10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips

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ND	10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips (mas.to)
	296 points by marvinborner 1 days ago \| 157 comments on HN ~lite vlite-2.0

Summary ~lite

Technical discussion on Firefox crashes caused by bitflips, sharing data and methods.

Lite evaluation by llama-4-scout-wai-psq · editorial channel only · no per-section breakdown available

Longitudinal 265 HN snapshots · 37 evals

Audit Trail 57 entries

2026-03-06 01:04	self_throttle	Self-throttle: circuit-breaker: 3 consecutive 429s	- -
2026-03-05 22:51	self_throttle	Self-throttle: circuit-breaker: 4 consecutive 429s	- -
2026-03-05 22:51	self_throttle	Self-throttle: circuit-breaker: 4 consecutive 429s	- -
2026-03-05 22:51	self_throttle	Self-throttle: circuit-breaker: 4 consecutive 429s	- -
2026-03-05 22:47	self_throttle	Self-throttle: circuit-breaker: 3 consecutive 429s	- -
2026-03-05 22:45	self_throttle	Self-throttle: circuit-breaker: 4 consecutive 429s	- -
2026-03-05 22:45	self_throttle	Self-throttle: circuit-breaker: 4 consecutive 429s	- -
2026-03-05 22:44	rate_limit	Rate limited (429), retrying in 68s	- -
2026-03-05 22:42	self_throttle	Self-throttle: circuit-breaker: 3 consecutive 429s	- -
2026-03-05 22:39	self_throttle	Self-throttle: circuit-breaker: 3 consecutive 429s	- -
2026-03-05 18:36	eval_success	PSQ evaluated: g-PSQ=0.600 (3 dims)	- -
2026-03-05 18:36	eval	Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai-psq: +0.60 (Strong positive) 0.00
2026-03-05 16:09	eval_success	PSQ evaluated: g-PSQ=0.457 (3 dims)	- -
2026-03-05 16:09	eval	Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai-psq: +0.46 (Moderate positive) 0.00
2026-03-05 07:50	eval_success	PSQ evaluated: g-PSQ=0.600 (3 dims)	- -
2026-03-05 07:50	eval	Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai-psq: +0.60 (Strong positive) 0.00
2026-03-05 07:09	eval_success	PSQ evaluated: g-PSQ=0.457 (3 dims)	- -
2026-03-05 07:09	eval	Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai-psq: +0.46 (Moderate positive) +0.01
2026-03-05 04:45	eval_success	PSQ evaluated: g-PSQ=0.600 (3 dims)	- -
2026-03-05 04:45	eval	Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai-psq: +0.60 (Strong positive)
2026-03-05 04:34	eval_success	PSQ evaluated: g-PSQ=0.450 (3 dims)	- -
2026-03-05 04:34	eval	Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai-psq: +0.45 (Moderate positive)
2026-03-05 04:03	eval_success	Lite evaluated: Neutral (0.00)	- -
2026-03-05 04:03	rater_validation_warn	Lite validation warnings for model llama-3.3-70b-wai: 1W 0R	- -
2026-03-05 04:03	eval	Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: 0.00 (Neutral) 0.00
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2026-03-05 03:55	eval_success	Lite evaluated: Neutral (-0.08)	- -
2026-03-05 03:55	rater_validation_warn	Lite validation warnings for model llama-4-scout-wai: 1W 0R	- -
2026-03-05 03:55	eval	Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: -0.08 (Neutral) 0.00
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2026-03-05 03:19	eval	Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: 0.00 (Neutral) 0.00
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2026-03-05 03:10	eval	Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: -0.08 (Neutral) 0.00
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2026-03-05 02:35	eval	Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: 0.00 (Neutral) 0.00
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2026-03-05 02:27	eval	Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: -0.08 (Neutral) 0.00
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2026-03-04 23:56	eval	Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: -0.08 (Neutral) 0.00
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2026-03-04 23:52	eval	Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: 0.00 (Neutral) 0.00
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2026-03-04 23:48	eval	Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: 0.00 (Neutral) 0.00
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2026-03-04 21:52	eval	Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: -0.08 (Neutral) 0.00
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2026-03-04 21:46	eval	Evaluated by llama-3.3-70b-wai: 0.00 (Neutral) 0.00
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2026-03-04 21:15	eval	Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: -0.08 (Neutral) 0.00
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2026-03-04 21:10	eval	Evaluated by llama-4-scout-wai: -0.08 (Neutral)
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