Bentleys, brawls and bad loans: Jailed ex-lawyer battles failed property tycoon
The two, each with criminal convictions, are fighting in the Supreme Court over an alleged $3 million loan. ⌘ Read more

Bentleys, brawls and bad loans: Jailed ex-lawyer battles failed property tycoon
The two, each with criminal convictions, are fighting in the Supreme Court over an alleged $3 million loan. ⌘ Read more

Rivian’s CEO on Tesla’s Cybertruck, Ferrari’s Luce, and What Happens If the R2 Fails
RJ Scaringe, the CEO of Rivian Automotive, joined us for a wide-ranging interview about how his company’s new electric SUV fits into the current EV industry, and what comes next. ⌘ Read more

Donald Trump’s White House UFC Event Would Be Embarrassing Anywhere
A Monster Energy-sponsored MMA show on the White House’s South Lawn was never going to be the height of dignity. But UFC Freedom 250 is failing to clear even the lowest bar. ⌘ Read more

One of Australia’s worst paedophiles loses sentence appeal bid
One of Australia’s worst paedophiles, former childcare worker Ashley Paul Griffith, has failed in his bid to reduce the life sentence he received for hundreds of sex offences against young children. ⌘ Read more

‘Very happy’: Victim’s joy over paedophile’s appeal fail
Ashley Paul Griffith had argued the 27‑year non‑parole period for hundreds of sexual offences against children was manifestly excessive. ⌘ Read more

Trump, in Latest Pivot, Retracts Threat to Strike Iran Again and Widen the War
Mr. Trump said that Iran was close to signing a peace deal. So far, weeks of talks have failed to produce an agreement. ⌘ Read more

Trump, in Latest Pivot, Retracts Threat to Strike Iran Again and Widen the War
Mr. Trump said that Iran was close to signing a peace deal. So far, weeks of talks have failed to produce an agreement. ⌘ Read more

Trump, in Latest Pivot, Retracts Threat to Strike Iran Again and Widen the War
Mr. Trump said that Iran was close to signing a peace deal. So far, weeks of talks have failed to produce an agreement. ⌘ Read more

U.K. Defense Secretary Resigns, in a Blow to Starmer
John Healey unexpectedly announced that he was stepping down, saying Prime Minister Keir Starmer was failing to invest enough money in the British military. ⌘ Read more

U.K. Defense Secretary Resigns, in a Blow to Starmer
John Healey unexpectedly announced that he was stepping down, saying Prime Minister Keir Starmer was failing to invest enough money in the British military. ⌘ Read more

U.K. Defense Secretary Resigns, in a Blow to Starmer
John Healey unexpectedly announced that he was stepping down, saying Prime Minister Keir Starmer was failing to invest enough money in the British military. ⌘ Read more

U.K. Defense Secretary Resigns, in a Blow to Starmer
John Healey unexpectedly announced that he was stepping down, saying Prime Minister Keir Starmer was failing to invest enough money in the British military. ⌘ Read more

Police searching for gunman behind failed after-school hit
Police are throwing all their resources into the hunt for a gunman behind a failed hit on a father and his daughter outside a Sydney high school. ⌘ Read more

Police searching for gunman behind failed after-school hit
Police are throwing all their resources into the hunt for a gunman behind a failed hit on a father and his daughter outside a Sydney high school. ⌘ Read more

Canada Moves to Ban Social Media Use for Youth Under 16
The country’s previous attempt to get tech companies to shelter young users failed amid heavy criticism from civil liberty groups. ⌘ Read more

Canada Moves to Ban Social Media Use for Youth Under 16
The country’s previous attempt to get tech companies to shelter young users failed amid heavy criticism from civil liberty groups. ⌘ Read more

Father and daughter targeted by gunman outside Sydney school
A man and his 15-year-old daughter were targeted outside a school in Fairfield West yesterday afternoon in a failed shooting. ⌘ Read more

Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/apple-failed-make-its-ai-tool-comply-eu-regulations-eu-commission-says-2026-06-09/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48463024

Points: 20

# Comment … ⌘ Read more

Dozens of Barbeques Galore stores set for closure
More than 60 Barbeques Galore stores across Australia are set to close within weeks after a rescue deal failed. ⌘ Read more

Dozens of Barbeques Galore stores set for closure
More than 60 Barbeques Galore stores across Australia are set to close within weeks after a rescue deal failed. ⌘ Read more

Texas grid flags risks as data centers, crypto sites fail voltage tests
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/texas-grid-flags-risks-data-centers-crypto-sites-fail-voltage-tests-2026-06-05/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440610

Points: 10

# … ⌘ Read more

Exclusive: Aussie teens react to new social media ban
Australia’s landmark social media ban for under-16s came into effect this morning, but young Aussies say it’s already failing. ⌘ Read more

Show HN: Formally verified polygon intersection – Opus 4.8 oneshots, prev failed
To my knowledge, this is the first formally verified implementation of an intersection algorithm for polygons.

