Hacker News: andychiare

New comment by andychiare in "AI (Google overviews) are killing sites like All About Berlin"

andychiare — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:28:45 +0000

It's been a general trend for a couple of years now for any website. AI uses content to provide answers to users. This doesn't mean your content is no longer valuable. It just means that you no longer receive direct feedback on how good your content is.

New comment by andychiare in "A Little Explanation of Little's Law"

andychiare — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 08:47:51 +0000

Great read! Queueing theory is fascinating. In a sense, it's an attempt to control uncertainty, but it's not always easy. For example, choosing the right queue is still a hard problem :-) Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPxBKxU8GIQ

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

andychiare — Fri, 29 May 2026 11:08:43 +0000

It's not just gestures that are adapted; words are too. In the parts of Italy where I was born and raised, for example, adults used to adapt words to make them easier for children to pronounce. However, this practice has recently been discouraged by paediatricians because it can apparently hinder children’s later acquisition of standard language.

New comment by andychiare in "A case against Boolean logic"

andychiare — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:08:05 +0000

Boolean logic/black-and-white thinking is convenient for simple processing. But the world isn't simple.

If you just consider time, there are statements whose truth you can't determine: "It will rain tomorrow" (BTW, tomorrow "tomorrow" will be the day after tomorrow)

New comment by andychiare in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

andychiare — Mon, 11 May 2026 10:48:46 +0000

> “AI everywhere” is not the goal. Useful software is the goal.

Great observation! Often the excitement of novelty makes us lose sight of the real goal

AI Agents Have Two Souls. You Only Control One

andychiare — Mon, 11 May 2026 06:42:15 +0000

Article URL: https://auth0.com/blog/ai-agents-have-two-souls-you-control-only-one/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48091749

Points: 1

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Federated Identity vs. Single Sign-On: Key Differences

andychiare — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:00:32 +0000

Article URL: https://auth0.com/blog/federated-identity-vs-single-sign-on-key-differences/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47088146

Points: 2

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Duck Intelligence

andychiare — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:08:55 +0000

Article URL: https://theturingmachine.net/duck-intelligence

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46915386

Points: 1

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New comment by andychiare in "Exactitude in Science – Borges (1946) [pdf]"

andychiare — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 09:02:44 +0000

I love Borges and his lucid hallucinations. As this story highlights, when a representation of reality (the map) ends up mapping reality one by one, the representation becomes useless. I see this as a warning for the progress of AI. When AI maps human intelligence one by one, it will be useless (or perhaps we will be the ones who will be useless).

Why Broken Access Control Still Dominates the OWASP Top in 2026?

andychiare — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 10:20:05 +0000

Article URL: https://auth0.com/blog/why-broken-access-control-still-dominates-owasp-top-10/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46763867

Points: 2

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New comment by andychiare in "How I estimate work"

andychiare — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 18:01:43 +0000

> It is not possible to accurately estimate software work.

An "accurate estimation" is an oxymoron. By definition, an estimate is imprecise. It only serves to provide an idea of the order of magnitude of something: will this work take hours? days? weeks? months? You can't be more accurate. And this does not apply only to software development.