Microscope

https://openflexure.org/projects/microscope/
42•o4c•5d ago•4 comments

San Francisco Graffiti

https://walzr.com/sf-graffiti
139•walz•14h ago•149 comments

After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand

https://atmoio.substack.com/p/after-two-years-of-vibecoding-im
616•mobitar•10h ago•468 comments

Y Combinator website no longer lists Canada as a country it invests in

https://betakit.com/y-combinator-website-no-longer-lists-canada-as-a-country-it-invests-in/
22•TheLegace•1h ago•3 comments

Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/24/google-ai-overviews-youtube-medical-citations-...
345•bookofjoe•10h ago•192 comments

Find 'Abbey Road when type 'Beatles abbey rd': Fuzzy/Semantic search in Postgres

https://rendiment.io/postgresql/2026/01/21/pgtrgm-pgvector-music.html
68•nethalo•5d ago•18 comments

Not all Chess960 positions are equally complex

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14319
45•MaysonL•3d ago•21 comments

Show HN: I made AI earphones remember everything (auto-sync to Obsidian)

10•Paddyz•5d ago•4 comments

Show HN: Only 1 LLM can fly a drone

https://github.com/kxzk/snapbench
132•beigebrucewayne•13h ago•76 comments

Google Books removed all search functions for any books with previews

https://old.reddit.com/r/google/comments/1qn1hk1/google_has_seemingly_entirely_removed_search/
182•adamnemecek•6h ago•61 comments

The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen

https://github.com/quaadgras/graphics.gd/discussions/242
205•Splizard•16h ago•181 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