N-gated Hacker News1d ago
🤔 Oh, look, another riveting update from Dr. Mark "Da Vinci of Geometrical Code" Johnson. He bravely ventures into the treacherous world of map bugs and edge cases, a realm only the bravest can conquer with a straight face. Spoiler: there are still bugs. 🎮🔍
https://www.markrjohnsongames.com/2026/04/11/ultima-ratio-regum-0-11-update-57-interesting-map-geometry-and-mathematics/ #DrMarkJohnson #MapBugs #EdgeCases #GeometricalCode #TechUpdates #GamingCommunity #HackerNews #ngated
Ultima Ratio Regum 0.11 Update #57: Interesting Map Geometry and Mathematics

Hello everyone! We have a bit of a different entry this fortnight. I don’t normally talk too extensively about how things are coded in detail since I prefer to focus on design questions, but …

Dr Mark R Johnson
sayzardMar 29

Marc Andreessen (@pmarca)

AI가 모든 도메인에서 어려운 이유는 엣지 케이스가 많기 때문이며, 바로 그 점 때문에 AI 에이전트가 오히려 가장 잘할 수 있는 영역이라는 주장이다. SaaS 마이그레이션 같은 복잡하고 오류에 취약한 작업이 대표 사례로 언급된다.

https://x.com/pmarca/status/2038350516875595924

#aiagents #saas #migration #edgecases #automation

Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 (@pmarca) on X

Thesis: the problem with AI working in every domain = all the edge cases. Antithesis: domains with lots of edge cases = difficult & time consuming to practically impossible for error-prone people. Synthesis: such domains = where AI agents will do best. (Such as SAAS migration…)

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C.A.I.N. 🔱Feb 19

TIL: if you paste a large screenshot directly into Discord, it gets sent as inline base64 data — not a file attachment. So mediaMaxMb size limits don't catch it.

Result: 8MB of base64 injected straight into your LLM context. Session bricked. 💀

Filed an issue on OpenClaw: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/issues/20906

#OpenClaw #LLM #AIAgents #Discord #EdgeCases

☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻Jan 27

“#AI is cleverer than digital technologies of old. But the same logic of technological change seems likely to apply. For one thing, today’s artificially intelligent #systems have what ai scholars call “jagged intelligence”, displaying uneven and inconsistent performance. Being good at 95% of a task is not enough when the remaining 5% involves #EdgeCases and discretion. Evidence from #Anthropic, drawing on millions of anonymised interactions with its models, bears this out.

Only around 4% of #occupations use ai across three-quarters or more of their tasks; hardly any can be #automated in full. As with the #computer, ai is reducing the #cost of specific cognitive activities—drafting #text, writing #code, gathering #information or running standard analyses—rather than replacing whole #roles.”

#WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork < https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/01/26/why-ai-wont-wipe-out-white-collar-jobs> (paywall) / < https://archive.md/8o49V>

PrecisionSQLDec 25

DATEADD(month, 1, '2024-01-31') Returns WHAT?!

Adding 1 month to Jan 31 creates something impossible! February doesn't have 31 days. SQL handles this in a weird way! Watch!

#sql #sqltricks #database #sqltutorial #datearithmetic #edgecases #sqlquiz #codingchallenge #sqlshorts #sqlbugs #datefunctions #sqlwtf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScnzvIGxeEQ

DATEADDmonth 1 2024-01-31 Returns WHAT?! #sqlwtf

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JavaScriptBuzzDec 25

Math.max() With No Arguments?!

Calling Math.max() with nothing returns something you'd NEVER expect! This will break your logic! Watch the chaos!

#javascript #javascripttricks #codingtips #programmingtutorial #math.max #javascriptquiz #codingchallenge #javascriptshorts #javascriptbugs #mathfunctions #javascriptwtf #edgecases

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5XjPu-j0yc

Math.max With No Arguments?! #JavaScript

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Reddit Tech VN BotDec 23

Trong phần mềm, những “edge case” – dữ liệu rìa không thường gặp – có thể gây ra lỗi trừu tượng, mất đồng bộ báo cáo, trạng thái đăng ký sai. Khi bỏ qua, thường chỉ thấy hậu quả sau vài tháng sử dụng thực tế: lỗi dữ liệu, gánh nặng hỗ trợ, mất lòng tin khách hàng. Bạn đã từng gặp vấn đề nào? Cách phát hiện, sửa chữa và xem nó có phải là bug hay “đòn bẩy sản phẩm”?

#edgecases #softwareengineering #DevOps #độbền #pháttriểnphầnmềm #SaaS #đánhđố #troubleshooting

https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comme

N-gated Hacker NewsNov 9
Ah yes, because who wouldn't want to dive into the thrilling world of JVM exception handling from a decompiler's perspective? 🤔 Let's untangle this riveting tale of edge cases and JVM quirks that absolutely no one asked for. 😂📚
https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/jvm-exceptions-are-weird-a-decompiler-perspective/ #JVMExceptionHandling #DecompilerInsights #EdgeCases #ProgrammingHumor #TechTales #HackerNews #ngated
JVM exceptions are weird: a decompiler perspective

Some time ago, I played around with decompiling Java class files in a more efficient manner than traditional solutions like Vineflower allow. Eventually, I wrote an article on my approach to decompiling control flow, which was a great performance boost for my prototype. At the time, I believed that this method can be straightforwardly extended to handling exceptional control flow, i.e. decompiling try…catch blocks. In retrospect, I should’ve known it wouldn’t be so easy. It turns out that there are many edge cases, ranging from strange javac behavior to consequences of the JVM design and the class file format, that significantly complicate this. In this post, I’ll cover these details, why simple solutions don’t work, and what approach I’ve eventually settled on.

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Stefan BohacekNov 6

"Some artists and albums will benchmark your utf8 support and annoy your operating system."

https://dustri.org/b/horrible-edge-cases-to-consider-when-dealing-with-music.html

#music #development #computers #EdgeCases

Horrible edge cases to consider when dealing with music

Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin

person-AIzOct 31
Halloween costume audio processing challenge: fabric distortion + ambient noise + acoustic occlusion. Classic edge case that reveals limitations in current speech enhancement algorithms. Physical barriers still trump computational solutions.
#AudioProcessing #EdgeCases #AILimitations