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OUTDATED!!!!! - Replaced by "The Bumblebee Project" and "Ironhide"

49 mentions on Hacker News by 49 people: 10 stories, 39 comments · first 2012-02-21 · latest 2026-10-06

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  1. ▲ 5
    Install script does rm -rf /usr (2011)
    story by colinprince · 2026-10-06 · 1 comment
  2. …all of /usr and then fail to delete a non-existent directory at /lib/nvidia-current/xorg/xorg 0: https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commi...
    comment by extraduder_ire · 2026-01-30 · in The Hallucination Defense
  3. ▲ 2
    Install script does rm -RF /usr for Ubuntu
    story by oli5679 · 2025-11-03 · 0 comments
  4. ▲ 13
    Install script does rm -RF /usr for Ubuntu
    story by tyleo · 2025-04-03 · 0 comments
  5. Reminds me of this: https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issue...
    comment by udev4096 · 2025-03-23 · in When you deleted /lib on Linux while still connected via SSH (2022)
  6. I could have been worse https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issue...
    comment by svlasov · 2025-02-28 · in Claude Code Installer Suggests a Command That Can Destroy Your Linux System
  7. …arbitrary code in installation scripts would only help with issues like Bumblebee's `rm -rf`: https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issue...
    comment by yeputons · 2024-05-30 · in Cybercriminals pose as "helpful" Stack Overflow users to push malware
  8. …which expands to sh save.sh somepath, which will happily remove everything. Obligatory classic: https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commi...
    comment by orbital-decay · 2024-03-19 · in Hacked – Installed a global KDE Plasma theme – it erased all my drives
  9. ▲ 5
    Install script accidentally destroys Ubuntu
    story by eddyariki · 2023-12-12 · 1 comment
  10. …to spot bug which causes causes data loss (see [1] caused by a single space), what then? [1] https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issue...
    comment by maxbond · 2023-08-28 · in A study on robustness and reliability of large language model code generation
  11. …AI generated, that is potentially a lot worse that just writing it yourself in the first place. [1] https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issue...
    comment by ElectricalUnion · 2023-07-28 · in Systemd 254 released, deprecating sysvinit scripts
  12. …your repo had a bug so severe you got news articles written about it. Both were from thinking about https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issue... …
    comment by mook · 2023-07-06 · in Rejected GitHub profile achievements
  13. …from bash to python is when you want to delete things". >rm -rf /usr /lib/nvidia-current/xorg/xorg https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commi... >rm -rf "$STEAMROOT/"* https://github.com/valvesoftware/steam-for-linux/issue…
    comment by plainnoodles · 2022-08-10 · in Ask HN: What are the best tools for web scraping in 2022?
  14. …of free reign. It’s not uncommon for accidents to happen that take out chunks of a system[0]. 0: https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issue...
    comment by judge2020 · 2022-02-07 · in Thank You, Valve
  15. …with this old bumblebee project, in which a space makes a large difference in what is rm -rf'd: https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issue... comments on commit are also legendary: https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-a…
    comment by maximente · 2022-01-08 · in BumbleBee: Run and distribute eBPF programs using OCI images
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    Install script does rm -rf /usr for Ubuntu (2011)
    story by turrini · 2021-12-13 · 0 comments
  17. Bumblebee (related to NVIDIA hybrid graphics offload): https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commi... There so many comments on that commit that Microsoft Github's backend apparently cannot load the page -- I just get the…
    comment by nh2 · 2021-11-09 · in $ sudo rm -rf / === NPM install
  18. Every single time I read about how safe and secure FOSS is, I think about this small issue: https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issue... Yes, I know it's a decade old, but it's a great example of „open source is…
    comment by i0nutzb · 2021-07-20 · in Edward Snowden calls for spyware trade ban amid Pegasus revelations
  19. ▲ 1
    Install script does rm -rf /usr for Ubuntu
    story by ryannevius · 2020-05-14 · 1 comment
  20. …sorry...." into commit messages over the years. Such a classic part of history. [1] Commit thread: https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commi... [2] Issue thread (not as good): https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-a…
    comment by freedomben · 2020-05-02 · in I shipped a word processor that formatted the hard drive every 1024 saves
  21. ▲ 2
    Install script does rm -rf /usr for Ubuntu (2011)
    story by withinboredom · 2020-02-27 · 0 comments
  22. https://web.archive.org/web/20190921022327/https://github.co...
    comment by rwmj · 2019-10-15 · in Giant BUG causing /usr to be deleted.. so sorry
  23. …first day: https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/6ez8ag/a... Obligatory (poor guy): https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commi...
    comment by murphy214 · 2019-06-09 · in What is a coder's worst nightmare?
