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War story: the hardest bug I ever debugged

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462 points jakevoytko | 2 comments | 24 Mar 25 14:37 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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latexr ◴[27 Mar 25 10:12 UTC] No.43491972[source]▶
It’s amusing how so many of the comments here are like “You think two days is hard? Well, I debugged a problem which was passed down to me by my father, and his father before him”. It reminds me of the Four Yorkshiremen sketch.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=sGTDhaV0bcw

The author’s “error”, of course, was calling it “the hardest bug I ever debugged”. It drives clicks, but comparisons too.

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1. markrages ◴[27 Mar 25 13:37 UTC] No.43493505[source]▶
Of course the comments section is going to be full of war stories about everyone's hardest bug.

This is how humans work, and this is why I am reading the comments.

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2. latexr ◴[27 Mar 25 13:57 UTC] No.43493733[source]▶
Yes, of course, I greatly enjoy the stories and it’s why I opened this thread. But that’s not what my comment is about, I was specifically referencing the parts of the comments which dismiss the difficulty and length of time the author spent tracking down this particular bug. I found that funny and my comment was essentially one big joke.