December 9, 2025
Bug hunter, meet your own 404
Show HN: Detail, a Bug Finder
Detail finds scary bugs; users cheer, roast a 404, and ask “GitHub-only”
TLDR: Detail scans code to catch serious mistakes, and early users say it actually finds the scary stuff. But the crowd split when someone hit a 404 on sign-in and others asked about non‑GitHub support and missing enterprise languages—praise meets platform anxiety, with a side of irony.
Hacker News lit up after Detail, a new code scanner, claimed it digs up the ugly stuff—security holes, data loss, even billing mistakes. The dev behind it said Detail found so many high‑priority issues it gave him a “minor heart attack.” But the comments stole the show—because that’s HN’s brand of chaos.
Fans came in hot. One early tester said it was “super helpful” at pointing straight to the broken bits, and another cheered it as the broom to clean up today’s AI slop—that mess of machine-written code everyone’s shipping. A philosophical mood bubbled up too: as more code is generated by bots, we understand less of it. Tools like Detail might be the new seatbelt for modern coding.
Then the plot twist: a user hit a 404 right after signing in with GitHub, linking to the facepalm-inducing onboarding page. Cue the meme: bug finder, meet your own bug. Skeptics piled on with real questions—Is this GitHub-only? What about non‑web code? And where are the classic “enterprise” languages? The site touts a secure sandbox, detailed writeups, and enterprise-friendly data purging, but the thread’s vibe was split: wow, it finds real problems vs call me when it supports my world—and doesn’t 404.
Key Points
- •Detail performs deep scans of codebases to find security vulnerabilities, data loss risks, and billing mistakes.
- •It clones repositories into a secure sandbox and verifies that the code can be built before reporting.
- •For each bug found, Detail provides a writeup and delivers it to Linear, Jira, GitHub Issues, or via email.
- •The post claims Detail identified high-priority issues even with other tools (Graphite, Codex, Cubic, Gemini, Cursor Bugbot) running on pull requests.
- •Enterprise data handling features include purging code and usage data per requirements, with model providers retaining nothing.