Hacker News with Generative AI: Errors

The Curious Case of the Pygmy Nuthatch (slate.com)
It was one of the weirdest errors ever committed to film. It took me months to uncover how it all went wrong.

Filmmaking, Errors, Ornithology

99 points by prawn 2 days ago | 13 comments

Chicago Sun-Times confirms AI used to create reading list of nonexistent books (theguardian.com)
Illinois’ prominent Chicago Sun-Times newspaper has confirmed that a summer reading list, which included several recommendations for books that don’t exist, was created using artificial intelligence by a freelancer who worked with one of their content partners.

Artificial Intelligence, Journalism, Media, Errors, Books

7 points by phony-account 2 days ago | 0 comments

Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations (reddit.com)
PSA: Cursor Now Restricts Logins to a Single Machine (self.cursor)

Software, Security, User Experience, Errors, PSA

1511 points by scaredpelican 39 days ago | 606 comments

Stack Overflow Is Down (stackoverflow.com)
Is it not possible to determine the number of frames in a GdkPixbufAnimation?

Stack Overflow, Programming, Errors

13 points by scbenet 51 days ago | 7 comments

Lifetimes in Rust are not that hard to understand (medium.com)
When learning Rust, the first time one encounters a compilation error that states about lifetimes, can be a confusing experience.

Rust, Programming Languages, Learning, Errors

3 points by sheepscreek 69 days ago | 1 comments

Doge Makes Its Latest Errors Harder to Find (nytimes.com)
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has repeatedly posted error-filled data that inflated its success at saving taxpayer money. But after a series of news reports called out those mistakes, the group changed its tactics.

Government, Transparency, Elon Musk, Data, Errors

16 points by edward 71 days ago | 0 comments

Discovering errors in Donald Knuth's TAOCP (glthr.com)
As Donald Knuth has just published Volume 4, Fascicle 7 of The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP), on constraint satisfaction, I would like to provide more information about the errors I discovered in 2019 in other volumes, for which I received two Knuth reward checks.

Computer Science, Programming, Books, Errors

207 points by glth 76 days ago | 65 comments

Citigroup credited client's account with $81T (theguardian.com)
The US bank Citigroup credited a client’s account with $81tn when it meant to send $280 – before the “fat finger” error was caught.

Finance, Banking, Errors, Human Error

13 points by svenfaw 84 days ago | 1 comments

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 102 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 113 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 121 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 142 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 149 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 167 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 188 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 191 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 198 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 206 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 207 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 211 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 226 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 228 days ago | 2 comments

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

Hardware, Computer Science, Errors

13 points by krisgenre 236 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 240 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 250 days ago | 21 comments

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

Hardware, Raspberry Pi, Software, Errors

94 points by irdc 257 days ago | 19 comments

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

Business, Data Analysis, Errors, Spreadsheets

6 points by rbanffy 281 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 302 days ago | 31 comments

Moiré Error in Doom (doomwiki.org)

Video Games, Game Development, Errors

4 points by Bluestein 315 days ago | 0 comments

Serious errors plague DNA tool that's a workhorse of biology (nature.com)

Biology, Science, Errors, Tools

98 points by bookofjoe 316 days ago | 12 comments