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Show HN: Amla Sandbox – WASM bash shell sandbox for AI agents

https://github.com/amlalabs/amla-sandbox
23•souvik1997•1h ago•21 comments

Buttered Crumpet, a custom typeface for Wallace and Gromit

https://jamieclarketype.com/case-study/wallace-and-gromit-font/
81•tobr•1h ago•17 comments

Moltbook

https://www.moltbook.com/
782•teej•12h ago•411 comments

Implementing a tiny CPU rasterizer (2024)

https://lisyarus.github.io/blog/posts/implementing-a-tiny-cpu-rasterizer-part-1.html
34•PaulHoule•4d ago•3 comments

Wisconsin communities signed secrecy deals for billion-dollar data centers

https://www.wpr.org/news/4-wisconsin-communities-signed-secrecy-deals-billion-dollar-data-centers
192•sseagull•3h ago•199 comments

OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

https://openclaw.ai/blog/introducing-openclaw
394•ed•11h ago•183 comments

Richard Feynman Side Hustles

https://twitter.com/carl_feynman/status/2016979540099420428
73•tzury•1h ago•21 comments

The Engineer who invented the Mars Rover Suspension in his garage [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKSPk_0N4Jc
88•UltraSane•3d ago•14 comments

Track Your Routine – Open-source app for task management

https://github.com/MSF01/TYR
35•perrii•4h ago•17 comments

Quack-Cluster: A Serverless Distributed SQL Query Engine with DuckDB and Ray

https://github.com/kristianaryanto/Quack-Cluster
11•tanelpoder•3d ago•0 comments

GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client

https://www.xda-developers.com/gog-calls-linux-the-next-major-frontier-for-gaming-as-it-works-on-...
420•franczesko•8h ago•226 comments

How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills

https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills
222•vismit2000•10h ago•180 comments

Netflix Animation Studios Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron

https://www.blender.org/press/netflix-animation-studios-joins-the-blender-development-fund-as-cor...
305•vidyesh•10h ago•47 comments

PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible

https://redgamingtech.com/playstation-2-recompilation-project-is-absolutely-incredible/
496•croes•21h ago•272 comments

Pangolin (YC S25) is hiring software engineers (open-source, Go, networking)

https://docs.pangolin.net/careers/join-us
1•miloschwartz•4h ago

Show HN: Kolibri, a DIY music club in Sweden

https://kolibrinkpg.com/
83•EastLondonCoder•1d ago•14 comments

Grid: Free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer

https://grid.space/stem/
340•cyrusradfar•17h ago•112 comments

How AI Impacts Skill Formation

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245
161•northfield27•9h ago•3 comments

Godot 4.6 Release: It's all about your flow

https://godotengine.org/releases/4.6/
112•makepanic•3d ago•40 comments

Show HN: Cicada – A scripting language that integrates with C

https://github.com/heltilda/cicada
29•briancr•4h ago•10 comments

Emoji Design Convergence Review: 2018-2026

https://blog.emojipedia.org/emoji-design-convergence-review-2018-2026/
3•surprisetalk•2d ago•0 comments

AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals

https://vercel.com/blog/agents-md-outperforms-skills-in-our-agent-evals
421•maximedupre•1d ago•168 comments

Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT

https://openai.com/index/retiring-gpt-4o-and-older-models/
258•rd•19h ago•329 comments

Doin' It with a 555: One Chip to Rule Them All

https://aashvik.com/posts/555-revolution/
85•MonkeyClub•3d ago•47 comments

Ode to the AA Battery

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/ode-to-the-aa-battery/
61•Brajeshwar•2h ago•47 comments

Stargaze: SpaceX's Space Situational Awareness System

https://starlink.com/updates/stargaze
149•hnburnsy•13h ago•59 comments

Backseat Software

https://blog.mikeswanson.com/backseat-software/
167•zdw•18h ago•64 comments

The WiFi only works when it's raining (2024)

https://predr.ag/blog/wifi-only-works-when-its-raining/
263•epicalex•19h ago•95 comments

Flameshot

https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot
251•OsrsNeedsf2P•20h ago•95 comments

Detecting Dementia Using Lexical Analysis: Terry Pratchett's Discworld

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/16/1/94
5•maxeda•26m ago•0 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