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infer reviews and mentions

• A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Mar 2026
• Evaluating the Effectiveness of Memory Safety Sanitizers
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jul 2025

  Weird that Infer [1] was not included in the evaluation. It supports C/C++ and its underlying reasoning framework (Separation Logic [2]) is exactly geared towards checking memory safety.

  [1] https://fbinfer.com/

• An Introduction to Temporal Logic (With Applications to Concurrency Problems)
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jan 2024

  I think most development occurs on problems that can't be formally modeled anyway. Most developers work on things like, "can you add this feature to the e-commerce site? And can the pop-up be blue?" which isn't really model-able.

  But that's not to say that formal methods are useless! We can still prove some interesting aspects of programs -- for example, that every lock that gets acquired later gets released. I think tools like Infer[0] could become common in the coming years.

  [0]: https://fbinfer.com/

• Should I Rust or should I Go
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Sep 2023
• Enforcing Memory Safety?
  3 projects | /r/cpp | 7 Jun 2023

  Using infer, someone else exploited null-dereference checks to introduce simple affine types in C++. Cppcheck also checks for null-dereferences. Unfortunately, that approach means that borrow-counting references have a larger sizeof than non-borrow counting references, so optimizing the count away potentially changes the semantics of a program which introduces a whole new way of writing subtly wrong code.

• Interesting ocaml mention in buck2 by fb
  5 projects | /r/ocaml | 9 Apr 2023

  Meta/Facebook are long time OCaml users, their logo is on the OCaml website. Their static analysis tool and its predecessor are both written in OCaml.

• CISA Director Easterly's comments about cyber security. Agree or disagree?
  1 project | /r/cybersecurity | 1 Mar 2023

  Then this idea that the US government will tell tech companies how to write secure software. Let's get this straight, the private sector, especially big tech is miles ahead of US government in this regard. Microsoft literally invented threat modelling and modern exploit mitigations. Facebook has the best appsec processes pretty much in the whole world, including their own cutting edge code analyzer. AWS uses formal verification everywhere. Meanwhile the US government itself runs mission-critical systems that's almost literally held together by bubble gum and toothpicks. Maybe they could dial down the arrogance a tad, get their own shit together, learn how this cyber stuff is actually done and only then try lecturing everyone else.

• A plan for cybersecurity and grid safety
  6 projects | dev.to | 10 Feb 2023

  Efforts: Dependabot, CodeQL, Coverity, facebook's Infer tool, etc

• A quick look at free C++ static analysis tools
  3 projects | /r/cpp | 4 Jan 2023

  I notice there isn't fbinfer. It's pretty cool, and is used for this library.

• silly guy
  1 project | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 25 Dec 2022

  "Move fast, break stuff" is a great approach when you aren't pushing the broken bits to production. Fuck, even Facebook, the big "move fast, break stuff" company, uses tools to detect errors in its continuous integration toolchain. https://fbinfer.com/

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