The experience of working with AI agents on this project changed a lot with recent model releases, as I describe in the readme. Opus 4.8 is able to provide algorithm implementation with formal proof in one shot, whereas previous models required me to provide proof strategies in multiple steps.

Trust in the correctness c … ⌘ Read more

UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases
Article URL: https://aoav.org.uk/2026/military-experts-or-arms-industry-insiders-uk-media-fails-to-disclose-defence-sector-links-in-nearly-60-of-cases/

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48395938](https: … ⌘ Read more

Extreme heatwaves making it harder to grow our food, and not only in summer
Record-breaking heatwaves decimated crops in Australia this year and served as a “real wake up call” for the urgent need to develop more heat-resistant crops and research into food security. But it’s not only in summer heatwaves are occurring and causing crops to fail. ⌘ Read more

When I’m about to leave and CI finally goes green after eight failed runs ⌘ Read more

Failings of major parties led to surge for One Nation
The public’s perception of the failings of the major parties has led to a rise in support for One Nation, say readers. ⌘ Read more

DNA testing of elongated skulls fails to rule out extraterrestrial origins
The peculiar skulls, which exhibit strange, elongated craniums, have been the topic of debate and intrigue for years. Known as the Paracas skulls, the… ⌘ Read more

Space missions could be missing signs of alien life, scientists warn
There’s a chance that evidence of alien life has been under our noses for years and we have failed to see it. Most people will be familiar with the te… ⌘ Read more

Data Brokers’ and AI Firms’ Opt-Out Forms Are Built to Fail, Report Finds
A new study finds AI companies, defense firms, and dating apps are among 38 data collectors allegedly using manipulative design to confuse users while collecting their data. ⌘ Read more

Wine industry calls for government investment
It might sound like a good problem to have - a glut of wine sloshing around local barrels.
But a decline in export markets and changes in consumer behaviour have left some grape growers ripping up their vines and exiting the industry altogether.
In the latest development - one of Australia’s largest wineries - Winemasters SA -  has appointed administrators following a failed sales bid.
GUEST: Lee McLean, … ⌘ Read more

Colorado’s Anti-Repair Bill Is Dead
Colorado has led the US on legislation that ensures people can fix their stuff. Manufacturers tried to claw back that control, but ultimately failed—for now. ⌘ Read more

When it’s the sixth time ChatGPT fails to fix the same bug ⌘ Read more

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci coined the term “failscene”:

https://buc.ci/abucci/p/1771250567.039684

I wonder about using “failscene” to describe the current slate of AI tools and demos. In contrast with the demoscene, which is about getting very low powered computers to do cool things you wouldn’t expect them to be able to do, the failscene is about getting very high powered computers to fail at doing boring things we already know how to do without them. Plus you can stylize it fAIlscene if you’re inclined to.

I love it.

When I find out my pair disabled the tests that were failing ⌘ Read more

So I decided that after having two of my three MiniDisc recorders fail on my over the weekend, to prepare myself to say goodbye of most of the discs… and invest in a DAP. More to come on this soon for sure.

When my unit test passes locally but fails on CI ⌘ Read more

Behold! 🥳 My first (hopefully it doesn’t fail 🤞) µSaaS (microSaaS)

Audiofern

Turn PDFs into audiobooks.

(only supports PDF(s) at the moment, books, papers, etc)

Happy reading/listening 🤓 👂 #Audiofern #Audiobooks #microSaaS

Every single year I complain we should have an independent survey of Python users, not of “Python developers”, as many people who use Python do not identify as professional software developers (https://ciberlandia.pt/@villares/109885982178235703) and the questions in the survey make no sense for them. We should have someone doing serious research designing an unbiased survey, not a software firm like Jetbrains doing market research.
Every year I fail to do something effective about this.

