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- They probably also sent AI on bug hunting quest there too like they were bragging for Chrome...
- They were looking for another place they could cram Nano's Banana down people's throats.by kotaKat
- I've noticed my daily search "is Mitch McConnell dead yet?" Keeps ignoring date bounds.
I expect it'll get fixed in Tuesday after the special election date passes, and we finally mourn.
by mikewarot - I get the feeling the hidden 'tools' button that makes Image Search actually useful (filter resolution, transparent PNG, animated gif etc) is going to be completely broken soon too, like they did to reverse search.by 1bpp
- Something wore out from overuse, with everyone, including AI-training scrapers, filtering on “three years or older” to get non-AI output…by dspillett
- by nubinetwork
- The advanced search on Google is still pretty hard to remember how to use if you don’t use it very regularly.
I just did a Google search with “show me search results for fonts on hacker news from the last week” and while the AI Mode results were accurate, I wouldn’t call them search results. The search results were very much not accurate (results from May).
Weird that they couldn’t or wouldn’t solve this for the creamy middle.
- Sometimes I wonder what testing these giant companies do for features.
A week ago Facebook's language translation broke. Results come back in the original language or a mix. How could no-one notice?
by vintagedave - "and we increased test coverage by 10% on Q3" doesn't get you promoted unfortunatelyby buakaw_
- Or they noticed but cannot be bothered to fix.by chrisjj
- Google typically has very, very thorough tests.
I don't have any insider information here, but it's likely that the creator of this menu is long gone (it looks old!) and this feature is in maintenance mode. Someone--or a bot--just trying to keep the build green may have disabled the test without understanding that it was pointing to a real issue.
by StilesCrisis - Yes! As a frequent user of youtube queues, it feels like they have a dedicated team of one or two junior devs to futz around with it on a weekly basis and zero QA, because it is always breaking in new, unexpected ways.
"Everything is broken" used to mean "all software is insecure because the inherent complexity of a modern software stack ensures it's beyond the abilities of the average developer to eliminate all attack vectors" [1].
Now it just means [2].
1: https://medium.com/message/everything-is-broken-81e5f33a24e1
by ttctciyf - > testing these giant companies do for features
I think they all got rid of QA, and developers don't have enough time to actually care about what they're building/fixing.
GitHub/Microsoft is incredible at this. The feature for selecting and closing multiple PRs was broken for weeks even after I and others reported it. I saw duplicate "A user you've blocked has contributed to this repository" warnings (two of them, one above the other) for weeks too before that was fixed.
I've stopped reporting issues as well, as it seems to have no effect on how quick it takes, so I don't think it's an issue of not being aware of them.
- I really don't understand this stuff. I've run multiple companies, this stuff would be fixed in minutes if it happened and very likely never get released.
Aren't they hiring supposedly top-tier talent and paying them top-dollar?
Surely they have a test suite and surely this would fail in that test suite.
I really don't understand how they end up doing such things.
I can only imagine that they hire a bunch of 22 year olds from prestigious schools who have never had a job pushing production code and convince themselves everything will be ok.
by kristopolous - the culture has been eating itself from the inside out with narcissitic bullshit for a decade+ now.by lazide
- For quite a long time the company has been oriented around product managers who are paid for shipping something new, not for any sort of maintenance (occasionally posts appear on HN from people who got a poor performance review because they weren’t building visible new features and instead spent time fixing bugs). This is also why so many products are killed that it’s become a meme: the company’s incentives drive this behavior.by gumby
- > Aren't they hiring supposedly top-tier talent and paying them top-dollar?
Yes. But you assume they work on pesky things like "bug fixing" which is generally not how you get promoted, and since these people are basically all about the money, stuff like that doesn't get fixed.
> Surely they have a test suite and surely this would fail in that test suite.
Surely, but surely it doesn't, because then the deploy would be blocked, surely. More often than not, insufficient automated testing for the not-happy/average path tends to be what lets bug like this leak into production.
> that they hire a bunch of 22 year olds from prestigious schools who have never had a job
Indeed, because these people have nothing to compare to, they don't know why they feel so depressed, distracted or out of motivation even though they have "the best job in world", and even though deep inside they know what they contribute to is slowly making the world a worse place to live.