Hacker News: lostglass

New comment by lostglass in "Resetting Xbox"

lostglass — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:10:31 +0000

This is a very different take than I have. People who are good tend to leave sinking ships much faster.

New comment by lostglass in "Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors"

lostglass — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 07:04:21 +0000

"You can't use reflection if the classes aren't in the class loader" "I see why you would think that however this should work, let's test it."

-Claude, burning my company's money.

New comment by lostglass in "Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak"

lostglass — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:51:35 +0000

What do you mean how? I know engineers in Berlin that work for AMZN, MS, meta, and Google...

New comment by lostglass in "Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak"

lostglass — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 06:13:55 +0000

Hey, if you can handle a dystopian Kafka inspired shit show all major tech companies have an office in Berlin.

New comment by lostglass in "Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot has died in a plane crash"

lostglass — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 15:42:01 +0000

Calculated risk? Nah those guys are gloriously insane. They do minimize risks, but they also go into the air wright-bro-style except instead of a glider that will go 200m they're strapped to two experimental jets in an airframe that was welded, not pressed ^^

New comment by lostglass in "Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg"

lostglass — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:48:48 +0000

Sorry I was painting a broad image. I'm also worried about copyright infringement, discovery, someone switching to a different different that requires glpl, etc

New comment by lostglass in "Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg"

lostglass — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:35:22 +0000

Most of them involve very weird and unlikely scenarios and bad security practices or access to the ffmpeg binaries and being allowed to run arbitrary commands at an elevated permission.

In and of itself there's not a massive issue from what I can see, they're entry vectors that can lead to worse situations.

That's not to say they're not serious but if a Russian hacking group is using one of them it's in conjunction with other exploits or security flaws. Which is common in practice when it comes to decoding.

New comment by lostglass in "Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg"

lostglass — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:30:56 +0000

Yeah, then you need to stream content in real time between multiple processes. And not screw up the licensing.

And get hardware acceleration working...

New comment by lostglass in "Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg"

lostglass — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:27:44 +0000

Speed and security are not good bedfellows. Combine that with really shitty standards and dozens of years of development...

Oh, and licensing. Licensing is the real killer. I could just write my own mp3 decoder easily (the format not the file type) but I'm not gonna risk my company getting sued into the ground by doing that.

New comment by lostglass in "The beauty and simplicity of the good old C-style void* in C++"

lostglass — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:37:16 +0000

Forcing developers to consider and more is harmful though. You're arguing to put all of the forethought upfront, when you have the least context and least understanding of what can go wrong, and carrying that complexity forward rather than starting simple and refactoring over time.

New comment by lostglass in "Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation"

lostglass — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:05:34 +0000

I was also able to set this up entirely with a web interface.

New comment by lostglass in "Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia"

lostglass — Wed, 27 May 2026 01:42:16 +0000

Ah yes, I too am something of an armchair engineer and I can speak confidently on topics I have no insight into.

New comment by lostglass in "C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For"

lostglass — Sun, 17 May 2026 16:18:28 +0000

So I've got a foot in each camp, I think you're just using different languages - you guys mean different things with the same words.

You can't claim he doesn't know what he's talking about with a single point he may have gotten run, the makes a tonne of valid points, especially around the existing problems of C++ that this library doesn't help with.

In addition to that, he's not wrong about this library from a user perspective. I can't use this. I wrote something very similar back in 2016 - at the time it served my needs but now it's hilariously outdated.

New comment by lostglass in "'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens"

lostglass — Sat, 16 May 2026 02:05:17 +0000

To be honest Rust has the exact same supply chain attack pattern - it's just newer and more maintained at the moment. Give it a decade.

New comment by lostglass in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

lostglass — Wed, 06 May 2026 02:14:19 +0000

Is it? It's kind of the heart of the matter - just because something is common doesn't mean it's acceptable. The difference is that in our society we've all agreed the sacrificing is no longer acceptable.