[Reposted publicly with some tweaks]

When the CI fails even though I didn’t change anything ⌘ Read more

Another project where I’m going to use my terminal widget toolkit is a hex editor. This is still very young, obviously, and there’s a lot of work to do (both in the toolkit and this particular application), but I’m making some progress:

https://movq.de/v/2bae14ed16/vid-1769283187.mp4

Since this program is UTF-8 clean (I hope), you can do things like enter multi-byte UTF-8 sequences or paste them from the system clipboard (another hex editor I just tried failed to do this correctly):

https://movq.de/v/e9241034c1/vid-1769283755.mp4

Under the hood, I’m using mmap() with MAP_PRIVATE, which is really cool: I get the entire file as a byte array, no matter how large it is, no need to actually read it upfront; and MAP_PRIVATE means that I can write to this area however I like without changing the underlying file. The kernel does copy-on-write for me. Only when you hit Save, it will write to the filesystem. And it’s just a couple lines of code. The kernel does all the magic. 🥳

When the CI fails for a completely obscure reason ⌘ Read more

Ahh that’s because I forgot to call main() at the end of the source file. mu is a bit of a dynamic programming language, mix of Go(ish) and Python(ish).

$ ./bin/mu examples/aoc2025/day1.mu 
Execution failed: undefined variable readline

I’m kind of tired of late of telling support folks, for example, ym registrar, how to do their fucking goddamn jobs 🤦‍♂️

Hi James,

Thank you for your patience.

There are several reasons why a .au domain registration might fail or be cancelled, including inaccurate registrant information, ineligibility for a .au domain licence, or issues related to Australian law.

For a full list of possible reasons, please see this article: https://support.onlydomains.com/hc/en-gb/articles/6415278890141-Why-has-my-au-domain-registration-been-cancelled

If you believe none of these reasons apply to your case, please let us know so we can investigate further.

Best regards,

Yes, so tell me support person, why the fuck did it fail?! 🤬

Drought down south sends potato prices soaring up north
Potato growers in Queensland’s far north are suddenly in hot demand as drought-stricken paddocks in the country’s south fail to deliver. ⌘ Read more

All my newly added test cases failed, that movq thankfully provided in https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/twtxt.dev/pulls/28#issuecomment-20801 for the draft of the twt hash v2 extension. The first error was easy to see in the diff. The hashes were way too long. You’ve already guessed it, I had cut the hash from the twelfth character towards the end instead of taking the first twelve characters: hash[12:] instead of hash[:12].

After fixing this rookie mistake, the tests still all failed. Hmmm. Did I still cut the wrong twelve characters? :-? I even checked the Go reference implementation in the document itself. But it read basically the same as mine. Strange, what the heck is going on here?

Turns out that my vim replacements to transform the Python code into Go code butchered all the URLs. ;-) The order of operations matters. I first replaced the equals with colons for the subtest struct fields and then wanted to transform the RFC 3339 timestamp strings to time.Date(…) calls. So, I replaced the colons in the time with commas and spaces. Hence, my URLs then also all read https, //example.com/twtxt.txt.

But that was it. All test green. \o/

WOW LOL

fetch https://weaknotes.com/users/david: status 500 Internal Server Error

First real test failed trying to lookup / follow @david@weaknotes.com

These trees are usually laden with apples. This year they’re strangely bare
Across the the Blue Mountains, apple farmers are noticing less fruit this season. Some are wondering if it’s linked to varroa mite. ⌘ Read more

Six-hour tank assault, 29 armored vehicles, zero breakthroughs: Russia’s biggest autumn push fails near Volodymyrivka ⌘ Read more

Zelenskyy urges allies not to appease Russia after failing to secure US missiles ⌘ Read more

BBC committed a “serious breach” of broadcasting rules by failing to disclose that the narrator of a documentary about Gaza was the son of a Hamas official ⌘ Read more

Royal Mail fined £21m after post arrived late
It’s the outcome of an Ofcom investigation after the postal service failed on its delivery targets. ⌘ Read more

World Cup qualification would ‘put right’ Ukraine defeat for Scotland
Scotland head coach Steve Clarke says World Cup qualification would “put right” the disappointment of failing to beat Ukraine in the play-offs for the 2022 finals. ⌘ Read more

How England’s ‘Golden Generation’ describe the reasons why they failed
Tactical shortcomings, misguided managers or stellar opponents - why do England’s so-called ‘Golden Generation’ think they failed to deliver success? ⌘ Read more

Geelong Cats fined by AFL over third-party disclosures
The AFL fines Geelong $77,500 for failing to disclose third-party agreements with players over a six-year period. ⌘ Read more

