[HN Gopher] Ask HN: What's the weirdest bug you ever had?
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Ask HN: What's the weirdest bug you ever had?
What's the weirdest bug you have encountered? For me, it occurred
during university on an assignment. We were supposed to create a
SOAP C# integration, and I kept receiving the same error. I spent
three days trying to resolve it, finding only two pages on the
internet that detailed the bug--one in Russian and one in Chinese.
When I finally asked my professor, he simply mentioned, "Oh, you
just installed the wrong version." Yeah... the wrong version. I
never figured out why this was a problem.
Author : martinbaun
Score : 7 points
Date : 2024-06-14 21:09 UTC (1 hours ago)
| ahfeah7373 wrote:
| Our JSP server would crash but only when the moons of Jupiter
| were aligned and the bakery across the street was serving the
| blueberry scone (CNR with the ham & cheese)
| martinbaun wrote:
| sounds like a delicious bug, Klaus Schwab would be proud :D
| mtmail wrote:
| Reminds me of the recent
| https://x.com/CupiaBart/status/1793930355617259811
|
| Engineers train a AI model to play an old game. One day their
| AI performs worse, on multiple hardware. Turns out the game has
| extra logic when it's full moon. "The player character is
| luckier, werewolves appear in their animal form, and the dogs
| howl ominously"
| helph67 wrote:
| Our health database was being used in many states but one
| hospital reported error messages of "Invalid patient postcode" to
| our Client Support. C.L. couldn't duplicate the problem so I was
| sent to investigate, after checking that our same version was not
| giving the same errors. Long story --> Short; the operator
| inputting the postcode data was had been using `l' instead of
| '1'. The font in use made it difficult to detect the differences.
| martinbaun wrote:
| These are annoying. Reminds of two bugs I had as well.
|
| 1. One guy used tabs instead of spaces for fun and we couldn't
| find the records. 2. One.... "person" decided to put some
| values as null, for fun. :D Didn't break the system, but the
| client thought it was a bug.
| slyall wrote:
| Around 2000 I worked for an ISP. We had some customers reporting
| that they couldn't get to some websites. Narrowed it down
| customers who were: * Running Mac OS 9 (not Mac
| OS X) * dialed into an Ascend NAS (Not other vendors)
| * Assigned a Dynamic IP * Accessing ASP-based websites
|
| they would get a blank page on the website.
|
| We actually had a computer in the office we could replicate it on
| but gave up at that point since we didn't have something to debug
| the network traffic. For the single-digit number of customers we
| gave them static IPs or something.
| romanhn wrote:
| Once upon a time I had to track down an issue where very rarely,
| with no discernible pattern the web app would produce garbled
| PDFs. We would restart all servers, everything would be fine for
| a month or two, then random bad output. Turned out this happened
| when an admin account remotely connected to an app server, which
| caused a reset of default screen resolution (only for admin
| accounts, not regular remote connections), which messed up the
| PDF library that relied on a specific resolution (it was HTML-to-
| PDF conversion). Lived with it for a couple of years at least
| before tracking down the root cause (after many many failed
| attempts). The fact that only the server with the reset
| resolution caused the problem confounded the issue.
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