Hacker News with Generative AI: Technical Issues

Et Tu, Grammarly? (dbushell.com)
For a few months now I’ve received sporadic reports that my website was broken. They said the layout was askew and things were sized strangely. They had screenshots to prove it. This was embarrassing for a professional website builder.
Windows Server 2025 locking up after Feb patch, no word of when a fix will land (theregister.com)
Microsoft is warning that a faulty patch pushed out in February is causing Windows Server 2025 Remote Desktop sessions to freeze under certain circumstances.
Google admits it deleted some customer data after 'technical issue' (theregister.com)
Google has admitted it lost some customer data, possibly forever.
I think we need a bigger boot partition (fernvenue.com)
Long ago, during the time of creation, I confidently waved my hand and allocated a 1GB ESP partition and a 1GB boot partition, thinking to myself with a confident smile that this would surely be more than enough for the foreseeable future. However, this foreseeable future quickly vanished along with my smile. What was bound to happen eventually came, but I didn’t expect it to arrive so soon. What could possibly require such a large boot partition?
Samsung Q990D unresponsive after 1020 firmware update (samsung.com)
Since the update, the soundbar is unresponsive and can't be reset.
The Chromecast 2's device authentication certificate has expired (reddit.com)
I'm sure you've all seen the numerous posts today about broken casting and setup for Chromecast 2s and Chromecast Audios. Many people are assuming this was an an intentional change pushed by Google, or related to some recent device release or feature rollout, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
Cosmic ray giving 4096 votes incident (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
Hulu Outage During Oscars (reddit.com)
Smoke in the cabin of two 737 MAX caused by Load Reduction Device system [video] (youtube.com)
HTML whitespace is broken (2024) (dwac.dev)
Recently, I was working on a project which required a deeper understanding of how whitespace works in HTML.
Tell HN: Potential example.com outage on January 15, 2025 (ycombinator.com)
example.com, example.net, and example.org are currently served by EdgeCast CDN (now Edgio).<p>Edgio went bankrupt and the CDN will be shutdown on January 15 [0].<p>As of January 14, the example domains still resolve to 93.184.215.14 which is an EdgeCast IPv4 address [1][2].<p>I'm not sure who in IANA or IETF manages these domains [3].<p>If you have scripts, tests, or infrastructure that reference these domains, you might get errors or outages if these domains are not updated by January 15.<p>Disclosure: I previously worked
Ask HN: Is Proton Mail Down? (ycombinator.com)
Getting this error for a while now but their status page (https://status.proton.me/) doesn't show any issue so far:"<p>"Something went wrong We couldn't load this page. Please refresh the page or check your internet connection. Error: Servers are unreachable. Please try again in a few minutes"
Why won't Mercedes let owners open the hood? [video] (youtube.com)
macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive (shirtpocket.com)
macOS 15.2 was released a few days ago, with a surprise. A terrible, awful surprise.
Apple Dev account problem taking 2 months to resolve? (ycombinator.com)
I've had an Apple developer account since March 2024.
Windows 11's big 2024 update leaves behind 9GB of undeletable files (pcworld.com)
Microsoft’s big annual Windows 11 update has ended up being a massive headache for numerous users, with new problems constantly cropping up and getting in the way of otherwise useful changes and features.
Intel Core 13th and 14th Gen Desktop Instability Root Cause Update (intel.com)
Following extensive investigation of the Intel® Core™ 13th and 14th Gen desktop processor Vmin Shift Instability issue, Intel can now confirm the root cause diagnosis for the issue. This post will cover Intel’s understanding of the root cause, as well as additional mitigations and next steps for Intel® Core™ 13th and 14th Gen desktop users.
PS5 Dashboards Flooded with Unwanted Ads–Sony Claims It Wasn't Intentional (questalerts.com)
Looks like Sony’s doing a bit of damage control—again. So, if you’ve been seeing your PS5 dashboard suddenly littered with ads after the latest update, you’re definitely not alone. But don’t sweat it, Sony says it wasn’t supposed to happen. Yep, they’re blaming it on a “tech error.”
The web fun fact that domains can end in dots and canonicalization failures (utoronto.ca)
Intel confirms oxidation and excessive voltage in 13th and 14th Gen CPUs [video] (youtube.com)
July 2024 Update on Instability Reports on Intel Core Processors (intel.com)
Microsoft pauses Windows 11 update as it's sending some PCs into infinite reboot (techradar.com)
Astronauts stranded, multiple issues w Starliner – return flight window closing (livescience.com)
Windows 11 disabled all ways to get around Auto Restarts. Is there a workaround? (superuser.com)
Accidentally breaking GitHub Actions with a shorthash collision (2019) (teddykatz.com)
The Three Byte Fix (breckyunits.com)
Has anyone else had their Reddit account Kafka'd? How did you solve the issue? (ycombinator.com)