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antithesis: sources

every source cited in the antithesis history, with its date and type.

Original source occurrences

  1. nes/ag8i series kickoff · antithesis.com · 2024-04-01 (day) · original ID: src-ci-ag8i · Other public citations of this URL

    nes/ag8i series kickoff; "never before completed by an autonomous system"

  2. antithesis-research/setup/workload skills · antithesis.com · 2026 (year) · original ID: src-ci-antithesis-agent-skills · Other public citations of this URL

    antithesis-research/setup/workload skills; "navigates around all the sharp corners in our 8-page setup guide"

  3. sometimes_each guidance · antithesis.com · 2024-09-20 (day) · original ID: src-ci-antithesis-castlevania · Other public citations of this URL

    sometimes_each guidance; coverage-guided fuzzer analogy

  4. extreme version of chaos engineering · antithesis.com · undated (unknown) · original ID: src-ci-antithesis-docs-how · Other public citations of this URL

    "extreme version of chaos engineering"; rl guidance; multiverse timelines; pbt framing

  5. core-hour metering · antithesis.com · undated (unknown) · original ID: src-ci-antithesis-docs-usage · Other public citations of this URL

    core-hour metering; ≥48 core-hours per wall-clock hour

  6. hegel/bombadil open source · antithesis.com · undated (unknown) · original ID: src-ci-antithesis-docs-welcome · Other public citations of this URL

    hegel/bombadil open source; agent skills; "tests your software without you writing tests"

  7. founder package · antithesis.com · 2025-04-30 (day) · original ID: src-ci-antithesis-founders · Other public citations of this URL

    founder package; admission they turned away small buyers; enterprise-sales paradox

  8. hegel launch · antithesis.com · 2026-03-24 (day) · original ID: src-ci-antithesis-hegel · Other public citations of this URL

    hegel launch; maciver+devoe joined nov 2025; rust first, go/c++/ocaml/ts next

  9. how to make your own luck · antithesis.com · 2025-02-13 (day) · original ID: src-ci-antithesis-make-luck · Other public citations of this URL

    "how to make your own luck"; 6.5 years stealth; stealth's sales/recruiting costs

  10. this is actually how we figured this stuff out — nes as r&d for the explorer · antithesis.com · 2025-08-22 (day) · original ID: src-ci-antithesis-metroid · Other public citations of this URL

    "this is actually how we figured this stuff out" — nes as r&d for the explorer

  11. index-inconsistency corruption bug · antithesis.com · 2024-04-22 (day) · original ID: src-ci-antithesis-mongo-bug · Other public citations of this URL

    index-inconsistency corruption bug; checkpoint probability analysis; per-100ms core dumps

  12. an ounce of prevention · antithesis.com · undated (unknown) · original ID: src-ci-antithesis-preventing-bugs · Other public citations of this URL

    "an ounce of prevention"; chaos-eng scope critique; hostile-by-default environment

  13. aws marketplace private offers · antithesis.com · undated (unknown) · original ID: src-ci-antithesis-problems-faq · Other public citations of this URL

    aws marketplace private offers; no free tier ("compute-intensive by nature"); names dhyve, hegel, bombadil

  14. how is antithesis different from chaos testing? faq · antithesis.com · undated (unknown) · original ID: src-ci-antithesis-product-faq · Other public citations of this URL

    "how is antithesis different from chaos testing?" faq; deterministic hypervisor claims

  15. skills catalog · antithesis.com · 2026 (year) · original ID: src-ci-antithesis-skills-docs · Other public citations of this URL

    skills catalog; snouty cli; docker/podman; npm

  16. breaking the wal · antithesis.com · 2026-08-12 (day) · original ID: src-ci-antithesis-wal · Other public citations of this URL

    "breaking the wal"; claude+skills reproduced sqlite wal-reset bug in ~15 min

  17. $7,000/reserved-core/12-mo · aws.amazon.com · undated (unknown) · original ID: src-ci-aws-marketplace · Other public citations of this URL

    $7,000/reserved-core/12-mo; private-offer pricing

  18. trusted by palantir, mongodb, ethereum and many others · aws.amazon.com · undated (unknown) · original ID: src-ci-aws-seller · Other public citations of this URL

    "trusted by palantir, mongodb, ethereum and many others"

  19. kingsbury at bugbash · antithesis.com · 2025 (year) · original ID: src-ci-bugbash-kingsbury-talk · Other public citations of this URL

    kingsbury at bugbash; "simple tests" vs jepsen's complexity

  20. kingsbury on the glossary · antithesis.com · 2025 (year) · original ID: src-ci-bugbash-podcast-kingsbury · Other public citations of this URL

    kingsbury on the glossary; "reproducibility" as his unsolved problem

  21. ~200 seats, sold out · bugbash2025.antithesis.com · 2025-04-03 (day) · original ID: src-ci-bugbash2025 · Other public citations of this URL

