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😱 Falsehoods Programmers Believe in

76 mentions on Hacker News by 62 people: 16 stories, 60 comments · first 2016-09-08 · latest 2026-03-11

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  1. …on it... Anyways, further reading: https://aldavigdis.dev/2023/03/25/falsehoods-programmers-bel... https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood?tab=readme-ov...
    comment by sjs382 · 2026-03-11 · in Put the zip code first
  2. …tps://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a... Also: the awesome-falsehood collection: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
    comment by rendx · 2026-03-08 · in Put the zip code first
  3. …I thought there was an "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Text" but between that link and < https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood#international... > it's close enough for the point
    comment by mdaniel · 2025-09-04 · in Why Rewriting Emacs Is Hard
  4. Reminds me of falsehoods programmers believe about… https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
    comment by benatkin · 2024-12-12 · in Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history
  5. …tries to guess someone's unknown age, it's an inexact science and could be revised later. [1] https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood [2] https://www.racgp.org.au/getattachment/fe71891a-aafe-453f-a3... [3] Example calendar:…
    comment by dhx · 2024-11-28 · in Australia: Kids under 16 to be banned from social media after Senate passes laws
  6. Related: Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood?tab=readme-ov...
    comment by vaylian · 2024-08-15 · in Psssst! Your date of birth can be a random number!
  7. Billing. It always has to be the billing. For a list of all other edge cases, you have: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood#readme
    comment by kdeldycke · 2024-03-01 · in Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today?
  8. …about time https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b... And more complete list: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood?tab=readme-ov...
    comment by donalhunt · 2024-02-28 · in The leap year is February 29, not December 32 due to a Roman calendar quirk
  9. …there's a "Fallacies programmers believe about text" that should exist somewhere I got you covered. https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood#international... http://garbled.benhamill.com/2017/04/18/falsehoods-programme...…
    comment by matheusmoreira · 2023-11-27 · in Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes
  10. …be to OP, but the repo in general should probably have way more attention than it already does. https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood#human-identit...
    comment by registeredcorn · 2023-08-31 · in Ask HN: How to handle Asian-style “Family name first” when designing interfaces?
  11. …about prices and currency https://gist.github.com/rgs/6509585 and the full list of other falsehoods https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
    comment by securingsincity · 2023-08-18 · in Facebook must pay $100.000 to Norway each day for violating our right to privacy
  12. Add it onto the list of "falsehoods programmers believe in". https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
    comment by antigonemerlin · 2023-07-30 · in Worldcoin: A solution in search of its problem
  13. …despite all of the "falsehoods that programmers believe about" documentation that has grown up. * https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood#dates-and-tim... Microsoft, for one example, has been modelling times as a 64-bit unsigned…
    comment by JdeBP · 2023-06-10 · in Store epoch times as 64-bit floats
  14. Falsehoods programmers believe about Postal Addresses: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood#postal-addres...
    comment by mdaniel · 2023-03-02 · in Costa Rica’s enigmatic addresses (2021)
  15. Awesome Falsehood - A curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
    comment by anon_123g987 · 2022-08-22 · in Falsehoods programmers believe about time
  16. …speaking, "Western" Gregorian dates & times. But there's a big world out there. Have you seen: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood#dates-and-tim... ?
    comment by graderjs · 2022-08-11 · in ISO 8601
  17. …abstraction leads to... [1] https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-... [2] https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
    comment by yourapostasy · 2022-06-10 · in The collapse of complex software
  18. https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
    comment by ffhhj · 2022-05-30 · in Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Search (2019)
  19. …be encoded in utf-8, à la Awesome Falsehoods. [1] [0] https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/urtsig [1] https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
    comment by stolenmerch · 2022-03-20 · in The Inca Used Knots to Tell Stories
  20. …is to try sending a message to it and wait for a reply. Falsehoods that programmers believe: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood#emails
    comment by kwhitefoot · 2022-03-16 · in Tell HN: I can't buy a PS4 because of my email
  21. …humans can fall into (that then infects our software solutions) it would be a day well spent. [0] https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
    comment by MrDresden · 2022-01-21 · in Google Camera randomly changes some QR code URLs on Android 12
  22. A collection of several falsehoods programmers believe lists, not just time: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
    comment by nwallin · 2022-01-14 · in Hate leap seconds? Imagine a negative one
  23. …time & date. Actually, same with all "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About <X>". Here is a list: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
    comment by johnisgood · 2021-12-05 · in Apple broke up with me
  24. …programmers believe about X" [1] --- and I'm sure you'll like this one about time [2]. [1] https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood [2] https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-program...
