Hacker News: mlinksva

New comment by mlinksva in "Show HN: Xmloxide – an agent-made Rust replacement for libxml2"

mlinksva — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 20:34:30 +0000

Which is approximately all companies because all companies use software and depending on what the researchers look at, 90% to 98% of codebases depend on OSS.

Conclusion: support OSS from general taxation, like the Sovereign Tech Fund in Germany does. It's a public good!

New comment by mlinksva in "Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift adoption"

mlinksva — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:49:27 +0000

https://x.com/awesomekling/status/1822236888188498031 https://x.com/awesomekling/status/1822239138038382684 "In the end it came down to Swift vs Rust, and Swift is strictly better in OO support and C++ interop."

New comment by mlinksva in "Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox"

mlinksva — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 04:31:04 +0000

ExoAgent (from your bio/past comments) looks really interesting. Godspeed!

New comment by mlinksva in "The WebRacket language is a subset of Racket that compiles to WebAssembly"

mlinksva — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 05:06:20 +0000

I don't know that there are any similaries besides the names -- well maybe something thematic about distributing the future or what looked like it at the time to more programmers -- but the handful of times I've run across Grain (probably all on HN) I'm reminded of Wheat https://web.archive.org/web/20050215032130/http://wheatfarm....

New comment by mlinksva in "TimeCapsuleLLM: LLM trained only on data from 1800-1875"

mlinksva — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 19:13:09 +0000

Do you have a pointer to where LeCun spoke about it? I noticed last October that Dwarkesh mentioned the idea off handedly on his podcast (prompting me to write up https://manifold.markets/MikeLinksvayer/llm-trained-on-data-...) but I wonder if this idea has been around for much longer, or is just so obvious that lots of people are independently coming up with it (parent to this comment being yet another)?

New comment by mlinksva in "Coarse is better"

mlinksva — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 02:49:42 +0000

Good title!

New comment by mlinksva in "History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts"

mlinksva — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 06:49:37 +0000

Different cutoff but similar question thrown out in https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/thoughts-on-sutton#:~:text=If%20y... inspiring https://manifold.markets/MikeLinksvayer/llm-trained-on-data-...

New comment by mlinksva in "The patent office is about to make bad patents untouchable"

mlinksva — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 18:07:00 +0000

I've had approximately the same thought, to different but complementary ends "More generally (not covered in this question) perhaps this could also be a fun way to interrogate the tech tree, e.g., what could have been discovered given the data at a given cutoff, how early or late certain advancements came, etc." https://manifold.markets/MikeLinksvayer/llm-trained-on-data-...

Would love to see it!

New comment by mlinksva in "Developers still need the right to challenge junk patents"

mlinksva — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 20:21:31 +0000

Lots of discussion on the EFF's post on this same topic last week https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45985890

I expect a deluge of critical comments near the Dec 2 deadline. Add yours! :)

New comment by mlinksva in "The Lions Operating System"

mlinksva — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 19:55:09 +0000

It is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8Ka_8kHTj4&t=903s

New comment by mlinksva in "US declines to join more than 70 countries in signing UN cybercrime treaty"

mlinksva — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 17:34:06 +0000

It's a very good thing the US has declined to sign this. The digital rights community has been campaigning against it since its proposal by Russia in 2017. The US not signing it is a small victory across a very large loss. Many explainers like https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/joint-statement-un-cyb...

New comment by mlinksva in "Two Paths to Memory Safety: CHERI and OMA"

mlinksva — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 14:50:23 +0000

There doesn't seem to be much info about OMA available online. Your thesis linked from https://www.bristol.ac.uk/research/groups/trustworthy-system... which is linked from your home page/timeline is a broken link. Perhaps https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3450147 is the best in depth info available currently? Looking forward to future developments and success!

New comment by mlinksva in "Redox OS Development Priorities for 2025/26"

mlinksva — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 22:35:36 +0000

Great to see in the priorities "sandboxing by default" (under desktop variety) and https://nlnet.nl/project/Capability-based-RedoxOS/ (under security).

New comment by mlinksva in "We all dodged a bullet"

mlinksva — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:21:13 +0000

As the post mentions wallets like MetaMask being the targets, AFAIK MetaMask in particular might be one of the best protected (isolated) applications from this kind of attack due to their use of LavaMoat https://x.com/MetaMask/status/1965147403713196304 -- though I'd love to read a detailed analysis of whether they actually are protected. No affiliation with MetaMask, just curious about effectiveness of seemingly little adopted measures (relative to scariness of attacks).

Added: story dedicated to this topic more or less https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45179889

New comment by mlinksva in "Funding Open Source like public infrastructure"

mlinksva — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 15:02:43 +0000

Fairly comprehensive and good blog post. Possibly too new to make it in, a proposal to take the learnings of the German STF (mentioned in the post) and expand it to the EU level for the next budget cycle (2028-2035) https://eu-stf.openforumeurope.org/

New comment by mlinksva in "Helix: A Modern, High-Performance Language"

mlinksva — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 20:55:47 +0000

*million rather than billions https://rustfoundation.org/media/google-contributes-1m-to-ru... but sound analysis as far as I can tell.

New comment by mlinksva in "Why not object capability languages?"

mlinksva — Mon, 12 May 2025 01:30:12 +0000

I did not see a link to your screenshotted comment in the article so looked it up, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43936830 to save others the work (not the whole thing is screenshotted, and the comment and its thread are good, thanks!)

New comment by mlinksva in "What It Takes to Defend a Cybersecurity Company from Today's Adversaries"

mlinksva — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:11:32 +0000

I tend to agree though the conventional response I'd guess also has merit: "secure" isn't binary and various mitigations deployed on non-capability-based operating systems change the economics of attack/defense and are valuable.

But the main reason I'm responding is to thank for the TIL about data diodes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidirectional_network which seem under-discussed and under-utilized. Only a handful of discussions on HN, most substantial (only 19 comments) from 10 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10213836 if I understand correctly, only used in very high security environments, but plausibly could be used in many applications that don't really need to be connected for input but could just broadcast or vice versa (many IoT devices). Thank you, thought provoking!

New comment by mlinksva in "Fifty Years of Open Source Software Supply Chain Security"

mlinksva — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 23:56:40 +0000

I don't really know because I haven't put work in to investigate, but some things in that direction seem to be, possibly in order of some combination of maturity and comprehensiveness.

  - CHERI compartmentalisation
  - LavaMoat (js)
  - Scala "capture checking"
  - Java "integrity by default"

New comment by mlinksva in "Fifty Years of Open Source Software Supply Chain Security"

mlinksva — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 18:31:11 +0000

Good article for what it covers, but sadly does not cover isolation/sandboxing/least privilege.