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Pebblebed
Company blog · pebblebed.com/blogsecuritystartups
Pebblebed is the company blog at pebblebed.com, writing about security and startups. Since 2025, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this for its analysis of 125,000 kernel vulnerabilities, asking who introduces the bugs. The comments only quote the post sarcastically and do not judge its writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Pebblebed is a seed-stage venture firm for technical founders. We back people solving technically rigorous problems.
What Hacker News says?
> We need to increase reliability in the kernel, so the kernel team should fire the top 5 bug-introducers, to reduce the amount of bugs being introduced ( https://pebblebed.com/blog/kernel-bugs-part2/05_author_analy ...). Linus has got to go. You've cut bugs being introduced while also reducing development costs by slashing team size. You deserve a promotion and an increase in equity.
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on “Who Writes the Bugs? A Deeper Look at 125,000 Kernel Vulnerabilities”Submitted Kernel bugs hide for 2 years on average. Some hide for 20 as a story · 18 points
HN discussion> These smell like the kind of metrics that cause someone to feel informed and then to miss the forest for the trees. The kind of data for a "data driven" decision maker who will just invent a narrative to explain the numbers, and then do what they wanted to do all along. We need to increase reliability in the kernel, so the kernel team should fire the top 5 bug-introducers, to reduce the amount of bugs being introd…
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on “Who Writes the Bugs? A Deeper Look at 125,000 Kernel Vulnerabilities”Submitted Project Operational Autonomy: our agent-to-agent-future as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Krea got started as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Computers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Who Writes the Bugs? A Deeper Look at 125,000 Kernel Vulnerabilities as a story · 1 points
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