    comment by humanistbot · 2021-08-06 · in Leap Smear
  25. …Also, "A curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in." * https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
    comment by throw0101a · 2021-08-05 · in Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers (2016)
  26. …programmers don't know much about anything because there are lots of falsehood lists [0]. [0] https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
    comment by arkitaip · 2021-08-05 · in Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers (2016)
  27. "Falsehoods programmers believe about headlines" https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
    comment by amelius · 2021-07-15 · in Facebook users said no to tracking, and now advertisers are panicking
  28. …and for those earnestly edifying themselves, explore "Falsehoods about Gender 1 + 2", found here: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood#human-identit... -- I think you'll find out the edge cases are far greater in scope than we…
    comment by balancemayvary · 2021-06-24 · in The Most Dangerous Censorship
  29. Guaranteed to always occur: ... case !isValidPhoneNumber(user.email): ... Tho see [1] and [2] [1]: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood#emails [2]: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood#phone-numbers
    comment by graderjs · 2021-04-12 · in Using the switch(true) pattern in JavaScript
  30. Before people start posting various programmer falsehood articles, here is a compilation: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
    comment by bbody · 2021-03-07 · in Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names (2010)
  31. You might enjoy https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
    comment by edent · 2021-02-02 · in Just because I have a vertical screen doesn’t mean I’m on a phone
  32. Just added that article to the collection: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood/commit/eadea6...
    comment by kdeldycke · 2021-01-09 · in Falsehoods programmers believe about Biometrics
  33. This is a more extensive list of falsehoods i usually use. https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
    comment by cjnicholls · 2021-01-09 · in Falsehoods programmers believe about Biometrics
  34. https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
    comment by ericpauley · 2020-10-02 · in Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Map Coordinates
  35. And many other similar "falsehoods", collected at https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
    comment by BerislavLopac · 2020-09-08 · in A bank security check that leaves you guessing your own name
  36. …if a programmer makes assumptions about input data based on a limited personal experience. https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood tries to address this.
    comment by citrin_ru · 2020-06-30 · in ReDoS: Regular Expression Denial of Service
  37. This list fits into https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
    comment by warpech · 2020-02-13 · in The complexity of downloading favicons
  38. …ttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14460013 HN 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21788356 ) 1: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
    comment by benatkin · 2020-01-03 · in Which Emoji Scissors Close?
  39. https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
    comment by MH15 · 2019-07-23 · in Files Are Fraught with Peril
  40. …apparently a Github Repo on "falsehoods" articles. With a section on software engineering even: - https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood#software-engi...
    comment by softwaredoug · 2019-05-29 · in Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Search
  41. …this, like: https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b... Here are 20 more links: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood#dates-and-tim...
    comment by alpb · 2019-05-15 · in Falsehoods programmers believe about Unix time
  42. …* Fonts/typefaces: https://github.com/RoelN/Font-Falsehoods Collection of falsehoods: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
    comment by valgaze · 2019-02-21 · in Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers (2016)
  43. Every time I see one of these lists, I think of this list: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood It's a general list of "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About . . ." lists. Names also come up fairly often on HN.
    comment by sdrothrock · 2019-02-21 · in Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers (2016)
  44. For a copious list of falsehoods you or other programmers might believe, see also: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
    comment by sonofgod · 2019-02-21 · in Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Phone Numbers (2016)
  45. https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood#emails
    comment by golem14 · 2019-02-06 · in Using Gmail “Dot Addresses” to Commit Fraud
  46. Also see the curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
    comment by pmoriarty · 2018-11-30 · in Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names – With Examples
  47. Here's one such list for anyone interested: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
    comment by colemannugent · 2018-09-20 · in Insane complexity of calendrically correct date and time operations
  48. Yes. It's not a falsehoods list. * https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
    comment by JdeBP · 2018-08-02 · in CPU cache misconceptions, and the MESI cache coherence protocol
  49. …out to be that it is impossible to give the system their actual electronic mail addresses at all. * https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood#emails
    comment by JdeBP · 2018-07-28 · in The death of a TLD
  50. …Joel Spolsky wrote in 2003 about the dangers of the ignorance of character encodings [2]. [1] - https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood [2] - https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minim...
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