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lsr: ls with io_uring

https://rockorager.dev/log/lsr-ls-but-with-io-uring/
244•mpweiher•6h ago•136 comments

Trying Guix: A Nixer's impressions

https://tazj.in/blog/trying-guix
92•todsacerdoti•3d ago•19 comments

How I keep up with AI progress (and why you must too)

https://blog.nilenso.com/blog/2025/06/23/how-i-keep-up-with-ai-progress/
12•itzlambda•49m ago•2 comments

Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with a Vic-20, an Abacus, and a Dog

https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237
4•teddyh•17m ago•0 comments

Third patient dies from acute liver failure caused by a Sarepta gene therapy

https://www.biocentury.com/article/656520/third-death-from-a-sarepta-gene-therapy
13•randycupertino•1h ago•0 comments

CP/M creator Gary Kildall's memoirs released as free download

https://spectrum.ieee.org/cpm-creator-gary-kildalls-memoirs-released-as-free-download
189•rbanffy•9h ago•87 comments

Firefox-patch-bin, librewolf-fix-bin AUR packages contain malware

https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general@lists.archlinux.org/thread/7EZTJXLIAQLARQNTMEW2HBWZYE626IFJ/
65•rrampage•1h ago•39 comments

Mango Health (YC W24) Is Hiring

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/mango-health/jobs/3bjIHus-founding-engineer
1•zachgitt•47m ago

Section 174 is reversed! Mostly, that is.

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pulse-section-174-is-reversed
44•jawns•1h ago•14 comments

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

120•proberts•4h ago•182 comments

How to Get Foreign Keys Horribly Wrong

https://hakibenita.com/django-foreign-keys
19•Bogdanp•3d ago•2 comments

When root meets immutable: OpenBSD chflags vs. log tampering

https://rsadowski.de/posts/2025/openbsd-immutable-system-logs/
119•todsacerdoti•10h ago•40 comments

CoCo1 composite video

https://www.leadedsolder.com/2025/07/15/tandy-trs80-coco-composite-mod-aquarius.html
22•zdw•3d ago•1 comments

Hundred Rabbits – Low-tech living while sailing the world

https://100r.co/site/home.html
175•0xCaponte•4d ago•40 comments

LibreOffice slams Microsoft for locking in Office users w/ complex file formats

https://www.neowin.net/news/libreoffice-calls-out-microsoft-for-using-complex-file-formats-to-lock-in-office-users/
64•bundie•2h ago•34 comments

A New Geometry for Einstein's Theory of Relativity

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-geometry-for-einsteins-theory-of-relativity-20250716/
19•jandrewrogers•4h ago•0 comments

HathiTrust Digital Library

https://www.hathitrust.org/
46•djoldman•3d ago•15 comments

The Art of Roland-Garros

https://www.garros.gallery/
47•pentagrama•3d ago•3 comments

DHS: Filming Cops, ICE Officers Is a 'Violent Tactic'

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/18/dhs-filming-cops-ice-officers-is-a-violent-tactic/
9•mdhb•9m ago•1 comments

Dear valued user, You have reached the error page for the error page

https://imgur.com/a/2H7HVcU
131•Alex3917•3h ago•24 comments

Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients (2016)

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5367557/
227•Bluestein•8h ago•215 comments

15 Years of Building Jefit

https://www.jefit.com/our-story
43•jasong•3d ago•29 comments

Ask HN: Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on?

201•_false•6h ago•154 comments

Exposed MCP servers across the internet

https://www.knostic.ai/blog/mapping-mcp-servers-study
54•gepeto42•5h ago•23 comments

The Israeli "art student" mystery (2002)

https://www.salon.com/2002/05/07/students/
18•georgecmu•1h ago•3 comments

Row Polymorphic Programming

https://www.stranger.systems/posts/by-slug/row-polymorphic-programming.html
37•todsacerdoti•4d ago•22 comments

Inspect ANSI control codes and escape sequences

https://ansi.tools
91•webpro•3d ago•46 comments

Fully homomorphic encryption and the dawn of a private internet

https://bozmen.io/fhe
391•barisozmen•15h ago•183 comments

Lookism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lookism
5•gmargari•12m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: GCP Outage?

