Hacker News with Generative AI: Software Bugs

WatchOS 11 Bugs Are Driving Me Crazy (mertbulan.com)
I’ve been using my Apple Watch Series 9 for over a year now, and honestly, it’s one of the best choices I’ve made for my health.
WatchOS, Apple Watch, Software Bugs
4 points by mertbio 23 hours ago | 2 comments
How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2 (cookieplmonster.github.io)
On the SilentPatch GitHub issue tracker, I received a rather specific bug report:
Gaming, Software Bugs, Operating Systems
1345 points by yett 3 days ago | 295 comments
Programs compiled with recent D compiler are broken in macOS 15.4 (github.com/dlang)
In the latest upcoming macOS update, any D application currently crashes during runtime initialization.
Programming, macOS, Software Bugs
5 points by croemer 20 days ago | 0 comments
Cursed Excel: "1/2"+1=45660 (quadratichq.com)
Cursed Excel: “1/2”+1=45660
Microsoft Excel, Programming Errors, Data Analysis, Software Bugs
136 points by jimniels 23 days ago | 134 comments
Ask HN: Is Cursor deleting working code for you too or is it just me? (ycombinator.com)
Cursor seems to mess up 3 times a day for me.
Programming, Software Bugs, User Experience, Software Development
85 points by namanyayg 49 days ago | 81 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, Software Bugs, Artificial Intelligence, Language Models, Technology
53 points by ksec 59 days ago | 32 comments
Apple to fix iPhone dictation bug that replaces word 'racist' with 'Trump' (newsweek.com)
A glitch on the voice-to-text feature on Apple iPhones is causing the name "Trump" to appear when a user says the word "racist."
Apple, Software Bugs, iPhones, Dictation, AI
36 points by denuoweb 59 days ago | 33 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, Technology, Software Bugs, Language Models
14 points by cft 59 days ago | 10 comments
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 83 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 107 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 115 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 124 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 131 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 131 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 152 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 159 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 163 days ago | 0 comments
YouTube in Android introduces UI bugs (play.google.com)
YouTube, Android, Software Bugs, UI/UX
22 points by samanator 165 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 191 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 198 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 202 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 204 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 212 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 223 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 223 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 235 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 238 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 253 days ago | 61 comments
CrowdStrike update that caused global outage likely skipped checks (reuters.com)
Cybersecurity, Software Bugs, Global Outage
8 points by JumpCrisscross 279 days ago | 9 comments
"Any sufficiently bad software update is indistinguishable from a cyberattack" (twitter.com)
Software Updates, Cybersecurity, Software Bugs, Humor
180 points by peter_d_sherman 279 days ago | 120 comments