https://github.com/Julian/awesome-bugs

A collection of bizarre, funny or obscure bugs in our software and hardware
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A collection of bizarre, funny or obscure bugs in our software and hardware

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/Julian/awesome-bugs
• Owner: Julian
• License: cc0-1.0
• Created: 2020-04-29T23:47:45.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-07-08T17:34:13.000Z (4 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-28T09:10:35.325Z (4 months ago)
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• Size: 49.8 KB
• Stars: 122
• Watchers: 7
• Forks: 6
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: README.rst
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
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Awesome Bugs

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This repository contains a collection of "awesome", funny, obscure or unfortunate bugs in our software or hardware.

Some day it may become a talk. Or perhaps a blarg post.

The Bugs

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* `Open Office Won't Print on Tuesdays `_

* `We Can't Send Email Farther Than 500 Miles `_

* `Print This File, Your Printer Will Jam `_

* `Pokemon Sword and Shield are Crashing Roku Devices `_

* `I Can't Install Python Packages In Portugal. Disable IPv6 to Fix `_

* `GitHub Satanically Messing With Markdown - Changes 666 to DCLXVI `_

* `The Infinite Loop That Wasnt `_

* Ocarina of Time, any% -- all of it

* `MacBook Pro Runs Hot When Charged On the Right Side and Not Left `_

* `Python 2 Can't Compile Bytecode Past 2038 `_ (The `Year 2038 Problem `_)

* `IRS Site Only Delivers Stimulus Status When COERCED `_

* `Reboot Your Boeing 787 Every 248 Days `_ (and maybe `reboot your Windows 98 `_ too).

* `Tay, The Racist AI Bot `_

* `Nuclear Gandhi `_

* `pytest Hangs Forever Every 50th or 150th or ...th Run `_

* `How I Cut GTA Online Loading Times by 70% `_

* `The Racist Soap Dispenser `_

* `The Zune Bug on 2008-12-31 `_

* A Haskell Compiler, Albeit a Dev Version, `Really Really Wants Your Code to Type Check `_

* Dwarf Fortress `kills cats `_ (`creator interview here `_)

* `A strangely long second on 1927-12-31 in Shanghai `_

* `Using OCR to Fix a Hilarious Bug `_

* `Seattle Mazda drivers can't change the radio dial `_

* `All you need for Russell's paradox is a big enough universe `_

* `Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers `_ (with a `CVE `_, an `Adam Neely video `_ and a `follow-up by 99% Invisible `_)

* `One pixel to make a bus look like a bear? `_

* `Pentium FDIV Bug `_

* `Debugging an evil Go runtime bug with an heat gun `_

* `print(“lol”) doubled the speed of my Go function `_

* `Reptar in your CPU `_

* `Gusto's Weirdest Bug `_

* `I broke IKEA `_

Other Kind-of-Similar Lists

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* `Dan Luu's Debugging Stories `_

* `umutphp's Famous Bugs `_

* `Wikipedia's List of Software Bugs `_

* `Russell Davidson's Specification Gaming Examples in AI `_

* `Adversarial Machine Learning `_

Contributing

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If you know of a bug that should be on this list, please do send a pull request!

My bias in the list is towards bugs that are more "how is that even possible" kinds of bugs than pure "face-palming" bugs, though sometimes the line between the two is blurry.

But e.g., the Gemini 5 spacecraft crashed because it had the wrong value for an important constant used to fly it -- a terrible and critical bug, but not one for the list above.

The bias is also towards technical detail, so bug reports over storytelling.

If there are both available for a particular bug, definitely include the bug report and diagnosis.

But any bug so interesting it's questionable for inclusion is worth considering!