Auditing user activity in pods and nodes with the Security-Profiles-Operator
Kubernetes’ native audit logs are essential for tracking control plane activities, but they fail to capture what happens inside a container or on the host node itself during kubectl debugging sessions. This creates a security and… ⌘ Read more

Indigenous-run corporation convicted, fined for failing to lodge reports
The corporation has been fined $2,000 for failing to lodge reports to the Office of the Registrar of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Corporations. ⌘ Read more

Body recovered during search for 15yo swimmer in Tamworth
A multi-agency search of the Peel River began on Monday night after police were told the teen had entered the water and failed to resurface. ⌘ Read more

Hospital allegedly failed to diagnose ‘flesh eating’ bacteria that nearly killed this patient
A young father who lost his eye after contracting a rare infection is suing the hospital who treated him, alleging they ignored his requests to investigate his condition properly. ⌘ Read more

Random musing from a #Python creative coder:

I have this naïve cumbersome thing for dealing with collinear vertices in a polygon (like a vertex in the middle of an edge that doesn’t change the shape of the polygon, and I tried to replace it with some clever #shapely method such as .simplify(…) or .buffer(0) and failed miserably. So I’ll have to keep my home made check-area-every-three-vertices thing for now…

I’m kind of proud of my idea of representing polygons as a set of frozensets of edge vertex pairs because it eliminates all visually equivalent rotations and reverse ordered rotations (that is, if you don’t have pesky collinear vertices).

https://pynews.com.br/@villares/115325020477872857/

Llama.cpp Gets an Upgrade: Resumable Model Downloads
We’ve all been there: you’re 90% of the way through downloading a massive, multi-gigabyte GGUF model file for llama.cpp when your internet connection hiccups. The download fails, and the progress bar resets to zero. It’s a frustrating experience that wastes time, bandwidth, and momentum. Well, the llama.cpp community has just shipped a fantastic quality-of-life improvement… ⌘ Read more

The QNX Operating System
Comments ⌘ Read more

Seven calls, 16 minutes, no answer. More Optus emergency failures exposed
Optus customers have come forward to report more cases of triple-0 calls failing outside the embattled telcos previously admitted outages. ⌘ Read more

Zelenskyy: Putin mocks the West, world has failed to respond to Russian strikes ⌘ Read more

I know good people who work at Microsoft (like Guido van Rossum and Pamela Fox) but I don’t trust MS a iota. Making Processing work on VS Code… I don’t know if I like it. It leads people to a tool too much under MS control. I guess VS Code is too big to fail now?
I know about VS Codium… also, I’m struggling to move my stuff out of GitHub.

Triple Zero was built for 1960s phones. Can it handle 2025?
Triple Zero calls have surged 44 per cent in a decade. Carrier networks are failing, and bushfire season is here. Can Australians still trust the system? ⌘ Read more

XMPP Interop Testing: Two New Features for Clearer Testing
We’ve just released version 1.7.1 of all of our test runners. This release adds two improvements to make interop testing
both stricter and easier to set up!

Some tests can’t be executed if the server lacks required features. Previously, these “impossible” tests were skipped,
which could make a run look fully successful when it wasn’t. Now you can configure the suite to treat impossible t … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net I know we won’t ever convince each other of the other’s favorite addressing scheme. :-D But I wanna address (haha) your concerns:

1. I don’t see any difference between the two schemes regarding link rot and migration. If the URL changes, both approaches are equally terrible as the feed URL is part of the hashed value and reference of some sort in the location-based scheme. It doesn’t matter.

2. The same is true for duplication and forks. Even today, the “cannonical URL” has to be chosen to build the hash. That’s exactly the same with location-based addressing. Why would a mirror only duplicate stuff with location- but not content-based addressing? I really fail to see that. Also, who is using mirrors or relays anyway? I don’t know of any such software to be honest.

3. If there is a spam feed, I just unfollow it. Done. Not a concern for me at all. Not the slightest bit. And the byte verification is THE source of all broken threads when the conversation start is edited. Yes, this can be viewed as a feature, but how many times was it actually a feature and not more behaving as an anti-feature in terms of user experience?

4. I don’t get your argument. If the feed in question is offline, one can simply look in local caches and see if there is a message at that particular time, just like looking up a hash. Where’s the difference? Except that the lookup key is longer or compound or whatever depending on the cache format.

5. Even a new hashing algorithm requires work on clients etc. It’s not that you get some backwards-compatibility for free. It just cannot be backwards-compatible in my opinion, no matter which approach we take. That’s why I believe some magic time for the switch causes the least amount of trouble. You leave the old world untouched and working.

