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wglb
69,332karma·9,653submissions·January 13, 2008
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At home, Simple country boy
wgl at ciexinc.com
twitter: @wgl8
w8lvn, 7019, 3519, 1819 and occasionally 7074.000
Formerly at kCura/Relativity, security. I do application penetration testing for hire these days. Happy to chat about application security, programming, and ham radio. My conversations about agriculture are not that interesting.
Security: https://ciexinc.com/ Of particular interest are the solarwinds articles at https://ciexinc.com/blog/solarwinds/index.html Old very fun projects: https://ciex-software.com
“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters.”
Beware the anxiety industrial complex.
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I use Lisp for my projects 1. Type checking built in
2. More concise and readable than most languages
3. Trivial to inspect while running, ability to change a running program
4. There seems to be a ma…
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Dr. Daniel Hajovsky, associate professor in Texas A&M University's Department of Educational Psychology published study https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40863201/ …
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Everything I can find says they are not obfuscating
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How are they obfuscated?
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Paper in arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22347v1
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From article in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/548/2/stag563/8537783... …
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Paper at Nature Ecology & Evolution https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-026-03071-9 …
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Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/293/2068/202... …
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Paper link in Arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.06504
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Paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2525919123 …
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Here is a typical day's posting tally job 2
flagged 204
dead 336
story 1664
delayed 687
comment 12312
That is approximately 513 comments each hour or 8.55 each minute. Not …
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Let's not post down announcements. They are not interesting in the sense of HN.
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While I was at Mark Williams back in the day, the engineers wrote 8087 emulation floating point for the Mark Williams 8086 compiler. This involved some quality time with the Volume 2 of Knuth in the …
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Article in npj Heritage Science https://www.nature.com/articles/s40494-026-02475-x Crypto is older than you thought!…
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From Physical Review of Letters: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/v6jq-m6sk …
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Interesting. I don't recall any of my submissions had an auto title change.
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I submitted and had to edit the title for length—no other changes.
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Paper in Science: https://phys.org/news/2026-04-colorado-river-geological-mill... …