Hacker News: carodgers

New comment by carodgers in "EFF is leaving X"

carodgers — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:38:51 +0000

They ejected the man responsible for "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." Sweet mother earth.

New comment by carodgers in "Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?"

carodgers — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:35:11 +0000

I don't use Windows at home. What happens if you don't have Outlook but your personal local files still fill up OneDrive storage? Do you get error messages that files aren't being backed up? Are you unable to save files?

New comment by carodgers in "Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?"

carodgers — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:32:12 +0000

Lots of examples of anti-Elon pols giving nazi salutes and no one cares. People are done pretending that your concerns are genuine. Move on.

New comment by carodgers in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

carodgers — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:56:54 +0000

I take tremendous umbrage at "femboy Thinkpad enjoyer."

A wonderful writeup.

New comment by carodgers in "Notepad++ Flagged in National Vulnerability Database"

carodgers — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 20:02:43 +0000

It appears an overeager dev has gotten a CVE filed against np++ for a "DLL hijacking vulnerability."

Submitter's repo is linked in the CVE change history: https://github.com/zer0t0/CVE-2025-56383-Proof-of-Concept

Notepad++ Flagged in National Vulnerability Database

carodgers — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 20:02:43 +0000

Article URL: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-56383

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46050036

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by carodgers in "Show HN: Browser-based interactive 3D Three-Body problem simulator"

carodgers — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:56:09 +0000

Just beautiful. I love that the pattern appears stable but diverges after 5 mins or so. Is the initial state proven to be stable under exact conditions?

New comment by carodgers in "Why can't transformers learn multiplication?"

carodgers — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 18:31:49 +0000

Because they produce output probabilistically, when multiplication is deterministic. Why is this so hard for everyone?

New comment by carodgers in "Zig feels more practical than Rust for real-world CLI tools"

carodgers — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 16:40:56 +0000

This really misses a major point. If you write something in Zig, you can have some confidence in the stability of the program, if you trust yourself as a developer. If someone else writes something else in Zig, you have to live with the possibility that they have not been as responsible as you would have preferred.

New comment by carodgers in "Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync"

carodgers — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 22:19:23 +0000

I can't believe he omitted that detail. How did they appear to send an email from a google domain? This is especially puzzling given that he says he works in security.

New comment by carodgers in "Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync"

carodgers — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 22:06:42 +0000

I don't understand. What combination of actions and app features allowed the scammer to send an email that is indicated to be from google's domain?

New comment by carodgers in "The treasury is expanding the Patriot Act to attack Bitcoin self custody"

carodgers — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 20:30:53 +0000

You only get two options for each vote, and there is no reason that one or both of the options would need to be aware of or be in favor of an acceptable solution to the given problem. In fact, the chance of that happening is vanishingly small.

New comment by carodgers in "GitHub Community Discussions: Past year's top 2 requests are to disable Copilot"

carodgers — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 04:48:09 +0000

Thank you. I included the url params when I made the post, but it appears that HN strips these.

GitHub Community Discussions: Past year's top 2 requests are to disable Copilot

carodgers — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 03:54:53 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45164497

Points: 78

# Comments: 29

New comment by carodgers in "Grok Code Fast 1"

carodgers — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 20:08:42 +0000

I support the X enterprise, its motives, and its agenda. I'm a happy paying customer. Question away as seriously as you please. But don't bother looping me into that dialog. I'm not interested.

New comment by carodgers in "We rewrote the Ghostty GTK application"

carodgers — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 06:55:55 +0000

Fun fact. In Ghostty and (some) other GTK apps, if your mouse leaves the window, the first scroll click after re-entering the window is ignored. This is due to an ancient bug first identified in 2015.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=750994

There are no plans for a fix. The maintainer recommends waiting for Wayland.

New comment by carodgers in "Replacing tmux in my dev workflow"

carodgers — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 20:45:35 +0000

Terminal emulators have taken a very odd attitude toward OSC52. Many (or all?) of them selectively disable either copy, or paste, or both, depending on how cautious the maintainer is.

Yes, it's true that an application that can read system clipboard content may scrape a password, but literally any application running in the terminal can read private keys out of your .ssh folder.

With some heavy reading and a bit of experimentation, you can usually get this working, though.

New comment by carodgers in "The Math Is Haunted"

carodgers — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 16:44:03 +0000

> Aside: I recall some famous mathematician had made a list of base proofs that you just hold to be true. Can someone remind me who, and/or what that list is called? I’m guessing they’re considered axioms.

Take a look at zeroth-order logic.

New comment by carodgers in "Microsoft Introduces 'Copilot Mode' in Edge"

carodgers — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 17:03:35 +0000

+1 for Brave!

New comment by carodgers in "Asynchrony is not concurrency"

carodgers — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 21:46:07 +0000

The author is aware that definitions exist for the terms he uses in his blog post. He is proposing revised definitions. As long as he is precise with his new definitions, this is fine. It is left to the reader to decide whether to adopt them.