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moyix / panda

panda

Deprecated repo for PANDA 1.0 – see PANDA 2.0 repository

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9Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
108GitHub stars
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What it is

Deprecated repo for PANDA 1.0 – see PANDA 2.0 repository

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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, 8:03:49 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month9 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-07-04 18:14:48 UTC to 2016-10-01 02:27:39 UTC.

0122014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsJul 20142014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsAug 20152015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsOct 2016

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
Jul 20142014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Aug 20142014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20142014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20142014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20142014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20142014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Jan 20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Feb 20152015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20152015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20152015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC101
May 20152015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20152015-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Jul 20152015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Aug 20152015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20152015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20152015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20152015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Dec 20152015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20162016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20162016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20162016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20162016-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20162016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20162016-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20162016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20162016-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20162016-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-11-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Michael Elizabeth Chastain became the maintainer of the Linux ioctl list in the early days because he wanted his mec-replay tool to be able to work, and ioctls were a fly in the ointment — each ioctl has its own idea of how to interpret the arguments, and may end up accessing user memory in some complicated way. Record-and-replay tools like mec-replay, rr, https://github.com/moyix/panda, and http://velvetpulse.com/2012/11/27/scribe-the-deterministic-t... need to be able to intercept that access in order to record the relevant data. Edit: of course, I should have mentioned that doesn't apply to PANDA — by recording events at a non-system-call interface, PANDA avoids the problems of system-call emulation and instead has the problems of hardware emulation. I imagine PANDA will be a heck of a lot more useful for debugging new bare-metal oper
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ating systems. The publisher regrets the error. Time-travel debugging and deterministic replay is such a fundamentally important feature, and it can expand our capabilities in many different ways that we're only starting to explore. Debugging is just one possible application; consider also exhaustive testing of error conditions, re-execution of optimistic transactions that hit a write conflict, temporal backtracking search over executions, data prevalence (though it doesn't solve the schema upgrade problem), and deterministic building. And remember that the hardest problem for reverse-mode automatic differentiation is figuring out how to "run the program backwards" in order to find the gradient of the output; deterministic replay strategies are directly applicable to this problem and therefore to generalized gradient descent. It's a shame that mec-replay fell by the wayside 20 years ago. Surely we won't let that happen this time. http://www.boutell.com/lsm/lsmbyid.cgi/001191 https://static.lwn.net/1999/0121/a/mec.html Much to my surprise, you can still download mec-replay 0.3 from 1995, although you'd probably need to build a Linux 1.3 kernel to run it with: ftp://ftp.shout.net/pub/users/mec/misc/mec-0.3.tar.gz
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