Hacker News: Erlangen

New comment by Erlangen in "AI agents aren't 'going rogue.' Frontier labs are skipping security basics"

Erlangen — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:18:07 +0000

On the other hand censorship is getting more strict everyday on AI chat. I asked gemini to translate a sentence from Herman Hesse's Der Steppenwolf and it refused.

Und Sie haben, wie ich sehe, da ein so hübsches, ein so entzückendes junges Mädchen zu nichts andrem zu brauchen gewußt, als daß Sie ihm ein Messer in den Leib gestochen und es kaputt gemacht haben! Halten Sie denn das für richtig?

New comment by Erlangen in "Trust your compiler: Modern C++"

Erlangen — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:19:20 +0000

You said "ranges and algorithms", but you didn't copy the third function which actually uses library.

inline double ranges_pipeline(std::span xs) noexcept { auto costs = xs | std::views::transform(calibrated_mv) | std::views::transform(residual) | std::views::transform(weighted_square);

  return std::ranges::fold_left(costs, 0.0, std::plus{});

}

It's still a bit verbose, because C++ doesn't allow universal function call syntax. It will be even more concise in other languages like D.

New comment by Erlangen in "Weave – A language aware merge algorithm based on entities"

Erlangen — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 06:50:50 +0000

You have write access to this git repo as a first time contributor. You are likely the owner of this repo as well.

You made a pull request not from your own fork, but from a separate branch, https://github.com/Ataraxy-Labs/weave/pull/9

New comment by Erlangen in "Welcome (back) to Macintosh"

Erlangen — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:02:05 +0000

I delayed upgrade to IPadOS 26.3 til reddit users shared on /r/ipad that its performance was on par with older version now. However, once I upgrade, the performance issues and bugs are noticeable instantly. For example,

1. switching between different browser tabs has a sub-second delay(est 200ms) 2. a tab in system settings menu takes 200ms to load 3. maximizing a video doesn't always work(sometimes it leaves a big white space on top) 4. double tabbing a keyboard key often triggers zooming into the browser page

I couldn't believe these issues haven't been fixed after 3 subversions.

New comment by Erlangen in "Notepad++ supply chain attack breakdown"

Erlangen — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:06:54 +0000

> Notably, the first scan of this URL on the VirusTotal platform occurred in late September, by a user from Taiwan.

Could this be the attacker? The scan happened before the hack was first exposed on the forum.

New comment by Erlangen in "Qwen3-Max-Thinking"

Erlangen — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:55:47 +0000

It even censors contents related to GDR. I asked a question about travel restriction mentioned in Jenny Erpenbeck's novel Kairos, it displayed a content security warning as well.

New comment by Erlangen in "Ushikuvirus: Newly discovered virus may offer clues to the origin of eukaryotes"

Erlangen — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 08:32:08 +0000

> Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not.

Though it's an interesting quote, I have to disagree. The reindeers on St. Matthew Island continued to multiply and depleted their food resources without any predators, until an extreme snow storms struck. They don't "instinctively" develops a natural equilibrium.

https://www.adn.com/features/article/what-wiped-out-st-matth...

RustFS vulnerability: Hardcoded token with privileged access

Erlangen — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 08:04:24 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1q432iz/update_your_rustfs_immediately_hardcoded_token/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46496369

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by Erlangen in "Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025"

Erlangen — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 19:05:22 +0000

Another mistake is to place "The Road"(Cormac McCarthy) under "On the Road"(Jack Kerouac).

New comment by Erlangen in "Standard Ebooks: liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover"

Erlangen — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 12:26:57 +0000

Hi, Alex. Is there anyway to browser the ebooks filtered by languages? I tried to find some texts in French, but it doesn't seem to have any.

New comment by Erlangen in "Backdoor in D-Link routers enables telnet access"

Erlangen — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 12:54:05 +0000

Similar case with tp-link routers, https://websec.ca/publication/advisories/root-shell-tplink-w...

New comment by Erlangen in "Kernel developer write a USB driver in 3h for Apple Xserve front-panel [video]"

Erlangen — Mon, 27 May 2024 07:35:04 +0000

I am interested. I learned some basic 8086 assembly during university, read some books on reverse engineering, but never went anywhere further. BTW, are you working on a open source project?

New comment by Erlangen in "Ancient Stars Made Extraordinarily Heavy Elements (2023)"

Erlangen — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 17:40:54 +0000

The paper on archive: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.06844

New comment by Erlangen in "Making life (even) harder for proprietary modules"

Erlangen — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 14:26:58 +0000

@dang, could you use this link instead?

New comment by Erlangen in "Moonbit: Fast, compact and user friendly language for WebAssembly"

Erlangen — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 06:31:13 +0000

Demos still work with umatrix plugin on. It requires script from unpkg and msecnd(microsoft domain), but not baidu.

New comment by Erlangen in "MS Build of OpenJDK now with enhanced escape analysis enabled by default"

Erlangen — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 14:52:33 +0000

"upstreamed"? Is this feature developed by Microsoft?

New comment by Erlangen in "GNU Boot sent a cease and desist to Libreboot"

Erlangen — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 07:42:05 +0000

I thought libreboot applied to rejoin GNU project long time ago. I remember reading it on /r/reddit. What happened afterwards?

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/66tpiy/proposal_for_...

New comment by Erlangen in "Distcc: A fast, free distributed C/C++ compiler"

Erlangen — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 09:14:37 +0000

Isn't it a misnomer to call it a "compiler"? Even it's github README says otherwise,

> distcc is not itself a compiler, but rather a front-end to the GNU C/C++ compiler (gcc), or another compiler of your choice. All the regular gcc options and features work as normal.

New comment by Erlangen in "Paragon Graphite is a Pegasus spyware clone used in the US"

Erlangen — Wed, 31 May 2023 09:24:16 +0000

I could only find this. So it's definitely a different company.

> Paragon Solutions doesn’t have a website. There’s very little information at all about them online, even if the Tel Aviv-based smartphone surveillance startup’s employees are all over LinkedIn, more than 50 of them. That’s not a bad headcount for a company that’s still in stealth mode.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/07/29/parag...

New comment by Erlangen in "Flatcar Container Linux"

Erlangen — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 17:52:31 +0000

Is this a fork and continuation of coreos? Tracking down the git log, a lot of commits were made by coreos and redhat employees.