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Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-sideloading-android-high-friction-process-3633468/
132•_____k•5d ago•50 comments

Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study

https://keck.usc.edu/news/adoption-of-electric-vehicles-tied-to-real-world-reductions-in-air-poll...
355•hhs•8h ago•280 comments

BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp

https://www.birdy.chat/blog/first-to-interoperate-with-whatsapp
557•joooscha•14h ago•336 comments

A Lament for Aperture

https://ikennd.ac/blog/2026/01/old-man-yells-at-modern-software-design/
68•firloop•4d ago•15 comments

Two Weeks Until Tapeout

https://essenceia.github.io/projects/two_weeks_until_tapeout/
101•client4•7h ago•5 comments

David Patterson: Challenges and Research Directions for LLM Inference Hardware

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.05047
53•transpute•6h ago•3 comments

Postmortem: Our first VLEO satellite mission (with imagery and flight data)

https://albedo.com/post/clarity-1-what-worked-and-where-we-go-next
170•topherhaddad•13h ago•54 comments

Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms

https://twitter.com/NicerInPerson/status/2014989679796347375
394•AffableSpatula•18h ago•268 comments

Like digging 'your own grave': The translators grappling with losing work to AI

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/tech/translation-language-jobs-ai-automation-intl
19•myk-e•59m ago•3 comments

Show HN: AutoShorts – Local, GPU-accelerated AI video pipeline for creators

https://github.com/divyaprakash0426/autoshorts
3•divyaprakash•1h ago•1 comments

We X-Rayed a Suspicious FTDI USB Cable

https://eclypsium.com/blog/xray-counterfeit-usb-cable/
133•aa_is_op•9h ago•53 comments

Second Win11 emergency out of band update to address disastrous Patch Tuesday

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-11-second-emergency-out-of-band-updat...
133•speckx•5h ago•82 comments

Typography on Pencils (2023)

https://www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/typography-on-pencils-1-5
64•NaOH•4d ago•3 comments

Raspberry Pi Drag Race: Pi 1 to Pi 5 – Performance Comparison

https://the-diy-life.com/raspberry-pi-drag-race-pi-1-to-pi-5-performance-comparison/
166•verginer•15h ago•81 comments

Nvidia-smi hangs indefinitely after ~66 days

https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/issues/971
158•tosh•5h ago•33 comments

Memory layout in Zig with formulas

https://raymondtana.github.io/math/programming/2026/01/23/zig-alignment-and-sizing.html
108•raymondtana•17h ago•25 comments

What Ralph Wiggum loops are missing

https://xr0am.substack.com/p/what-ralph-wiggum-loops-are-missing
19•xR0am•3h ago•3 comments

Show HN: VM-curator – a TUI alternative to libvirt and virt-manager

https://github.com/mroboff/vm-curator
26•theYipster•5h ago•2 comments

The Temporal Consistency Challenge in Video Restoration

https://blog.videowatermarkremove.com/the-temporal-consistency-challenge-from-optical-flow-to-spa...
14•ilmj8426•4d ago•2 comments

Small Kafka: Tansu and SQLite on a free t3.micro

https://blog.tansu.io/articles/broker-aws-free-tier
84•rmoff•4d ago•16 comments

Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?

170•goopthink•16h ago•111 comments

Maze Algorithms (2017)

http://www.jamisbuck.org/mazes/
130•surprisetalk•1d ago•29 comments

Poland's energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/01/wiper-malware-targeted-poland-energy-grid-but-failed-to-...
216•Bender•11h ago•79 comments

I built a 2x faster lexer, then discovered I/O was the real bottleneck

https://modulovalue.com/blog/syscall-overhead-tar-gz-io-performance/
9•modulovalue•4d ago•5 comments

First Design Engineer Hire – Build Games at Gym Class (YC W22)

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gym-class-by-irl-studios/jobs/ywXHGBv-design-engineer-senio...
1•hackerews•12h ago

Shared Claude: A website controlled by the public

https://sharedclaude.com/
61•reasonableklout•1d ago•22 comments

Agent orchestration for the timid

https://substack.com/inbox/post/185649875
103•markferree•13h ago•25 comments

Understanding Rust Closures

https://antoine.vandecreme.net/blog/rust-closures/
52•avandecreme•14h ago•23 comments

High-bandwidth flash progress and future

https://blocksandfiles.com/2026/01/19/a-window-into-hbf-progress/
27•tanelpoder•4d ago•9 comments

I added a Bluesky comment section to my blog

https://micahcantor.com/blog/bluesky-comment-section.html
259•hydroxideOH-•12h ago•91 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