Ask HN:What's the oldest unresolved, and significant software bug you know of?

Posted by bwilli123 on Thursday August 12, 2021 @06:49AM
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What's the oldest unresolved, and significant software bug you know of?

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Re:Ask HN:What's the oldest unresolved, and significant soft... by Hackbraten on Thursday August 12, 2021 @07:06AM (#28154746)

If you open an Excel file on different platforms (Windows vs. Mac), date/time values will be four years off if the value was entered on the other platform.

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Re:Ask HN:What's the oldest unresolved, and significant soft... by reftel on Thursday August 12, 2021 @08:50AM (#28155590)

Selects via index occasionally does not find data when using serializable transaction isolation on Oracle, since about 25 years (see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11826368/oracle-select-i... )

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Re:Ask HN:What's the oldest unresolved, and significant soft... by cable2600 on Thursday August 12, 2021 @07:17AM (#28154821)

The Windows Blue Screen of Death. I don't think Microsoft will ever fix it.

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