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New comment by diegocg in "Chinese Reactions to Claude Mythos"

diegocg — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:21:09 +0000

All this Mythos talk reminds me of fuzzing. The number of vulnerabilities discovered greatly increased. But bugs were patched (often, without even assigning CVEs), systems were upgraded, life continued. Outside of the tech world (and even within it), nobody noticed. Many software companies still have not adopted fuzzing.

If Claude finds security issues, so what. Some systems might not be updated, but these systems are vulnerable to even a single security issue, they were unsafe already. Systems that are upgraded don't have that problem. In fact a high rate of security fixes will make them safer, as zero-days kept in secret by government security agencies for long time become patched.

With fuzzing we didn't see articles talking about the geopolitics of security vulnerabilities. Investors didn't finance fuzzing startups with hundreds of billions. There is way too much propaganda.

New comment by diegocg in "Separating the Wayland compositor and window manager"

diegocg — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:12:46 +0000

Well, that's exactly what the article is about. Wayland put all together into one process I order to avoid unnecessary context switch. This protocol aims to keep the performance advantages of Wayland without giving up on separation of graphics c server and window manager.

New comment by diegocg in "High-speed train collision in Spain kills at least 39"

diegocg — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 06:36:02 +0000

Foreign operators are mandated by the EU, they can't be banned. Spain has been one of the first countries to allow foreign high speed operators (unlike other European countries that did attempt to delay their entrance as much as possible

New comment by diegocg in "Memoir by Steve Jobs’ eldest daughter describes ways he was cruel to her (2018)"

diegocg — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 22:52:45 +0000

Have you read the article? He didn't just ignore her. He combined periods where he ignored her with periods of caring only to hurt her in dark ways.

> Once, she says, as Jobs groped his wife and pretended to be having sex with her, he demanded that Brennan-Jobs stay in the room, calling it a "family moment." He repeatedly withheld money from her, told her that she would get "nothing" from his wealth — and even refused to install heat in her bedroom.

This isn't just a career driven person

New comment by diegocg in "Eat Real Food"

diegocg — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:26:20 +0000

I'm surprised that governments didn't take this problem more seriously. Obesity is a huge problem, people have been ignoring it only because improvements in medicine have been offsetting the general health decline. Without the medical improvements that save the life of obese people, life expectancy would have decreased. I don't expect the Trump administration to make the best decisions but at least they are taking it somewhat more seriosly.

New comment by diegocg in "At the end you use `git bisect`"

diegocg — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 19:36:02 +0000

There are certainly other use cases. git bisect was enormously useful when it was introduced in order to find Linux kernel regressions. In these cases you might not even be able to have tests (eg. a driver needs to be tested against real hardware - hardware that the developer that introduced the bug could not have), and as an user you don't have a clue about the code. Before git bisect, you had to report the bug and hope that some dev would help you via email, perhaps by providing some patch with print debug statements to gather information. With git bisect, all of sudden a normal user was able to bisect the kernel by himself and point to the concrete commit (and dev) that broke things. That, plus a fine-grained commit history, entirely changed how to find and fix bugs.

New comment by diegocg in "What caused the AWS outage – and why has it made the internet fall apart?"

diegocg — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:41:30 +0000

At this point it would seem that the cause for the current outages goes beyond the original DNS issue.

New comment by diegocg in "Partially Matching Zig Enums"

diegocg — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 11:04:08 +0000

As someone who uses D and has been doing things like what you see in the post for a long time, I wonder why other languages would put attention to these tricks and steal them when they have been completely ignoring them forever when done in D. Perhaps Zig will make these features more popular, but I'm skeptic.

New comment by diegocg in "OpenAI is taking GPT-4o away from me – despite promising they wouldn't"

diegocg — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 09:36:53 +0000

This makes me sad. AI is a product, these days being mentally healthy should imply having the emotional ability to be aware of that. If you become emotionally attached to a commercial product you should seek for help.

New comment by diegocg in "GPT-5"

diegocg — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 18:28:05 +0000

I wonder if it would even be helpful because they avoid the increasing AI content

New comment by diegocg in "AWS Restored My Account: The Human Who Made the Difference"

diegocg — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 16:32:49 +0000

I would say that the lesson here is that cross-vendor replication is more important than intra-vendor replication. It is clear that technology can (largely) avoid data losses, but there will always be humans at charge

New comment by diegocg in "Python performance myths and fairy tales"

diegocg — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 11:38:08 +0000

Yep, for me it confirms all the reasons why I think python is slow and not a good language for anything that goes beyond a script. I work with it everyday, and I have learned that I can't even trust tooling such as mypy because it's full of corner cases - turns out that not having a clear type design in a language is not something that can be fundamentally fixed by external tools. Tests are the only thing that can make me trust code written in this language

New comment by diegocg in "AI is propping up the US economy"

diegocg — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 11:21:51 +0000

Reminds me of all the optic fiber infrastructure that was built during the dot com bubble

New comment by diegocg in "Open models by OpenAI"

diegocg — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 22:34:50 +0000

The problem is that even when you give them context, they just hallucinate at another level. I have tried that example of asking about events in my area, they are absolutely awful at it.

New comment by diegocg in "Zuck Says AI Will Make Advertising So Good Its Share of GDP Will Grow"

diegocg — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 20:42:50 +0000

Don't worry Mark we will also get AI based ad blockers

New comment by diegocg in "Debian switches to 64-bit time for everything"

diegocg — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 12:38:09 +0000

You can laugh but Google stats show nearly 50% of their global traffic being ipv6 (US is higher, about 56%), Facebook is above 40%.

New comment by diegocg in "Ubuntu 25.10 Replaces GNU Coreutils with Rust Uutils"

diegocg — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 08:31:28 +0000

Replacing non memory safe code is good. Rewrites are unstable at first, then time passes and bugs are fixed and is no longer that

New comment by diegocg in "Ubuntu 25.10 Replaces GNU Coreutils with Rust Uutils"

diegocg — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 06:28:24 +0000

The world is slowly but steadily going to replace non memory safe code by memory safe code (no matter how people feel about it). This is just part of that.

New comment by diegocg in "Linux 6.14 Release Changelog"

diegocg — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 20:46:25 +0000

Includes a NT synchronization primitive driver for faster games, new read balancing methods for Btrfs RAID1, support of uncached buffered I/O, a file pre-access notification event, a cgroup for controlling GPU memory, io_uring-based FUSE, and a driver for AMD NPUs

Linux 6.14 Release Changelog

diegocg — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 20:46:25 +0000

Article URL: https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_6.14

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43465248

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