Published on: 2025-06-11 21:02:25
"Software research is a train wreck," says Hillel Wayne, a Chicago-based software consultant who specialises in formal methods, instancing the received wisdom that bugs are way more expensive to fix once software is deployed. Wayne did some research, noting that "if you Google 'cost of a software bug' you will get tons of articles that say 'bugs found in requirements are 100x cheaper than bugs found in implementations.' They all use this chart from the 'IBM Systems Sciences Institute'... There'
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 13:46:59
Everything’s a bug (or an issue) What if I were to tell you that I had discovered a way to run software projects that’s efficient, effective, reliable, even pleasant? “Please continue…”, I hope you say. Up front I’ll let you know this isn’t a new discovery. In fact it’s a story that begins “a long time ago in an office far, far away”. So let’s board a handy time machine as we travel back to the day I started at my first proper Silicon Valley job. A place somewhat like what would be called FAA
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 18:46:59
Everything’s a bug (or an issue) What if I were to tell you that I had discovered a way to run software projects that’s efficient, effective, reliable, even pleasant? “Please continue…”, I hope you say. Up front I’ll let you know this isn’t a new discovery. In fact it’s a story that begins “a long time ago in an office far, far away”. So let’s board a handy time machine as we travel back to the day I started at my first proper Silicon Valley job. A place somewhat like what would be called FAA
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-10 12:52:21
Hey HN, We are building Jazzberry (https://jazzberry.ai), an AI bug finder that automatically tests your code when a pull request occurs to find and flag real bugs before they are merged. Here’s a demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6ZTu86qK8U#t=7 We are building Jazzberry to help you find bugs in your code base. Here’s how it works: When a PR is made, Jazzberry clones the repo into a secure sandbox. The diff from the PR is provided to the AI agent in its context window. In order to
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-11 11:12:11
Published 2021-03-19 Updated 2022-09-21 I keep seeing discussions that equate zig's level of memory safety with c (or occasionally with rust!). Neither is particularly accurate. This is an attempt at a more detailed breakdown. This article is limited to memory safety. See Assorted thoughts on zig and rust for a more general comparison. I'm concerned mostly with security. In practice, it doesn't seem that any level of testing is sufficient to prevent vulnerabilities due to memory safety in la
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 15:29:18
Debugging is often an undervalued skill. It’s not really taught in schools (as far as I know), instead, you kind of have to pick it up as you go along. Today, I’ll try to remedy that by looking at some common bugs and what to do about them. The default strategy I use with any bug is to: Try to find a way of reliably reproducing the bug so that I can break into the debugger when the bug happens and step through the code line by line to see how what it is doing differs from what I think it shoul
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-30 03:50:38
Alternate title: I’m using AI to write code. Is it silly to use AI to review it? I'm Daksh, a co-founder of Greptile. Our product uses AI to review pull requests to surface bugs and anti-patterns that humans might miss. Here is an example of what that looks like. Recently, I was curious to see if there exists a power law in the number of PRs opened by individual Greptile users. In other words - were some users opening orders of magnitude more PRs than others? A quick SQL query later, I discove
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-24 08:45:00
Apple has released new software updates across its product line to fix two security vulnerabilities, which the company said may have been actively used to hack customers running its mobile software, iOS. In security advisories posted on its website, Apple confirmed it fixed the two zero-day vulnerabilities, which “may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals on iOS.” The bugs are considered zero days because they were unknown to Apple as th
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