If these are general concerns, I’m completely with you. But I don’t think that they only apply to location-based addressing. That’s how I interpreted your message. I could be wrong. Happy to read your explanations. :-)

ProcessOne: Why Europe’s ‘Chat Control’ Proposal Will Cripple European Communication Industry While Failing to Protect Children

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On October 14th, the European Concil will vote on a regulation that … ⌘ Read more

I have a late-2010s ThinkPad running OpenBSD, but it’s about as fast as a snail carrying heavy shopping through molasses. I’d like to run something other than Linux, for variety, but the other members of the BSD family failed for various reasons. What OS do you guys think I should try?

[47°09′50″S, 126°43′39″W] Dosimeter still failing

[47°09′01″S, 126°43′16″W] Transponder still failing – switching to analog communication

[47°09′18″S, 126°43′14″W] Transponder still failing

#GitHub #GitHubPages #fail This is driving me mad…

Images randomly deciding not to load on all my pages.

Is it just me? Is it my browser’s fault? Is it just in Brazil?

I was working on this #shapely + #trimesh page… and I can only see the last image (the animated gif)!

https://abav.lugaralgum.com/material-aulas/Processing-Python-py5/shapely-e-trimesh.html

#GitHub #GitHubPages #fail This is driving me mad…

Images randomly deciding not to load on all my pages.

Is it just me? Is it my browser’s fault? Is it just in Brazil?

I was working on this #shapely + #trimesh page… and I can only see the last image (the animated gif)!

https://abav.lugaralgum.com/material-aulas/Processing-Python-py5/shapely-e-trimesh.html

Update: On this exact page I have bungled the image URLs (I blame Marktext for being stupid and not using a relative reference). But I swear loading problems have been going on other well formed pages.

This is your friendly reminder that you could be making #PaperObjects with #Python and #py5, you know?

https://github.com/villares/Paper-objects-with-Processing-and-Python/

(Mind you that GitHub images are mostly failing to load here today for some unknown reason)

If you like this, support my work:
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=5B4MZ78C9J724
https://liberapay.com/Villares
https://wise.com/pay/me/alexandrev562
#Processing #CreativeCoding

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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I do my timetracking in a little Python script, locally. Every now and then, I push the data to our actual service. Problem solved – but it’s a completely unpopular approach, they all want to use the web site. I don’t get it. Then, of course, when it’s down, shit hits the fan. (Luckily, our timetracking software is neither developed nor run by us anymore. It’s a silly cloud service, but the upside is that I’m not responsible anymore. 🤷)

Some of our oldschool devs tried to roll out local timetracking once, about 15 years ago. I don’t remember anymore why they failed …

This is developed inhouse, I’m just so glad that we’re not a software engineering company. Oh wait. How embarrassing.

Oh to be anonymous on the internet. That must be nice. 😅

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[47°09′12″S, 126°43′25″W] Transponder still failing – switching to analog communication

Anyone that the Pigs don’t like sure is the perfect candidate. Without fail.

[47°09′04″S, 126°43′58″W] Transponder still failing – switching to analog communication

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz UPDATE: getting it to run natively through a VM and other means all failed! so i did the cursed thing and tried the windows installer in wine…..

GUESS WHAT WORKED

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Spent an absurd amount of time searching for the “update fork” button on #gitlab’s web interface.

Why? Because it turns out you can only see it if you are in landscape, in portrait view the button simply does not exist…

#ux #fail

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We quit our jobs, sold our home twice and spent 10 years fighting for the truth
A NHS trust and hospital manager have been found guilty of health and safety failings over the death of Alice Figueiredo. ⌘ Read more

Hospital convicted of safety failings over woman’s death in mental health unit
An NHS trust was cleared of manslaughter but convicted of safety failings in the death of a patient. ⌘ Read more

[47°09′29″S, 126°43′11″W] Dosimeter still failing

Hospital convicted of safety failings over woman’s death in mental health unit
An NHS trust was cleared of manslaughter but convicted of safety failings in the death of a patient. ⌘ Read more

Hospital convicted of safety failings over woman’s death in mental health unit
An NHS trust was cleared of manslaughter but convicted of safety failings in the death of a patient. ⌘ Read more

Hospital convicted of safety failings after woman’s death in mental health unit
An NHS trust was cleared of manslaughter but convicted of safety failings in the death of a patient. ⌘ Read more

[47°09′38″S, 126°43′55″W] Transponder still failing