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Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product

https://www.simonberens.com/p/lessons-learned-shipping-500-units
347•sberens•2d ago•181 comments

Data centers in space makes no sense

https://civai.org/blog/space-data-centers
285•ajyoon•7h ago•417 comments

Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery

https://github.com/puemos/craftplan
117•deofoo•2d ago•11 comments

Deno Sandbox

https://deno.com/blog/introducing-deno-sandbox
342•johnspurlock•9h ago•121 comments

Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/02/xcode-26-point-3-unlocks-the-power-of-agentic-coding/
248•davidbarker•9h ago•210 comments

Decompiling and rewriting a 2003 game from its binary in two weeks

https://banteg.xyz/posts/crimsonland/
38•banteg•2d ago•11 comments

AliSQL: Alibaba's open-source MySQL with vector and DuckDB engines

https://github.com/alibaba/AliSQL
151•baotiao•8h ago•21 comments

Agent Skills

https://agentskills.io/home
385•mooreds•13h ago•214 comments

FlashAttention-T: Towards Tensorized Attention

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3774934.3786425
79•matt_d•5h ago•43 comments

221 Cannon is Not For Sale

https://fredbenenson.com/blog/2026/02/03/221-cannon-is-not-for-sale/
190•mecredis•10h ago•147 comments

New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/03/new-york-wants-to-ctrlaltdelete-your-3d-printer/
246•ptorrone•11h ago•302 comments

Prek: A better, faster, drop-in pre-commit replacement, engineered in Rust

https://github.com/j178/prek
198•fortuitous-frog•10h ago•100 comments

Notepad++ supply chain attack breakdown

https://securelist.com/notepad-supply-chain-attack/118708/
192•natebc•4h ago•88 comments

Qwen3-Coder-Next

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3-coder-next
586•danielhanchen•11h ago•365 comments

The Largest Zip Tie Is Nearly 4 Feet Long and $75

https://www.thedrive.com/news/youll-have-that-on-those-big-jobs-the-worlds-largest-zip-tie-is-nea...
7•PaulHoule•5d ago•0 comments

1,400-year-old tomb featuring giant owl sculpture discovered in Mexico

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/29/science/zapotec-tomb-mexico-scli-intl
61•breve•4d ago•6 comments

Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins

https://fortune.com/2026/02/03/famed-startup-incubator-y-combinator-to-let-founders-receive-funds...
84•shscs911•8h ago•115 comments

France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US

https://apnews.com/article/europe-digital-sovereignty-big-tech-9f5388b68a0648514cebc8d92f682060
809•AareyBaba•10h ago•442 comments

Puget Systems Most Reliable Hardware of 2025

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/puget-systems-most-reliable-hardware-of-2025/
95•zdw•3d ago•37 comments

X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3ex92557jo
233•vikaveri•17h ago•438 comments

Reference Target: having your encapsulation and eating it too

https://blogs.igalia.com/alice/reference-target-having-your-encapsulation-and-eating-it-too/
5•todsacerdoti•3d ago•0 comments

Bunny Database

https://bunny.net/blog/meet-bunny-database-the-sql-service-that-just-works/
251•dabinat•14h ago•105 comments

Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50%

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adz1187
142•XzetaU8•2d ago•92 comments

1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?

https://waspdev.com/articles/2026-01-11/kilobyte-is-1000-bytes
73•surprisetalk•10h ago•233 comments

Launch HN: Modelence (YC S25) – App Builder with TypeScript / MongoDB Framework

66•eduardpi•11h ago•38 comments

Flying Around the World in under 80 Days

https://pinchito.es/2026/avis-lxxx
39•alexfernandez•2d ago•9 comments

China Moon Mission: Aiming for 2030 lunar landing

https://spectrum.ieee.org/china-moon-mission-mengzhou-artemis
108•rbanffy•7h ago•124 comments

The Everdeck: A Universal Card System (2019)

https://thewrongtools.wordpress.com/2019/10/10/the-everdeck/
108•surprisetalk•6d ago•31 comments

GitHub Browser Plugin for AI Contribution Blame in Pull Requests

https://blog.rbby.dev/posts/github-ai-contribution-blame-for-pull-requests/
58•rbbydotdev•12h ago•30 comments

Show HN: Octosphere, a tool to decentralise scientific publishing

https://octosphere.social/
50•crimsoneer•10h ago•17 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