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Mobile carriers can get your GPS location

https://an.dywa.ng/carrier-gnss.html
23•cbeuw•42m ago•10 comments

Apple Platform Security (Jan 2026) [pdf]

https://help.apple.com/pdf/security/en_US/apple-platform-security-guide.pdf
56•pieterr•2h ago•24 comments

Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

https://antirender.com/
1695•iambateman•21h ago•411 comments

CPython Internals Explained

https://github.com/zpoint/CPython-Internals
76•yufiz•4d ago•16 comments

Animated AVIF for the Modern Web

https://arthur.pizza/2025/12/animated-avif-for-the-modern-web/
26•sdoering•5d ago•8 comments

NASA's WB-57 crash lands at Houston

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/01/one-of-nasas-three-wb-57-aircraft-just-did-a-belly-landing-...
99•verzali•3d ago•44 comments

We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latency

https://blog.globalping.io/we-have-ipinfo-at-home-or-how-to-geolocate-ips-in-your-cli-using-latency/
147•jimaek•8h ago•43 comments

Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User

https://nemin.hu/guix.html
79•todsacerdoti•6h ago•18 comments

Quaternion Algebras

https://jvoight.github.io/quat.html
70•teleforce•4d ago•24 comments

Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones

https://simedw.com/2026/01/31/ear-pronunication-via-ctc/
373•simedw•17h ago•113 comments

My Ridiculously Robust Photo Management System (Immich Edition)

https://jaisenmathai.com/articles/my-ridiculously-robust-photo-management-system-immich-edition/
158•jmathai•3d ago•62 comments

"Giving up upstream-ing my patches & feel free to pick them up"

https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2026-January/118080.html
50•csmantle•7h ago•18 comments

Sumerian Star Map Recorded the Impact of an Asteroid (2024)

https://archaeologyworlds.com/5500-year-old-sumerian-star-map-recorded/
113•griffzhowl•10h ago•36 comments

A Step Behind the Bleeding Edge: A Philosophy on AI in Dev

https://somehowmanage.com/2026/01/22/a-step-behind-the-bleeding-edge-monarchs-philosophy-on-ai-in...
120•Ozzie_osman•2d ago•56 comments

Moltbook

https://www.moltbook.com/
1608•teej•1d ago•756 comments

Insane Growth Goldbridge (YC F25) Is Hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/goldbridge/jobs/78gGEHh-forward-deployed-engineer
1•alvinsalehi•6h ago

Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/30/euro_firms_must_ditch_us/
567•jamesblonde•7h ago•530 comments

Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent

https://peerweb.lol/
327•dtj1123•21h ago•107 comments

A lot of the Moltbook stuff is fake

https://twitter.com/HumanHarlan/status/2017424292548673830
5•kumarm•16m ago•1 comments

HTTP Cats

https://http.cat/
490•surprisetalk•1d ago•79 comments

Implementing the Transcendental Functions in Ivy

https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2026/01/implementing-transcendental-functions.html
25•chmaynard•5d ago•2 comments

Predicting how Heathrow is using it's runways in the browser

https://blog.billyedmoore.com/heathrow
6•Billyedmoore•4d ago•1 comments

Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon

https://wilsoniumite.com/2026/01/27/surely-it-has-to-be-soon/
462•Wilsoniumite•1d ago•587 comments

Show HN: Phage Explorer

https://phage-explorer.org/
105•eigenvalue•12h ago•24 comments

An anecdote about backward compatibility

https://blog.plover.com/2026/01/26/#wrterm
73•speckx•5d ago•17 comments

Finland to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with ban on youth social media

https://yle.fi/a/74-20207494
14•Teever•57m ago•4 comments

Disrupting the largest residential proxy network

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/disrupting-largest-residential-proxy-net...
206•cdrnsf•2d ago•192 comments

Kimi K2.5 Technical Report [pdf]

https://github.com/MoonshotAI/Kimi-K2.5/blob/master/tech_report.pdf
351•vinhnx•1d ago•134 comments

Naples' 1790s civil war was intensified by moral panic over Real Analysis (2023)

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/foundational-anxieties-modern-mathematics-and-the-political-i...
86•OgsyedIE•14h ago•22 comments

The engineer who invented the Mars rover suspension in his garage [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKSPk_0N4Jc
369•UltraSane•4d ago•54 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