Hacker News: BiraIgnacio

New comment by BiraIgnacio in "Pizza, pasta, potatoes, protein – how Italian children became so overweight"

BiraIgnacio — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:23:02 +0000

So the problem is not Pizza nor pasta nor potatoes nor bread nor protein but all the extra supper high calories, near zero nutrition things that go on top of them?

New comment by BiraIgnacio in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

BiraIgnacio — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:41:46 +0000

> Don’t worry about conserving paper

The best suggestion, thank you

New comment by BiraIgnacio in "OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened"

BiraIgnacio — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:39:29 +0000

Call me obtuse but the way this is being portrayed by the companies involved, media, seems a little odd to me.

Didn't the model + harness do what was asked? If I ask a coding agent to write a very clever piece of code and it turns out impressively clever, it did what I asked.

New comment by BiraIgnacio in "The startup's Postgres survival guide"

BiraIgnacio — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:52:23 +0000

I'd say this applies to any database management system.

New comment by BiraIgnacio in "Who Is America's Homer?"

BiraIgnacio — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:52:22 +0000

Yes.

New comment by BiraIgnacio in "The Return (2024 Film)"

BiraIgnacio — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:49:54 +0000

> The Return is a 2024 drama film directed by Uberto Pasolini and starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche. The film is a retelling of the second half of Homer's Odyssey as adapted by Edward Bond, John Collee, and Pasolini.

> The total cost of filming was $20 million, compared to the $250 million spent on Christopher Nolan's 2026 The Odyssey.

The Return (2024 Film)

BiraIgnacio — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:49:54 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_(2024_film)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978170

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Gaming Sickness and Its Impact on Players' Experiences with Games

BiraIgnacio — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 02:22:34 +0000

Article URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3670653.3677494

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48964458

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by BiraIgnacio in "42% of adults rely on their parents for financial support"

BiraIgnacio — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:52:22 +0000

> A large portion of U.S. adults are making ends meet with help from their parents.

New comment by BiraIgnacio in "Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?"

BiraIgnacio — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:54:10 +0000

Humans have been offloading thinking to something/some entity forever. From gods to influencers.

AI is the current popular way (at least in these circles) and if it's too much or too little it might not matter. What will matter is if this offloading is making people unhappy and having any negative impact in civilization. I have no idea

3.5M Developers. Then Microsoft Pulled the Plug [video]

BiraIgnacio — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 23:58:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPhAkzb4kUo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48876993

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

2026 Hardrock 100 Results: Ludo Pommeret and Courtney Dauwalter Set Records

BiraIgnacio — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 23:45:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.irunfar.com/2026-hardrock-100-results

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48876924

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Humanoid robots perform first teleoperated surgery on pigs [video]

BiraIgnacio — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:03:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp0eiQL6vB8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48860948

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by BiraIgnacio in "How to sequence your own DNA at home"

BiraIgnacio — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:36:09 +0000

GeneDx _might_ do it https://www.genedx.com/

New comment by BiraIgnacio in "The Underhanded C Contest"

BiraIgnacio — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:55:57 +0000

> The contest was initially inspired by Daniel Horn’s Obfuscated V contest in the fall of 2004 (note: the original page is long gone, and this link goes to a snapshot from archive.org). The object of that contest was to write a simple program to count votes, that somehow miscounts the votes on election day. I was greatly impressed to see how even a short program to simply count characters in a text file can be made to fail, and fail only on one specific day, so that the bug isn't noticed in testing.

https://underhanded-c.org/_page_id_7.html

Mark Zuckerberg says a Meta cloud computing business 'definitely on the table'

BiraIgnacio — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:15:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/27/mark-zuckerberg-says-meta-starting-cloud-business-on-the-table.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48747214

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by BiraIgnacio in "Crypto firms have spent $189M so far on 2026 US election, report says"

BiraIgnacio — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:29:43 +0000

Definitely a lot.. thanks, missed that

New comment by BiraIgnacio in "Crypto firms have spent $189M so far on 2026 US election, report says"

BiraIgnacio — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:22:28 +0000

Is this a little or a lot? any idea how that compares to other industries and donors?

New comment by BiraIgnacio in "The MUMPS 76 Primer – anniversary edition"

BiraIgnacio — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:34:17 +0000

I remember when I got into programming, when the thing to use was basic on a TRS-80, a friend was showing me how MUMPS was as much better language than basic.

Good times

New comment by BiraIgnacio in "The anxiety of the perfect loaf: the illusion of culinary precision"

BiraIgnacio — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:31:14 +0000

I eat a lot of bread and I make a lot of bread because of that.

Precision measure and mixing and timing helped me a lot in the beginning.

Though I still do that, I find that now I can rely on feel (experience if I'm honest) to know when the dough is just right.

Like with everything, there's probably a middle ground there but I think I just like having fun pretending I'm on a chem lab :)