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First, Make Me Care

https://gwern.net/blog/2026/make-me-care
42•andsoitis•1h ago•10 comments

A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch

https://github.com/tldev/posturr
339•dnw•4h ago•123 comments

Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disaster, report finds

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1m77dmxlvlo
33•Rygian•1h ago•12 comments

Using PostgreSQL as a Dead Letter Queue for Event-Driven Systems

https://www.diljitpr.net/blog-post-postgresql-dlq
114•tanelpoder•4h ago•28 comments

Doom has been ported to an earbud

https://doombuds.com
252•arin-s•8h ago•84 comments

A flawed paper in Management Science has been cited more than 6,000 times

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/22/aking/
550•timr•11h ago•293 comments

World’s most powerful literary critic is on TikTok

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2026/01/the-worlds-most-powerful-literary-critic-is-on...
40•insistey•14h ago•37 comments

Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-sideloading-android-high-friction-process-3633468/
549•_____k•5d ago•576 comments

Web-based image editor modeled after Deluxe Paint

https://github.com/steffest/DPaint-js
128•bananaboy•7h ago•8 comments

Publishing on the ATmosphere

https://tynanistyping.offprint.app/a/3mcsvjjceei23-publishing-on-the-atmosphere
21•danabramov•5d ago•9 comments

Introduction to PostgreSQL Indexes

https://dlt.github.io/blog/posts/introduction-to-postgresql-indexes/
242•dlt•12h ago•12 comments

ICE Using Palantir Tool That Feeds on Medicaid Data

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/report-ice-using-palantir-tool-feeds-medicaid-data
440•JKCalhoun•2h ago•224 comments

Show HN: Bonsplit – Tabs and splits for native macOS apps

https://bonsplit.alasdairmonk.com
150•sgottit•8h ago•22 comments

Show HN: TUI for managing XDG default applications

https://github.com/mitjafelicijan/xdgctl
94•mitjafelicijan•9h ago•28 comments

ANN v3: 200ms p99 query latency over 100B vectors

https://turbopuffer.com/blog/ann-v3
80•_peregrine_•4d ago•31 comments

Show HN: Fence – Sandbox CLI commands with network/filesystem restrictions

https://github.com/Use-Tusk/fence
35•jy-tan•5d ago•8 comments

Optimizing GPU Programs from Java Using Babylon and Hat

https://openjdk.org/projects/babylon/articles/hat-matmul/hat-matmul
4•pjmlp•5d ago•0 comments

Social Dynamics at Arm's Length

https://www.jenn.site/social-truths-at-arms-length/
14•surprisetalk•4d ago•10 comments

Jurassic Park - Tablet device on Nedry's desk? (2012)

https://www.therpf.com/forums/threads/jurassic-park-tablet-device-on-nedrys-desk.169883/
126•exvi•11h ago•48 comments

Nango (YC W23, Dev Infrastructure) Is Hiring Remotely

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Nango
1•bastienbeurier•8h ago

The Rebirth of Pennsylvania's Infamous Burning Town

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/centralia-pennsylvania-rebirth
62•pbshgthm•5d ago•25 comments

I built a 2x faster lexer, then discovered I/O was the real bottleneck

https://modulovalue.com/blog/syscall-overhead-tar-gz-io-performance/
132•modulovalue•5d ago•62 comments

Wine-Staging 11.1 Adds Patches for Enabling Recent Photoshop Versions on Linux

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Staging-11.1
97•LorenDB•5h ago•34 comments

A Lament for Aperture

https://ikennd.ac/blog/2026/01/old-man-yells-at-modern-software-design/
206•firloop•4d ago•50 comments

Show HN: Netfence – Like Envoy for eBPF Filters

https://github.com/danthegoodman1/netfence
31•dangoodmanUT•5h ago•6 comments

Sony Data Discman

https://huguesjohnson.com/random/sony-ebook/
81•naves•12h ago•16 comments

Data Leak Exposes 149M Logins, Including Gmail, Facebook

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-149-million-passwords-exposed-infostealer-database/
7•saikatsg•43m ago•0 comments

Bridging the Gap Between PLECS and SPICE

https://erickschulz.dev/posts/plecs-spice/
27•eschu•9h ago•8 comments

Alarm overload is undermining safety at sea as crews face thousands of alerts

https://www.lr.org/en/knowledge/press-room/press-listing/press-release/2026/alarm-overload-is-und...
125•geox•7h ago•81 comments

Hands-On with Two Apple Network Server Prototype ROMs

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/01/hands-on-with-two-apple-network-server.html
55•todsacerdoti•12h ago•1 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