71•grilledchickenw•4h ago•33 comments
Open in hackernews

Dear valued user, You have reached the error page for the error page

https://imgur.com/a/2H7HVcU
130•Alex3917•3h ago
Just got to this error page by refreshing my Gmail tab, seeing the Gmail error page, and then refreshing the error page and getting this. Never seen this posted on the Internet before, but I thought it was interesting.

Comments

SchwKatze•3h ago
You found the easter egg gem!

The fact that google's engineers cared about doing that it's pretty funny

henry700•2h ago
Probably done over a decade ago. Today we wouldn't see this
pi_22by7•1h ago
oh, for sureee
hnlmorg•36m ago
That explains why we aren’t talking about it today then.
fnordpiglet•25m ago
Source code isn’t written afresh every day. The point was the code was written at a different era and the current era wouldn’t produce this sort of code, and presumably you wouldn’t see anything but a generic 500. This is likely because product managers can’t stand free thought and action amongst engineers as it doesn’t appease their bean counter overlords sufficiently.
hnlmorg•22m ago
You don’t know when that was written.
jabjq•11m ago
If you use Google to find this string you will find very old references. (“Very old” is relative)
kartoffelsaft•3m ago
It had been written by (at the latest) September 2008:

https://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/09/best-gmail-error-m...

ChrisArchitect•2h ago
Related:

Ask HN: GCP Outage?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44605732

crgk•2h ago
I’m getting an imgur error page, but it seems this post is meant to be an image of a Google error page?

I’ve reached the error page of the image of the error page for the error page. We’re too deep.

Tiberium•2h ago
Imgur really hates VPNs, and will show that bogus error page if you're not using a "nice" connection.
andrepd•2h ago
Lol, so meta.

Also: very sad, but it would be great if it was just imgur doing this; it's the whole internet.

bhaney•2h ago
Now to refresh this comment until HN randomly goes down
miyuru•1h ago
Mirror: https://beeimg.com/view/m8002460503/
mister_mort•2h ago
Always leave a message in "impossible" code paths, you never know who might read it in the end.
zaik•1h ago
Confuse your coworkers by telling them you "won Gmail once".
larrymcp•1h ago
The funny thing is, this error message is hardly less useful than the recent trend of error messages which say only, "Something went wrong".
pphysch•1h ago
What would you expect? IME these are mostly unforeseen 500 errors, logged internally, and not something a client can do anything about (or should know anything about, for security reasons).
hinkley•1h ago
Have you never dealt with customers reporting errors?

Something went wrong is what they will tell you and expect an answer. Doesn’t matter how fancy and detailed the error, you will get back, “it’s broken fix it.”

hnlmorg•30m ago
Back in the early days of my career and supporting end users, I used to constantly get people say:

   “xxx doesn’t work. I just get an error”
They would never tell me what the error message actually was. And when I asked, the reply often was

   “I don’t remember. I’ve closed it now”. 
It used to wind me up rotten. I can forget non-technical people not understanding the error message. But common sense should have kicked in that the error message is important to share with the person trying to fix said error.
rkagerer•25m ago
Maybe all errors should be presented with a simple, distinctive and memorable theme - e.g. show a pig photo in that one maybe they'll remember "I got the pig error"
rc_mob•1h ago
You have 7 different gmail accounts eh?
Alex3917•1h ago
Yeah unfortunately they are tricky to get rid of once you have them. In theory I can forward the email from one account to another, but in practice it's hard to think through all the weird security issues that might arise from doing so.
yegle•1h ago
This was added in 2004. Before this change, the error message was:

> If too many of these happen, someone will be paged. If you still see this after half an hour, send mail to xxxxxxxxxxx@google.com

(For curious folks working for Hooli, the magic number is 472481)