13 August 2026
Tailscale Uncovers 16-Year-Old SQLite Corruption Bug
HNTailscale discovered a critical race condition in SQLite's write-ahead log reset that silently corrupted databases for over a decade, forcing their control plane offline. The story dominated Hacker News with 743 points and 121 comments as developers reckoned with the unsettling reality that even foundational infrastructure like SQLite, despite 59,000% test coverage, can harbor deep hidden flaws affecting single-writer deployments.
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