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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

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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

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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.

New comment by agiacalone in "Firefox is the best mobile browser"

agiacalone — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 16:55:54 +0000

I teach CS at a state university, specifically computer security. At the beginning of this semester, I did a poll of my students and asked if they use any form of ad-blocking. Less than a third of my students did, and not many more even knew about browsers other than Chrome or Safari. This was out of a class of ~110.

Granted, it's anecdotal, but if 66% of my upper-division CS students don't even know about Firefox and ad-blocking, than I seriously doubt many non-tech people do.

Similarly, after that lecture, I had a student come to my office hours and ask for more info about ad-blockers. I had them open up msn.com and showed them the large banner ad on the page. It took a few seconds for them to even realize they were being advertised to! I then showed them my browser, nice and ad-free.

I get the impression that people have gotten so used to ads flashing in their face that they gloss over them. But the damage is still done.

New comment by agiacalone in "Cybersecurity training programs don't prevent phishing scams"

agiacalone — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 18:55:44 +0000

I think the conclusion of this article is slightly flawed. The issue isn't with engagement with the training (although, the typical corporate training material is pretty bad), rather how we go about teaching cybersecurity.

I take a page from Jayson E. Street's DefCon talk from a few years ago with my students: promote "Security Awareness", not Security Training. Get people to think about what is being asked of them and the consequences of said actions. People tend to take "Security Training" as "I need to remember A, B, C, etc." Humans are bad at this sort of thing, typically.

I admit that "Security Awareness" isn't all that easy, but clearly our current approaches leave much to be desired.

New comment by agiacalone in "Why are hyperlinks blue? (2021)"

agiacalone — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 23:21:42 +0000

I’m pretty sure that Gopher was only “Green on Black” because many of the terminals used to display them (ie. DEC’s VT220) used green phosphors.

If you had a white phosphor terminal, it would have been White on Black.

New comment by agiacalone in "Playball – Watch MLB games from a terminal"

agiacalone — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 21:57:14 +0000

AFAIK, the MLB.tv subscription includes full audio for every game, including in-market games.

My understanding of the issue is that MLB sold off the TV rights to local games years ago to the RSN (Regional Sports Networks) and the contracts have yet to expire. Rumor has it that around 2028 or so, they will try to rein them back in.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5933299/2024/11/19/mlb-plan...

New comment by agiacalone in "Kagi News"

agiacalone — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 21:17:24 +0000

Happy Kagi Ultimate user here, so thank you!