Hacker News with Generative AI: Bugs

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 15 hours 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 8 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 21 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 21 days ago | 0 comments

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

Security, Linux, Software, Bugs

13 points by tyleo 22 days ago | 0 comments

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

Software, Bugs, Community

25 points by ianbutler 27 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 29 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 33 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 37 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 38 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 49 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 57 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 59 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 59 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 71 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 87 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 87 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 92 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 92 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 93 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 104 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 112 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 113 days ago | 5 comments

Déjà vu: Ghostly CVEs in my terminal title (dgl.cx)
Exploring a security bug in Ghostty that is eerily familiar.

Security, Linux, Bugs

208 points by dgl 115 days ago | 55 comments

Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports written by AI (theregister.com)
Software vulnerability submissions generated by AI models have ushered in a "new era of slop security reports for open source" – and the devs maintaining these projects wish bug hunters would rely less on results produced by machine learning assistants.

Software, Open Source, AI, Security, Bugs

155 points by Bluestein 123 days ago | 119 comments

A twenty-five years old curl bug (haxx.se)
I have talked about old curl bugs before, but now we have a new curl record.

Software, Security, Bugs

10 points by TangerineDream 135 days ago | 0 comments

An unusual Google Keyboard bug (weiyen.net)
There's a subtle bug that happens when you're using Gboard (the Google keyboard) on Android on certain websites.

Android, Google Keyboard, Bugs, Software

110 points by yen223 169 days ago | 29 comments

Secure Custom Fields can't even steal the changelog entry properly (twitter.com)

Security, Software, Programming, Bugs

10 points by ValentineC 175 days ago | 0 comments

"Bush hid the facts" bug (wikipedia.org)
"Bush hid the facts" is a common name for a bug present in Microsoft Windows which causes text encoded in ASCII to be interpreted as if it were UTF-16LE, resulting in garbled text.

Software, Bugs, Microsoft Windows

39 points by aduffy 179 days ago | 0 comments

Tell HN: macOS Sequoia Preview app adds random passwords to PDFs upon Saving (ycombinator.com)
This bug was originally fixed but it's back again: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/436596/preview-automatically-password-protects-pdf-when-saving

macOS, Security, Bugs, PDF, Software

10 points by behnamoh 185 days ago | 0 comments