Hacker News: alberto_ol

New comment by alberto_ol in "The Computational Theory of Mind (2015)"

alberto_ol — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 06:47:05 +0000

Previuous submissions.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fplato.stanford.edu%2...

New comment by alberto_ol in "How to Survive 3 Years in North Korea as a Foreigner"

alberto_ol — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:21:53 +0000

According to wikipedia "Japan and the Soviet Union ended their formal state of war with the Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956 but did not sign a peace treaty."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuril_Islands_dispute

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Japanese_Joint_...

New comment by alberto_ol in "What is it like to be a bat? (1974) [pdf]"

alberto_ol — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:07:54 +0000

All the submmssions

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Neanderthal brains measure up to ours

alberto_ol — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:01:05 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/neanderthal-brains-measure-up-to-ours-literally/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47933971

Points: 7

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New comment by alberto_ol in "Modern Microprocessors – A 90-Minute Guide"

alberto_ol — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:42:44 +0000

link?

New comment by alberto_ol in "The unreasonable effectiveness of the Fourier transform"

alberto_ol — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 16:55:31 +0000

What we talk about when we talk about the unreasonable effectiveness

New comment by alberto_ol in "Deliberate Internet Shutdowns"

alberto_ol — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 10:07:37 +0000

Without context ATM could be Asynchronous Transfer Mode or automated teller machine.

New comment by alberto_ol in "History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts"

alberto_ol — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 09:47:43 +0000

I remember that the brother of my grandmother who fought in ww1 called it simply "the war" ("sa gherra" in his dialect/language).

New comment by alberto_ol in "Koralm Railway"

alberto_ol — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 14:13:24 +0000

English is not my language, is the headline grammatically correct?

Italy to launch age verification system for porn sites

alberto_ol — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 14:48:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/italy-to-launch-age-verification-system-for-porn-sites.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45782037

Points: 4

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One of science's biggest dinosaur debates may be settled

alberto_ol — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 11:17:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/10/30/t-rex-debate-settled-nanotyrannus/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45770773

Points: 2

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New comment by alberto_ol in "Ask HN: What Are You Reading?"

alberto_ol — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 09:55:34 +0000

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

New comment by alberto_ol in "Read to forget"

alberto_ol — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 06:47:41 +0000

According to the quote investigator website, Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote is dubious.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/06/20/books/

New comment by alberto_ol in "Archaeologists unveil 3,500-year-old city in Peru"

alberto_ol — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 06:58:13 +0000

And December is the tenth month of the year

New comment by alberto_ol in "Liverpool's title win has completed a mysterious Fibonacci sequence"

alberto_ol — Fri, 02 May 2025 08:11:55 +0000

It's funny, but not true. I apologze for the link in Italian.

https://www.ilpost.it/2025/04/22/avellino-promosso-morte-di-...

New comment by alberto_ol in "Ereader Easy Swedish"

alberto_ol — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 09:13:40 +0000

The example is the incipit of "The dangerous inheritance" by Izola Forrester

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/75383/pg75383-images.ht...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izola_Forrester

New comment by alberto_ol in "Markov Chains Explained Visually (2014)"

alberto_ol — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 07:45:21 +0000

previuos submissions

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

New comment by alberto_ol in "Gambling on papal conclaves"

alberto_ol — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 08:14:06 +0000

Do you have any source? I did not not find any reference to Genoa in dfferent dictionaries (in English and Italian).

https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=lottery

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lottery

https://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/lotteria/?search=lotter%...

https://www.treccani.it/vocabolario/lotto/?search=l%C3%B2tto...

New comment by alberto_ol in "European word translator: an interactive map"

alberto_ol — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 07:46:06 +0000

There is something wrong or that I don't understand. I put "the example", the Italian translatione is "nell'esempio" which is wrong, but in google translate the translation is correct "l'esempio"

New comment by alberto_ol in "European word translator: an interactive map"

alberto_ol — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 07:42:46 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finno-Ugric_languages