entzug/awesome-bugs

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

Awesome Bugs

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

• 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 and an Adam Neely video)

Other Kind-of-Similar Lists

• Dan Luu's Debugging Stories
• umutphp's Famous Bugs
• Wikipedia's List of Software Bugs
• Russell Davidson's Specification Gaming Examples in AI

Contributing

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!