dfoxfranke/ripgrep-3494-analysis
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Analysis of one crazy segfault in ripgrep
3 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 0 stories, 3 comments · first 2026-08-01 · latest 2026-08-01
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…I saw a fun bug report in ripgrep and a studious but pretty bad AI-generated analysis Referring to https://github.com/dfoxfranke/ripgrep-3494-analysis which I indeed thought "that's an awful lot written to have been written by a human."…
comment by ndesaulniers · 2026-08-01 · in RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches -
…For the junior dev, it's OK, they take the feedback and adjust... the AIs never adjust. [1]: https://github.com/dfoxfranke/ripgrep-3494-analysis#6-cross-...
comment by jerf · 2026-08-01 · in RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches -
The analysis of the kernel bug may be a better thing to link to: https://github.com/dfoxfranke/ripgrep-3494-analysis .
comment by hyperpape · 2026-08-01 · in RipGrep musl binaries occasionally segfault during very-large searches