Hacker News: 0xFluegel

New comment by 0xFluegel in "GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone"

0xFluegel — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:55:06 +0000

I had a codex session stop in the middle because the auto-reviewer timed out with something like "auto-review not available at the moment". The capacity issues are very clearly observable since gpt6-astra launched.

New comment by 0xFluegel in "Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated?"

0xFluegel — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 21:00:33 +0000

Hamburg, Germany: the public transport services released a new app a few months ago which assumes that the request failed when the app has not finished receiving an answer to a route query after a given time span. The problem: It is normal to have a data cap that, when reached, limits the rate to 64 kbit/s. That is too slow for the answer to be fully transmitted in time...

At least the website works, even though it transmits the full site for every request...

New comment by 0xFluegel in "Never update anything"

0xFluegel — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 16:51:49 +0000

> I live in Japan which people usually mock for still using fax machines

Greetings from Germany as well...

New comment by 0xFluegel in "Small targeted dietary changes can yield substantial gains for human health"

0xFluegel — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 15:32:34 +0000

> I heard it talked about on a podcast […]

Do you remember which one? I'd like to get some more detail on this...

New comment by 0xFluegel in "Cancel We The Web? (2020)"

0xFluegel — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 09:12:49 +0000

> … the vast majority of right leaning sources (aside from fox) are effectively blacklisted.

This reminds me of a past blog post, a few weeks ago or so, from a journalist who spoke about how strongly right leaning "journalists" often think of their writing as political influencing and counter-acting the left journalism.

I don't know how true that really is but such a tendency could be a good faith explanation for such a rule (as long as it has exceptions).

New comment by 0xFluegel in "Writing Pong in Rust for My OS Written in Rust"

0xFluegel — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 21:39:45 +0000

Since it's a student project to learn about VHDL and synthesis the pong clone had a few additions like simple math-expression based textures and we ignored trying to get close to the exact movement behaviour. But you actually get to control it with rotation based input. :)

In regards to ROM. It was an FPGA, meaning it was reprogrammed on every startup. But all behaviour was built as logic without accessing any memory.

New comment by 0xFluegel in "Writing Pong in Rust for My OS Written in Rust"

0xFluegel — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 11:13:28 +0000

I still have a VHDL version lying around from my old student project. :)

New comment by 0xFluegel in "Flutter 2"

0xFluegel — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 22:41:16 +0000

> Looking now at the demos at https://www.qt.io/qt-examples-for-webassembly, a lot of the same problems are jumping out at me. A complete lack of accessibility features, poor handling of scroll events, large load times, unfocusable fields, lack of keyboard controls, etc...

I found that hard to believe. But, clicking that link and trying the pizza demo... Yikes. It's not exaggerated at all.

New comment by 0xFluegel in "GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si"

0xFluegel — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 06:21:38 +0000

Germany has that, too. Any USB-Stick, CD, etc. that a normal user can write any data onto.

New comment by 0xFluegel in "Show HN: I shot high-res stitched panoramas in Iceland using a thermal camera"

0xFluegel — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 20:19:31 +0000

The sensor needs a lot more energy. This produces two types of IR cams: actively and passively cooled. The passive cooling is easy to take around with you but only possible with a smaller sensor.

As for the price per pixel: I don't know from memory.

New comment by 0xFluegel in "Europe's Biggest Vertical Farm Will Be Powered by Wind and Planted by Robots"

0xFluegel — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 11:54:11 +0000

Can you give me a reference? I am somewhat interested and my current information is that they are generally trying to work around the disadvantage of giving up scale compared to traditional farms.

New comment by 0xFluegel in "Names are not type safety"

0xFluegel — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 10:57:52 +0000

> And an unhandled exception crashes the program, which is often worse than an invalid value.

Please elaborate. Why is working with garbage better than not working at all? Would it not also rather make it easier to find these out-of-range cases with fuzzing?

New comment by 0xFluegel in "One Guy Ruined Hacktoberfest 2020"

0xFluegel — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 21:41:48 +0000

I want to like that idea. Unfortunately, I can counter with: When you (as an outsider) see two very similar projects, one claiming to be from 2018 the other from 2020, what will you look into/try out first?

New comment by 0xFluegel in "I lost €4k in a Facebook scam"

0xFluegel — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 14:03:00 +0000

Is it though? It surely is authenticated but is it authorized? By whom? Certainly not by the user.

New comment by 0xFluegel in "Security by obscurity is underrated"

0xFluegel — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 18:20:12 +0000

I would call that system secure. It does not just rely on an obscure password but is actually restricted by a list of whitelisted networks.

The failure in that case is only that the admin didn't consider that normal work might be done from home at some point or that the middle or upper manager thinks that he should be able to freely administrate his critical infrastructure from anywhere...

New comment by 0xFluegel in "We didn't encrypt your password, we hashed it"

0xFluegel — Sat, 05 Sep 2020 10:30:56 +0000

I can only half agree with you on that. Yes, I also dislike APIs that make wrong or unsafe use easy and correct use more bothersome but seemingly no different in behaviour (until it goes BOOM), but I also find that soooo many people simply don't have the awareness that they are interfacing with another system that interprets their data in a potentially unsafe way. And these people will misuse any API like this.

New comment by 0xFluegel in "The joys of owning an ‘OG’ email account"

0xFluegel — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 10:33:57 +0000

I can see how that happens immediatly...

    var domain = addr.split(['@','.']).take_last(2)
    var tld = domain[1]
    // check TLD against wacky rules...

See, boss, it's easy. What's next?

New comment by 0xFluegel in "Only 9% of visitors give GDPR consent to be tracked"

0xFluegel — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 13:56:33 +0000

GDPR has a section that defines a way for an EU institution to "grab" cases, but that's timely and not used much (or at all, I don't know about the numbers).

New comment by 0xFluegel in "Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked"

0xFluegel — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 13:50:14 +0000

Thanks for clarifying. You convinced me.

New comment by 0xFluegel in "Hundreds arrested as crime chat network cracked"

0xFluegel — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 12:57:17 +0000

> Anyone doing secure comms at this level, and is talking about families of mathematics always gives me the impression they don't really know what they're doing.

Why is that? Do you assume that making competent choices for encryption algorithms (for which you try to understand the math problems involved) and trying to market the systems security means that they also try to implement it themselves? Or is the "family of mathematics" a sign for incompetence that I just don't recognize?