    ~200 seats, sold out; yours truly dc

  22. cncf-sponsored etcd×antithesis integration · cncf.io · 2025-09-25 (day) · original ID: src-ci-cncf-etcd · Other public citations of this URL

    cncf-sponsored etcd×antithesis integration; v3.5 crisis context

  23. peer eng org engaging determinism themes post-launch · cockroachlabs.com · 2024-03-21 (day) · original ID: src-ci-cockroachlabs-demonic · Other public citations of this URL

    peer eng org engaging determinism themes post-launch

  24. open-source deterministic hypervisor on bhyve, inspired by antithesis · github · undated (unknown) · original ID: src-ci-dhyve · Other public citations of this URL

    open-source deterministic hypervisor on bhyve, "inspired by antithesis"

  25. phil eatons dst explainer (https://notes · lobsters · 2024-08-20 (day) · original ID: src-ci-eatonphil-dst-notes · Other public citations of this URL

    phil eaton's dst explainer (https://notes.eatonphil.com/2024-08-20-deterministic-simulation-testing.html); debate on where determinism belongs in the stack

  26. emptysqua.re · emptysqua.re · 2025-05-20 (day) · original ID: src-ci-emptysquare-bugbash · Other public citations of this URL

    a. jesse jiryu davis; mongodb evaluated 2020; rare bugs reproduced in ~24h; "software correctness conference"

  27. etcd-side account · etcd.io · 2025 (year) · original ID: src-ci-etcd-blog · Other public citations of this URL

    etcd-side account; property-based declarative assertions; deterministic hypervisor

  28. gofail→assert · github · undated (unknown) · original ID: src-ci-etcd-github · Other public citations of this URL

    gofail→assert.reachable patch; antithesis-go-instrumentor; test composer config

  29. foundationdb sigmod21 paper · foundationdb.org · 2021 (year) · original ID: src-ci-fdb-paper · Other public citations of this URL

    foundationdb sigmod'21 paper; simulation testing chapter

  30. determinator on freebsd/bhyve · freebsdfoundation.org · 2024-10 (month) · original ID: src-ci-freebsd · Other public citations of this URL

    determinator on freebsd/bhyve; undated (lobste.rs proxy)

  31. independent, non-spoofable verification · globenewswire.com · 2026-04-23 (day) · original ID: src-ci-globenewswire-ai · Other public citations of this URL

    "independent, non-spoofable verification"; agents "attempt to cheat, e.g. by deleting tests"

  32. cockroach labs demonic-nondeterminism post · hacker news · 2024-03-21 (day) · original ID: src-ci-hn-cockroach · Other public citations of this URL

    cockroach labs demonic-nondeterminism post; 138 pts

  33. 285 pts / 104 comments · hacker news · 2026-03-24 (day) · original ID: src-ci-hn-hegel · Other public citations of this URL

    285 pts / 104 comments

  34. 200 pts / 53 comments · hacker news · 2024-03-20 (day) · original ID: src-ci-hn-hypervisor · Other public citations of this URL

    200 pts / 53 comments

  35. 1,179 pts / 418 comments · hacker news · 2024-02-13 (day) · original ID: src-ci-hn-launch-thread · Other public citations of this URL

    1,179 pts / 418 comments; source of all verbatim hn quotes in §2–4

  36. at the mountains of madness · hacker news · 2024-07-10 (day) · original ID: src-ci-hn-madness · Other public citations of this URL

    "at the mountains of madness"; 153 pts / 85 comments

  37. 147 pts / 32 comments · hacker news · 2025-08-22 (day) · original ID: src-ci-hn-metroid · Other public citations of this URL

    147 pts / 32 comments

  38. debugging in the multiverse · hacker news · 2024-09-10 (day) · original ID: src-ci-hn-multiverse · Other public citations of this URL

    "debugging in the multiverse"; 201 pts / 58 comments

  39. we interfaced single-threaded c++ with multi-threaded rust · hacker news · 2026-02-07 (day) · original ID: src-ci-hn-rustcpp · Other public citations of this URL

    "we interfaced single-threaded c++ with multi-threaded rust"; 107 pts

  40. how antithesis finds bugs · hacker news · 2024-04-17 (day) · original ID: src-ci-hn-sdtalk · Other public citations of this URL

