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How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2

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1371 points yett | 3 comments | 23 Apr 25 14:00 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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maz1b ◴[23 Apr 25 14:57 UTC] No.43772964[source]▶
I always enjoy reading deeply technical writeups like these. I only wonder how much more rare they may or may not get in the AI era.
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1. Cthulhu_ ◴[23 Apr 25 19:58 UTC] No.43776054[source]▶
I don't think they will get more rare; there will always be a top % of engineers that do deep dives. I hope anyway.

But AI won't replace them, nor did the past 50+ years of software development innovation. There's millions (tens of millions?) of higher programming language developers that don't know the difference between stack or heap besides maybe some theory they half remember from school but they don't care because they don't have to think about it for their day job.

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2. throwaway2037 ◴[24 Apr 25 03:29 UTC] No.43779013[source]▶
If your whole career will be using higher order languages with very little data stored on stack (vs heap), why should those programmers care? It seems like normal progression of more abstraction in the tools that we use. Similarly, I have programmed a lot of C and C++ in my career and I never once need assembly language. (I am expecting someone to pop in the convo here and tell me about how I am a terrible C/C++ programmer because I don't know any assembly.)
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3. chrz ◴[24 Apr 25 17:41 UTC] No.43785389[source]▶
Why should I care is a awful catchohrase.