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New comment by agiacalone in "Dumbphone 2"

agiacalone — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:51:43 +0000

100% agreed.

Once you get over the hump of "I don't need to be notified of everything" and start pairing down the notifications, I find that most of the time I can put my phone down and just get the right notifications on my watch.

When I need to respond to something, that's when I grab my phone (or laptop).

New comment by agiacalone in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

agiacalone — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:02:27 +0000

Because the whole goal is not to help us.

It’s to train their AI models. You hate it and then fix it. AI gets “better”.

New comment by agiacalone in "Italians and Dutch share the same gestural instinct for teaching"

agiacalone — Fri, 29 May 2026 05:47:55 +0000

I mean, they do go well together.

New comment by agiacalone in "Italians and Dutch share the same gestural instinct for teaching"

agiacalone — Fri, 29 May 2026 05:40:40 +0000

As a Sicilian and university computer science lecturer, I can say that hand gestures are my primary way of communicating concepts.

So much so that the old joke holds true. How do you stop an Italian from talking? Tell them to sit on their hands.

New comment by agiacalone in "NetHack 5.0.0"

agiacalone — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:27:37 +0000

Wow. Did not expect this when I logged in to HN today. It's 1998 all over again for me. :)

Bring Back Buddy

agiacalone — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:08:57 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/45596

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47726926

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Claude Code skill to preserve traditional Unix style conventions

agiacalone — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:33:29 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/agiacalone/unix-conventions

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47651776

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Anthropic's next model could be a 'watershed moment' for cybersecurity

agiacalone — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:06:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/03/tech/anthropic-mythos-ai-cybersecurity

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628398

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by agiacalone in "Zero ZGC4: A Better Graphing Calculator for School and Beyond"

agiacalone — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:35:12 +0000

Seriously, this. More calculators need RPN. It’s the reason I keep my HP 50G in as pristine condition as possible.

If this had RPN, I’d likely purchase one. Without, it’s a pass.

CBS News Radio to Shut Down

agiacalone — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:23:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news-radio-to-shut-down/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47460769

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

New comment by agiacalone in "The Linux Programming Interface as a university course text"

agiacalone — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 01:08:56 +0000

I use TLPI as an optional text for my CS Operating Systems course! It's honestly the best resource for a comprehensive look at the innards of Linux. I actually even snip select pages for lectures.

New comment by agiacalone in "My 1981 adventure game is now a multimedia extravaganza"

agiacalone — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:29:21 +0000

I count myself among this group. I actually emailed Adams sometime around 1999 or so to ask him a question about a game that I thought was his. Turns out, the game was included in a collection of Adams's games on the TI-994a (the game was called Knight Ironheart) and was in the same exact style and used the same interpreter as his own games.

He was super nice about it, explaining that he didn't actually author that game. We exchanged a few more emails back and forth, but overall a great experience chatting with him over the earlyish Internet. I feel very fortunate that I grew up in an era of computing where it seemed much smaller than it does today.

Amazon plans to use AI to speed up TV and film production

agiacalone — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:05:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/amazon-plans-use-ai-speed-up-tv-film-production-2026-02-04/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46888384

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by agiacalone in "Show HN: I Made Loom for Mobile"

agiacalone — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:38:13 +0000

Thankfully, it plays nicely on iOS and Android under ScummVM!

New comment by agiacalone in "SoundCloud has banned VPN access"

agiacalone — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 17:49:54 +0000

Just tested Soundcloud with a PWA using iOS Safari and Private Relay enabled. It works fine, albeit a few annoying popups asking to download the app.

New comment by agiacalone in "Microsoft makes Zork open-source"

agiacalone — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:46:26 +0000

Yes, but that happens to be the mainframe version. They are a bit different.

New comment by agiacalone in "Microsoft makes Zork open-source"

agiacalone — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:45:22 +0000

MDL, actually, which was derived from LISP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDL_(programming_language)

New comment by agiacalone in "Project Gemini"

agiacalone — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 17:46:44 +0000

Also, part of the idea is discovery through linked high-quality sites. Like the webrings of the 1990s.

You find a capsule you like and discover others through that person's links.

New comment by agiacalone in "Project Gemini"

agiacalone — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:29:33 +0000

I've had a Gemini Capsule (what Gemini calls a 'website/blog' since about 2021. It gets very little traffic, but it's fun to have. Browsing the smallweb is nice in the evenings when I want a high signal-to-noise ratio of interesting content.

New comment by agiacalone in "Ticker: Don't die of heart disease"

agiacalone — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 01:01:04 +0000

> I would be immensely skeptical of this unless he was talking about something much more narrow, like how there's a fraction of people who have really unfortunate genetics and can only improve their blood lipids with medication.

I am one of those unfortunate genetic people, sadly, and have had high cholesterol numbers since my early 20s. Most of my older grandparents passed from heart disease. Now in my 40s, have a decent diet, and my numbers are < 100 for LDL. Current (and previous) PCPs have indicated to me that diet will have little effect for me, and that I will likely be on statins for most of my life. Experiments with stopping the statins have shot my LDL numbers through the roof.

The good news is that it's a pretty low dose with decently high effect.