    "how antithesis finds bugs"; 160 pts / 53 comments

  41. series a on hn · hacker news · 2025-12-03 (day) · original ID: src-ci-hn-seriesa · Other public citations of this URL

    series a on hn; 11 pts / 0 comments

  42. what are skiplists good for? · hacker news · 2026-04-17 (day) · original ID: src-ci-hn-skiptrees · Other public citations of this URL

    "what are skiplists good for?"; 290 pts / 70 comments

  43. my quest to see all of tetris · hacker news · 2026-07-02 (day) · original ID: src-ci-hn-tetris · Other public citations of this URL

    "my quest to see all of tetris"; 73 pts

  44. 162 pts / 52 comments · hacker news · 2026-08-12 (day) · original ID: src-ci-hn-wal · Other public citations of this URL

    162 pts / 52 comments

  45. from unit tests to whole universe tests video · hacker news · 2025-09-13 (day) · original ID: src-ci-hn-wilson-video · Other public citations of this URL

    "from unit tests to whole universe tests" video; 36 pts

  46. the worst bug we faced at antithesis · hacker news · 2024-05-21 (day) · original ID: src-ci-hn-worstbug · Other public citations of this URL

    "the worst bug we faced at antithesis"; 56 pts

  47. jepsen · jepsen.io · 2025-12-02 (day) · original ID: src-ci-jepsen-0310 · Other public citations of this URL

    jepsen.antithesis library; deterministic seeds; entropy from antithesis

  48. jepsen+antithesis co-authored reliability glossary (canonical: antithesis · jepsen.io · 2025-10-20 (day) · original ID: src-ci-jepsen-glossary · Other public citations of this URL

    jepsen+antithesis co-authored reliability glossary (canonical: antithesis.com/docs/resources/reliability_glossary/)

  49. jepsen readme · github · undated (unknown) · original ID: src-ci-jepsen-repo · Other public citations of this URL

    jepsen readme; also lists tickloom (jepsen-integrated dst)

  50. jepsen 0 · jepsen.systems · undated (unknown) · original ID: src-ci-jepsen-systems · Other public citations of this URL

    jepsen 0.3.10 announcement; glossary; jepsen.antithesis

  51. jepsen analysis · jepsen.io · 2024 (year) · original ID: src-ci-jepsen-tigerbeetle · Other public citations of this URL

    jepsen analysis; footnote canonizes "pulse, simulant, foundationdb, and antithesis"

  52. glossary announcement · linkedin · 2025-07-15 (day) · original ID: src-ci-kingsbury-linkedin · Other public citations of this URL

    glossary announcement

  53. is this just fuzzing? debate · lobsters · undated (unknown) · original ID: src-ci-lobsters-castlevania · Other public citations of this URL

    "is this just fuzzing?" debate; employee: "we wrote our own fuzzer... iterated on it by playing a lot of nes games"

  54. ahelwer/maxholl comments · lobsters · 2024-10-14 (day) · original ID: src-ci-lobsters-freebsd · Other public citations of this URL

    ahelwer/maxholl comments; open-source desire; rr comparison

  55. akshay shah, antithesis – the deterministic computer · mack.work · 2026-01-20 (day) · original ID: src-ci-mackwork · Other public citations of this URL

    akshay shah, "antithesis – the deterministic computer"; hn item 46694502 (10 pts)

  56. risingwaves rust simulator · github · undated (unknown) · original ID: src-ci-madsim · Other public citations of this URL

    risingwave's rust simulator; "main idea is borrowed from foundationdb and sled simulation guide"

  57. surfaced novel failures · github · undated (unknown) · original ID: src-ci-mongo-wiki · Other public citations of this URL

    "surfaced novel failures"; "improved code coverage"; ci-level integration

  58. orosz + nilsson deep-dive · newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com · 2024-11-12 (day) · original ID: src-ci-pragmatic-engineer · Other public citations of this URL

    orosz + nilsson deep-dive; annually-reserved cores; polar signals pricing miss + in-house dst

  59. bugbash announced · prnewswire · 2025-01-28 (day) · original ID: src-ci-prnewswire-bugbash · Other public citations of this URL

    bugbash announced; apr 3–4 2025 dc; speakers incl. mongodb/ava labs/pingcap

  60. ramp, formance, tigerbeetle, hedge fund, retail trading platform · prnewswire · 2025-05-06 (day) · original ID: src-ci-prnewswire-fintech · Other public citations of this URL

    ramp, formance, tigerbeetle, hedge fund, retail trading platform; koblov quote

  61. launch · prnewswire · 2024-02-13 (day) · original ID: src-ci-prnewswire-launch · Other public citations of this URL

    launch; $47m seed; mongodb/palantir/ethereum named; danny ryan quote

  62. risingwaves case for building madsim · risingwave.com · 2022 (year) · original ID: src-ci-risingwave-dst · Other public citations of this URL

    risingwave's case for building madsim

  63. $30m feb 2025 round detail · sacra · undated (unknown) · original ID: src-ci-sacra · Other public citations of this URL

