Hacker News: nwellnhof

New comment by nwellnhof in "Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO"

nwellnhof — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:39:26 +0000

> Firefox on Android lags during scrolling on multiple sites that do not lag on Chrome.

It starts to lag after a while on some sites but force-stopping occasionally fixes it for me.

New comment by nwellnhof in "Sovereign Tech Agency invests €500k in Flatpak"

nwellnhof — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:58:10 +0000

> We're both wrong, it's 38.646,02€

Assuming you don't pay Kirchensteuer, it's almost €40,000.

> you're already entitled for social benefits (Wohngeld)

No, you're slightly above the threshold but in any case this doesn't say much. If you're talking about families, I'd also assume that your partner earns a little extra.

Anyway, the median gross income in Germany is €54,000, so you seem to be implying that the majority of Germans are unable to live a decent life. Maybe you should talk more to people outside your social bubble?

New comment by nwellnhof in "Sovereign Tech Agency invests €500k in Flatpak"

nwellnhof — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:40:13 +0000

It's more like €40,000-50,000 after taxes and contributions to health care, social security and the German pension fund. Enough for a modest lifestyle in Germany. Many OSS contributors aren't motivated by money after all.

New comment by nwellnhof in "Sovereign Tech Agency invests €500k in Flatpak"

nwellnhof — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:16:48 +0000

> They don’t employ software-developers.

They actually do employ developers: https://www.sovereign.tech/programs/fellowship

> The projects need to apply repeatingly for funding.

Still better than no funding at all.

New comment by nwellnhof in "Fuzzing the Gleam Compiler"

nwellnhof — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:21 +0000

> We can compare the output of the same program for both targets and flag any differences.

This is called differential fuzzing and is one of the most powerful methods to find bugs in all kinds of software.

New comment by nwellnhof in "U.S. Debt Hits $40T as America's Borrowing Binge Continues"

nwellnhof — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:23:30 +0000

Only in a closed economy.

New comment by nwellnhof in "C++ float-to-int conversion can be undefined behavior"

nwellnhof — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:39:41 +0000

Even worse, checking for overflow before casting can be tricky: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/526070/handling-overflow...

It's sad that comparison operators in C/C++ can lead to UB. Comparing unsigned to signed ints or comparing floats to ints is something the compiler could make work reliably at very little extra cost.

New comment by nwellnhof in "We all depend on open source. We will defend it together"

nwellnhof — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:13:41 +0000

> All members must be current Linux Foundation members and sign the participation agreement and NDA.

Just another opaque and exclusive subproject of the Linux Foundation.

New comment by nwellnhof in "FreeBSD AI-Assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project Launch"

nwellnhof — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:33:55 +0000

It's completely absurd that this is funded by Linux Foundation while Apple doesn't support FreeBSD with a single penny.

SQL injection on Drupal sites using PostgreSQL

nwellnhof — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:21:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.drupal.org/sa-core-2026-004

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48211856

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by nwellnhof in "Pgbackrest gets funding and will be maintained"

nwellnhof — Tue, 05 May 2026 10:17:58 +0000

The sad thing is that stepping down as maintainer is the only thing that raises sufficient awareness. You can put a disclaimer in your README that you need help, you can run around and beg for support, but this is unlikely to have any effect. It's only this kind of finality that can change things.

After I stepped down as libxml2 maintainer for the first time, I received a donation from Google which made it possible to continue my work. This wouldn't have happened otherwise. Of course, this isn't a sustainable approach to funding, but I'd encourage maintainers to step down sooner if they feel that they don't get enough support. You'll be surprised how many people will reach out to you after you made this step. Nobody will blame you if some support materializes and you rethink your decision.

New comment by nwellnhof in "UAE to leave OPEC"

nwellnhof — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:27:34 +0000

> ~1.8Mbpd (million barrels per day)

Mbpd = thousand barrels per day, MMbpd = million barrels per day

New comment by nwellnhof in "FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account"

nwellnhof — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:25:11 +0000

In my experience, everyone got their act together except Google. I also used to receive massive amounts of spam from Azure and Sendgrid but this eventually stopped. Now 80% of the spam I receive is from the Google network, mainly Google Cloud.

New comment by nwellnhof in "Adult German men must request permission to leave Germany for more than 3 months"

nwellnhof — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:01:36 +0000

The law says all men aged 17 and older, not military-aged.

https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/wehrpflg/__3.html

New comment by nwellnhof in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

nwellnhof — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:25:58 +0000

I think a revolution caused by this war is more likely in countries like Egypt. The Arab Spring was triggered by a rise in food prices after all.

New comment by nwellnhof in "Why I forked httpx"

nwellnhof — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:16:30 +0000

In this case, the name is already so generic that you might even be denied a trademark in the first place.

New comment by nwellnhof in "They’re vibe-coding spam now"

nwellnhof — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:26:30 +0000

On top of that, all these spam and phishing emails are sent through Google servers. About two thirds of spam I receive originates from Google, 12x more than AWS and 20x more than Microsoft. This is completely insane.

Musl 1.2.6 Released

nwellnhof — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:59:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2026/03/20/1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47457382

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by nwellnhof in "Switzerland Built an Alternative to BGP"

nwellnhof — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:39:45 +0000

Stable Diffusion was developed at LMU München. There's also lots of interesting stuff coming out of RWTH Aachen.

New comment by nwellnhof in "Monkey Island for Commodore 64 Ground Up"

nwellnhof — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 08:03:29 +0000

You can do amazing things with only a single SID channel. One of the most impressive examples is the in-game music of Hawkeye [1] which allows to use the remaining two channels for sound effects.

[1] https://youtu.be/es-rWnVSJ1c