Code Curiosities

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Ever wonder why your phone battery dies faster in winter, or how Netflix knows exactly what you want to watch? Code Curiosities dives into the fascinating stories behind the tech we use every day, revealing the surprising science and clever engineering that makes our digital world tick.

  1. 1 天前

    The Midnight Glitch: How a Four-Byte Bug Nearly Blew Up the Internet's Clock

    On January 19, 2038, every computer still running 32-bit time will simultaneously believe it's December 13, 1901 — and we're closer to that deadline than you think. This week we dig into the Y2K-style time bomb quietly ticking inside billions of devices, from hospital equipment to infrastructure systems, and meet the engineers racing to fix it before the clock runs out. Spoiler: the reason this bug exists is both completely logical and absolutely bananas. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    29 分鐘

  2. 5 天前

    The Spreadsheet That Crashed a Country: How a Single Excel Error Rewrote Economic History

    In 2010, two Harvard economists published a paper that became the bible for global austerity policy — used to justify cuts that affected millions of people across dozens of countries. The entire argument rested on a single Excel spreadsheet with one formula that skipped five rows. We dig into how a rookie data mistake became one of the most consequential errors in modern economic history, and why it took a grad student three years to find it. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    33 分鐘

  3. 6 天前

    The Copy-Paste Job: How One Stolen Password Let a Temp Worker Accidentally Redesign the Internet

    In 1988, a graduate student released what he called a harmless experiment onto the early internet — and within 24 hours, had accidentally brought it to its knees. We dig into the Morris Worm, the world's first major cyberattack, and the surprisingly human chain of oops-moments that turned a curious side project into a federal crime, a Senate hearing, and the reason your company makes you change your password every 90 days. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    30 分鐘

  4. 6月19日

    The Misclick That Moved Markets: How a Single Fat-Fingered Trade Wiped $1 Trillion in 36 Minutes

    On May 6, 2010, the US stock market lost nearly a trillion dollars in value in under forty minutes — then mysteriously recovered almost all of it before the closing bell. The culprit wasn't a hacker, a foreign government, or even a rogue algorithm doing something unexpected; it was a perfectly ordinary trading system doing exactly what it was designed to do, just at the absolute worst moment. This week we pull apart the Flash Crash to reveal how the plumbing beneath our financial markets is a patchwork of decade-old assumptions that can unravel faster than any human can react. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    30 分鐘

  5. 6月18日

    The Freeze That Crashed a Rocket: How a Single Leap Second Has Caused More Chaos Than Most Cyberattacks

    Once every few years, the world's timekeepers secretly add an extra second to the clock — and every time they do, the internet quietly has a small crisis. From Reddit going dark to a $350 million stock trading meltdown to a GPS glitch that nearly grounded planes, this is the story of why keeping computers synchronized with Earth's slightly-wobbly rotation is a genuinely unsolved problem. It turns out 'what time is it, exactly?' is one of the hardest questions in tech. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    30 分鐘

  6. 6月17日

    The Astronaut Who Accidentally CC'd the Whole Internet: How Reply-All Broke a Space Agency

    In 1997, a single misaddressed email at NASA spiraled into a 45-minute network blackout that grounded real mission work — and it wasn't the last time 'Reply All' brought a giant organization to its knees. This week we dig into the beautiful chaos of email, why a technology designed to be simple has caused billions of dollars in damage, and the surprisingly human reason your inbox still works exactly the way it did in 1971. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    32 分鐘

  7. 6月15日

    The QWERTY Conspiracy: How a Salesman's Lie Became Your Keyboard Forever

    Think QWERTY was designed to slow you down so typewriters wouldn't jam? That's complete nonsense—but the real story is even weirder. We're diving into how a clever salesman's demo trick from the 1870s accidentally became the layout on every device you'll ever own, and why we're probably stuck with it forever. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    17 分鐘

  8. 6月14日

    The $125 Million Comma: How a Typo Crashed a Spacecraft and Changed Programming Forever

    In 1962, a single misplaced punctuation mark in NASA's code sent the Mariner 1 spacecraft careening off course, forcing its destruction just minutes after launch. We explore how this legendary programming blunder led to modern software testing practices and why the most expensive typo in history wasn't actually a comma at all. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    13 分鐘
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簡介

Ever wonder why your phone battery dies faster in winter, or how Netflix knows exactly what you want to watch? Code Curiosities dives into the fascinating stories behind the tech we use every day, revealing the surprising science and clever engineering that makes our digital world tick.

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  • 創作者
    Podcaster
  • 活躍年代
    2026年
  • 集數
    60
  • 年齡分級
    兒少適宜
  • 節目網站
    Code Curiosities