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How does misalignment scale with model intelligence and task complexity?

https://alignment.anthropic.com/2026/hot-mess-of-ai/
76•salkahfi•2h ago•19 comments

The Codex App

https://openai.com/index/introducing-the-codex-app/
527•meetpateltech•8h ago•359 comments

Anki ownership transferred to AnkiHub

https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/ankis-growing-up/68610
234•trms•5h ago•63 comments

GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations

https://www.githubstatus.com?todayis=2026-02-02
150•bhouston•5h ago•38 comments

xAI joins SpaceX

https://www.spacex.com/updates#xai-joins-spacex
476•g-mork•4h ago•1070 comments

The Connection Machine CM-1 "Feynman" T-shirt

https://tamikothiel.com/cm/cm-tshirt.html
31•tosh•3d ago•11 comments

Julia

https://borretti.me/fiction/julia
42•ashergill•3h ago•5 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)

240•whoishiring•10h ago•301 comments

Hacking Moltbook

https://www.wiz.io/blog/exposed-moltbook-database-reveals-millions-of-api-keys
248•galnagli•10h ago•155 comments

Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/court-orders-restart-of-all-us-offshore-wind-construction/
218•ck2•3h ago•98 comments

Joedb, the Journal-Only Embedded Database

https://www.joedb.org/index.html
40•mci•3d ago•7 comments

Firefox Getting New Controls to Turn Off AI Features

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/02/firefox-ai-toggle/
77•stalfosknight•2h ago•30 comments

Carnegie Mellon Unversity Computer Club FTP Server

http://128.237.157.9/pub/
12•1vuio0pswjnm7•4d ago•2 comments

4x faster network file sync with rclone (vs rsync) (2025)

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/4x-faster-network-file-sync-rclone-vs-rsync/
263•indigodaddy•3d ago•134 comments

Advancing AI Benchmarking with Game Arena

https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/kaggle-game-arena-updates/
110•salkahfi•8h ago•47 comments

Training a trillion parameter model to be funny

https://jokegen.sdan.io/blog
17•sdan•6d ago•11 comments

Nano-vLLM: How a vLLM-style inference engine works

https://neutree.ai/blog/nano-vllm-part-1
217•yz-yu•13h ago•24 comments

The largest number representable in 64 bits

https://tromp.github.io/blog/2026/01/28/largest-number-revised
83•tromp•8h ago•58 comments

Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years

https://www.millert.dev/
301•wodniok•9h ago•177 comments

Zig Libc

https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-01-31
156•ingve•9h ago•58 comments

Geologists may have solved mystery of Green River's 'uphill' route

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-geologists-mystery-green-river-uphill.html
146•defrost•13h ago•38 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)

100•whoishiring•10h ago•243 comments

Pretty soon, heat pumps will be able to store and distribute heat as needed

https://www.sintef.no/en/latest-news/2026/pretty-soon-heat-pumps-will-be-able-to-store-and-distri...
146•PaulHoule•1d ago•127 comments

Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair

https://attheu.utah.edu/health-medicine/banning-lead-in-gas-worked-the-proof-is-in-our-hair/
10•geox•41m ago•1 comments

GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/185387
21•aofeisheng•2h ago•4 comments

Why software stocks are getting pummelled

https://www.economist.com/business/2026/02/01/why-software-stocks-are-getting-pummelled
146•petethomas•21h ago•204 comments

Show HN: Adboost – A browser extension that adds ads to every webpage

https://github.com/surprisetalk/AdBoost
98•surprisetalk•13h ago•109 comments

IsoCoaster – Theme Park Builder

https://iso-coaster.com/
100•duck•3d ago•25 comments

UK government launches fuel forecourt price API

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/access-the-latest-fuel-prices-and-forecourt-data-via-api-or-email
90•Technolithic•13h ago•108 comments

Nvidia shares are down after report that its OpenAI investment stalled

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/02/nvidia-stock-price-openai-funding.html
110•greatgib•6h ago•47 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