Hacker News with Generative AI: Software Bugs

An alarmingly bad official Ubuntu 24.04 bpftrace binary package (utoronto.ca)
Bpftrace is a more or less official part of Ubuntu; it's even in the Ubuntu 24.04 'main' repository, as opposed to one of the less supported ones. So I'll present things in the traditional illustrated form (slightly edited for line length reasons):

Linux, Ubuntu, Software Bugs, Security

7 points by emegeve83 18 days ago | 0 comments

Software Bugs Led to 'One of the Greatest Miscarriages of Justice' (cacm.acm.org)
In a Kafkaesque nightmare come true, nearly 1,000 individuals who ran local post offices in the U.K. were wrongly convicted of stealing money from those operations between 1999 and 2015 as a Fujitsu software system known as Horizon erroneously showed imbalances in their accounts.

Software Bugs, Legal Issues, Technology, Justice System, United Kingdom

32 points by adunk 42 days ago | 9 comments

High speed "Avril" trains in Spain stop operating due to Y2K25 bug (rtve.es)
Renfe suspende la circulación de los trenes Talgo Avril por un fallo informático

Transportation, Software Bugs, Spain, Technology

5 points by asp1 50 days ago | 0 comments

New Google Sheet on half of 13.6" MacBook Air screen is fully covered by popups (imgur.com)

Macbook Air, Google Sheets, Software Bugs, User Interface, Popups

188 points by kaonwarb 60 days ago | 88 comments

Backward-incompatible GRUB2 change causing BIOS setup bootloop (op-co.de)
Exactly one year ago, after updating a bunch of Debian packages, my laptop stopped booting Linux. Instead, it briefly showed the GRUB banner, then rebooted into the BIOS setup. On every startup. Reproducibly. Last Friday 13th, I was bitten by this bug again, on a machine running Kali Linux, and had to spend an extra hour at work to fix it.

Linux, Bootloaders, Software Bugs

97 points by ge0rg 66 days ago | 16 comments

Coder wrote a bug so bad security guards wanted a word when he arrived at work (theregister.com)
Working for a startup is supposed to end with getting rich overnight, but not like this

Software Bugs, Security, Startups, Work Culture

135 points by amalinovic 66 days ago | 66 comments

Breaking out of VRChat using a Unity bug (khang06.github.io)
This vulnerability is patched in VRChat 2024.3.1p4 and Unity 6000.0.20f1, 2022.3.48f1 and 2021.3.44f1.

Virtual Reality, Gaming, Security, Software Bugs, Unity

42 points by sonixier 88 days ago | 5 comments

A BBC navigation bar component broke depending on the external monitor (joshtumath.uk)
Recently, my team and I fixed an absolutely bizarre bug that only one person in the team could reproduce. And to make it even weirder, she was only able to reproduce the issue when using her work laptop at home; it worked fine with the same laptop in the office.

Web Development, Software Bugs, Remote Work

294 points by ulrischa 94 days ago | 120 comments

macOS Sequoia "autocorrects" .sql extension to .sql.s (github.com/zed-industries)
Whenever I save a file a name it e.g. test.sql, zed saves it as test.sql.s without notifying me. I have no option to disable that behaviour. It doesn't matter wether I selected SQL syntax or not.

macOS, Software Bugs, Programming, File Extensions

6 points by ncts 98 days ago | 0 comments

YouTube in Android introduces UI bugs (play.google.com)

YouTube, Android, Software Bugs, UI/UX

22 points by samanator 100 days ago | 33 comments

Escaping the Chrome Sandbox Through DevTools (ading.dev)
This blog post details how I found CVE-2024-6778 and CVE-2024-5836, which are vulnerabilities within the Chromium web browser which allowed for a sandbox escape from a browser extension (with a tiny bit of user interaction). Eventually, Google paid me $20,000 for this bug report.

Security, Web Browsers, Chrome, Vulnerability Research, Software Bugs

407 points by vk6 127 days ago | 77 comments

BBC Weather app bug suggests hurricane winds in UK (bbc.co.uk)
The BBC Weather website and app are experiencing a data fault issue - leading to incorrect forecasts of hurricane force winds in the UK and across the globe.

Weather, Software Bugs, United Kingdom, BBC

11 points by LiamPa 133 days ago | 9 comments

Microsoft Word now deletes some documents on Save (microsoft.com)
Users may encounter an issue in version 2409 where their file is deleted after save if the title contains a capitalized file extension (.DOCX, .RTF) or #. The issue occurs after making an edit to the file and saving when prompted after trying to close Word.

Microsoft Word, Software Bugs, File Management

9 points by taspeotis 138 days ago | 2 comments

YouTube mistakenly bans accounts and removes channels for "spam" (9to5google.com)
Over the past few hours, YouTube appears to have accidentally removed channels and banned accounts for violating its “spam, deceptive practices, and scams policy” even for users that have never uploaded videos in what looks to be a bug.

YouTube, Software Bugs, Social Media, Online Platforms

5 points by maxwell 139 days ago | 0 comments

CrowdStrike's Blue Screen blunder: Could eBPF have saved the day? (theregister.com)
"Interview The CrowdStrike chaos was caused by software running riot in the Windows kernel after an update tripped up the code. eBPF is a useful tool for kernel tracing and observability, but could it have mitigated the CrowdStrike incident?"

Cybersecurity, Software Bugs, Operating Systems, Kernel Development

4 points by LinuxBender 147 days ago | 0 comments

Android Google App crashing due to color parsing error (reddit.com)
Can anybody ask me why Google app keeps crashing all the sudden? It was working fine and then it keeps stopping the app.

Android, Mobile Apps, Software Bugs, Google

17 points by sebmellen 159 days ago | 2 comments

Google Search app on Android keeps crashing in widespread bug (9to5google.com)
On Saturday evening (PT), a large number of Android users are seeing the Google app repeatedly crash (“Google keeps stopping”) when they attempt to search.

Android, Mobile Apps, Google, Software Bugs, Technology

13 points by nortonham 159 days ago | 0 comments

Microsoft says its Recall uninstall option in Windows 11 is just a bug (theverge.com)

Windows 11, Software Bugs, Microsoft

20 points by ssahoo 171 days ago | 15 comments

Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator (wojtczyk.de)

Apple, Software Bugs, iOS

631 points by wojtczyk 174 days ago | 395 comments

The 1 Hour per Year Bug, but only in Pacific time (tomeraberba.ch)

Programming, Time Zones, Software Bugs

74 points by tomeraberbach 188 days ago | 61 comments

CrowdStrike update that caused global outage likely skipped checks (reuters.com)