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Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering

https://github.com/OlaProeis/Ferrite
68•OlaProis•2h ago•17 comments

Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leak

https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-memory-leak-fix
317•thorel•9h ago•67 comments

Show HN: I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 books

https://trails.pieterma.es/
255•pmaze•11h ago•81 comments

Show HN: Librario, a book metadata API that aggregates G Books, ISBNDB, and more

78•jamesponddotco•4h ago•25 comments

Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project

https://www.openchaos.dev/
338•stefanvdw1•12h ago•68 comments

Show HN: VAM Seek – 2D video navigation grid, 15KB, zero server load

https://github.com/unhaya/vam-seek
8•haasiy•1h ago•0 comments

A Year of Work on the Arch Linux Package Management (ALPM) Project

https://devblog.archlinux.page/2026/a-year-of-work-on-the-alpm-project/
15•susam•2h ago•0 comments

CPU Counters on Apple Silicon: article + tool

https://blog.bugsiki.dev/posts/apple-pmu/
16•verte_zerg•3d ago•0 comments

Show HN: Play poker with LLMs, or watch them play against each other

https://llmholdem.com/
87•projectyang•9h ago•45 comments

Eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece (2023)

https://nightingaledvs.com/dark-sky-weather-data-viz/
395•skadamat•16h ago•163 comments

AI is a business model stress test

https://dri.es/ai-is-a-business-model-stress-test
197•amarsahinovic•11h ago•219 comments

Code and Let Live

https://fly.io/blog/code-and-let-live/
258•usrme•1d ago•87 comments

Datadog, thank you for blocking us

https://www.deductive.ai/blogs/datadog-thank-you-for-blocking-us
35•binarylogic•1d ago•24 comments

Sisyphus Now Lives in Oh My Claude

https://github.com/Yeachan-Heo/oh-my-claude-sisyphus
12•deckardt•2h ago•9 comments

Brands upset Buy For Me is featuring their products on Amazon without permission

https://www.modernretail.co/technology/brands-are-upset-that-buy-for-me-is-featuring-their-produc...
49•spenvo•4d ago•18 comments

Overdose deaths are falling in America because of a 'supply shock': study

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/01/08/why-overdose-deaths-are-falling-in-america
88•marojejian•8h ago•67 comments

Workers at Redmond SpaceX lab exposed to toxic chemicals

https://www.fox13seattle.com/video/fmc-w1ga4pk97gxq0hj5
23•SilverElfin•1h ago•2 comments

Code Is Clay

https://campedersen.com/code-is-clay
48•ecto•8h ago•21 comments

Show HN: mcpc – Universal command-line client for Model Context Protocol (MCP)

https://github.com/apify/mcp-cli
22•jancurn•4d ago•3 comments

An Experimental Approach to Printf in HLSL

https://www.abolishcrlf.org//2025/12/31/Printf.html
3•ibobev•3d ago•0 comments

ChatGPT Health is a marketplace, guess who is the product?

https://consciousdigital.org/chatgpt-health-is-a-marketplace-guess-who-is-the-product/
253•yoaviram•2d ago•248 comments

Kodbox: Open-source cloud desktop with multi-storage fusion and web IDE

https://github.com/kalcaddle/kodbox
8•indigodaddy•3h ago•0 comments

Bob Weir has died

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/bob-weir-grateful-dead-dead-obituary-1234810106/
87•asix66•3h ago•15 comments

ASCII-Driven Development

https://medium.com/@calufa/ascii-driven-development-850f66661351
104•_hfqa•2d ago•70 comments

Rats caught on camera hunting flying bats

https://scienceclock.com/rats-caught-on-camera-hunting-flying-bats-for-the-first-time/
79•akg130522•9h ago•10 comments

Org Mode Syntax Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages for Text (2017)

https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only/
256•adityaathalye•19h ago•178 comments

Private equity firms acquired more than 500 autism centers in past decade: study

https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-01-07/private-equity-autism-centers
230•hhs•4h ago•156 comments

UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring PMs, SWEs to automate construction compliance

https://up.codes/careers?utm_source=HN
1•Old_Thrashbarg•11h ago

New information extracted from Snowden PDFs through metadata version analysis

https://libroot.org/posts/going-through-snowden-documents-part-4/
293•libroot•17h ago•123 comments

I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

https://www.theverge.com/tech/858910/linux-diary-gaming-desktop
599•rorylawless•13h ago•505 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•7mo ago
Congratz, you've invented obnoxiousness.
quantadev•7mo 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