Hacker News Top Stories with Summaries (March 22, 2024)
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<h1> Hacker News Top Stories</h1>
<p>Here are the top stories from Hacker News with summaries for March 22, 2024 :</p>
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Picotron Is a Fantasy Workstation
Summary: Picotron is a Fantasy Workstation for creating pixel art games, animations, music, and more. It features a toy operating system and runs on Windows, MacOS, or Linux. Users can create apps with built-in tools and share them in a 256k png cartridge format. The platform is currently in alpha, with web exporters coming soon. Until the end of March, Picotron is available for $11.99, after which it will cost $19.99 or $11.99 when bundled with other fantasy consoles.
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Antithesis of a One-in-a-Million Bug: Taming Demonic Nondeterminism
Summary: Antithesis, a startup from the founders of FoundationDB, helped CockroachDB identify and fix a rare "one-in-a-million" bug. The Antithesis platform uses a deterministic hypervisor for simulation testing and failure injection, enabling any binary to benefit from deterministic simulation testing. The platform combines a fuzzer and a deterministic debugger, optimizing for maximum code coverage. CockroachDB utilized Antithesis to track down and reproduce the elusive bug, leading to a fix and better understanding of the issue.