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Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections

https://blog.citp.princeton.edu/2026/01/16/internet-voting-is-insecure-and-should-not-be-used-in-...
250•WaitWaitWha•2h ago•211 comments

Take potentially dangerous PDFs, and convert them to safe PDFs

https://github.com/freedomofpress/dangerzone
102•dp-hackernews•4h ago•40 comments

Binary Fuse Filters: Fast and Smaller Than XOR Filters

https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.01174
54•redbell•4d ago•1 comments

Significant US Farm Losses Persist, Despite Federal Assistance

https://www.fb.org/market-intel/significant-farm-losses-persist-despite-federal-assistance
105•toomuchtodo•2h ago•86 comments

Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps)

https://github.com/ChartGPU/ChartGPU
523•huntergemmer•12h ago•149 comments

Claude's new constitution

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-new-constitution
337•meetpateltech•11h ago•342 comments

Threat Actors Expand Abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code

https://www.jamf.com/blog/threat-actors-expand-abuse-of-visual-studio-code/
30•vinnyglennon•3h ago•13 comments

Mote: An Interactive Ecosystem Simulation [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hju0H3NHxVI
8•evakhoury•4h ago•0 comments

Show HN: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB

https://terabytedeals.com
83•vektor888•6h ago•58 comments

I'll pass on your zoom call.

https://operand.online/chronicle/pass.zoom
27•c4lliope•2h ago•21 comments

Skip is now free and open source

https://skip.dev/blog/skip-is-free/
303•dayanruben•12h ago•141 comments

Letting Claude play text adventures

https://borretti.me/article/letting-claude-play-text-adventures
83•varjag•5d ago•31 comments

Golfing APL/K in 90 Lines of Python

https://aljamal.substack.com/p/golfing-aplk-in-90-lines-of-python
58•aburjg•5d ago•10 comments

Show HN: Rails UI

https://railsui.com/
116•justalever•8h ago•79 comments

TrustTunnel: AdGuard VPN protocol goes open-source

https://adguard-vpn.com/en/blog/adguard-vpn-protocol-goes-open-source-meet-trusttunnel.html
77•kumrayu•10h ago•18 comments

Show HN: RatatuiRuby wraps Rust Ratatui as a RubyGem – TUIs with the joy of Ruby

https://www.ratatui-ruby.dev/
82•Kerrick•4d ago•8 comments

The WebRacket language is a subset of Racket that compiles to WebAssembly

https://github.com/soegaard/webracket
109•mfru•4d ago•21 comments

Jerry (YC S17) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/jerry-inc/jobs/QaoK3rw-software-engineer-core-automation-ma...
1•linaz•6h ago

Tell HN: 2 years building a kids audio app as a solo dev – lessons learned

54•oliverjanssen•13h ago•31 comments

Waiting for dawn in search: Search index, Google rulings and impact on Kagi

https://blog.kagi.com/waiting-dawn-search
236•josephwegner•9h ago•145 comments

Challenges in join optimization

https://www.starrocks.io/blog/inside-starrocks-why-joins-are-faster-than-youd-expect
52•HermitX•10h ago•12 comments

Three types of LLM workloads and how to serve them

https://modal.com/llm-almanac/workloads
48•charles_irl•11h ago•3 comments

SIMD programming in pure Rust

https://kerkour.com/introduction-rust-simd
60•randomint64•2d ago•21 comments

Can you slim macOS down?

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/01/21/can-you-slim-macos-down/
185•ingve•19h ago•231 comments

Mystery of the Head Activator

https://www.asimov.press/p/head-activator
21•mailyk•3d ago•3 comments

A verification layer for browser agents: Amazon case study

https://www.sentienceapi.com/blog/verification-layer-amazon-case-study
20•tonyww•12h ago•4 comments

Setting Up a Cluster of Tiny PCs for Parallel Computing

https://www.kenkoonwong.com/blog/parallel-computing/
33•speckx•8h ago•22 comments

Nested code fences in Markdown

https://susam.net/nested-code-fences.html
193•todsacerdoti•14h ago•66 comments

Show HN: Differentiable Quantum Chemistry

https://github.com/lowdanie/hartree-fock-solver
7•lowdanie•4d ago•0 comments

Slouching Towards Bethlehem – Joan Didion (1967)

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2017/06/didion/
69•jxmorris12•9h ago•9 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