alt Hacker NewsIn TFA:
I have so many bugs in the Linux kernel that I can’t
report because I haven’t validated them yet… I’m not going
to send [the Linux kernel maintainers] potential slop,
but this means I now have several hundred crashes that they
haven’t seen because I haven’t had time to check them.
—Nicholas Carlini, speaking at [un]prompted 2026Replies
sobiolite • yesterday at 3:04 PM
The comment said "Claude Code also found one thousand false positive bugs, which developers spent three months to rule out.".
Please explain how a bug can both be unvalidated, and also have undergone a three month process to determine it is a false positive?
Those aren't false positives; they're results he hasn't yet inspected.
I wrote a longer reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47638062