Hacker News: caned

New comment by caned in "Claude Code is steganographically marking requests"

caned — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:28:41 +0000

The article seems to state as much minus the obfuscation. However justified they are to respond, this can be a slippery slope. We're bound to hear more reports of hidden user data exfiltration.

Who is the Real Dennis Ritchie? (1991) [pdf]

caned — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:38:03 +0000

Article URL: https://dmrthesis.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/BLR-Article-UNIXWorld-Jan1991-A.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48536663

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Off By: Exploiting a Use-After-Free in the Linux Kernel

caned — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:14:04 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.exodusintel.com/2026/06/08/off-by-exploiting-a-use-after-free-in-the-linux-kernel/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48467023

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by caned in "Halt and Catch Fire"

caned — Sun, 17 May 2026 03:32:06 +0000

This show captures much of what I miss about computing in the 80s and 90s. You could get your hands on hardware, be able to largely understand what all the hardware and software was doing. You mostly used computers as tools, which only accepted commands and didn't try to affect your decisions or workflow (yes, there was Clippy). The leaps forward in computing power, memory and storage were more impactful to the everyday user. There was a sense of wonder, and it didn't envelop your and everyone's life. Most of all, we weren't yet slaves to our computers, and they weren't devices crafted to endlessly grab your attention by any means necessary.

New comment by caned in "Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE"

caned — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:39:02 +0000

The enforcement of read-only protection for pagecache pages (and the scatterlists and or other structures they point to) seems to be diffuse and incredibly fragile.

New comment by caned in "Car Seats as Contraception"

caned — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:52:34 +0000

I was expecting to read about flame retardants in car seats causing infertility.

New comment by caned in "Turn Dependabot off"

caned — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 04:30:56 +0000

The imports themselves may be dynamic. I once did a little review of dependencies in a venv that had everything to run pytorch llama. The number of imports gated by control flow or having a non-constant dependency was nontrivial.

New comment by caned in "France's homegrown open source online office suite"

caned — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 14:31:30 +0000

Two words: Fabrice Bellard

Stiffer Colon Linked to Increased Risk of Early-Onset Cancer

caned — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 01:38:32 +0000

Article URL: https://scitechdaily.com/stiffer-colon-linked-to-increased-risk-of-early-onset-cancer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46700152

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by caned in "Paramount launches hostile bid for Warner Bros"

caned — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 21:11:49 +0000

Much like you also have a robust choice of cereals at the supermarket.

Heart attack risk halved in adults with heart disease supplementing Vitamin D

caned — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 06:02:05 +0000

Article URL: https://newsroom.heart.org/news/heart-attack-risk-halved-in-adults-with-heart-disease-taking-tailored-vitamin-d-doses

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45872898

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

New comment by caned in "Betty White's shoulder bag is a time capsule of World War II (2023)"

caned — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 14:15:17 +0000

I miss the people of her generation. I feel like we could use their perspective, experience and fortitude right now. I sure miss their music too...even though Bird Lives.

The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994)

caned — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 04:07:58 +0000

Article URL: https://archive.org/details/TheUnixHatersHandbook

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45369186

Points: 17

# Comments: 2

Tennessee school book bans include Calvin and Hobbes and The Magic Tree House

caned — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 05:36:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bklmy.com/archives/30187

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44820953

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

In Air India's wake, revisiting the case for cockpit video recorders

caned — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 04:12:33 +0000

Article URL: https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/air-india-171-cockpit-video-recorders/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44556388

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by caned in "I built something that changed my friend group's social fabric"

caned — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 17:51:47 +0000

I might relate to this, but I also spent more time talking to friends on the phone 20 years ago. The perception of this greatness can't be disentangled from the experience of youth.

New comment by caned in "Group of investors represented by YouTuber Perifractic buys Commodore"

caned — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 16:22:35 +0000

I like to think that the enthusiasm for retro computing can make a clearing for innovative things to happen. I imagine such an environment can support values that aren't normally represented in fashionable, modern, commercial technology of today.

A Lisp adventure on the calm waters of the dead C (2021)

caned — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 20:00:24 +0000

Article URL: https://mihaiolteanu.me/language-abstractions

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44359454

Points: 83

# Comments: 32

How to Think about Parallel Programming: Not! [video] (2021)

caned — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 17:12:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Thinking-Parallel-Programming/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44348493

Points: 21

# Comments: 23

New comment by caned in "Show HN: I built a tensor library from scratch in C++/CUDA"

caned — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 18:12:38 +0000

That is impressive. It certainly shows what is possible _if_ you are familiar enough with the intricacies of modern C++. I'm not sure how I feel about a workflow where one needs to continually address "overhead" introduced by the language environment.