Infidel goes wild(blog.zarfhome.com)
172 points by tobr | 36 comments
Andrew Plotkin's blog post describing a wild pointer memory-corruption compiler bug he found in Infocom's game Infidel while building a memory-level debugger.
9 stories tagged bugs, newest first.
172 points by tobr | 36 comments
Andrew Plotkin's blog post describing a wild pointer memory-corruption compiler bug he found in Infocom's game Infidel while building a memory-level debugger.
30 points by dbg31415 | 22 comments
OSXDaily article offering troubleshooting tips for buggy or laggy Mission Control, Spaces, and Stage Manager in macOS 27.
126 points by ClydeN | 46 comments
Blog post describing a Windows bug where copying Video CD contents in Explorer stalls with transfer speed dropping to zero, with reproduction steps.
378 points by davidmckenna | 239 comments
Dan Luu essay arguing that most people encounter the same software bugs he does but fail to notice them, and that products often ship badly broken.
620 points by lwhsiao | 333 comments
A corrode.dev blog post by Matthias Endler about classes of bugs that Rust's compiler and type system do not prevent.
470 points by AshleysBrain | 68 comments
A Mastodon thread by Tom Forsyth recounting a time-travelling bug caused by a door in Half-Life 2 during development.
1052 points by ajdude | 1028 comments
Blog post by Eliseo Martelli arguing that Apple's software quality has declined, citing problems with his iPad Air M2 despite its premium hardware.
331 points by vpt | 222 comments
Android Authority article reporting that some Google Pixel phone owners continue to experience failures when trying to dial 911 in emergencies.
319 points by Decabytes | 199 comments
Blog post by Andreas Lundblad explaining a bug in his decade-old Stack Overflow answer, identified by a study as the most copied snippet into GitHub projects.