Hacker News with Generative AI: Bugs

X continues to suffer bugs following Thursday outage (techcrunch.com)
For over 24 hours, many X users, including this reporter, have been experiencing issues with the site’s basic functionality.
Oodle 2.9.14 and Intel 13th/14th gen CPUs (wordpress.com)
There’s a hardware problem affecting Intel 13th/14th gen CPUs, mostly desktop ones. This made the rounds through the press last year and has been on forums etc. for much longer than that. For months, we thought this was a rare bug in the decoder, but from stats in Epic’s crash reports for Fortnite (as well as stats for other Unreal Engine and Oodle licensees) it was fairly striking that this issue really seemed to affect only some CPUs.
Google Logo Ligature Bug (jefftk.com)
Jeffrey Yasskin recently pointed out an interesting security bug:
Grok Acting Out of Order (techcrunch.com)
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok appeared to experience a bug on Wednesday that caused it to reply to dozens of posts on X with information about “white genocide” in South Africa, even when the user didn’t ask anything about the subject.
Google Translate gives results when translating from Chinese (reddit.com)
If you translate from French to Chinese on google translate, but type Chinese in the French section, you get weird translations...
The weirdest HTML feature (or bug?): display your head (lapcatsoftware.com)
According to the Mozilla Developer Network web docs, "The head of an HTML document is the part that is not displayed in the web browser when the page is loaded."
Why did Windows 7 log on slower for months if you had a solid color background? (microsoft.com)
Why did Windows 7, for a few months, log on slower if you have a solid color background?
Ubuntu 25.04 upgrades halted due to Kubuntu users getting a broken desktop (gamingonlinux.com)
This is a bit of a major woopsie. The upgrade path for the latest Ubuntu 25.04 release has been pulled offline, as it has resulted in Kubuntu users seeing a broken desktop.
iOS 18.4 – dlsym considered harmful (synacktiv.com)
Last week, Apple released iOS 18.4 on all supported iPhones. On devices supporting PAC (pointer authentication), we came across a strange bug during some symbols resolution using dlsym(). This blogpost details our observations and the root cause of the problem.
Panic averted: It was just a bug in Atop after all (theregister.com)
Okay, first off, everybody breathe. Everyone is freaking out. This is not the way to do this.
The FAT12 File Truncation Bug (brutman.com)
A few weeks ago I was doing some research on the FAT12 and FAT16 filesystems in an attempt to improve my NetDrive code, and I found a bug that can lead to a perfectly valid file being truncated when you move from DOS 2.x to later versions of DOS.
Install script does rm -RF /usr for Ubuntu (github.com/MrMEEE)
We found found the atop bug everyone is going crazy about (bismuth.sh)
RachelByTheBay: Atop issue is just a bug (theregister.com)
Rachel Kroll has clarified the Atop alarm: Turns out it was just a weird little bug, and it's probably already been fixed.
Setuptools version 78.0.1 breaks install of many packages (github.com/pypa)
When installing the "ansible-vault" package, setuptools raises this exception:
Claude Tried to Nuke My Home Directory (reddit.com)
Claude Tried To Nuke My HomeProof: Claude is failing. Here are the SCREENSHOTS as proof (self.ClaudeAI)
Apple has revealed a Passwords app vulnerability that lasted for months (theverge.com)
Apple fixed a bug in the iOS 18.2 Passwords app that, for three months starting with the release of iOS 18, made users vulnerable to phishing attacks, according to an Apple security content update spotted by 9to5Mac.
Strangest AMD Ryzen 7950x Bug (hjr265.me)
I upgraded my primary computer to the AMD AM5 platform sometime in mid-2023.
Google will fix (but broken) song detection feature for Pixels (arstechnica.com)
Google broke the feature last year, and it's taken months of complaints to get this far.
Apple to fix iPhone dictation bug that replaces word 'racist' with 'Trump' (theguardian.com)
Apple has promised to fix a bug in its iPhone automatic dictation tool after some users reported it had suggested to them “Trump” when they said the word “racist”.
Apple's Dictation System Transcribes the Word 'Racist' as 'Trump' (nytimes.com)
While using Apple’s automatic dictation feature to send messages on Tuesday, some iPhone users reported seeing a peculiar bug: the word “racist” temporarily appearing as “Trump,” before quickly correcting itself.
Final Fantasy iOS game shuts down over unfixable bug (theverge.com)
Square Enix has shut down the iOS version of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles and removed it from the App Store following an unfixable bug that blocked people from accessing content they had paid for.
Zyxel firewalls borked by buggy update, on-site access required for fix (theregister.com)
Zyxel customers are dealing with a range of issues including reboot loops after an update on Friday went awry.
Google Pixel 4a's old firmware is gone, trapping users on buggy battery update (androidcentral.com)
Oops Our Bug Created a Stampede of Price Watches (camelcamelcamel.com)
If you noticed some strange behavior in your price watches recently, like duplicate alerts popping up out of nowhere, you’re not losing it. That’s on us. We had a little hiccup (okay, a big hiccup) with our system, and here’s the story.
Susctl CVE-2024-54507: A particularly 'sus' sysctl in the XNU kernel (jprx.io)
Every time Apple releases a new version of XNU, I run a custom suite of tests under an address sanitizer to see if I can spot any regressions, or even possibly new bugs.
ChatGPT goes down as OpenAI scrambles to fix bug (nypost.com)
ChatGPT, the popular artificial intelligence-powered bot, had been experiencing outages early on Thursday morning, according to tech giant OpenAI.
Software Folklore (tuxen.de)
Sometimes bugs have symptoms beyond belief. This is a collection of such stories from around the web.
A New Year's surprise from Microsoft: Scanners stop working (theregister.com)
Windows 11 24H2 is still causing problems with multifunction devices despite Microsoft marking an issue with the eSCL scan protocol as resolved.
Say Goodbye to Outdated Footer Years, Forever (getfullyear.com)
Service degradation: Our API is occasionally returning 2024 instead of 2025. Our intern is investigating and working on a fix. We apologize for any inconvenience.