Hacker News: ryan_glass

New comment by ryan_glass in "We know 15k websites are infected. how do we tell them?"

ryan_glass — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 19:35:52 +0000

Email them - many sites have a contact page with an email address. Tell them what the issue is up front. Be specific and give all the details they need to confirm the issue. Don't ask them to follow up or for payment. These are both red flags as there are so many spammers and scammers out there.

New comment by ryan_glass in "US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028"

ryan_glass — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 19:09:08 +0000

Fortran is still the choice for Nuclear Engineering too.

New comment by ryan_glass in "BYD sold more EVs last month than the US did all quarter"

ryan_glass — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 23:23:46 +0000

BYD is on a different level. For example the motor, gear box (i.e. gear reducing mechanism), controller etc are all part of a single component.

New comment by ryan_glass in "BYD sold more EVs last month than the US did all quarter"

ryan_glass — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 23:04:23 +0000

It will be interesting to see how these cars perform over years and decades. One of the major cost saving mechanisms BYD uses is lumping components together. An issue with one part of the drive train means the whole drive train may need to be replaced. The battery pack being part of the chassis means a small accident could become a write-off. Initial cost savings at manufacture will be passed on to the owner in maintenance.

New comment by ryan_glass in "Agentic backdoors via pretraining poisoning"

ryan_glass — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 20:30:28 +0000

Is this only an issue if you are using agents? Or are there any theoretical risks of serving a model over say llama server (llama.cpp) and accessing it for chat in browser on machines on your local network?

New comment by ryan_glass in "Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN"

ryan_glass — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 10:27:46 +0000

Excellent work!

New comment by ryan_glass in "R/open source bans all solo projects and projects using LLMs"

ryan_glass — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 15:09:14 +0000

I like the analogy. Interesting to note that a lot of the really high end furniture is still made using hand tools. But it is not affordable for most, who will buy mass produced furniture made by machines.

New comment by ryan_glass in "Tell HN: I unknowingly broke the PHP RCE embargo. I am sorry"

ryan_glass — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:17:09 +0000

Thanks to reading your post on HN, I was able to put mitigations in place before the patches came out. So for me, your original intention of: "alert others in a similar position to be aware of the importance/urgency of the updates" held up.

New comment by ryan_glass in "Investing in the public benefit"

ryan_glass — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 19:27:08 +0000

The greatest public benefit you could provide would be to open source your models.

New comment by ryan_glass in "DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests"

ryan_glass — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 13:24:54 +0000

Can you explain how this would help protect a company's secrets? I would think that if you want to keep your IP secret surely using something like Deepseek's API directly is not ideal and hosting something locally is best practice.

New comment by ryan_glass in "Tesla Roadster"

ryan_glass — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:43:07 +0000

I have a friend who drives a Tesla (hates it but signed a lease). On several occasions he has been unable to get into his car when his phone had no battery and he uses it as a key. I'm sure he could use a real car key but that would probably be incredibly inconvenient to carry around.

New comment by ryan_glass in "Celebrating 70 Years of Fortran"

ryan_glass — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:22:48 +0000

In the mid 90s I used Fortran to model a distillation column in a chemical engineering plant. Here I read that it is still the go to language for nuclear engineering. I am amazed but for some reason happy about this.

New comment by ryan_glass in "The Gold-Bug: Edgar Allan Poe's story that taught me about cryptography (2024)"

ryan_glass — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:21:36 +0000

I just tried that and it went down a rabbit hole for about 20 minutes before using "the exact method from Poe's story". So basically cheated :)

New comment by ryan_glass in "The Gold-Bug: Edgar Allan Poe's story that taught me about cryptography (2024)"

ryan_glass — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:31:26 +0000

I thought it would be interesting to see if the local AI I use for quick question and answer stuff could crack the code.

I use Deepseek V4 flash 0731 Q8 quantisation from unsolth with reasoning turned off on a local server for quick easy tasks. Note I use another model locally for harder tasks that need reasoning.

I was a bit dissappointed that it knew it was Poe's cypher so didn't need to even try to crack the code.

New comment by ryan_glass in "Switzerland proposes banning profiling-based ads to minors"

ryan_glass — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 13:37:15 +0000

This would also prevent the issue of having to age verify.

New comment by ryan_glass in "Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age"

ryan_glass — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:13:02 +0000

If it is truly retro - ie ships without a sim card, tracking and crap tech then they would get my money. I don't hold out much hope though.

New comment by ryan_glass in "NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect"

ryan_glass — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:59:02 +0000

I looked at the page you linked and could not see any reference to cookie banners.

New comment by ryan_glass in "Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s"

ryan_glass — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 14:05:34 +0000

Anyone know how it compares to GLM 5.3 for real world use?

New comment by ryan_glass in "Why don't more developers “use the platform”?"

ryan_glass — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 08:49:20 +0000

Friends don't let friends use npm

New comment by ryan_glass in "Burning Man death rates – A short lesson in statistics"

ryan_glass — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 18:40:18 +0000

I think it was intended to illustrate the kind of people who frequent the festival.