Hacker News with Generative AI: Errors

Google Maps now shows the 'Gulf of America' (theverge.com)
Google Maps now shows the “Gulf of America” in place of the “Gulf of Mexico” for users on both web and mobile in the United States.

Google Maps, Geography, Mapping, Errors

88 points by jasperr1 10 days ago | 187 comments

Facebook admits that the Linux topic crackdown was 'in error' and has been fixed (tomshardware.com)

Facebook, Social Media, Linux, Errors

7 points by LorenDB 21 days ago | 2 comments

Stripe accidentally sent an image of a duck with layoff notifications (businessinsider.com)
The payments-software company Stripe accidentally emailed an image of a cartoon duck to some employees when notifying them that they had been laid off, Business Insider has learned.

Layoffs, Technology, Business, Humor, Errors

7 points by CharlesW 29 days ago | 6 comments

Say Goodbye to Outdated Footer Years, Forever (getfullyear.com)
Service degradation: Our API is occasionally returning 2024 instead of 2025. Our intern is investigating and working on a fix. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Software, Web Development, Errors, API

25 points by mvelbaum 50 days ago | 13 comments

Bad keming: Kerning failures, plus other typographical and font mishaps (badkeming.com)
Where kerning’s so bad it’s keming, plus other typographical and font failures.

Typography, Design, Fonts, Errors, Visual Design

122 points by gaws 57 days ago | 24 comments

Deciphering C++ compiler errors: Nonsensical errors from a function declaration (microsoft.com)
A customer wanted to add XAML support to their application, so they included (among other things) the header file winrt/Windows.UI.Xaml.h. But the mere act of including that header file produced a horrible series of errors that began with.

C++, Programming, Software Development, Debugging, Errors

38 points by signa11 75 days ago | 19 comments

Discord API Errors (discordstatus.com)
We are currently investigating an issue affecting latency and errors on various API endpoints.

Discord, API, Errors, Downtime

37 points by mot2ba 96 days ago | 27 comments

Elsevier may wish they had checked the revision a bit more carefully (nodebb.org)
Elsevier may wish they had checked the revision a bit more carefully.

Science, Publishing, Errors

84 points by sndean 99 days ago | 30 comments

Sysadmin shock as Windows Server 2025 installs itself after labeling error (theregister.com)
Administrators are reporting unexpected appearances of Windows Server 2025 after what was published as a security update turned out to be a complete operating system upgrade.

Windows, Operating Systems, Security, Errors, Technology

91 points by robaato 106 days ago | 25 comments

Microsoft Excel's bloopers reel: 40 years of spreadsheet errors (theguardian.com)
As the software used by millions around the world celebrates its birthday, here are some of the low points

Microsoft Excel, Software, Errors, History

5 points by sp8 114 days ago | 0 comments

Microsoft Excel's bloopers reel: 40 years of spreadsheet errors (theguardian.com)
As the software used by millions around the world celebrates its birthday, here are some of the low points

Microsoft Excel, Software, Errors, History, Business

4 points by philk10 115 days ago | 0 comments

We have an employee whose surname is Null (2014) (stackoverflow.com)
We have an employee whose surname is Null. Our employee lookup application is killed when that last name is used as the search term (which happens to be quite often now). The error received is:

Software, Programming, Databases, Errors

36 points by jakey_bakey 119 days ago | 6 comments

Upgrading Homebrew and avoiding the "failed to verify attestation" error (simonwillison.net)
I managed to get my Homebrew installation back into shape today. The first problem I was having is that it complained that macOS Sequoia was unsupported:

macOS, Homebrew, Software, Errors

50 points by chmaynard 134 days ago | 41 comments

In MySQL, never use "UTF8". Use "utf8mb4" (medium.com)
Today’s bug: I tried to store a UTF-8 string in a MariaDB “utf8”-encoded database, and Rails raised a bizarre error:

MySQL, Databases, Programming, Encoding, Errors

21 points by fanf2 136 days ago | 2 comments

What happens if your CPU gets something wrong? (twitter.com)

Hardware, Computer Science, Errors

13 points by krisgenre 144 days ago | 6 comments

WordPress Plugin Repository Inaccessible to WP Engine Hosted Sites (reddit.com)

WordPress, Web Hosting, Web Development, Errors

8 points by jakelazaroff 148 days ago | 1 comments

Errors from `Close` (sunfishcode.online)
A while ago I wrote a blog post about "Bugs in Hello World", about how a lot of programming languages' default way of printing to stdout silently swallow errors.

Programming, Errors, Debugging

53 points by signa11 158 days ago | 21 comments

The worsening Raspberry Pi RP2350 E9 erratum situation (hackaday.com)

Hardware, Raspberry Pi, Software, Errors

94 points by irdc 165 days ago | 19 comments

Study finds 94% of business spreadsheets have critical errors (phys.org)

Business, Data Analysis, Errors, Spreadsheets

6 points by rbanffy 189 days ago | 1 comments

OpenAI just announced a new search tool. Its demo already got something wrong (theatlantic.com)

OpenAI, Search Engines, Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Errors

42 points by infotainment 210 days ago | 31 comments

Moiré Error in Doom (doomwiki.org)