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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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    A Curated List of Falsehoods Programmers Believe In
    story by pul · 2019-02-21 · 9 comments
  2. 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)
  3. 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)
  4. https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood#emails
    comment by golem14 · 2019-02-06 · in Using Gmail “Dot Addresses” to Commit Fraud
  5. 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
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    A curated list of awesome falsehoods programmers believe in
    story by nayuki · 2018-10-19 · 0 comments
  7. 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
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    Curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in
    story by tosh · 2018-08-23 · 0 comments
  9. 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
  10. …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
  11. …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...
    comment by badgers · 2018-02-15 · in Major new iOS bug can crash iPhones and disable access to apps and iMessages
  12. …See also the falsehoods programmers believe about various things (not even just addresses): https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
    comment by CM30 · 2018-01-12 · in Online shopping in Africa doesn’t work because of shipping and billing forms
  13. Always relevant to this kind of thing are the "falsehoods programmers believe about X" lists: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
    comment by crooked-v · 2018-01-12 · in Online shopping in Africa doesn’t work because of shipping and billing forms
  14. Here is github repo with much more lists of "Falsehoods programmers believe in ..." https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
    comment by odabaxok · 2017-07-31 · in Falsehoods programmers believe about geography (2012)
  15. https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
    comment by Beltiras · 2017-02-14 · in 65535 interfaces ought to be enough for anybody
  16. Libraries trying to solve these falsehoods are considered good candidates for inclusion in that list: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood#libraries
    comment by kdeldycke · 2017-02-14 · in List of falsehoods programmers believe in
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    List of falsehoods programmers believe in
    story by edward · 2017-02-13 · 118 comments
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    Curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in
    story by ColinWright · 2016-12-28 · 4 comments
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    Curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in
    story by BerislavLopac · 2016-12-28 · 0 comments
  20. Here's a whole list! https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood/blob/master/R...
    comment by fgandiya · 2016-12-28 · in Falsehoods programmers believe about video
  21. Managed to compile a list of these at: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood#awesome-false...
    comment by kdeldycke · 2016-12-26 · in Falsehoods programmers believe about video
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    Awesome Falsehood
    story by MarcScott · 2016-10-18 · 1 comment
  23. More interesting falsehoods in this awesome list: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood
    comment by mofle · 2016-10-10 · in Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time (2012)
  24. https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood :)
    comment by midgetjones · 2016-09-22 · in Falsehoods programmers believe about economics
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    Curated list of awesome falsehoods programmers believe in
    story by kdeldycke · 2016-09-08 · 0 comments
  26. Trying to compile a list of those at: https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood Fell free to send pull requests! :)
    comment by kdeldycke · 2016-09-08 · in Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names (2010)