Hacker News: mday27https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mday27Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:43:07 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by mday27 in "Laws of Software Engineering"]]>Seems to me like there's also a divide between observational laws (e.g. Hyrum's Law just says "this seems to be true") and prescriptive laws (e.g. Knuth's Law, which is really a statement about how you ought to behave)

]]>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:45:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854290mday27https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854290https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854290<![CDATA[New comment by mday27 in "The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables"]]>It's like we're back in 2009 with "did social media cause this?"

]]>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:42:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854269mday27https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854269https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854269