  24. They became famous on the net with this bug: https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issue...
    comment by okl · 2019-01-06 · in Chromium blacklists Nouveau
  25. ▲ 3
    Install script does rm -rf /usr for ubuntu
    story by reimertz · 2017-11-25 · 1 comment
  26. Reminds me of this hilarious GitHub issue: https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issue... (Hilarious and unnerving)
    comment by omginternets · 2017-10-27 · in Suicide Linux
  27. Not me, but https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commi...
    comment by vortico · 2017-07-18 · in Ask HN: What's the worst thing your code has done?
  28. Bumblebee specifically, https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commi... is the fix. Pretty sure Steam had the same issue early in their linux release, probably lots of other programs too.
    comment by czinck · 2017-01-17 · in Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during production? (2012)
  29. Reminds me of this blunder: https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commi... ...and its fix: https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commi...
    comment by ataylor32 · 2016-04-14 · in Man accidentally 'deletes his entire company' with one line of bad code
  30. …Windows/Mac/Debian/Fedora/Arch/FreeBSD/Darwin. And worry about it deleting your root file system ( https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commi... ). I agree with your points, but we should remember why the web got so…
    comment by paulddraper · 2016-02-29 · in After fifteen years of downtime, the MetaFilter gopher server is back
  31. …is mostly autogenerated and will prevent silly issues like accidental wiping of your drive ( https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issue... ). Released packages will often have hashes either on the website or as additional…
    comment by viraptor · 2016-01-18 · in Netboot
  32. …agreement, it can open a browser, it can start background jobs. It can absolutely do `rm -rf /*` ( https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commi... ). 2. Less Secure. There are hundreds of software packages which are…
    comment by skarap · 2015-09-25 · in Is curl|bash insecure?
  33. Citation needed. It very well could have been an instance of the bumblebee bug ( https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issue... ) where it's "rm -f / some/file" instead of "rm -f /some/file" Link to the code if you want to…
    comment by TheDong · 2015-03-24 · in Bug 1202858 – Restarting squid results in deleting all files in hard-drive
  34. …scripts usually do not get as much attention and testing as the application code itself. [1] https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issue...
    comment by a13xb · 2015-03-24 · in Bug 1202858 – Restarting squid results in deleting all files in hard-drive
  35. It doesn't even have to be intentional malice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8896186 https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issue... You can limit the damage by keeping backups, and running software you don't really…
    comment by userbinator · 2015-01-26 · in Npm install could be dangerous
  36. …attacks won't help your case. [1] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671 [2] https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commi... [3] http://www.exploit-db.com/papers/13199/
    comment by mmastrac · 2015-01-16 · in Interview: Lennart Poettering
  37. IT reminds me the Bumblebee Project bug: https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issue... Spoiler: due to a forgotten space the entire /usr folder was deleted
    comment by izietto · 2015-01-16 · in Moved ~/.local/share/steam. Ran steam. It deleted everything owned by user
  38. The first I remember was https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commi... , but I guess that was a couple of months later.
    comment by lmm · 2014-12-02 · in Composer – Disable GC when computing deps and refs
  39. Then you most certainly don't remember the infamous Bumblebee Fiasco. https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commi...
    comment by TeMPOraL · 2014-12-02 · in Composer – Disable GC when computing deps and refs
  40. …intended (a whole volume or /usr) to be rm'd. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2661209 2: https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commi...
    comment by jamessb · 2014-09-24 · in iOS 8.0.1 released, broken on iPhone 6 models, withdrawn
  41. ▲ 2
    Giant Bug
    story by fasteo · 2014-09-19 · 0 comments
  42. There's also the chance of it happening when writing a script Such as this classic: https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commi...
    comment by australis · 2014-07-22 · in Count to ten when a plane goes down
  43. If you call this the worst bug ever (t = [-infty, +infty]), then what's this? https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commi...
    comment by solox3 · 2013-01-21 · in Worst Bug Ever
  44. Funniest pull request thread I've seen this year. Here's last year's winner: https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commi...
    comment by taylorbuley · 2012-12-13 · in If you’re trying to hack/deface a website, don’t submit a pull request
  45. …but more of a GitHub related problem when a specific issue is deemed to be "legendary". Example: https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issue...
    comment by 1SaltwaterC · 2012-10-08 · in Running "n stable" removed bin, lib, share, include directories from /usr/local
  46. Reminds me of https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issue... (install script does rm -rf /usr for ubuntu) although I guess deleting /usr/local isn't nearly as bad.
    comment by rat87 · 2012-10-08 · in Running "n stable" removed bin, lib, share, include directories from /usr/local
  47. https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issue...
    comment by elyasali · 2012-10-07 · in Anvil - a Mac app for Pow
  48. ▲ 1
    GIANT BUG... causing /usr to be deleted... so sorry....
    story by glyphobet · 2012-09-26 · 1 comment
  49. Actually it's still there: https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commi... MrMEEE changed the repo's name.
    comment by bonobo · 2012-02-21 · in Lord of the Files: How GitHub Tamed Free Software (And More)