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East Germany balloon escape

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany_balloon_escape
471•robertvc•15h ago•163 comments

Cloudflare acquires Astro

https://astro.build/blog/joining-cloudflare/
798•todotask2•18h ago•354 comments

High-Level Is the Goal

https://bvisness.me/high-level/
104•tobr•1d ago•44 comments

FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence

https://bfl.ai/blog/flux2-klein-towards-interactive-visual-intelligence
112•GaggiX•8h ago•37 comments

Beebo, a wave simulator written in C

https://git.sr.ht/~willowf/beebo/
39•anon25783•3d ago•1 comments

Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence

https://embedding-shapes.github.io/cursor-implied-success-without-evidence/
521•embedding-shape•17h ago•215 comments

6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available

https://letsencrypt.org/2026/01/15/6day-and-ip-general-availability
395•jaas•16h ago•229 comments

LLM Structured Outputs Handbook

https://nanonets.com/cookbooks/structured-llm-outputs
227•vitaelabitur•1d ago•38 comments

Drone Hacking Part 1: Dumping Firmware and Bruteforcing ECC

https://neodyme.io/en/blog/drone_hacking_part_1/
46•tripdout•5h ago•3 comments

Releasing rainbow tables to accelerate Net-NTLMv1 protocol deprecation

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/net-ntlmv1-deprecation-rainbow-tables
112•linolevan•10h ago•64 comments

IKEA for Software

https://tommaso-girotto.co/blog/an-ikea-for-software
59•tgirotto•4d ago•33 comments

Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-ultrasharp-52-thunderbolt-hub-monitor-u5226kw/apd/210-bthw/m...
211•cebert•15h ago•271 comments

Experts Warn of Growing Parrot Crisis in Canada

https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/video/2026/01/06/experts-warn-of-growing-parrot-crisis-in-canada/
56•debo_•4d ago•25 comments

STFU

https://github.com/Pankajtanwarbanna/stfu
798•tanelpoder•15h ago•509 comments

Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation

https://www.mintlify.com/blog/install-md-standard-for-llm-executable-installation
65•npmipg•10h ago•84 comments

Keifu – A TUI for navigating commit graphs with color and clarity

https://github.com/trasta298/keifu
38•indigodaddy•8h ago•6 comments

Reading across books with Claude Code

https://pieterma.es/syntopic-reading-claude/
96•gmays•13h ago•22 comments

Patching the Wii News Channel to serve local news (2025)

https://raulnegron.me/2025/wii-news-pr/
86•todsacerdoti•19h ago•20 comments

Which is "Bouba", and which is "Kiki"? [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TDIAObsqcs
14•basilikum•6d ago•13 comments

Show HN: Tusk Drift – Turn production traffic into API tests

https://github.com/Use-Tusk/tusk-drift-cli
26•jy-tan•1d ago•1 comments

The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest ever crime

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/17/vastaamo-hack-finland-therapy-notes
10•c420•1h ago•5 comments

Elasticsearch was never a database

https://www.paradedb.com/blog/elasticsearch-was-never-a-database
130•jamesgresql•5d ago•88 comments

Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2843883
77•giuliomagnifico•14h ago•73 comments

HTTP RateLimit Headers

https://dotat.at/@/2026-01-13-http-ratelimit.html
59•zdw•2d ago•13 comments

The five orders of ignorance (2000)

https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/the-five-orders-of-ignorance/
51•svilen_dobrev•4d ago•16 comments

Artisanal Code

https://sunnyamrat.com/posts/2026-01-17-artisanal-code/
10•sunnyam•5h ago•0 comments

Meditation and Unconscious: A Buddhist Monk and a Neuroscientist (2022)

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/meditation-and-the-unconscious-buddhism-neuroscience-conversat...
6•arunc•2h ago•1 comments

Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13

https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/discover-michelangelos-first-painting.html
344•bookofjoe•18h ago•164 comments

Dev-owned testing: Why it fails in practice and succeeds in theory

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3780063.3780066
134•rbanffy•18h ago•157 comments

Show HN: CleanCloud – Cloud cleanup that can't delete anything

https://getcleancloud.com
6•sureshcsdp•4d ago•3 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