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href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem">y2k</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://esolangs.org/wiki/Brainfuck">brainfuck</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://xkcd.com/327/">Little Bobby Tables</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers">TCP/IP over carrier pigeon</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem">year 2038 bug</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://meltdownattack.com/">spectre/meltdown</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%3F:">ternary operator</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_table">md5 rainbow tables</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/qkjv9x/a-catalogue-of-all-the-devices-that-can-somehow-run-doom">DOOM on a toaster</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-modifying_code">self-modifying code</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undefined_behavior">undefined behaviour</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation">hungarian notation</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.globalnerdy.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/poopy-swift-code-example.jpg">emoji variables</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_beacon">tracking pixels</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenbug">heisenbugs</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="http://wiki.c2.com/?PerlGolf">perl golf</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://flapenguin.me/xml-regex">parsing XML with a regex</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.linfo.org/tarbomb.html">tar bomb</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://humanwhocodes.com/blog/2010/01/12/history-of-the-user-agent-string/">all web browsers pretend to be each other</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side-channel_attack">sidechannel attacks</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/03/exploiting-dram-rowhammer-bug-to-gain.html">rowhammer</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogosort">bogosort</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithms/Sleep_sort">sleepsort</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="onTheIceberg"> <h2>On the iceberg</h2> <ul> <li class="monospace"><a target="_blank" href="https://bitsofco.de/javascript-typeof/#whatsthetypeofnan">typeof(NaN) === "number"</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)">quines</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://thenewstack.io/brendan-eich-on-creating-javascript-in-10-days-and-what-hed-do-differently-today/">javascript was designed in 10 days</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.gwern.net/Turing-complete">unintentionally Turing complete languages</a></li> <li class="monospace"><a target="_blank" href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/159491/why-did-the-command-make-my-system-lag-so-badly-i-had-to-reboot">:(){ :|:& };:</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24732961-400-frustration-with-excel-has-caused-geneticists-to-rename-some-genes/">human gene renaming due to MS Excel</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leading_zero#Zero_as_a_prefix">numbers that start with zero are interpreted as octal</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_backdoor">hardware backdoors</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://gist.github.com/timvisee/fcda9bbdff88d45cc9061606b4b923ca"><i>Falsehoods programmers believe about time</i></a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop_unrolling#Static/manual_loop_unrolling">manual loop unrolling</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal">the Sony BMG rootkit</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_of_death">ping of death</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machine#:~:text=The%20machine%20operates%20on%20an%20infinite[4]%20memory%20tape%20divided%20into%20discrete%20%22cells%22.">no computers are turing complete because memory is finite</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://superuser.com/a/1202556">fonts can be malicious</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine">Intel Management Engine</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="http://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles">the 500 mile email</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root#Overview_of_the_code">fast inverse square root</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat">the "Wat" talk</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://stackoverflow.com/q/3870088">"a monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors"</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(compilers)">self-hosting languages</a></li> <li class="monospace"><a target="_blank" href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/482129">total_hours_wasted_here = 42</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="belowTheWater"> <h2>Below the water</h2> <ul> <li class="monospace"><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EICAR_test_file">X5O!P%@AP[4\\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*\n</a></li> <li class="monospace"><a target="_blank" href="https://serverfault.com/questions/138951/what-is-usr-bin">/usr/bin/[</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug">the FDIV and F00F bugs</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdmODVYPDLA">magic the gathering is Turing complete</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Card">smart cards run Java</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="http://matt.might.net/articles/c++-template-meta-programming-with-lambda-calculus/">c++ templates are Turing complete</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lp0_on_fire">"lp0 is on fire"</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/">PHP's fractal of bad design</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Element/script">SVG supports JavaScript</a></li> <li class="monospace"><a target="_blank" href="https://stackoverflow.com/a/76801">array[i] == i[array]</a></li> <li class="monospace"><a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671">rm -rf $STEAM_ROOT/</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/osnr/horrifying-pdf-experiments">Postscript and PDF are Turing complete</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number">illegal numbers</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_ReflectionsonTrustingTrust.pdf">reflections on trusting