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A detective decoding cipher documents with a magnifying glass, notebook in hand.

Cloudflare's Security Audit Skill Has 9,300 Stars and 14 Commits, So We Tried to Feed It a Fake Finding

9,300 stars in three months for 2,345 lines, most of them Markdown. We cloned it, ran its 65 tests, and handed its validator the exact shape of finding an LLM invents when it has nothing.

Sep 17, 20266 min

Close-up of curved layers of stacked paper sheets showcasing texture and lines.

Watercooler8 days ago

Lobsters Spent 88 Comments on Why Nobody Uses reduce, and Hacker News Scrolled Past It Twice

One blog post, two communities, wildly different receptions: 97 points on Lobsters against 25 across two Hacker News submissions. So we counted reduce in 266,977 lines of real library code and found 20 of them.

Sep 16, 20267 min

Detailed view of hands using a hand plane tool in woodworking, creating wood shavings.

Watercooler11 days ago

Carmack Says Coding by Hand Is Becoming a Hobby and One Reply Did the Only Arithmetic in 600 Comments

A blog post about grieving programming hit Lobsters and Hacker News on the same day and collected 406 comments. Then Carmack posted a martial arts metaphor, and one reply quietly checked somebody's numbers. We checked them too.

Sep 13, 20267 min