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rrwright 2 hours ago

Why did Hacker News rename the title of this post? It was originally: "Claude Code Introduces Off-by-One Errors"

Original: https://pasteboard.co/xTjaRmnkhRRo.png

Unilaterally Edited: https://pasteboard.co/rDPINchmufIF.png

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dragonwriter an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Probably for a couple reasons:

First, HN prefers the source title unless that title is misleaing clickbait.

Second, the problem is not consistently off-by-one errors, as there is a manifestation shown in the bug of an off-by-much-less-than-one error. The problem looks like a "for some reason it seems to be roundtripping numbers in text through a numeric representation which has about [perhaps exactly] the same precisions issues as float64" issue.

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sevg 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Looks like mods changed the title to the title of the GitHub Issue. This from HN guidelines is probably why:

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

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rrwright 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Good catch on the guidelines. But that github issue title obviously misses the point. The whole point is that it's a silent error in Claude Code.

	▲	sevg an hour ago \| parent [-]
		A matter of opinion, but I actually don’t think the current headline is too bad. When I saw the headline and “github.com/anthropic” next to it, my initial assumption was that it must be a problem introduced by Claude Code rather than a bug in bash or something. That said, I don’t think your edited headline was bad either, but perhaps there wasn’t enough reason not to use the original (which is a default I personally appreciate on HN).