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The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen

https://github.com/quaadgras/graphics.gd/discussions/242
54•Splizard•3h ago•23 comments

The browser is the sandbox

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/25/the-browser-is-the-sandbox/
154•enos_feedler•5h ago•85 comments

Things I've learned in my 10 years as an engineering manager

https://www.jampa.dev/p/lessons-learned-after-10-years-as
129•jampa•4d ago•16 comments

First, make me care

https://gwern.net/blog/2026/make-me-care
606•andsoitis•15h ago•181 comments

UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs

https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-house-of-lords-votes-to-extend-age-verification-to-vpns
70•ubercow13•1h ago•43 comments

Scientists identify brain waves that define the limits of 'you'

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-identify-brain-waves-that-define-the-limits-of-you
204•mikhael•10h ago•49 comments

San Francisco Graffiti

https://walzr.com/sf-graffiti
4•walz•52m ago•1 comments

Emissary, a fast open-source Java messaging library

https://github.com/joel-jeremy/emissary
11•jeyjeyemem•3d ago•4 comments

A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch

https://github.com/tldev/posturr
602•dnw•19h ago•190 comments

Video Games as Art

https://gwern.net/video-game-art
70•andsoitis•8h ago•37 comments

Iran's internet blackout may become permanent, with access for elites only

https://restofworld.org/2026/iran-blackout-tiered-internet/
288•siev•6h ago•195 comments

A static site generator written in POSIX shell

https://aashvik.com/posts/shell-ssg/
34•todsacerdoti•5d ago•22 comments

Case study: Creative math – How AI fakes proofs

https://tomaszmachnik.pl/case-study-math-en.html
89•musculus•12h ago•59 comments

Apple, What Have You Done?

https://onlinegoddess.net/2026/01/apple-what-have-you-done/
76•todsacerdoti•1h ago•80 comments

Ask HN: DDD was a great debugger – what would a modern equivalent look like?

31•manux81•12h ago•32 comments

The future of software engineering is SRE

https://swizec.com/blog/the-future-of-software-engineering-is-sre/
123•Swizec•12h ago•57 comments

The Science of Fermentation [audio]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002pqg6
50•fallinditch•2d ago•15 comments

LED lighting undermines visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-35389-6
94•bookofjoe•13h ago•60 comments

Building a Real-Time HN Display for $15

https://medium.com/@lee.harding/building-a-real-time-hn-display-for-15-3ea1772051ff
39•kylegalbraith•3d ago•12 comments

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

https://www.diljitpr.net/blog-post-postgresql-dlq
215•tanelpoder•19h ago•67 comments

I was right about ATProto key management

https://notes.nora.codes/atproto-again/
143•todsacerdoti•15h ago•112 comments

Compiling models to megakernels

https://blog.luminal.com/p/compiling-models-to-megakernels
23•jafioti•1d ago•11 comments

Text Is King

https://www.experimental-history.com/p/text-is-king
3•zdw•5d ago•1 comments

Web-based image editor modeled after Deluxe Paint

https://github.com/steffest/DPaint-js
230•bananaboy•21h ago•22 comments

Running the Stupid Cricut Software on Linux

https://arthur.pizza/2025/12/running-stupid-cricut-software-under-linux/
18•starkparker•6h ago•2 comments

The Post Correspondence Programming Language: Domino-oriented Programming (2015)

https://davidlazar.github.io/PCPL/
6•mr_tyzik•3d ago•1 comments

Environmentalists worry Google behind bid to control Oregon town's water

https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/mount-hood-water-google-21307223.php
108•voxadam•7h ago•38 comments

Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

https://github.com/clawdbot/clawdbot
241•KuzeyAbi•10h ago•158 comments

Guix for Development

https://dthompson.us/posts/guix-for-development.html
84•clircle•5d ago•33 comments

Show HN: An interactive map of US lighthouses and navigational aids

https://www.lighthouses.app/
71•idd2•16h ago•19 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