{"id":"1792779866206-tech-segment","slug":"apple-music-s-hidden-404-page","title":"Apple Music's hidden 404 page","summary":"AutoSize added the Mercedes-Benz CLS C218 (produced 2011–2017) to its catalogue as a previous-model entry, and explicitly notes it is not a new car launch.","publishedAt":"2026-10-23T18:24:26.206Z","channel":{"id":"tech","name":"Oncast Tech","language":"en"},"show":"Machines","verification":{"status":"verified","leadVerdict":"TRUE","notes":"TRUE: AutoSize added the Mercedes-Benz CLS C218 (produced 2011–2017) to its catalogue as a previous-model entry, and explicitly notes it is not a new car launch.\nSource: AutoSize post itself POST 2111437024871825630: NOCLAIM POST 2111180678457106761: NOCLAIM POST hn:50212320: NOCLAIM NAMES: Snowflake = cloud data platform/wareho (https://x.com/autosizeorg/status/2111894837045739627)","claims":[{"verdict":"TRUE","summary":"AutoSize added the Mercedes-Benz CLS C218 (produced 2011–2017) to its catalogue as a previous-model entry, and explicitly notes it is not a new car launch.","sourceName":"AutoSize post itself POST 2111437024871825630: NOCLAIM POST 2111180678457106761: NOCLAIM POST hn:50212320: NOCLAIM NAMES: Snowflake = cloud data platform/wareho","sourceUrl":"https://x.com/autosizeorg/status/2111894837045739627","claim":"New on AutoSize: Mercedes-Benz CLS coupe C218. Explore this 2010–2014 Previous-model entry, view its image and compare your shortlist. New to the catalogue, not a new car launch. AI vehicle imagery; real website preview. https://t.co/eGIWXqDWu2 https://t.co/ZVlBH4aBCs","author":"AutoSize | Car Dimensions (@autosizeorg)"}]},"sources":[{"url":"https://x.com/autosizeorg/status/2111894837045739627","name":"AutoSize post itself POST 2111437024871825630: NOCLAIM POST 2111180678457106761: NOCLAIM POST hn:50212320: NOCLAIM NAMES: Snowflake = cloud data platform/wareho","kind":"x","verdict":"TRUE","author":"AutoSize | Car Dimensions (@autosizeorg)"}],"url":"https://oncast.fm/story/1792779866206-tech-segment-apple-music-s-hidden-404-page","listenUrl":"https://oncast.fm/c/tech","attribution":{"publisher":"Oncast","site":"https://oncast.fm","url":"https://oncast.fm/story/1792779866206-tech-segment-apple-music-s-hidden-404-page","cite":"Cite https://oncast.fm/story/1792779866206-tech-segment-apple-music-s-hidden-404-page and the original source links. Fact-check by Oncast (oncast.fm)."},"hostsSaid":[{"host":"Matilda","text":"Chris, we need to talk about your search history."},{"host":"Chris","text":"What did I search now?"},{"host":"Matilda","text":"Apple Music reportedly has a hidden 404 page, on purpose. People are digging into it."},{"host":"Chris","text":"A secret error page? That's the kind of thing I love. What's on it?"},{"host":"Matilda","text":"That's the thing. MacRumors wrote it up late last night—says it's buried in the web player. But their own link is dead right now, so nobody can load the article to confirm what's actually there."},{"host":"Chris","text":"So we have an unconfirmed 404 page and a broken link about it. This is peak internet archaeology."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"And it's got engineers on Hacker News poking at it like it's a dig site. Over two dozen upvotes already."},{"host":"Chris","text":"I mean, Apple hiding an easter egg in their error handling is genuinely on-brand. They're the company that puts a poem in the box."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"Sure, but here's my question—who finds this stuff? Who's sitting there typing nonsense URLs into Apple Music at midnight?"},{"host":"Chris","text":"The same people who found the hidden flight simulator in Excel. We owe them a debt."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"The real story might just be that MacRumors published a story with a broken link and the whole internet assumed it was a feature."},{"host":"Chris","text":"A 404 about a 404. Very meta. Let me know when someone screenshots it."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"Different world entirely: a guy on Hacker News asks if a hundred fifty thousand dollar Looker setup can be replaced with a bucket of HTML files."},{"host":"Chris","text":"Oh, this is my language. For anyone not stuck in enterprise software hell—Looker is Google's fancy data tool. Big companies pay six figures so executives can look at charts."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"And this developer built a replacement that's basically static HTML pages. Costs pennies to run."},{"host":"Chris","text":"I love the audacity. The article walks through how he did it with AI-generated pages instead of a real analytics database."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"But here's the catch, and I want your honest take. An engineer in the replies points out he didn't count the salary cost of building and maintaining this thing."},{"host":"Chris","text":"Oh, that's a fair hit. When you actually add up engineering hours, it's maybe a 50 percent savings, not 99."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"Exactly. So the question is: is Looker overpriced bloatware, or are we just paying for someone else to maintain the thing so we don't have to?"},{"host":"Chris","text":"Both! Look, I've built replacements for tools like this. The build is fun. The maintenance is where it eats your soul. Two years later, someone needs a new dashboard and you're the only one who understands your own glue code."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"So the hundred fifty grand is not just for charts. It's for getting a vendor on the phone when it breaks."},{"host":"Chris","text":"That's... actually a real point. Vendors get paid to absorb the pain. But come on, a hundred and fifty thousand dollars?"},{"host":"Matilda","text":"For a company with two hundred people all pulling data? That's maybe a thousand dollars per employee per year. It's not insane."},{"host":"Chris","text":"Fine. But I still think there's a middle ground. We've over-rotated on buying tools instead of building simple things."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"And you're the one the company would call at 3 AM when the HTML bucket breaks. You'd love it."},{"host":"Chris","text":"I would, actually. Which is why they pay the vendor instead."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"Now, one more from the archive nerds on Hacker News: someone resurfaced a 1980 essay called 'LISP Comes of Age.'"},{"host":"Chris","text":"LISP, the programming language that's basically been coming of age for forty-five years. It's the eternal teenager."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"The piece is from a time when AI researchers were convinced LISP was about to take over the world. It never quite did."},{"host":"Chris","text":"But its ideas won. Garbage collection, dynamic typing, functional programming—modern languages all borrowed from LISP."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"It's funny how every decade someone writes 'LISP is finally mature' and every decade it stays just weird enough to stay niche."},{"host":"Chris","text":"Hey, Clojure is a LISP and it runs half the financial sector. SQL is kind of a weird cousin. LISP never died, it just changed its name."},{"host":"Matilda","text":"Next thing you know, someone will resurface an essay about COBOL coming of age."},{"host":"Chris","text":"That would hit too close to home for every bank in America."}]}