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Ask HN: Short story that was posted to HN
3 points by paraph1n 854 days ago
Trying to locate a short story that I believe was posted here a few months ago. It took place on a spaceship that contained a digital archive of all of human knowledge. At some point, one of the characters made a grave error and overwrote some important mathematical constants, causing the ship to start making erroneous computations. They noticed that the time on their wrist watch was drifting away from the time on the ship's main computer.

Any ideas? Searching the web didn't turn anything up.

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Bad news: I could not find it.

Good news: a few interesting ones surfaced

https://qntm.org/transit

https://qntm.org/responsibilit

https://linus.coffee/story/forever-library/

Had a look around, tough to search for. There have been some recent threads related to short sci-fi stories.... Was it a link posted or buried in comments?
I think it was a top level post, but my confidence is low.
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