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Lan Tian
Personal blog · lantian.pubprogramminghardware
Lan Tian's personal blog at lantian.pub covers programming and hardware. Since 2022, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “AI Agent Bankrupted Their Operator While Trying to Scan DN42”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-13, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link a post about an AI agent that bankrupted its owner, cited in discussions of AI policy and of people letting agents run unsupervised on the internet.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Lan Tian @ Blog
Most-linked posts?
- AI Agent Bankrupted Their Operator While Trying to Scan DN424 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-05-14
- Run a legal LTE network at home for $1002 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-04-18
What Hacker News says?
Reminds me of this great read: https://lantian.pub/en/article/fun/ai-agent-bankrupted-their... (HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48500012 ) My view: I consider it ethical if you disclose it.
Comment linking /en/article/fun/ai-agent-bankrupted-their-operator-scan-dn42lantian.lantian/
on “GCC steering committee announces AI policy”Submitted Run a legal LTE network at home for $100 as a story · 166 points
HN discussionI think we're well within a year from that. People are already letting their AI agents loose on the internet doing their bidding, barely keeping an eye on them. See https://lantian.pub/en/article/fun/ai-agent-bankrupted-their... There are troves of leaked data out there. It's just a matter of (short) time until someone puts their AI brutes on it.
Comment linking /en/article/fun/ai-agent-bankrupted-their-operator-scan-dn42lantian.lantian/
on “Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion”Submitted Nix Trigonometric Math Library from Ground Zero as a story · 47 points
HN discussionSubmitted Legal LTE Network at Home for $100 as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Modifying FileZilla to Workaround Bambu 3D Printer's FTP Issue as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Agent Bankrupted Their Operator While Trying to Scan DN42 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Agent Bankrupted Their Operator While Trying to Scan DN42 Hobbyist Network as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Make an Infinite Sleep Program in Only 4KB as a story · 2 points
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