    $30m feb 2025 round detail; $20k–$100k+/yr deals; competition/risk framing

  64. funding table incl · startup intros · undated (unknown) · original ID: src-ci-startupintros · Other public citations of this URL

    funding table incl. feb 2025 $30m; $109m fy2025 revenue / ~40 clients claims (unverified)

  65. embedded model checker + actor runtime · docs.rs · undated (unknown) · original ID: src-ci-stateright · Other public citations of this URL

    embedded model checker + actor runtime; tla+/tlc comparison

  66. tailscales months-long wal-reset production ordeal · tailscale.com · 2026 (year) · original ID: src-ci-tailscale-wal · Other public citations of this URL

    tailscale's months-long wal-reset production ordeal; sqlite "never been able to reproduce the bug organically"

  67. tbpn · tbpndigest.com · 2025-12-08 (day) · original ID: src-ci-tbpn-wilson · Other public citations of this URL

    tbpn; wilson on customer→investor conversion

  68. lists jane street, mongodb, confluent as customers (weak source) · theconsensus.dev · undated (unknown) · original ID: src-ci-theconsensus · Other public citations of this URL

    lists jane street, mongodb, confluent as customers (weak source)

  69. outside-in (jepsen/antithesis) vs inside-out protocol-aware dst · tigerbeetle.com · 2026-08-20 (day) · original ID: src-ci-tigerbeetle-protocol-dst · Other public citations of this URL

    outside-in (jepsen/antithesis) vs inside-out protocol-aware dst

  70. vopr · github · undated (unknown) · original ID: src-ci-tigerbeetle-vopr-docs · Other public citations of this URL

    vopr; "heavily inspired by the work of foundationdb and antithesis"

  71. tokio-rs deterministic simulation family (net/fs/io_uring) · github · undated (unknown) · original ID: src-ci-turmoil · Other public citations of this URL

    tokio-rs deterministic simulation family (net/fs/io_uring)

  72. aivens 2,200 logical hours of antithesis chaos testing · aiven.io · 2025 (year) · original ID: src-hp-aiven-dst · Other public citations of this URL

    aiven's 2,200 logical hours of antithesis chaos testing

  73. investor-authored dst primer · amplifypartners.com · 2025 (year) · original ID: src-hp-amplify-dst-primer · Other public citations of this URL

    investor-authored dst primer; "1 or 2 customer bugs" lore; kyle kingsbury/jepsen anecdote

  74. company timeline (2009 fdb · antithesis.com · 2026 (year) · original ID: src-hp-antithesis-about · Other public citations of this URL

    company timeline (2009 fdb; apr 2013 wilson joins; mar 2015 apple; jan 2018 founding; sep 2019 customer #1; feb 2024 seed/stealth-exit; dec 2025 series a) + full leadership roster

  75. bug bash podcast s2e3 evidence of ongoing media arm · antithesis.com · 2026-03-04 (day) · original ID: src-hp-antithesis-bugbash-pod · Other public citations of this URL

    bug bash podcast s2e3 evidence of ongoing media arm

  76. wilson launch manifesto · antithesis.com · 2024-02-13 (day) · original ID: src-hp-antithesis-bugging · Other public citations of this URL

    wilson launch manifesto; "$100 bill" quote; fdb simulation origin story verbatim

  77. causality-analysis feature launch · antithesis.com · 2026 (year) · original ID: src-hp-antithesis-causality · Other public citations of this URL

    causality-analysis feature launch; kubecon etcd talk cross-ref

  78. so you think you want to write a deterministic hypervisor? · antithesis.com · 2024 (year) · original ID: src-hp-antithesis-determinator · Other public citations of this URL

    "so you think you want to write a deterministic hypervisor?"; the determinator; whole-system determinism unit

  79. dst primer · antithesis.com · 2026 (year) · original ID: src-hp-antithesis-dst-docs · Other public citations of this URL

    dst primer; credits fdb+aws simultaneous invention ~2010; cites wilson's 2014 talk as earliest recorded implementation discussion

  80. cncf-sponsored etcd collaboration · antithesis.com · 2026-04-09 (day) · original ID: src-hp-antithesis-etcd · Other public citations of this URL

    cncf-sponsored etcd collaboration; kubecon talk; v3.5 consistency-error backstory

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