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SmartBear Blog
Company blog · bugsnag.com/blog · on HN as loopjprogrammingweb
SmartBear Blog is the company blog at bugsnag.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2012, 49 different Hacker News readers have linked it 79 times, most often “Show HN: Bugsnag - Exception tracking app with open source plugins”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 34 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mostly link Bugsnag's blog as a citation for famous software failures from its Bug Day series, such as the Ariane 5 and Therac-25 bugs. Most linking comments are product or job mentions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 34 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Unlock performance & error monitoring for your application with BugSnag. Monitor, analyze, and optimize in real time to ensure a seamless user experience.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Bugsnag - Exception tracking app with open source plugins9 people · 16 mentions · first linked 2012-06-29
- The Worst Computer Bugs in History: The Ariane 5 Disaster (2017)7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2020-09-18
- The Worst Computer Bugs in History: Race Conditions in Therac-25 – Bugsnag Blog5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2019-12-02
- SDKs should not crash apps – learnings from the Facebook outage3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-05-08
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-04-03
- A Peak at Bugsnag's Architecture – High Availability with AWS Auto Scaling2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-19
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-03-01
- The Worst Computer Bugs in History: Losing $460m in 45 Minutes2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-07
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-12-09
What Hacker News says?
This is a really nice idea but considering we haven't even solved the relatively simple case of users giving permissions to apps and expecting them to behave responsibly, I'm not optimistic that we can solve the much more challenging case of importing library code. e.g., If someone gives an app the ability to upload photos, it can silently read all photo metadata, upload all photos to a private server instead of upl…
Comment linking /blog/sdks-should-not-crash-apps
on “Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Other Companies”Submitted Async-profile: A CPU Profiler for Node.js as a story · 40 points
HN discussionBugsnag | Customer Success Manager | San Francisco, CA | Full-time - ONSITE Apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/bugsnag/1b9e1ed6-fa72-4105-ac28-e1c66f... Bugsnag | Software Engineer, Customers | San Francisco, CA | Full-time - ONSITE Apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/bugsnag/8f41b0d1-becb-4054-b2d3-e26ee4... All Roles: https://jobs.lever.co/bugsnag Website: https://www.bugsnag.com/ Bugsnag helps teams focus on buildin…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)”Submitted Using pry in production as a story · 38 points
HN discussionAnother error tracking system for your list: https://bugsnag.com/ It has been rock solid for us with no event limits and cheap pricing. (not an employee, just a fan)
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on “How to Deploy Software”Submitted Show HN: Bugsnag - Exception tracking app with open source plugins as a story · 25 points
HN discussionBugsnag | San Francisco AND Bath, UK | https://www.bugsnag.com/ | Full-time | Onsite About us: Bugsnag helps teams focus on building better software by providing automated crash monitoring for web, mobile, desktop, and server apps. Currently, half of a typical developer’s time is spent finding and fixing bugs; we aim to bring that number as close to zero as possible by automating the entire monitoring process and al…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)”Submitted Responsive typography with Modular Scale as a story · 21 points
HN discussionBugsnag ( https://bugsnag.com ) • Full Time • SF / Bath (UK) Bugsnag is hiring for multiple roles, including for our Lead Operations Engineer! We're a polyglot engineering company ( https://github.com/bugsnag ) helping software teams find and fix every bug. - Lead Operations Engineer - https://jobs.lever.co/bugsnag/96421958-f597-46e3-b12e-ae2184... - Support Engineer - https://jobs.lever.co/bugsnag/7e84fb89-516c-44a…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)”Submitted Use GPG to keep your Rails secrets secure as a story · 19 points
HN discussionI've been assembling a list of these lately for a book that I'm working on. ( http://startingandsustaining.com ) Some of the categories are fairly loose as some apps don't fit nicely into categorical buckets, but hopefully this is a helpful list. --Browser/Email Testing BrowserStack ( http://www.browserstack.com ) Litmus ( http://litmus.com ) --Bug/Issue Tracking BugHerd ( http://bugherd.com ) Lighthouse ( http://li…
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on “Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition”Submitted Branding for early-stage startups as a story · 18 points
