Cosmic rays flipping bits: changing election results and aircraft nosedive (youtube.com) 1 points by random_walker 4y ago ↗ HN
[–] Tomte 4y ago ↗ Fun fact: bit-flips in microcontrollers usually don't originate with cosmic radiation, but with chip packaging which is (or can be) very slightly radioactive. [–] geoah 4y ago ↗ A pretty bad edge case with an old intel cpu was mentioned in the linked video as well.An interesting case of bitflips also came up a couple of months back having to do with google’s certificate transparency log. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27728287
[–] geoah 4y ago ↗ A pretty bad edge case with an old intel cpu was mentioned in the linked video as well.An interesting case of bitflips also came up a couple of months back having to do with google’s certificate transparency log. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27728287
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 16.9 ms ] threadAn interesting case of bitflips also came up a couple of months back having to do with google’s certificate transparency log. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27728287