Hacker News: Fragoel2

New comment by Fragoel2 in "Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy"

Fragoel2 — Wed, 06 May 2026 07:01:23 +0000

They can doesn't mean they should. Letting an unsupervised agent register domains and build websites exposed to the public is yet another recipe for a disaster waiting to happen.

New comment by Fragoel2 in "4o Image Generation"

Fragoel2 — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 08:31:11 +0000

In the short term, yes. Over the long run, I think it's good that we move away from the "seeying is believing" model, since that was already abused by bad actors/propaganda Hopefully, not too much chaos until we find another solution.

New comment by Fragoel2 in "Italy moves to reverse anti-nuclear stance"

Fragoel2 — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 13:29:31 +0000

That is simply incorrect, Italian companies are already building nuclear reactors/power plants abroad.

Enel has built/is managing nuclear plants in Spain and Slovakia: https://www.enel.com/media/explore/search-press-releases/pre...

Eni is involved in building the first fusion plant: https://www.ansa.it/english/news/science_tecnology/2024/04/0...

New comment by Fragoel2 in "Extracting AI models from mobile apps"

Fragoel2 — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 19:50:18 +0000

There's an interesting research paper from a few years ago that extracted models from Android apps on a large scale: https://impillar.github.io/files/ccs2022advdroid.pdf

New comment by Fragoel2 in "ZX – A tool for writing better scripts"

Fragoel2 — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 07:12:02 +0000

"[For writing complex scripts] JavaScript is a perfect choice".

Not sold on that. Why should I choose it over Python, PHP or others?

New comment by Fragoel2 in "Ceasing print publication of ACM journals and transactions"

Fragoel2 — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 03:42:53 +0000

Magazines will still be printed, this is for academic journals

New comment by Fragoel2 in "Software bugs that cause real-world harm"

Fragoel2 — Tue, 30 May 2023 10:58:30 +0000

We (me and co-authors) recently published a study in which we found some examples of real-world harm in user reviews of IoT devices (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S157411922...).

These devices are supposed to be extremely pervasive in the future, hence we need to do better to ensure their safety.

Perceived quality of IoT products has not improved over ten years

Fragoel2 — Tue, 09 May 2023 07:16:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/authShare/S1574119223000445/20230414T153900Z/1?md5=85c51adb7ed8d4dd2f220587bc792ca1&dgcid=author

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35871128

Points: 1

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New comment by Fragoel2 in "Large-scale study reveals autoimmune disorders now affect around one in ten"

Fragoel2 — Sun, 07 May 2023 14:00:24 +0000

On the basis of which proof?

New comment by Fragoel2 in "5G Rollout Disappointments"

Fragoel2 — Sun, 07 May 2023 07:37:38 +0000

Indeed, the article mentions that the 'killer app' of 5G has yet to be found

New comment by Fragoel2 in "How do so many talentless people end up getting funded and running startups?"

Fragoel2 — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 07:24:37 +0000

Because the whole point of the startup economy is not "find profitable companies" but "find unicorn companies that will pay back 1000 times what you invested". With this goal in mind, you can afford to lose your investment on 999 shit companies and find 1 successful startup and still break even.

Hence, you're looking for quantity over quality. Ideally, you'd have both, but the talent pool is only so deep.

New comment by Fragoel2 in "How to block the doge icons on Twitter"

Fragoel2 — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 09:47:09 +0000

No, he's manipulating the crypto market, like he already did before (Doge went up almost 25% since this "change")

New comment by Fragoel2 in "How to block the doge icons on Twitter"

Fragoel2 — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 08:12:35 +0000

While replacing a company logo with a shit crypto reference is not petty at all...

New comment by Fragoel2 in "Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage"

Fragoel2 — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 12:04:16 +0000

I think for now there's no EU law on the subject. When there will be one it will of course override the national one.

New comment by Fragoel2 in "Italy moves to ban lab-grown meat to protect food heritage"

Fragoel2 — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 12:02:58 +0000

As an Italian, I can tell you this is just a move to grab some votes from their supporters. Lab meat is nowhere close to mass production so there is no real impact of this ban right now. When (and if) lab-grown meat becomes commonplace and, hence, cheaper than regular meat then the ban will be reverted as it would have negative implications on the country economy.

New comment by Fragoel2 in "New insights into why aspirin works so well"

Fragoel2 — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 11:56:40 +0000

For an example in CS, we currently use machine-learning algorithms that work very well in practice. However, why they work so well is still unclear in many cases (although we are making progress).

New comment by Fragoel2 in "China state CCTV avoids crowd close ups at the World Cup"

Fragoel2 — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 12:11:49 +0000

A whole lot of covid outbreaks in China have been blamed on "contaminated goods" coming from abroad

New comment by Fragoel2 in "Using GPT-3 to pathfind in random graphs"

Fragoel2 — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 07:18:42 +0000

I disagree with your definition of "well". It found an optimal solution only 30% (roughly inferred from the bar plot) of the time and only on graphs of very limited size (up to 14 nodes). I'm pretty sure even the most basic path-finding algorithms we have can do better than this.

New comment by Fragoel2 in "Are Taser drones the answer to America's gun violence problem?"

Fragoel2 — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 12:47:19 +0000

Considering that every other country in the world does fine without employing taser drones, I think there are better solutions

New comment by Fragoel2 in "Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?"

Fragoel2 — Wed, 25 May 2022 17:33:27 +0000

Fallout: London

or any other european city