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Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced

https://github.com/anthropics/original_performance_takehome
155•myahio•3h ago•58 comments

Libbbf: Bound Book Format, A high-performance container for comics and manga

https://github.com/ef1500/libbbf
29•zdw•2h ago•7 comments

A 26,000-year astronomical monument hidden in plain sight (2019)

https://longnow.org/ideas/the-26000-year-astronomical-monument-hidden-in-plain-sight/
428•mkmk•12h ago•90 comments

Are arrays functions?

https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2026-01-16-are-arrays-functions.html
102•todsacerdoti•2d ago•61 comments

Curl removes bug bounties because of AI slop

https://etn.se/index.php/nyheter/72808-curl-removes-bug-bounties.html
13•jnord•38m ago•1 comments

Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher

https://novalauncher.com/nova-is-here-to-stay
170•KORraN•11h ago•115 comments

California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-01-09/california-has-no-areas-of-dryness-first-time...
336•thnaks•8h ago•171 comments

Show HN: Mastra 1.0, open-source JavaScript agent framework from the Gatsby devs

https://github.com/mastra-ai/mastra
142•calcsam•14h ago•47 comments

Which AI Lies Best? A game theory classic designed by John Nash

https://so-long-sucker.vercel.app/
96•lout332•8h ago•47 comments

The GDB JIT Interface

https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/gdb-jit/
18•surprisetalk•4d ago•3 comments

Disaster planning for regular folks (2015)

https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/index-old.shtml
85•AlphaWeaver•3h ago•54 comments

The Unix Pipe Card Game

https://punkx.org/unix-pipe-game/
200•kykeonaut•13h ago•65 comments

IPv6 is not insecure because it lacks a NAT

https://www.johnmaguire.me/blog/ipv6-is-not-insecure-because-it-lacks-nat/
111•johnmaguire•11h ago•149 comments

Who owns Rudolph's nose?

https://creativelawcenter.com/copyright-rudolph-reindeer/
31•ohjeez•6h ago•14 comments

Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations

https://hakibenita.com/postgresql-unconventional-optimizations
314•haki•16h ago•47 comments

Provably unmasking malicious behavior through execution traces

https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.13821
36•PaulHoule•8h ago•5 comments

The challenges of soft delete

https://atlas9.dev/blog/soft-delete.html
124•buchanae•9h ago•74 comments

Lunar Radio Telescope to Unlock Cosmic Mysteries

https://spectrum.ieee.org/lunar-radio-telescope
35•rbanffy•8h ago•2 comments

Our approach to age prediction

https://openai.com/index/our-approach-to-age-prediction/
87•pretext•11h ago•156 comments

Building Robust Helm Charts

https://www.willmunn.xyz/devops/helm/kubernetes/2026/01/17/building-robust-helm-charts.html
58•will_munn•1d ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a tool to assist AI agents to know when a PR is good to go

https://dsifry.github.io/goodtogo/
39•dsifry•3d ago•32 comments

Show HN: Agent Skills Leaderboard

https://skills.sh
63•andrewqu•9h ago•21 comments

Proof of Concept to Test Humanoid Robots

https://thehumanoid.ai/humanoid-and-siemens-completed-a-proof-of-concept-to-test-humanoidrobots-i...
11•0xedb•5d ago•8 comments

Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One

https://press.stripe.com/maintenance-part-one
93•mitchbob•11h ago•17 comments

Apples, Trees, and Quasimodes

https://systemstack.dev/2025/09/humane-computing/
40•entaloneralie•3d ago•2 comments

IP Addresses Through 2025

https://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2026-01/addr2025.html
171•petercooper•16h ago•132 comments

Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?

163•terabytest•17h ago•156 comments

Fast Concordance: Instant concordance on a corpus of >1,200 books

https://iafisher.com/concordance/
43•evakhoury•4d ago•3 comments

The life of a playboy publisher who shaped 20th-century literature

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2026/01/09/bennett-cerf-biography-nothing-random-feldman-boo...
12•benbreen•3d ago•2 comments

Show HN: TopicRadar – Track trending topics across HN, GitHub, ArXiv, and more

https://apify.com/mick-johnson/topic-radar
26•MickolasJae•15h ago•6 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