Hacker News: meling

New comment by meling in "Securing Elliptic Curve Cryptocurrencies Against Quantum Vulnerabilities [pdf]"

meling — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:04:21 +0000

Call me when they have broken ECC with a real quantum computer.

New comment by meling in "Addressing Antigravity Bans and Reinstating Access"

meling — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 23:26:54 +0000

What’s my remedy when Google’s product (Gemini 3.1 pro high) makes a “grave” mistake? This is unrelated to the bans that’s been happening recently, but wanted to share …

This morning I asked Gemini to “save” its output to a local file. However it did more than that … it committed the file (along with several unrelated staged changes that was not ready to be committed) and even pushed the changes to GitHub. I’ve never asked any model to commit, let alone push… I’m not impressed; actually a bit disappointed that it would do this without any warning up front. This happened in Antigravity.

New comment by meling in "A lithium-ion breakthrough that could boost range and lower costs"

meling — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:51:26 +0000

Jikes! How many ads can they squeeze in on news website… really distracting (I’m not using ad blocker).

New comment by meling in "Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw"

meling — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 06:17:09 +0000

What happens if the customer ask his credit card company to do a chargeback?

New comment by meling in "My Grandma Was a Fed – Lessons from Digitizing Hours of Childhood"

meling — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 06:23:44 +0000

Love this story too as many others have said. Thanks for sharing this. Maybe someday I will do the same. Luckily our archive of tapes isn’t so large.

New comment by meling in "VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code"

meling — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 19:39:43 +0000

Great to see this. I played around with jj about two months ago and really enjoyed using it on the command line, but I found it difficult to understand the interaction with git and GitHub and decided to put it off until I had more time. (I don’t recall the specific issues I had…) Maybe this extension can remove some of that friction.

Proposal to add generic methods for Go

meling — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:01:55 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/77273

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46726726

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by meling in "Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries"

meling — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:11:14 +0000

Who has 8 week vacations, let alone 12? No European country I’m aware of, but I didn’t check all…

New comment by meling in "6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available"

meling — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 01:18:31 +0000

Sorry, I wasn’t precise enough. I’m at a university and our IP addresses are publicly routable, I think.

New comment by meling in "6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available"

meling — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:47:36 +0000

If I can use my DHCP assigned IP, will this allow me to drop having to use self-signed certificates for localhost development?

New comment by meling in "A super fast website using Cloudflare workers"

meling — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 15:05:18 +0000

Wish more pages were as fast as this, despite this site’s simplicity… In particular GitHub could really benefit from less bloat and faster rendering.

New comment by meling in "Ironclad – formally verified, real-time capable, Unix-like OS kernel"

meling — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 08:09:39 +0000

It has been used for a while in the Secure Enclave operating system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L4_microkernel_family#:~:text=...

But to my knowledge, not for the more general user facing OSes.

New comment by meling in "Towards Memory Specialization: A Case for Long-Term and Short-Term RAM"

meling — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 22:45:45 +0000

Are there new physics on the horizon that could pave the way for new memory technologies?

New comment by meling in "Tom Lehrer has died"

meling — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 07:37:37 +0000

Ha, that’s funny! I got my PhD from NTNU, but never actually noticed that in English it becomes NUTS… NTNU is a Norwegian acronym for Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet.

New comment by meling in "The Promised LAN"

meling — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 21:24:04 +0000

Interesting! I grew up before network cards was a thing in home computers (Commodore 64 and Amiga), but a group of my friends organized what we called «meetings» which I would characterize as your traditional LAN party. I remember at some point that we hooked up two Amigas over a fairly long parallel cable and were able to send data across. Cannot recall if we actually were able to copy larger files between them though. Fun times!

New comment by meling in "Show HN: Container Use for Agents"

meling — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 05:24:14 +0000

On iPad as well.

New comment by meling in "Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me"

meling — Sat, 10 May 2025 04:27:28 +0000

Thanks! That’s an interesting approach. Haven’t seen that before. I think a better approach (in a monorepo) might be to use separate go.mod files for each module, allowing the user to configure only the needed parts separately. But I haven’t seen it used much.

New comment by meling in "Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me"

meling — Fri, 09 May 2025 21:01:29 +0000

Yeah, while I’ve seen some great libraries that follow the practice of minimizing their dependencies, I’m a bit annoyed with the amount of dependencies that docker will bring along [1]. I’ve been on the lookout for alternatives for my docker needs, but the state of podman, buildah and some others that I checked is similar. They all bring in roughly the same number of dependencies… if anyone knows of a stripped down Go lib that can be used to build from a Dockerfile, pull, and run a container, I would be grateful for any suggestions. Heck docker / moby isn’t even using go.mod proper.

[1] https://github.com/moby/moby/blob/master/vendor.mod

New comment by meling in "But what is Quantum Computing? (Grover's Algorithm) [video]"

meling — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:04:11 +0000

Just watched this… Thanks for posting. It is very nicely presented and intuitive as usual from 3blue1brown. Can definitely recommend this if you want to get a bit deeper understanding of quantum computing than the usual surface level nonsense that I usually come across.

New comment by meling in "Verus: Verified Rust for low-level systems code"

meling — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 05:16:22 +0000

See the related work section in the SOSP 2024 paper. I think verification speed is one of the main benefits of verus.

https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/bparno/papers/verus-sys.pdf