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Kagi releases alpha version of Orion for Linux

https://help.kagi.com/orion/misc/linux-status.html
75•HelloUsername•1h ago•26 comments

Mathematics for Computer Science (2018) [pdf]

https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/spring18/mcs.pdf
221•vismit2000•7h ago•31 comments

Linux Runs on Raspberry Pi RP2350's Hazard3 RISC-V Cores (2024)

https://www.hackster.io/news/jesse-taube-gets-linux-up-and-running-on-the-raspberry-pi-rp2350-s-h...
61•walterbell•5d ago•18 comments

How wolves became dogs

https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2025/12/18/how-wolves-became-dogs
41•mooreds•3d ago•26 comments

Sorted string tables (SST) from first principles

https://www.bitsxpages.com/p/sorted-string-tables-sst-from-first
14•apurvamehta•3d ago•1 comments

How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Code

https://www.mihaileric.com/The-Emperor-Has-No-Clothes/
608•nutellalover•18h ago•195 comments

Samba Was Written (2003)

https://download.samba.org/pub/tridge/misc/french_cafe.txt
90•tosh•5d ago•38 comments

Embassy: Modern embedded framework, using Rust and async

https://github.com/embassy-rs/embassy
256•birdculture•15h ago•112 comments

Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU

https://github.com/samuel-vitorino/sopro
287•sammyyyyyyy•18h ago•108 comments

European Commission issues call for evidence on open source

https://lwn.net/Articles/1053107/
307•pabs3•7h ago•203 comments

Hacking a Casio F-91W digital watch (2023)

https://medium.com/infosec-watchtower/how-i-hacked-casio-f-91w-digital-watch-892bd519bd15
140•jollyjerry•4d ago•40 comments

What happened to WebAssembly

https://emnudge.dev/blog/what-happened-to-webassembly/
225•enz•7h ago•190 comments

Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/01/bose-open-sources-its-soundtouch-home-theater-smart-speak...
2393•rayrey•23h ago•357 comments

Richard D. James aka Aphex Twin speaks to Tatsuya Takahashi (2017)

https://web.archive.org/web/20180719052026/http://item.warp.net/interview/aphex-twin-speaks-to-ta...
208•lelandfe•17h ago•71 comments

Photographing the hidden world of slime mould

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9d9409p76qo
68•1659447091•1w ago•15 comments

Show HN: Executable Markdown files with Unix pipes

73•jedwhite•12h ago•58 comments

The Jeff Dean Facts

https://github.com/LRitzdorf/TheJeffDeanFacts
501•ravenical•1d ago•173 comments

The unreasonable effectiveness of the Fourier transform

https://joshuawise.com/resources/ofdm/
263•voxadam•19h ago•112 comments

AI coding assistants are getting worse?

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-degrades
360•voxadam•23h ago•584 comments

1ML for non-specialists: introduction

https://pithlessly.github.io/1ml-intro
24•birdculture•6d ago•5 comments

Why I left iNaturalist

https://kueda.net/blog/2026/01/06/why-i-left-inat/
225•erutuon•13h ago•124 comments

When Kitty Litter Caused a Nuclear Catastrophe

https://practical.engineering/blog/2025/4/15/when-kitty-litter-caused-a-nuclear-catastrophe
9•tape_measure•4d ago•2 comments

He was called a 'terrorist sympathizer.' Now his AI company is valued at $3B

https://sfstandard.com/2026/01/07/called-terrorist-sympathizer-now-ai-company-valued-3b/
237•newusertoday•20h ago•311 comments

Mysterious Victorian-era shoes are washing up on a beach in Wales

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hundreds-of-mysterious-victorian-era-shoes-are-washing-...
48•Brajeshwar•3d ago•16 comments

Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions

https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/issues/7410
449•sergiotapia•11h ago•364 comments

Systematically Improving Espresso: Mathematical Modeling and Experiment (2020)

https://www.cell.com/matter/fulltext/S2590-2385(19)30410-2
56•austinallegro•6d ago•12 comments

Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS

https://twitter.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2009339263251566902
706•qwertyforce•19h ago•260 comments

Ushikuvirus: Newly discovered virus may offer clues to the origin of eukaryotes

https://www.tus.ac.jp/en/mediarelations/archive/20251219_9539.html
116•rustoo•1d ago•33 comments

Fixing a Buffer Overflow in Unix v4 Like It's 1973

https://sigma-star.at/blog/2025/12/unix-v4-buffer-overflow/
144•vzaliva•20h ago•37 comments

Why is there a tiny hole in the airplane window? (2023)

https://www.afar.com/magazine/why-airplane-windows-have-tiny-holes
57•quan•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•7mo ago
Good thing you can understand sarcasm.
quantadev•7mo ago
but your sarcasm was truthful.
bheadmaster•7mo ago
but it wasn't.
quantadev•7mo ago
Well in that case...Congratz, you've invented sarcasm.
bheadmaster•7mo ago
Congratz, you've invented obnoxiousness.
quantadev•7mo ago
Not "independently reinvented" ?
readthenotes1•7mo ago
I was aware of unit testing before it had a name ... Desperation is the mother of intervention
quantadev•7mo 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