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Iconify: Library of Open Source Icons

https://icon-sets.iconify.design/
109•sea-gold•2h ago•10 comments

ThinkNext Design

https://thinknextdesign.com/home.html
64•__patchbit__•3h ago•23 comments

The longest Greek word

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lopado%C2%ADtemacho%C2%ADselacho%C2%ADgaleo%C2%ADkranio%C2%ADleipsa...
113•firloop•5h ago•50 comments

Show HN: GibRAM an in-memory ephemeral GraphRAG runtime for retrieval

https://github.com/gibram-io/gibram
12•ktyptorio•2h ago•2 comments

jQuery 4

https://blog.jquery.com/2026/01/17/jquery-4-0-0/
252•OuterVale•5h ago•69 comments

ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering

https://alexharri.com/blog/ascii-rendering
985•alexharri•22h ago•117 comments

Profession by Isaac Asimov

https://www.abelard.org/asimov.php
61•bkudria•7h ago•6 comments

Data Activation Thoughts

https://galsapir.github.io/sparse-thoughts/2026/01/17/data_activation/
4•galsapir•8h ago•0 comments

The grab list: how museums decide what to save in a disaster

https://www.economist.com/1843/2025/11/21/the-grab-list-how-museums-decide-what-to-save-in-a-disa...
12•surprisetalk•3d ago•1 comments

No knives, only cook knives

https://kellykozakandjoshdonald.substack.com/p/no-knives-only-cook-knives
56•firloop•9h ago•5 comments

The recurring dream of replacing developers

https://www.caimito.net/en/blog/2025/12/07/the-recurring-dream-of-replacing-developers.html
432•glimshe•19h ago•342 comments

Kip: A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish

https://github.com/kip-dili/kip
181•nhatcher•12h ago•52 comments

Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro

https://twitter.com/neelsomani/status/2012695714187325745
190•nl•5h ago•154 comments

How London cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/how-london-finally-cracked-mobile-phone-coverage-on-the-unde...
80•beardyw•5d ago•45 comments

Play chess via Slack DMs or SMS using an ASCII board

https://github.com/dvelton/dm-chess
8•dustfinger•6d ago•1 comments

We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon

https://labs.ramp.com/rct
453•iamwil•5d ago•244 comments

If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design

https://mastodon.social/@heliographe_studio/115890819509545391
476•lateforwork•9h ago•195 comments

Raising money fucked me up

https://blog.yakkomajuri.com/blog/raising-money-fucked-me-up
242•yakkomajuri•15h ago•80 comments

Xous Operating System

https://xous.dev/
127•eustoria•3d ago•46 comments

Computer Systems Security 6.566 / Spring 2024

https://css.csail.mit.edu/6.858/2024/
82•barishnamazov•9h ago•9 comments

Why Object of Arrays beat interleaved arrays: a JavaScript performance issue

https://www.royalbhati.com/posts/js-array-vs-typedarray
27•howToTestFE•6d ago•12 comments

Claude Shannon's randomness-guessing machine

https://www.loper-os.org/bad-at-entropy/manmach.html
18•Kotlopou•5d ago•5 comments

The Olivetti Company

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-olivetti-company
167•rbanffy•6d ago•37 comments

Show HN: Speed Miners – A tiny RTS resource mini-game

https://speedminers.fun/
35•nickponline•11h ago•4 comments

Launching the Handmade Software Foundation

https://handmade.network/blog/p/9106-welcome_to_2026%2521#30623
41•DeathArrow•2h ago•20 comments

An Elizabethan mansion's secrets for staying warm

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260116-an-elizabethan-mansions-secrets-for-staying-warm
141•Tachyooon•16h ago•153 comments

U.S. Court Order Against Anna's Archive Spells More Trouble for the Site

https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-court-order-against-annas-archive-spells-more-trouble-for-the-site/
72•t-3•5h ago•34 comments

Below the Surface: Archeological Finds from the Amsterdam Noord/Zuid Metro Line

https://belowthesurface.amsterdam/en/vondsten
83•stefanvdw1•6d ago•13 comments

Podcasting Could Use a Good Asteroid

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/podcasting-could-use-a-good-asteroid/
37•zdw•2d ago•22 comments

Light Mode InFFFFFFlation

https://willhbr.net/2025/10/20/light-mode-infffffflation/
196•Fudgel•11h ago•139 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