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Tips for more effective fuzz testing with AFL++

luu — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 09:46:12 +0000

Article URL: https://nullprogram.com/blog/2025/02/05/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50271106

Points: 155

# Comments: 29

Alternatives to animal testing are finally taking off

rbanffy — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:10:54 +0000

Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/alternatives-to-animal-testing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50150927

Points: 347

# Comments: 113

Running Windows desktop tests from Linux with disposable VMs

jadenlemmon — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:55:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.qawolf.com/blog/how-we-solved-windows-desktop-automation

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50088643

Points: 94

# Comments: 32

Deterministic Simulation Testing in Celld

handfuloflight — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:31:50 +0000

Article URL: https://celld.dev/docs/engineering/deterministic-simulation-testing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50024805

Points: 37

# Comments: 5

Ephemeral Testing

ibobev — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 23:06:36 +0000

Article URL: https://lemire.me/blog/2026/10/05/ephemeral-testing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49972008

Points: 83

# Comments: 31

Bez: Generating a browser engine from specs and tests

nerdypepper — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:08:03 +0000

Article URL: https://tangled.org/burrito.space/bez

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49925036

Points: 127

# Comments: 50

Automating Wi-Fi setup testing on the ESP32

adunk — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:07:51 +0000

Article URL: https://groundrun.io/blog/automating-wi-fi-setup-testing-on-the-esp32/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49915119

Points: 32

# Comments: 2

Show HN: I built a free Burp/Caido alternative but, zero setup - API Testing

coding-maniac — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:32:10 +0000

This is Katriel, the architect of the tool APIaxess.

I have been API pentesting for a good time now, and starting with API pentesting was a bit of a rough patch. Specially the setting up and having to know the intricacies of proxies, networking and other stuff. Then once i got through it, the next rough patch was the apk pentesting, where getting the traffic of any apk was more of a task then the pentesting itself. So i started by writing scripts that automates the process and then made sure that any rooted adb just automatically started sending traffic to the burpsuite setup, and then that helped a lot. Then i just thought that this issue needs to be resolved in a more open manner, since its a very known pain point. So i built a GUI around it, made sure that it can handle everything that a normal api traffic tool can and then thought of releasing it, for people to test it out. Before the inital release, i have myself battle tested this tool, in multiple ways, while also sharing it with other professionals in my industry who constantly use Burp/Caido/HTTPToolkit or other similar tools. I know that the tool needs more features and more refinements, but thought of making it public so that i can get to know about the issues much sooner.

Do check out the Github and leave a star if it helped you out, and do share it with your colleagues so that they could also waste less time setting it up and more time doing the work that they like. github.com/KatrielMoses/apiaxess

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49911931

Points: 32

# Comments: 5

Testing WebGPU data layouts with Facet

luu — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:28:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mattkeeter.com/blog/2026-08-23-wgpu-facet/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883913

Points: 90

# Comments: 7

Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests

theanonymousone — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 14:25:16 +0000

Article URL: https://fakecloud.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49856885

Points: 154

# Comments: 78

We made Playwright 2x faster and 80% more token efficient

wittydeveloper — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:25:23 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/browserbase/stagehand

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49756671

Points: 155

# Comments: 41

Testing Race Conditions

alpaylan — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:51:02 +0000

Article URL: https://projectzero.google/2026/09/maccconc-race-condition.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49634928

Points: 67

# Comments: 4

Coconut oil jet fuel matches kerosene's efficiency in engine tests

mdp2021 — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 15:50:18 +0000

Article URL: https://studyfinds.com/coconut-oil-jet-fuel-matches-kerosenes-efficiency-in-engine-tests/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49409780

Points: 190

# Comments: 240

Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code

matthieu_bl — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:58:49 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/argofowl/status/2091150597374537729

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49401549

Points: 216

# Comments: 191

Programmable Property-Based Testing

matt_d — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:22:41 +0000

Article URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3828685

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49353618

Points: 38

# Comments: 4

Show HN: Openleetcode – Local LeetCode runner where tests live in the repo

therepanic — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:30:40 +0000

You write a standard solution, just like on LeetCode, and run it through the CLI. It identifies the problem by ID or title, executes your code against local test cases, and shows the result.

It currently supports around 1.4k problems and multiple languages, including Python, C++, Rust, Java, Go, TypeScript, Swift, and others.

The project is still an MVP. System design, SQL, and concurrency problems are not supported yet, but support for more problem types is planned.

Made in Haskell!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49347178

Points: 73

# Comments: 19