Hacker News with Generative AI: Errors

Say Goodbye to Outdated Footer Years, Forever (getfullyear.com)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 16 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 23 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 41 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 62 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 66 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 72 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 81 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 82 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 85 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 100 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 103 days ago | 2 comments

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

Hardware, Computer Science, Errors

13 points by krisgenre 110 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 114 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 124 days ago | 21 comments

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

Hardware, Raspberry Pi, Software, Errors

94 points by irdc 132 days ago | 19 comments

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

Business, Data Analysis, Errors, Spreadsheets

6 points by rbanffy 156 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 176 days ago | 31 comments

Moiré Error in Doom (doomwiki.org)