After 7 Months, Glasswing Overwelms Maintainers with Underwhelming Findings

Re:After 7 Months, Glasswing Overwelms Maintainers with Unde... by kmacdough on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @09:40PM (#50449171)

I'm not surprised we see a big difference between extremely mature systems like curl and Linux vs Fil C.

But I'm incredibly concerned by this statement:

>My baseline is doing security defense on a browser engine, so my baseline has a large sample count and is probably representative of what experts are capable of.

This is such a profoundly arrogant and ignorant claim. I have rarely, if ever, seen such sweeping claims from seasoned experts in any field. "Representative" is one of the most notoriously elusive objectives across all of science. Perhaps you have a point, but it's hard to take you serious with nonsense like that.

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Re:After 7 Months, Glasswing Overwelms Maintainers with Unde... by dang on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @12:00AM (#50449910)

You broke the site guidelines with this post. Can you please make your substantive points without swipes and avoid crossing into personal attack?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:After 7 Months, Glasswing Overwelms Maintainers with Unde... by dahinds on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @12:04AM (#50449927)

Your response seems a bit overwrought, to call their claim nonsense solely because they used the word "representative" to describe their experience (and they did only say "probably representative"). Their not making a scientific claim, they're reporting an observation about 9 bug reports.

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