Hacker News with Generative AI: Errors

Discord API Errors (discordstatus.com)
We are currently investigating an issue affecting latency and errors on various API endpoints.
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.
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.
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'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
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:
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:
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:
What happens if your CPU gets something wrong? (twitter.com)
WordPress Plugin Repository Inaccessible to WP Engine Hosted Sites (reddit.com)
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.
The worsening Raspberry Pi RP2350 E9 erratum situation (hackaday.com)
Study finds 94% of business spreadsheets have critical errors (phys.org)
OpenAI just announced a new search tool. Its demo already got something wrong (theatlantic.com)
Moiré Error in Doom (doomwiki.org)
Serious errors plague DNA tool that's a workhorse of biology (nature.com)
The Byte Order Fiasco (2021) (justine.lol)
Tell HN: Steamcommunity.com has lost their DNS-A record (ycombinator.com)
Google Rolls Back A.I. Search Feature After Flubs and Flaws (nytimes.com)
Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search (theverge.com)
DuckDuckGo broken: "Sorry, we ran into an error displaying these results" (duckduckgo.com)
Accidentally breaking GitHub Actions with a shorthash collision (2019) (teddykatz.com)
Google's Gemini video search makes factual error in demo (theverge.com)
Airline keeps mistaking 101-year-old woman for baby (bbc.com)
Airline keeps mistaking 101-year-old woman for baby (bbc.co.uk)