Linus Åkesson personal blog
Kernighan's Lever
Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?
- Points
- 112
- HN comments
- 70
- Submissions
- 2
- Cited by
- 10 commenters
Software EngineeringHistory & Retro Computing2025
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 19, 2025 | Kernighan's Lever by xk3 | 112 | 52 |
| Oct 6, 2024 | Kernighan's Lever (2012) by tosh | 96 | 18 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 25 Hacker News comments by 10 different people, from Oct 2014 to Feb 2026.
Most recent:
- awkward · Feb 2, 2026
- userbinator · Aug 23, 2025
- userbinator · Oct 6, 2024
- enriquto · Sep 17, 2024
- userbinator · Feb 26, 2024
- enriquto · Jan 11, 2023
