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New comment by drmajormccheese in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

drmajormccheese — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:18:42 +0000

There are techniques for improving our confidence in our software: unit testing, integration testing, fuzz testing, property-based testing, static analysis, model checking, theorem proving, formal methods, etc. The LLM is not only a tool for generating lines of code. It can also generate lines of testing. The goal is that the tests are easier to audit by the humans than the code.

New comment by drmajormccheese in "Bunny Database"

drmajormccheese — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:11:27 +0000

This is not a database of bunnies

New comment by drmajormccheese in "Mozilla right now (Digital Painting)"

drmajormccheese — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 16:55:54 +0000

2%. https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share

New comment by drmajormccheese in "Wiki Radio: The thrilling sound of random Wikipedia"

drmajormccheese — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 23:24:22 +0000

Yes

New comment by drmajormccheese in "Better Operator Precedence"

drmajormccheese — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 12:31:02 +0000

Fortress didn’t have a total order of operators. Also IIRC operators could be tightly bound or loosely bound based on whitespace.

New comment by drmajormccheese in "Ask HN: Must Read from ACM Library?"

drmajormccheese — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 16:50:56 +0000

https://mspiegel.github.io/canon

New comment by drmajormccheese in "Show HN: Always Be Closing – Pull Request Management Service"

drmajormccheese — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 01:29:13 +0000

Yeah. Recently (past half year) GitHub enabled a feature where duplicate comments are automatically edited to be hidden comments. I think it's a continuation of the GitHub feature that allows repository owners to hide a comment. Two caveats: (1) you can't hide a comment using the GitHub API; (2) I haven't tested whether duplicate comments trigger an email notification. Ideally they would not trigger notification.

Show HN: Always Be Closing – Pull Request Management Service

drmajormccheese — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 20:09:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thoughtdealership.com/post/beta-testers-wanted

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19165512

Points: 16

# Comments: 2

New comment by drmajormccheese in "Show HN: Immutable and type-checked state and actions for Redux"

drmajormccheese — Sun, 06 Sep 2015 14:59:49 +0000

Type checked state is known as "typestate". A Google search will bring up the typestate paper.

New comment by drmajormccheese in "How to write a "GPUs are Awesome" paper"

drmajormccheese — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 02:14:32 +0000

There have been some GPU implementations of the Barnes-Hut algorithm [O(nlogn) n-body problem].