Bug Blindness | Hacker News

kept by eddie sep 04

Developers often fail to notice bugs in their own code due to cognitive biases and familiarity, leading to blind spots that external reviewers or structured testing can reveal.

Nanolang: A tiny experimental language designed to be targeted by coding LLMs
Nanolang is a minimal experimental language with prefix notation and compile-time tests, designed to reduce coding errors made by LLMs.
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Introducing the Safari MCP server for web developers
Apple released a Model Context Protocol server for Safari that lets AI agents inspect DOM, network requests, screenshots, and console output to debug websites autonomously.
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I built a Game Boy emulator in F#
The author documents building a Game Boy emulator in F#, highlighting how the language's functional features simplified emulation logic and state management.
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