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Our first outage from LLM-written code

https://sketch.dev/blog/our-first-outage-from-llm-written-code
6•mrw34•21h ago

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AnimalMuppet•21h ago
So the CEO was a red herring? Just a timing coincidence?

I'd love for "the CEO logged in" to be somehow part of the root cause...

blinkbat•21h ago
this is bizarre on many levels. you initially traced the cause to the CEO and _banned him_?

> This kind of error has bitten me before, far before LLMs were around. But this problem is exacerbated by LLM coding agents. A human doing this refactor would select the original text, cut it, move to the new file, and paste it. Any changes after that would be intentional.

huh! it's almost like a human SHOULD make that change...

> // Log error but continue with other installations

was this comment also written by LLM? if so, maybe simply stripping comments from the codebase the LLM works on would help? I've not studied enough if comments are more helpful or toxic for context. I do know that they rot...

Re-Engineering Peer Review for the Age of AI

https://www.sigarch.org/the-reviewer-is-dead-long-live-the-review-re-engineering-peer-review-for-the-age-of-ai/
1•mad•1m ago•0 comments

Why are there revisions to the jobs numbers? (2013)

https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-2/revisions-to-jobs-numbers.htm
1•mooreds•1m ago•0 comments

Design Patterns You Should Unlearn in Python

https://www.lihil.cc/blog/design-patterns-you-should-unlearn-in-python-part1/
1•zeitlupe•2m ago•0 comments

Are you deploying across ARM and x64 architectures?

https://caepe.sh/multi-architecture-arm-x64-at-scale/
1•ottodacat•5m ago•1 comments

Knowledge Graph achieves SOTA 94%+ accuracy on RobustQA

https://www.webai.com/blog/what-webai-94-accuracy-on-robustqa-benchmark-means-for-real-world-ai
1•r3trohack3r•6m ago•0 comments

Manus: Wide Research

https://twitter.com/manusai_hq/status/1951311994474332324
1•c4pt0r•8m ago•0 comments

Nvidia says its chips have no backdoors after China flags H20 security concerns

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/nvidia-says-its-chips-have-no-backdoors-after-china-flags-h20-security-concerns-2025-07-31/
1•rbanffy•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI tool that generates YouTube timestamps automatically

https://autotimestamps.com/
1•fistondev•9m ago•0 comments

Show Candidates Your Cap Table

https://sneak.berlin/20250801/show-candidates-your-cap-table/
2•sneak•11m ago•0 comments

Free Security Audits for Erlang and Elixir open source projects

https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/supporting-the-beam-community-with-free-ci-cd-security-audits/
6•todsacerdoti•11m ago•1 comments

Scientists unravel how a tiny brain region helps us form distinct memories

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07-scientists-unravel-tiny-region-brain.html
1•PaulHoule•12m ago•0 comments

Microsoft gives in to Chromebook bullies and drops Windows 11 SE

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/01/microsoft_abandons_windows_11_se/
3•rntn•12m ago•0 comments

Microdosing Vibe Physics

https://4gravitons.com/2025/08/01/microdosing-vibe-physics/
2•EvgeniyZh•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Arbok – Self-hosted HTTP tunnels to localhost using WireGuard

https://github.com/mr-karan/arbok
1•mr-karan•15m ago•0 comments

My doorlock and my digital sovereignty

https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/08/My-Doorlock/
1•zdw•18m ago•0 comments

Ada Lovelace and the Analytical Engine

https://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/adalovelace/2018/07/26/ada-lovelace-and-the-analytical-engine/
2•jxmorris12•19m ago•0 comments

JetBrains details deeper mechanics of Junie coding agent

https://www.techzine.eu/blogs/applications/133356/jetbrains-details-deeper-mechanics-of-junie-coding-agent/
2•agluszak•19m ago•0 comments

HDD Speaker

https://www.instructables.com/HDD-Speaker-Hard-drive-Speaker/
2•ksymph•19m ago•0 comments

Hued – The Daily Color Puzzle

https://playhued.com/
2•eustoria•20m ago•0 comments

Rollercoaster Tycoon (Or, MicroProse's Last Hurrah)

https://www.filfre.net/2025/08/rollercoaster-tycoon-or-microproses-last-hurrah/
7•cybersoyuz•20m ago•0 comments

What Is the Future of Work in the Gen AI Era? A Marxist and Ricardian Analysis

https://web.archive.org/web/20250622144225/https://triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/1536/1634
1•subw00f•22m ago•1 comments

ASCII Art Signatures in the Wild (2012)

http://geon.github.io/programming/2012/04/25/ascii-art-signatures-in-the-wild
2•speckx•24m ago•0 comments

US envoy visits Gaza food distribution site as UN says 1,373 killed waiting for

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/aug/01/gaza-israel-palestinian-people-steve-witkoff-benjamin-netanyahu-hamas-latest-live-news-updates
3•zahirbmirza•27m ago•0 comments

We Need to Talk About Sloppers

https://www.todayintabs.com/p/we-need-to-talk-about-sloppers-b732
3•jruohonen•28m ago•1 comments

Cot-Self-Instruct: Synthetic prompts for reasoning and non-reasoning tasks

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23751
1•belter•28m ago•0 comments

Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes Could Wipe Out Malaria

https://singularityhub.com/2025/08/01/these-genetically-engineered-mosquitoes-could-wipe-out-malaria/
2•Brajeshwar•29m ago•0 comments

Researchers say they've discovered the potato's origins

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/potato-tomato-origin-ancient-interbreeding-hybridization-study/
1•Brajeshwar•29m ago•0 comments

How to build a ship for interstellar travel

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/07/31/how-to-build-a-ship-for-interstellar-travel
4•Brajeshwar•29m ago•1 comments

Psilocybin helped aging mice not just live longer but "look better" new study

https://www.psypost.org/psilocybin-helped-aging-mice-not-just-live-longer-but-also-look-better-in-groundbreaking-new-study/
2•bilsbie•31m ago•0 comments

System Design Interviewing Tips (2022)

https://yusufaytas.com/system-design-interviewing-tips/
1•jatwork•35m ago•0 comments