trust</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL">INTERCAL</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyglot_(computing)">polyglot programs</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNjxe8ShM-8">Powerpoint is Turing complete</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_boot_attack">cold boot attack</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof">zero-knowledge proof</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://esolangs.org/wiki/Malbolge">malbolge</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking">Van Eck phreaking</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem">CAP theorem</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.fiftythree.org/etherkiller/">etherkiller</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2016/04/the-geographical-oddity-of-null-island/">null island</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="middleOfTheIceberg"> <h2>Middle of the iceberg</h2> <ul> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueType#Hinting_language">font hinting is Turing complete</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25">Therac-25</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.09665.pdf">adversarial patches</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="http://web.archive.org/web/20190331191157/https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sd601/papers/mov.pdf">x86 mov is Turing complete</a></li> <li class="monospace"><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume_licensing#Leaked_keys">FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html">PDP-10 "more magic" switch</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%27s_device">Duff's device</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hoare#Apologies_and_retractions">Tony Hoare's billion dollar mistake</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB6eY73sLV0">Super Mario Flappy Bird</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://evertpot.com/currencies-floats/">are floats for money really that bad?</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/249475/More_dirty_coding_tricks_from_game_developers.php#:~:text=Thanks%20for%20playing!">"Thank you for playing Wing Commander!"</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161/comments/28"><i>OpenOffice does not print on Tuesdays</i></a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://electronics.stackexchange.com/a/433003">square waves do not exist</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/0Z4aF-qiziM?t=3513">program code can be read by hand off decapped chips</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_bomb">42.zip</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="http://pepijndevos.nl/2016/08/24/x86-instruction-distribution.html">most cpu instructions are unused by compilers</a></li> <li class="monospace"><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMEFROM">COMEFROM</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digraphs_and_trigraphs#C">c trigraphs</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.revk.uk/2017/12/its-official-adsl-works-over-wet-string.html">ADSL over wet string</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://aphyr.com/posts/340-reversing-the-technical-interview">Aphyr's technical interviews</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_Week_Number_Rollover">gps week rollover</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/janhenrikh/status/910761819060531201">"das ist ein Game-Boy Advance..."</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="bottomOfTheIceberg"> <h2>Bottom of the iceberg</h2> <ul> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.gayle.com/blog/2015/5/31/the-problem-with-the-fizzbuzz-problem">no elegant solution to FizzBuzz exists</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://justine.lol/ape.html">Actually Portable Executable</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/mame/quine-relay#readme">ouroboros programs</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun">soviet ternary computers</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=83222">SQL raytracer</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://jamesseibel.com/the-story-of-mel/"><i>The Story of Mel</i></a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return-to-libc_attack">return to libc attack</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/CORS_enabled_image">tainted canvases</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="http://sigbovik.org/">SIGBOVIK</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_laughs_attack">billion laughs attack</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://gist.github.com/rjhansen/67ab921ffb4084c865b3618d6955275f#a-personal-postscript">"You fool. You absolute, unmitigated, unadulterated, complete and utter, fool."</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/the_strange_sto.html">Dual_EC_DRBG</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://i.redd.it/pjrpnjyynjtz.jpg">javascript's father, son, and holy spirit</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/42510/reverse-indentation">reverse indentation</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_poke">killer poke</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/why/implicit-typing-removed/">YAML vs Norway</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer#Etymology">HTTP referer header typo</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T273741">Wikimedia flower DDOS</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript">"The Birth and Death of JavaScript" predicted the future</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://hforsten.com/redefining-the-number-2-in-python.html">python number redefinition</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setjmp.h">non-local goto</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://suricrasia.online/unfiction/basilisk/"><i>The Basilisk Collection</i></a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="belowTheIceberg"> <h2>Below the iceberg</h2> <ul> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/2395">SAT solvers keep getting faster</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=663393">perl parsing is undecidable</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.jsfuck.com/">Jsfuck</a></li> <li class="monospace"><a target="_blank" href="https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/alloca.3.html">void *alloca(size_t size);</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86_instruction_listings">x86 instruction set is unbounded</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318911/why-does-html-think-chucknorris-is-a-color">chucknorris