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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
44•sseagull•37m ago•15 comments

Norway EV Push Nears 100 Percent: What's Next?

https://spectrum.ieee.org/norway-ev-policy-electric-vehicles
33•rbanffy•48m ago•18 comments

Moltbook

https://www.moltbook.com/
631•teej•10h ago•344 comments

Software Pump and Dump

http://tautvilas.lt/software-pump-and-dump/
212•brisky•3d ago•74 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...
203•vidyesh•7h ago•22 comments

Tesla's Robotaxi data confirms crash rate 3x worse than humans even with monitor

https://electrek.co/2026/01/29/teslas-own-robotaxi-data-confirms-crash-rate-3x-worse-than-humans-...
222•breve•3h ago•86 comments

OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

https://openclaw.ai/blog/introducing-openclaw
309•ed•8h ago•145 comments

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKSPk_0N4Jc
48•UltraSane•3d ago•7 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-...
302•franczesko•5h ago•158 comments

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

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

Track Your Routine – Open-source app for task management

https://github.com/MSF01/TYR
19•perrii•2h ago•11 comments

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

https://github.com/heltilda/cicada
15•briancr•1h ago•2 comments

How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills

https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills
159•vismit2000•8h ago•58 comments

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

https://grid.space/stem/
327•cyrusradfar•15h ago•107 comments

PlayStation 2 Recompilation Project Is Absolutely Incredible

https://redgamingtech.com/playstation-2-recompilation-project-is-absolutely-incredible/
466•croes•19h ago•246 comments

Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/project-genie/
605•meetpateltech•20h ago•290 comments

Code is cheap. Show me the talk

https://nadh.in/blog/code-is-cheap/
7•ghostfoxgod•1h ago•1 comments

Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking

https://marginlab.ai/trackers/claude-code/
715•qwesr123•1d ago•327 comments

Godot 4.6 Release: It's all about your flow

https://godotengine.org/releases/4.6/
53•makepanic•3d ago•18 comments

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

https://aashvik.com/posts/555-revolution/
70•MonkeyClub•2d ago•39 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/
233•rd•16h ago•303 comments

Stargaze: SpaceX's Space Situational Awareness System

https://starlink.com/updates/stargaze
124•hnburnsy•10h ago•45 comments

Backseat Software

https://blog.mikeswanson.com/backseat-software/
132•zdw•15h ago•33 comments

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

https://predr.ag/blog/wifi-only-works-when-its-raining/
240•epicalex•17h ago•85 comments

Flameshot

https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot
224•OsrsNeedsf2P•18h ago•86 comments

AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals

https://vercel.com/blog/agents-md-outperforms-skills-in-our-agent-evals
382•maximedupre•1d ago•154 comments

Spacecurve: A space-filling curve playground

https://corte.si/posts/spacecurve/announce/
27•cortesi•2d ago•5 comments

Long-hidden Leonardo mural opens to the public ahead of 2026 Milan Olympics

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/leonardo-sforza-castle-olympics-2739171
22•antigizmo•3d ago•1 comments

My Mom and Dr. DeepSeek (2025)

https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-chatbot-china-sick/
210•kieto•19h ago•113 comments

Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level

https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/017-2026
221•brandonb•11h ago•173 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