13 stories tagged software-bugs, newest first.
60 points by jllyhill | 5 comments
Marcin Wichary's archived 2021 Twitter thread explaining how a Figma Shift+numpad bug on Windows traces back to IBM PC keyboard Num Lock design decisions.
390 points by SquareOrbits | 279 comments
A personal blog post cataloguing bugs the author encountered in Apple's macOS 27 Golden Gate, comparing its stability-focused pitch to Snow Leopard.
474 points by logicprog | 478 comments
A data analysis of rsync releases measuring bugs per 10 commits with a permutation test to assess whether Claude-assisted development increased bugs.
394 points by henrygarner | 187 comments
JUXT blog post by CTO Henry Garner describing how writing a specification uncovered an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code.
803 points by nhod | 348 comments
A website cataloging long-standing Apple software bugs and estimating the total time humanity has wasted because Apple hasn't fixed them.
477 points by beyarkay | 358 comments
Blog essay explaining why common beliefs about fixing bugs in regular software don't apply to AI systems like ChatGPT, aimed at technical readers.
426 points by minki_the_avali | 184 comments
A forum post on LenOwO describing how the original DOOM engine crashed after running for 2.5 years on real hardware due to an ever-incrementing demo variable.
419 points by lemper | 255 comments
A Daily WTF feature article by Remy Porter recounting the Therac-25 radiation therapy machine incidents and the software failures behind them.
338 points by ingve | 116 comments
Rogue Amoeba blog post by Paul Kafasis recounting how a software bug ended up saving the Mac software company.
589 points by wojtczyk | 363 comments
A personal blog post describing a display bug in Apple's Calculator app that made the author initially doubt his eyesight.
445 points by sjr1 | 419 comments
Ask HN thread where users share leap day bugs they encountered, such as billing overcharges and failing date-based unit tests.
460 points by MBCook | 227 comments
Ars Technica article reporting that bugs in Fujitsu's Horizon system, which led to wrongful prosecutions of UK Post Office workers, were known from the start.
910 points by MallocVoidstar | 322 comments
Mozilla Bugzilla entry for bug 148624, where Firefox tooltips persisted in the foreground when the browser was in the background, resolved fixed after 22 years.