Hacker News: federiconafria

New comment by federiconafria in "Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it"

federiconafria — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:07:54 +0000

Just flash it in a shop and someone will send it back.

New comment by federiconafria in "Your phone is an entire computer"

federiconafria — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:48:29 +0000

Same, the computing capacity and redundancy you could achieve with your spare devices...

New comment by federiconafria in "Libgodc: Write Go Programs for Sega Dreamcast"

federiconafria — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:53:48 +0000

Microsoft applications always look and behave as if they were ported to windows...

New comment by federiconafria in "Replacement.ai"

federiconafria — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 15:24:02 +0000

I don't think that's an AI problem, we've had unnecessary software everywhere for a while now.

AI just makes it worse.

New comment by federiconafria in "30 minutes with a stranger"

federiconafria — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 09:41:52 +0000

I think your ordering is wrong, we don't need to spend time together anymore so we fall back to social media. I wonder how things would look like if we had social media on top of a more social world.

New comment by federiconafria in "30 minutes with a stranger"

federiconafria — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 09:39:36 +0000

That's what I was thinking, if social media was not there, would we be more social? Or is it really the fact that our necessities can be covered without being social the real "problem".

New comment by federiconafria in "30 minutes with a stranger"

federiconafria — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 09:36:30 +0000

I was going to say that somehow I knew I had to scroll the first time I entered. But I went back after reading your comment and I have no idea how did I find out the first time, there is no indication that there is content bellow.

New comment by federiconafria in "Databricks is raising a Series K Investment at >$100B valuation"

federiconafria — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 08:22:51 +0000

Even more if you are familiar with their pricing.

New comment by federiconafria in "Zenobia Pay – A mission to build an alternative to high-fee card networks"

federiconafria — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 06:45:05 +0000

Apparently not everyone: https://www.reddit.com/r/CreditCards/comments/1hxiusj/europe...

New comment by federiconafria in "United Airlines grounds flights after system meltdown"

federiconafria — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 14:34:23 +0000

I bet the problem is not the 30+ year old software, but the less than 30 year old crap they've dumped on top of it.

Also, how old are the planes?

New comment by federiconafria in "Why Exercise Is a Miracle Drug"

federiconafria — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 17:15:50 +0000

It worked for me, it's not even about specific poses, you need to consciously keep your ankle from collapsing and yoga helps with that.

New comment by federiconafria in "Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs"

federiconafria — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 08:51:54 +0000

Independently of visualizations, I think LLMs allow in general the creation of ad-hoc tools.

I've experienced the case where asking for a quick python script was faster and more powerful than learning how to use a cli to interact with an API.

New comment by federiconafria in "Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs"

federiconafria — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 08:47:18 +0000

That's already part of most IDE's and they know which tests to re-run, because of coverage, so it's really fast.

It also updates the coverage on the fly, you don't even have to look at the test output to know that you've broken something since the tests are not reaching your lines.

https://gavindraper.com/2020/05/27/VS-Code-Continious-Testin...

New comment by federiconafria in "Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs"

federiconafria — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 08:40:02 +0000

I like to say that the reviewer is always right in that sense, if something is surprising, confusing, unexpected. Since I've been looking at the code for hours, I don't have a valid perspective anymore.

New comment by federiconafria in "AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks"

federiconafria — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 09:10:10 +0000

The problem is when your IP is temporarily wrong or you are just traveling and suddenly you can't find anything...

New comment by federiconafria in "AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks"

federiconafria — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 09:06:26 +0000

Or sending you back to their home page...

New comment by federiconafria in "AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks"

federiconafria — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 09:05:34 +0000

I make the point of leaving right away, I hope some metric somewhere is showing them or that it screws with their SEO...

I might come back later though.

New comment by federiconafria in "Bus Bunching"

federiconafria — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 09:00:13 +0000

They could probably spread the wait and no one would notice...

New comment by federiconafria in "Electric cars produce far less brake dust pollution than combustion-engine cars"

federiconafria — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 08:02:46 +0000

That's something I wish there had been more focus on, instead of focusing on massive heavy batteries, develop the hybrids further.

New comment by federiconafria in "Treating beef like coal would make a big dent in greenhouse-gas emissions"

federiconafria — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 08:34:59 +0000

I think there is a third option, factor in the externalities and treat it as a luxury. The cost we are paying for it is not currently reflected on the final price.