is an HTML color</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://wiki.c2.com/?ThereIsMoreThanOneWayToDoIt">TIMTOWTDI</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://arbital.com/p/fractional_bit/">fractional bits</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/64/cmake-raytracer">CMake raytracer</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undefined_behavior">nasal demons</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samy_(computer_worm)">"samy is my hero"</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/amitchowdhry/2015/05/29/apple-effective-power-bug/?sh=56707b5313ae">the Effective Power bug</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32127066/cross-language-string-escaping">cross-language string escaping</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=3592">MicroSD cards are Turing complete</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://suricrasia.online/no-knowledge.html">no-knowledge proof</a></li> <li class="monospace"><a target="_blank" href="https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/ActivityManager.html#isUserAMonkey()">isUserAMonkey();</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.eveonline.com/news/view/about-the-boot.ini-issue">EVE Online vs boot.ini</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.raid-recovery-guide.com/raid5-write-hole.aspx">RAID write hole</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/jbangert/trapcc#readme">page fault handling is Turing complete</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_machine">weird machine</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.cultofmac.com/546951/black-dot-of-death-bug/">black dot of death</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://vaibhavsagar.com/blog/2019/09/08/popcount/">POPCNT: the NSA instruction</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="deepWater"> <h2>Deep water</h2> <ul> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinating_Committee_for_Multilateral_Export_Controls#Legacy">GPS chip maximum speed</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)#Radiation-hardened">radiation hardened quines</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/sandsifter#readme">sandsifter</a></li> <li class="monospace"><a target="_blank" href="https://bitcoinexchangeguide.com/18-digit-number-mesmerizes-crypto-community-satoshis-genesis-block-mystery/">00000000000000000021e800c1e8df51b22c1588e5a624bea17e9faa34b2dc4a</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131439/keeping_the_pirates_at_bay.php">Spyro YOTD is booby-trapped</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle">Jazelle DBX</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotJava">HotJava</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=15493">all build systems</a> <a target="_blank" href="https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-34182">have a bug</a> <a target="_blank" href="https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56549">with unicode BOM</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/8_t41xvPp1w?t=897">airplane ticket mainframe pointers</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_ANT_catalog">NSA ANT catalog</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2016/11/0day-exploit-compromising-linux-desktop.html">exploiting linux with 6502 assembly on the NES</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gifar">GIFARs</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/">diverse double compiling</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/tCcvQQpEvl8?t=1169">Wii sensor bar LOLSERIAL</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://developer.arm.com/documentation/dui0801/g/A64-Floating-point-Instructions/FJCVTZS">FJCVTZS</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/S/scary-devil-monastery.html">the scary devil monastery</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/shafikyaghmour/status/991913614977060866">8 and 9 were valid octal digits in pre-ANSI C</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hardening#:~:text=Chip%20packaging%20materials%20were%20an%20insidious%20source%20of%20radiation%20that%20was%20found%20to%20be%20causing%20soft%20errors%20in%20new%20DRAM%20chips%20in%20the%201970s.">radioactive chip packaging materials</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/endrazine/wcc#readme">witchcraft compiler collection</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptography">kleptography</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ5MA685ApE">"Moving online webserver using public transport"</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DaveBaggett/20131031/203788/My_Hardest_Bug_Ever.php">Crash Bandicoot quantum corruption</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.rogdham.net/2017/03/12/gif-md5-hashquine.en">GIF MD5 hashquine</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="theAbyss"> <h2>The abyss</h2> <ul> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-EBCDIC">unicode on punch cards</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=4770">.fr-016c: fuenf (in your face)</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/coding-machines/"><i>Coding Machines</i></a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/recovery.html">Mario Wolczko's unix recovery</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23679063">WebMIDI permits arbitrary code execution</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/09/the_nsa_is_brea.html/#comment-202922">"I no longer trust the constants."</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html"><i>The Bitter Lesson</i></a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/42009">infinite loop inlining bug</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://rodneymbliss.com/2013/10/17/i-survived-bedlam3/">Bedlam3</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="http://prize.hutter1.net/">Alexander Rhatushnyak broke Kolmogorov complexity and won 8000 euros</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ClueBot_NG">ClueBot NG's emergency stop button</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.dampfkraft.com/posuto.html">The Infamous Japanese Postal CSV</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/woot11/tech/final_files/Goodspeed.pdf">Orson Welles' in-band signaling attack</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.linusakesson.net/scene/safevsp/index.php">C64 Safe VSP</a></li> <li class="monospace"><a target="_blank" href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190731-00/?p=102743">USERSEEUSERDO</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220530143751/https://folk.idi.ntnu.no/agnar/it272/pekere/local/newsci/primordial.html">Adrian Thomson's primordial silicon</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BANCStar_programming_language">BANCstar</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20200616-00/?p=103869">lost FOCAL interpreter</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.amirrorclear.net/academic/ideas/simulation/index.html">Toby Ord's "Complete Turing Machine"</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_data_in_China#GCJ-02">GCJ-02</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/suricrasia/status/1380651066778345478">"The single most useful macro in Praat"</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.nationalgeographic.org/thisday/sep9/worlds-first-computer-bug/">if your computer bug isn't a moth jammed in a relay, it's not a bug. it's just a sparkling error.