HN discussion> If the rules say to abort, the software aborts. Humans get to say "I think we'll be fine", and put lives on the line. But logic errors and bugs in "thoroughly-tested" (subjective, determined by humans/corporations) software-controlled systems kills too. Interesting thought experiment: How many humans will die in 2031, across all industries, because of bad software? https://www.bugsnag.com/blog/bug-day-race-conditi…
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on “The red warning light on Richard Branson’s space flight”Submitted Responsive typography with REMs as a story · 15 points
HN discussionBugsnag - San Francisco, CA https://bugsnag.com We're helping software teams focus on building great software by building automated crash monitoring for web and mobile apps. Half of a typical developer’s time is currently spent finding and fixing bugs; we aim to bring that number as close to zero as possible, by automating the entire error monitoring process. * Lead Operations Engineer - https://jobs.lever.co/bugsna…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2015)”Submitted Bugsnag's CSS Architecture as a story · 12 points
HN discussionThere are also many cloud-hosted SaaS companies that offer an installable version of their products: GitHub: https://enterprise.github.com/home NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/onsite Travis CI: https://enterprise.travis-ci.com/ Circle CI: https://circleci.com/enterprise Sysdig: https://sysdig.com/pricing/ CodeClimate: https://codeclimate.com/enterprise Waffle.io: https://takeout.waffle.io Coveralls: https://enterprise.co…
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on “Self-hosted alternatives to popular cloud services”Submitted New Bugsnag as a story · 10 points
HN discussionFor those asking "why is HipChat better than X", one of the big reasons lies with the number of integrations with other products. Our product Bugsnag ( https://bugsnag.com ) has HipChat integration, so you can instantly see errors from your apps appear in your chat room. We've also set up curl scripts to post into chat whenever there is a deploy, or push to GitHub.
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on “HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer”Submitted Sourcemaps.info: Get the most out of your JavaScript stacktraces as a story · 10 points
HN discussionBugsnag ( https://bugsnag.com ) is hiring! We're building automated crash detection for web and mobile apps. We're a team of software developers building tools for software developers. Our product is built around what would be an amazing product for us and our customers to use. Currently we're looking for full-stack engineers and an enterprise salesperson, to join our team of 6 people. Email me at james.smith@bugsna…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)”Submitted Replacing the Rails asset pipeline with Gulp as a story · 9 points
HN discussionI did some quick search, and found few ones. You can search for similar ones -- these are beaten topics and have been discussed, blogged, done in length. - More Meaningful Typography from List Apart, https://alistapart.com/article/more-meaningful-typography/ - Responsive typography with Modular Scale: Create meaningful proportions in your design using SASS, https://www.bugsnag.com/blog/responsive-typography-with-mod…
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on “My First CSS”Submitted The process of building our intelligent error alerting system as a story · 9 points
HN discussion> Europeans I have mentioned this to considered what did happen a sensible outcome. Well, yeah. The firmware had been designed for a quite different rocket, the Ariane 4: https://www.bugsnag.com/blog/bug-day-ariane-5-disaster I don't know how this is really a mark against Ada, it's an issue that would only be discovered by human intervention or by running a simulation of the rocket.
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on “Linux: Vulnerabilities in nf_tables cause privilege escalation, information leak”Submitted Mongo 2.6 Highlights as a story · 9 points
HN discussionWe have been meaning to get around to looking into this on my current project but haven't yet: I believe the browser's error event will return a column number. > Column numbers in Firefox. Firefox is the only browser that doesn't support column numbers for exceptions. This makes debugging minified javascript essentially impossible. I've sent one patch but there's a lot more to do. https://bugsnag.com/blog/js-stacktr…
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on “Optimizing an Important Atom Primitive”Submitted How to get stacktraces from errors in Golang as a story · 8 points
HN discussionAuthor here - happy to answer any questions anybody might have. Also sorry for the shameless plug, but the startup I work for is currently hiring: https://www.bugsnag.com/jobs/
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on “APK Golf: Reducing an Android APK's Size by 99.99%”Submitted Autoscaling with Capistrano, NFS and Runit as a story · 8 points
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