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Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor

https://alexxcons.github.io/blogpost_15.html
157•pantalaimon•3h ago•92 comments

430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found

https://archaeologymag.com/2026/01/430000-year-old-wooden-tools-marathousa/
72•bookofjoe•1h ago•53 comments

I made my own Git

https://tonystr.net/blog/git_immitation
233•TonyStr•6h ago•95 comments

Management as AI superpower: Thriving in a world of agentic AI

https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/management-as-ai-superpower
5•swolpers•10m ago•0 comments

OpenSSL: Stack buffer overflow in CMS AuthEnvelopedData parsing

https://openssl-library.org/news/vulnerabilities/#CVE-2025-15467
6•MagerValp•18m ago•0 comments

Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring a Founding Recruiter

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/artie/jobs/MX163y2-founding-recruiter
1•j-cheong•13m ago

Heathrow scraps liquid container limit

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1evvx89559o
516•robotsliketea•3d ago•682 comments

Amazon to Shut Down All Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh Stores

https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/amazon-to-shut-down-all-amazon-go-and-amazon-fresh-stores-030...
110•gmays•1h ago•78 comments

Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't

https://tech.lgbt/@JadedBlueEyes/115967791152135761
181•JadedBlueEyes•1h ago•69 comments

Snow Simulation Toy

https://potch.me/2026/snow-simulation-toy.html
117•surprisetalk•1w ago•29 comments

The Enchiridion by Epictetus

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/45109/45109-h/45109-h.htm
54•atropoles•3d ago•22 comments

Two Twisty Shapes Resolve a Centuries-Old Topology Puzzle

https://www.quantamagazine.org/two-twisty-shapes-resolve-a-centuries-old-topology-puzzle-20260120/
21•tzury•21h ago•0 comments

A simulation where life unfolds in real time

https://soupof.life
17•maybe-tomorrow•6d ago•5 comments

TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/26/tech/tiktok-ice-censorship-glitch-cec
637•kotaKat•3h ago•414 comments

Velox: A Port of Tauri to Swift by Miguel de Icaza

https://github.com/velox-apps/velox
134•wahnfrieden•1w ago•56 comments

The age of Pump and Dump software

https://tautvilas.medium.com/software-pump-and-dump-c8a9a73d313b
133•brisky•3h ago•48 comments

Show HN: We Built the 1. EU-Sovereignty Audit for Websites

https://lightwaves.io/en/eu-audit/
82•cmkr•3h ago•62 comments

A list of fun destinations for telnet

https://telnet.org/htm/places.htm
235•tokyobreakfast•13h ago•75 comments

Handling Long Branches

https://maskray.me/blog/2026-01-25-handling-long-branches
17•ingve•1d ago•0 comments

Amazon Closing Fresh and Go Stores

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-closing-fresh-grocery-convenience-150437789.html
54•trenning•1h ago•32 comments

Kimi Released Kimi K2.5, Open-Source Visual SOTA-Agentic Model

https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k2-5.html
382•nekofneko•11h ago•166 comments

Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/01/apple-introduces-new-airtag-with-expanded-range-and-improv...
551•meetpateltech•1d ago•664 comments

ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/26/chatgpt-containers/
408•simonw•21h ago•290 comments

The hidden engineering of runways

https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/1/20/the-hidden-engineering-of-runways
382•crescit_eundo•1w ago•90 comments

The Universal Pattern Popping Up in Math, Physics and Biology (2013)

https://www.quantamagazine.org/in-mysterious-pattern-math-and-nature-converge-20130205/
112•kerim-ca•4d ago•41 comments

We Do Not Support Opt-Out Forms (2025)

https://consciousdigital.org/why-we-do-not-support-opt-out-forms/
56•mefengl•7h ago•26 comments

India and EU announce landmark trade deal

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crrnee01r9jo
123•Palmik•5h ago•70 comments

Ask HN: Books to learn 6502 ASM and the Apple II

84•abkt•6h ago•54 comments

Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-11s-botched-patch-tuesday-update-nigh...
398•01-_-•1d ago•310 comments

Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601255198
762•mhb•1d ago•502 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