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Radicle: The Sovereign Forge

https://radicle.xyz
121•ibobev•3h ago•64 comments

Booting from a vinyl record (2020)

https://boginjr.com/it/sw/dev/vinyl-boot/
157•yesturi•5h ago•42 comments

AI is a horse (2024)

https://kconner.com/2024/08/02/ai-is-a-horse.html
264•zdw•3d ago•139 comments

Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go

https://github.com/ramonvermeulen/whosthere
88•rvermeulen98•4h ago•28 comments

Proton Spam and the AI Consent Problem

https://dbushell.com/2026/01/22/proton-spam/
337•dbushell•9h ago•219 comments

I built a light that reacts to radio waves [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moBCOEiqiPs
338•codetheweb•10h ago•77 comments

Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities

https://programmablesearchengine.googleblog.com/2026/01/updates-to-our-web-search-products.html
155•01jonny01•6h ago•140 comments

Show HN: Zsweep – Play Minesweeper using only Vim motions

https://zsweep.com
9•oug-t•5d ago•5 comments

KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer

https://www.korg.com/us/products/dj/phase8/
14•bpierre•1h ago•12 comments

What has Docker become?

https://tuananh.net/2026/01/20/what-has-docker-become/
148•tuananh•3h ago•160 comments

Three RCEs in Ilias Learning Management System

https://srlabs.de/blog/breaking-ilias-part-2-three-to-rce
3•hack223•44m ago•0 comments

Flying with Photons: Rendering Novel Views of Propagating Light

https://anaghmalik.com/FlyingWithPhotons/
8•pillars•3d ago•3 comments

Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC

https://cannoneyed.com/isometric-nyc/
1136•cannoneyed•23h ago•208 comments

European Alternatives

https://european-alternatives.eu
142•s_dev•3h ago•36 comments

Replacing Protobuf with Rust to go 5 times faster

https://pgdog.dev/blog/replace-protobuf-with-rust
118•whiteros_e•7h ago•76 comments

GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers

https://gptzero.me/news/neurips/
898•segmenta•1d ago•475 comments

Show HN: S2-lite, an open source Stream Store

https://github.com/s2-streamstore/s2
45•shikhar•1d ago•11 comments

AI Usage Policy

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/blob/main/AI_POLICY.md
374•mefengl•6h ago•187 comments

Presence in Death

https://rubinmuseum.org/presence-in-death/
43•tock•4h ago•8 comments

Microsoft mishandling example.com

https://tinyapps.org/blog/microsoft-mishandling-example-com.html
155•mrled•3h ago•55 comments

Tech Is Fun Again: The Tech Monoculture Is Finally Breaking

http://www.jasonwillems.com/technology/2025/12/17/Tech-Is-Fun-Again/
6•at1as•1h ago•0 comments

Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B

https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/capital-one-buy-fintech-firm-brex-515-billion-deal-20...
349•personjerry•19h ago•286 comments

Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?

https://eieio.games/blog/ssh-sends-100-packets-per-keystroke/
589•eieio•21h ago•308 comments

I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

https://hugodaniel.com/posts/claude-code-banned-me/
645•hugodan•21h ago•564 comments

The state of modern AI text to speech systems for screen reader users

https://stuff.interfree.ca/2026/01/05/ai-tts-for-screenreaders.html
57•tuukkao•7h ago•22 comments

Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3tts-0115
669•Palmik•1d ago•206 comments

Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"

https://shreevatsa.net/post/douglas-adams-cultural-divide/
507•speckx•1d ago•505 comments

Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate (2020)

https://www.leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/articles/why-medieval-city-builder-video-games-are-historic...
193•benbreen•16h ago•125 comments

Your app subscription is now my weekend project

https://rselbach.com/your-sub-is-now-my-weekend-project
476•robteix•4d ago•324 comments

TI-99/4A: Leaning More on the Firmware

https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/2026/01/17/ti-99-4a-leaning-more-heavily-on-the-firmware/
65•ibobev•4d ago•31 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