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// Hacker Noon · 15 January 2026

The Floating Point Error

While reconciling year-end logs, I discovered a floating-point rounding error leaking fractions of a cent per transaction. When I ran a git blame to find the culprit, I discovered the code wasn't a rookie mistake, it was a deliberate backdoor added by the founder to skim revenue. Now I have to decid...

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