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GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers

https://gptzero.me/news/neurips/
159•segmenta•1h ago•96 comments

In Europe, Wind and Solar Overtake Fossil Fuels

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/europe-wind-solar-fossil-fuels
132•speckx•2h ago•82 comments

Tree-sitter vs. Language Servers

https://lambdaland.org/posts/2026-01-21_tree-sitter_vs_lsp/
62•ashton314•1h ago•17 comments

Qwen3-TTS Family Is Now Open Sourced: Voice Design, Clone, and Generation

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3tts-0115
85•Palmik•2h ago•13 comments

Design Thinking Books You Must Read

https://www.designorate.com/design-thinking-books/
169•rrm1977•4h ago•74 comments

ISO PDF spec is getting Brotli – ~20 % smaller documents with no quality loss

https://pdfa.org/want-to-make-your-pdfs-20-smaller-for-free/
69•whizzx•5h ago•33 comments

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

https://shreevatsa.net/post/douglas-adams-cultural-divide/
217•speckx•2h ago•196 comments

Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete

https://huggingface.co/sweepai/sweep-next-edit-1.5B
452•williamzeng0•17h ago•88 comments

We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports

https://curl.se/.well-known/security.txt
684•latexr•5h ago•401 comments

30 Years of ReactOS

https://reactos.org/blogs/30yrs-of-ros/
117•Mark_Jansen•8h ago•59 comments

Show HN: Interactive physics simulations I built while teaching my daughter

https://www.projectlumen.app/
28•anticlickwise•3d ago•2 comments

Doctors in Brazil using tilapia fish skin to treat burn victims

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/brazilian-city-uses-tilapia-fish-skin-treat-burn-victims
205•kaycebasques•11h ago•71 comments

Zack Polanski to hand in NHS contract termination notice to Palantir

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026/01/22/zack-polanski-to-hand-in-nhs-contract-termination-not...
7•robtherobber•12m ago•0 comments

Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant

https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/
439•misswaterfairy•17h ago•314 comments

Flowtel (YC W25) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flowtel/jobs/LaddaEz-founding-engineer-staff-senior
1•eylonmiz•4h ago

In Praise of APL (1977)

https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/perlis77.htm
70•tosh•7h ago•39 comments

Joe Armstrong and Jeremy Ruston – Intertwingling the Tiddlywiki with Erlang [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv1UfLPK7_Q
10•kerim-ca•2d ago•0 comments

Threat actors expand abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

https://www.jamf.com/blog/threat-actors-expand-abuse-of-visual-studio-code/
233•vinnyglennon•16h ago•230 comments

eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update

https://www.valueaddedresource.net/ebay-bans-ai-agents-updates-arbitration-user-agreement-feb-2026/
239•bdcravens•19h ago•264 comments

Meet the Alaska Student Arrested for Eating an AI Art Exhibit

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/alaska-student-arrested-eating-ai-art-exhibit/
55•petethomas•2h ago•19 comments

The Science of Life and Death in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-science-of-life-and-death-in-mary-shelleys-frankenstein/
10•Anon84•5d ago•1 comments

Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi

https://blog.kagi.com/waiting-dawn-search
398•josephwegner•22h ago•220 comments

Hands-On Introduction to Unikernels

https://labs.iximiuz.com/tutorials/unikernels-intro-93976514
90•valyala•5d ago•31 comments

Claude's new constitution

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-new-constitution
519•meetpateltech•1d ago•612 comments

Gathering Linux Syscall Numbers in a C Table

https://t-cadet.github.io/programming-wisdom/#2026-01-17-gathering-linux-syscall-numbers
77•phi-system•5d ago•32 comments

Skip is now free and open source

https://skip.dev/blog/skip-is-free/
465•dayanruben•1d ago•213 comments

Lix – universal version control system for binary files

https://lix.dev/blog/introducing-lix/
113•onecommit•16h ago•43 comments

Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps)

https://github.com/ChartGPU/ChartGPU
640•huntergemmer•1d ago•198 comments

Interfaces and Traits in C

https://antonz.org/interfaces-in-c/
4•ibobev•16m ago•0 comments

The mushroom making people hallucinate tiny humans

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260121-the-mysterious-mushroom-that-makes-you-see-tiny-people
17•1659447091•5h ago•8 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