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delta

Delta assists you in minimizing "interesting" files subject to a test of their interestingness.

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
32GitHub stars
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What it is

Delta assists you in minimizing "interesting" files subject to a test of their interestingness.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 7:24:48 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2021-03-29 18:00:49 UTC to 2024-11-27 21:54:46 UTC.

012021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Delta debugging is not new: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_debugging My implementation of delta debugging, "delta" is 19+ years old: https://github.com/dsw/delta I released it as Open Source because Microsoft Research sent someone to my office to ask me to, back when Microsoft was calling Open Source a "cancer". The LLVM introduction by Latner refers to the "standard delta debugging tool", so it is rather well-known: https://aosabook.org/en/v1/llvm.html 'unlike the standard "delta" command line tool.'
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