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.

Social Media, Technology, Bugs, Outages

10 points by mellosouls 34 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Hardware, Software, Gaming, Bugs, Performance

16 points by matt_d 37 days ago | 1 comments

Google Logo Ligature Bug (jefftk.com)
Jeffrey Yasskin recently pointed out an interesting security bug:

Google, Security, Bugs

134 points by cubefox 40 days ago | 42 comments

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.

Artificial Intelligence, Social Media, Bugs, Chatbots

10 points by testtestok 44 days ago | 2 comments

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...

Google Translate, Translation, Chinese, Programming Languages, Bugs

6 points by Karamazovian 56 days ago | 0 comments

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."

HTML, Web Development, Programming, Bugs

15 points by freetonik 59 days ago | 0 comments

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?

Windows, Operating Systems, Technical Issues, Performance, Bugs

507 points by zdw 60 days ago | 296 comments

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.

Linux, Operating Systems, Ubuntu, Bugs, Software Updates

5 points by wlkr 63 days ago | 0 comments

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.

iOS, Security, Bugs, Programming

5 points by thunderbong 70 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Software, Bugs, Security

4 points by tanelpoder 83 days ago | 1 comments

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.

File Systems, Operating Systems, DOS, Programming, Bugs

5 points by todsacerdoti 84 days ago | 0 comments

Install script does rm -RF /usr for Ubuntu (github.com/MrMEEE)

Security, Linux, Software, Bugs

13 points by tyleo 85 days ago | 0 comments

We found found the atop bug everyone is going crazy about (bismuth.sh)

Software, Bugs, Community

25 points by ianbutler 90 days ago | 2 comments

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.

Software, Security, Bugs

6 points by D-Coder 92 days ago | 2 comments

Setuptools version 78.0.1 breaks install of many packages (github.com/pypa)
When installing the "ansible-vault" package, setuptools raises this exception:

Python, Package Management, Software Development, Bugs

22 points by computronus 95 days ago | 12 comments

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)

AI, Programming, Bugs

54 points by anthropodie 99 days ago | 17 comments

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.

Security, Apple, iOS, Bugs, Phishing

35 points by quyleanh 101 days ago | 6 comments

Strangest AMD Ryzen 7950x Bug (hjr265.me)
I upgraded my primary computer to the AMD AM5 platform sometime in mid-2023.

Hardware, AMD, Ryzen, Bugs

4 points by ingve 111 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Google, Software, Mobile Phones, Bugs, Updates

3 points by naomiclarkson 119 days ago | 1 comments

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, iPhone, Bugs, Technology, Language Models

7 points by beardyw 121 days ago | 3 comments

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.

Apple, Bugs, Artificial Intelligence, Software, Language

30 points by cwmartin 122 days ago | 23 comments

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.

Gaming, Mobile Games, iOS, Bugs, Final Fantasy

29 points by latexr 134 days ago | 4 comments

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.

Cybersecurity, Networking, Software Updates, Bugs, Zyxel

3 points by belter 149 days ago | 1 comments

Google Pixel 4a's old firmware is gone, trapping users on buggy battery update (androidcentral.com)

Google Pixel, Software Updates, Bugs, Mobile Phones, Android

315 points by bmaupin 149 days ago | 362 comments

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.

Software, Bugs, Price Tracking, E-commerce

7 points by duxup 155 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Security, Apple, XNU, Kernel, Bugs

148 points by jprx 155 days ago | 41 comments

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.

ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence, Technology, OpenAI, Bugs

3 points by HiroProtagonist 155 days ago | 0 comments

Software Folklore (tuxen.de)
Sometimes bugs have symptoms beyond belief. This is a collection of such stories from around the web.

Software, Programming, Bugs, Anecdotes, Technology

149 points by ColinWright 166 days ago | 32 comments

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.

Windows 11, Software, Bugs, Technology, Microsoft

4 points by jnord 175 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Software, Web Development, Programming, Bugs, API

6 points by threepointone 175 days ago | 5 comments