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nishilpatel

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    Comment #46511484

    Good design makes a product understandable !! Whole PLG motion depends on this.

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    Comment #46511456

    https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/1ppn1rd/china_has_re...

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    Comment #46511044

    Recent reports suggest China has completed a prototype extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine — a milestone long thought years away — as part of a concentrated state-led eff…

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    Ask HN: What parts of software testing can realistically be autonomous today?

    Modern systems have good observability and better tooling than ever, yet testing often remains manual and slow. In your experience, what aspects of testing can actually run autonom…

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    Comment #46502788

    BetterBugs | Remote | Full-time | https://betterbugs.io We’re building debugging intelligence for modern software teams. BetterBugs captures rich technical context at the moment a …

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    Comment #46500665

    QA as we know it will shrink. Thinking will not. AI will kill flaky UI scripts, and “click-and-verify” roles. That’s overdue. What won’t disappear is the need to understand how sys…

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    Comment #46500603

    I agree with the core point: the more pure and deterministic a system is, the easier it is to reason about and test. Reducers + property-based testing push correctness into design,…

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    Comment #46420905

    This resonates. A lot of debugging time isn’t spent finding where the bug is, but unlearning the assumption that “this part is obviously correct.”

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    Ask HN: What's the one missing detail that usually makes a bugs hard to debug?

    When debugging issues in UAT, what information do you end up recreating by hand? Logs, state, timing, data, versions, or something else?

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    Ask HN: What information do you always wish you had when debugging a bugs?

    Across backend/infra, frontend/mobile, and distributed systems, what information do you most often find missing from bug reports that would materially speed up debugging? What low-…

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    Comment #46372915

    The LIBR logic is straightforward, but OCR quality, auditability, and evidence integrity are what make this usable in the real world. lawyers care about chain of custody, auditabil…

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    Comment #46372809

    I’m cautiously optimistic about AI, but less about the hype cycle around it. AI (especially LLMs) will likely stay top-of-mind in 2026, but I expect costs to drop meaningfully and …

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    That’s true. This kind of writing usually shows up as post-implementation retrospectives, so it’s inherently fragmented. I’m trying to surface and study those scattered examples—es…

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    Comment #46372669

    Fair Observation, HN surrounded by mostly Software guys, which directly add nuances of "Engineering" and Engineering. but to specific is much important, imo Engineering means "Solv…

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    Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?

    I’m looking for examples of high-quality engineering blog posts—especially from tech company blogs, that go beyond surface-level explanations. Specifically interested in posts that…