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In 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 ma
by j16sdiz 7mo ago
In 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 2026
- mtlynch 7mo agoThose 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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47638062
- bethekidyouwant 7mo agosome of them certainly are…
- coldtea 7mo ago>Those aren't false positives; they're results he hasn't yet inspected. It's not a XOR
- Ukv 7mo agoThe article quote was being given as the supposed source for "Claude Code also found one thousand false positive bugs, which developers spent three months to rule out", so should substantiate that claim - which it doesn't. If the claim was instead just "a good portion of the hundreds more potential bugs it found might be false positives", then sure.
- tptacek 7mo agoYes it is. They're not not false positives until they're reported and consume maintainer time.
- lambdaone 7mo agoFalse positives can be eliminated mechanistically by testing if they actually work, in a sufficiently isolated automated test apparatus. The hard thing is reducing detected crashes to well-formulated test cases that help rather than hinder maintainers.
- sobiolite 7mo agoThe 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?