https://macworks.dev/tags/compilers/Recent content in Compilers on MacWorksHugoenhttps://macworks.dev/docs/today/hackernews-2026-05-30/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://macworks.dev/docs/today/hackernews-2026-05-30/<h1 id="hacker-news--2026-05-30">Hacker News — 2026-05-30<a class="anchor" href="#hacker-news--2026-05-30">#</a></h1> <h2 id="top-story">Top Story<a class="anchor" href="#top-story">#</a></h2> <p><strong><a href="https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/finding-miscompiles-for-fun-not-profit">Finding Miscompiles for Fun, Not Profit</a></strong> A former Google and OpenAI compiler engineer threw $10,000 in API credits at Claude and ChatGPT to fuzz LLVM and NVIDIA&rsquo;s <code>ptxas</code>, discovering hundreds of deeply concerning miscompiles at an alarming rate. The real signal here isn&rsquo;t just that AI can find bugs, but that &ldquo;with enough subagents, all bugs are shallow&rdquo;—a shift that makes elite-level code inspection simply a matter of having a massive compute budget.</p>