</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/daisyowl/status/841806379962646532">computers are flattened sand with lightning inside</a></li> </ul> </div> <br/> <h2 id="morecursed">Additional Cursed Content</h2> <div class="bathysphere"> <h2>Supplemental Bathysphere #1 (February 2022)</h2> <ul> <li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are_switching_written_numbers_when_scanning">Lies, damned lies, and scans</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/denysdovhan/wtfjs">wtfjs</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="http://www.formauri.es/personal/pgimeno/compurec/Minesweeper.php">Minesweeper logic gates</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://gist.github.com/aras-p/6224951">preprocessor_fun</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.infoworld.com/article/3047177/how-one-yanked-javascript-package-wreaked-havoc.html">left-pad</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.wired.com/2016/06/50-million-hack-just-showed-dao-human/">The DAO</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/14/44#subj1 ">The FORTRAN-hating gateway</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet">stuxnet</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~robby/courses/322-2013-spring/mytkowicz-wrong-data.pdf">Producing Wrong Data Without Doing Anything Obviously Wrong!</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.qualys.com/2022/01/25/cve-2021-4034/pwnkit.txt">argc == 0</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/widgets/pngdiff/">ambiguous PNGs</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://thephd.dev/binary-banshees-digital-demons-abi-c-c++-help-me-god-please">Binary Banshees and Digital Demons</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://blog.pimaker.at/texts/rvc1/">Linux in a pixel shader</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/voTHFdL9S2k?t=348">ambiguous URLs</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.09982">Explaining the Entombed Algorithm</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.02124">Arbitrary Code Execution in the Universal Turing Machine</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://hugeh0ge.github.io/2019/11/04/Getting-Arbitrary-Code-Execution-from-fopen-s-2nd-Argument/">ace w/ fopen</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/Ux0YnVEaI6A?t=279">ubuntu鈥檚 surprisingly innocuous compiler bug</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1642028/what-is-the-operator-in-c-c">c++ "-->" operator</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=2725">A Turing Machine whose behavior is independent of ZFC</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://opensource.apple.com/source/cctools/cctools-822/misc/strip.c#:~:text=/*%0A%09%20*%20If%20there%20is,it%20would%20save.%0A%09%20*/">radr://5614542</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://youtu.be/H99CMUFPv0U?t=828">exact reals converge to 6, floats converge to 100</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://yarchive.net/comp/tales.html ">programming down on bare metal / head crash radio</a></li> </ul> </div> <br/> <div class="bathysphere2"> <h2>Supplemental Bathysphere #2 (June 2022)</h2> <ul> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lace_card">Lace card</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/sparrowgrine/status/1448387899024678923">Cursed computer memory hierarchy</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://fadden.com/tech/webtv-anecdotes.html#wrong-error">The wrong error message</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.hertzbleed.com/">Hertzbleed</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/Manuals/glibc-2.2.3/html_node/libc_78.html">strfry</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="http://jroweboy.github.io/c/asm/2015/01/26/when-is-main-not-a-function.html">main is <i>usually</i> a function</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://fouronnes.github.io/cppiceberg/">The C++ Iceberg</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/sinkhole">sinkhole</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-5.html">The Apple GPU and the Impossible Bug</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://blog.codinghorror.com/revisiting-the-black-sunday-hack/">Black Sunday Kill</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.beyondjava.net/what-about-monkey-patching-is-it-as-dangerous-as-they-say#but_adding_functionality_is_good_isnt_it">Array.prototype.contains</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyglot_(computing)">Polyglots</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/PaintYourDragon/status/1493477940352352257">80 columns</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://blog.nelhage.com/post/a-cursed-bug/">the liminal space between fork and exec</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://lwn.net/Articles/673724/">unexec</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/excel/wrongly-assumes-1900-is-leap-year">1900 is a leap year</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://wonko.com/post/html-escaping/">Escaping HTML</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/_MG_/status/916137290711183360">Mr Self Destruct</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_vexing_parse">The most vexing parse</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://aphyr.com/posts/173-monkeypatching-is-for-wimps-use-set-trace-fun">set_trace_func</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1058676834940776450">aux.h</a></li> <li><a target="_blank" href="https://www.acepace.net/integerQuiz/">C Integers Quiz</a></li> </ul> </div> <br/> <br/> </body> </html>