Hacker News: blue1

New comment by blue1 in "Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy"

blue1 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 21:05:40 +0000

I don’t agree. I’d bet Italians would kill nuclear power again, if asked again now about the matter.

New comment by blue1 in "Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy"

blue1 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 21:03:35 +0000

It wasn’t a government initiative. In Italy, citizens can request (500k signatures needed) a referendum to abrogate a law. This is what happened in this case, the law being the one that allowed nuclear reactors.

New comment by blue1 in "Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy"

blue1 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 07:23:35 +0000

Italian here. I seriously doubt this thing will lead anywhere. If something slightly more concrete than this will appear, there will be an insurrection. NIMBY is very strong in Italy (after decades of attempts, we are still without a spent fuel depot for this reason).

Also, in the past Italy already voted twice against nuclear. I doubt the popular opinion has changed meanwhile in any significant way. As soon as popular opposition will manifest, the politicians will forget the whole issue.

New comment by blue1 in "Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?"

blue1 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 10:51:05 +0000

Note that we already already apply this principle not only to software, but also to some sentient beings.

If your dog kills someone, you are accused of murder.

[at least, in the jurisdiction where I live]

If your dog gets this treatment, why not your AI?

New comment by blue1 in "Iceland rejects reopening talks on EU entry"

blue1 — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:58:50 +0000

I would be curious to know the age distribution in yesterday's Iceland vote. In the case of Brexit, the brexiters were mostly old people and the bremainers mostly young; for this reason, the forces of demography are slowly pushing the UK back in the EU's orbit again (looking at the polls). Wondering if the same could apply to Iceland.

New comment by blue1 in "The Story of Mac: A Just-So Story"

blue1 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:50:48 +0000

Too bad an updated edition of PCL never materialised

New comment by blue1 in "Sealed tomb filled with paintings and inscriptions discovered in Egypt"

blue1 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:15:22 +0000

did you forget the "/s" or is it a serious question?

New comment by blue1 in "Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Art"

blue1 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:32:45 +0000

On Ponte dei Pugni (Bridge of Fists), which was the most famous venue for these spectacles, there are marble feet markings which were the starting positions for fighters.

New comment by blue1 in "Show HN: Hacker News on a train station-style flip board"

blue1 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 11:15:06 +0000

To my ears, the sound is wrong. At least the Solari flip boards had a typical rustling sound, this is too much clicking.

New comment by blue1 in "The route from Prussian military headquarters to Gary Gygax’s basement"

blue1 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:22:14 +0000

SPI does not exist anymore, but there are other publishers still doing it, although the market is much smaller now. The biggest one is probably GMT games.

New comment by blue1 in "Mahjong: A Visual Guide"

blue1 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:02:29 +0000

Interesting... However, ironically, EBGRIA is awful too, in its own way. The typography is rudimentary.

NASA's lunar Gateway space station is out. Moon bases are in

blue1 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:51:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/artemis/nasas-lunar-gateway-space-station-is-out-moon-bases-are-in

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47509956

Points: 5

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New comment by blue1 in "The Perils of ISBN"

blue1 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:17:50 +0000

ISBN prefixes does not always indicate a country. They may be are indeed countries, but others are language areas (e.g. 0/1=English) or "regions" (groups of countries) or even other subjects.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISBN_registration_grou...

New comment by blue1 in "Common Lisp Screenshots: today's CL applications in action"

blue1 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 09:09:45 +0000

High level programming languages were conceived by humans and for humans. Will AIs in future better use their own languages, or maybe even output machine language directly?

New comment by blue1 in "Ripple, a puzzle game about 2nd and 3rd order effects"

blue1 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 09:07:39 +0000

Unusable on iphone SE, the UI is cropped on the bottom and cannot be scrolled.

New comment by blue1 in "The 'S&P 493' reveals a different U.S. economy"

blue1 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 10:25:03 +0000

I was basically thinking about investing in the “S&P7”. No forecasting.

New comment by blue1 in "The 'S&P 493' reveals a different U.S. economy"

blue1 — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 10:01:49 +0000

So a viable strategy would be to only buy the best 7 stocks? Like the Dogs of the Dow, but reversed? (The Gods of the Dow?)

New comment by blue1 in "$2 WeAct Display FS adds a 0.96-inch USB information display to your computer"

blue1 — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 07:28:50 +0000

The Elgato Stream Decks, although not keyboards proper, come very close

New comment by blue1 in "Seed: Interactive software environment based on Common Lisp"

blue1 — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 09:03:56 +0000

This project, which seems interesting, would greatly benefit from a better explanation of what it is, and some screenshots.

New comment by blue1 in "PuTTY has a new website"

blue1 — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 07:51:09 +0000

I see no mention in this thread of KiTTY <https://www.9bis.net/kitty/>, no one uses this instead of PuTTY?