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63•tosh•1h ago•8 comments

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

https://github.com/ChartGPU/ChartGPU
293•huntergemmer•3h ago•103 comments

SmartOS

https://docs.smartos.org/
114•ofrzeta•3h ago•43 comments

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

https://blog.kagi.com/waiting-dawn-search
62•josephwegner•1h ago•27 comments

PicoPCMCIA – a PCMCIA development board for retro-computing enthusiasts

https://www.yyzkevin.com/picopcmcia/
54•rbanffy•1h ago•11 comments

GenAI, the Snake Eating Its Own Tail

https://www.ybrikman.com/blog/2026/01/21/gen-ai-snake-eating-its-own-tail/
16•brikis98•29m ago•5 comments

Skip Is Now Free and Open Source

https://skip.dev/blog/skip-is-free/
91•dayanruben•3h ago•15 comments

JPEG XL Test Page

https://tildeweb.nl/~michiel/jxl/
79•roywashere•2h ago•53 comments

Autonomous (YC F25) is hiring – AI-native financial advisor at 0% advisory fees

https://atg.science/
1•dkobran•1h ago

Show HN: Rails UI

https://railsui.com/
5•justalever•12m ago•2 comments

Claude's New Constitution

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-new-constitution
49•meetpateltech•2h ago•12 comments

Nested Code Fences in Markdown

https://susam.net/nested-code-fences.html
136•todsacerdoti•5h ago•31 comments

Beowulf's opening "What" is no interjection

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetry-news/69208/new-research-opening-line-of-beowulf-is-not-wh...
22•gsf_emergency_6•2d ago•8 comments

Stanford scientists found a way to regrow cartilage and stop arthritis

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260120000333.htm
32•saikatsg•38m ago•6 comments

Can you slim macOS down?

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/01/21/can-you-slim-macos-down/
68•ingve•10h ago•93 comments

Show HN: Company hiring trends and insights from job postings

https://jobswithgpt.com/company-profiles/
4•sp1982•51m ago•0 comments

Swedish Alecta has sold off an estimated $8B of US Treasury Bonds

https://www.di.se/nyheter/di-avslojar-alecta-har-dumpat-amerikanska-statspapper/
111•madspindel•5h ago•75 comments

EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity

https://www.eu-inc.org/
600•tilt•7h ago•566 comments

RTS for Agents

https://www.getagentcraft.com/
77•summoned•5d ago•32 comments

Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced

https://github.com/anthropics/original_performance_takehome
570•myahio•15h ago•286 comments

Show HN: yolo-cage – AI coding agents that can't exfiltrate secrets

https://github.com/borenstein/yolo-cage
28•borenstein•3h ago•50 comments

TPM on Embedded Systems: Pitfalls and Caveats to Watch Out For

https://sigma-star.at/blog/2026/01/tpm-on-embedded-systems-pitfalls-and-caveats/
24•Deeg9rie9usi•2d ago•22 comments

Show HN: See the carbon impact of your cloud as you code

https://dashboard.infracost.io/
26•hkh•3h ago•5 comments

Tell HN: Amazon has deactivated my seller account. No idea how to move forward

9•hacky_engineer•23m ago•3 comments

Without benchmarking LLMs, you're likely overpaying

https://karllorey.com/posts/without-benchmarking-llms-youre-overpaying
88•lorey•23h ago•55 comments

EmuDevz: A game about developing emulators

https://afska.github.io/emudevz/
154•ingve•3d ago•34 comments

Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/21/ireland_wants_to_give_police/
160•jjgreen•4h ago•57 comments

Batmobile: 10-20x Faster CUDA Kernels for Equivariant Graph Neural Networks

https://elliotarledge.com/blog/batmobile
71•ipnon•3d ago•10 comments

I Made Zig Compute 33M Satellite Positions in 3 Seconds. No GPU Required

https://atempleton.bearblog.dev/i-made-zig-compute-33-million-satellite-positions-in-3-seconds-no...
88•signa11•8h ago•12 comments

RSS.Social – the latest and best from small sites across the web

https://rss.social/
202•Curiositry•16h ago•46 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