diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 118e54178a..85fc2ce912 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -216,6 +216,7 @@ Passing an owned value `window` to `Surface` will return a `Surface<'static>`. S
 ### Examples
 
 - remove winit dependency from hello-compute example by @psvri in [#4699](https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/pull/4699)
+- hello-compute example fix failure with "wgpu error: Validation Error" if arguments are missing by @vilcans in [#4939](https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/pull/4939)
 - Made the examples page not crash on Chrome on Android, and responsive to screen sizes by @Dinnerbone in [#4958](https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/pull/4958)
 
 ## v0.18.1 (2023-11-15)
diff --git a/examples/src/hello_compute/mod.rs b/examples/src/hello_compute/mod.rs
index beffdc7bbc..6b7cfa18e0 100644
--- a/examples/src/hello_compute/mod.rs
+++ b/examples/src/hello_compute/mod.rs
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ const OVERFLOW: u32 = 0xffffffff;
 
 #[cfg_attr(test, allow(dead_code))]
 async fn run() {
-    let numbers = if std::env::args().len() <= 1 {
+    let numbers = if std::env::args().len() <= 2 {
         let default = vec![1, 2, 3, 4];
         println!("No numbers were provided, defaulting to {default:?}");
         default