Hacker News: fscaramuzza

New comment by fscaramuzza in "Google changes its search box"

fscaramuzza — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:43:54 +0000

What scares me about this new AI mode thingy is that every answer sounds like a systematic literature review, but only for the results. For example, if I look for users feedback about a specific product, it says "People think that..., but also that...; It's important to notice that some people ..." where with 'people' it means just a random comment on a random website just because it thought it was a good contribution to the results. Sounds like it's giving a ground truth from "multiple" data, when instead it's just aggregating almost random stuff. In the context of a systematic review, the feature that I would love the most is augmenting my initial query, so that I can just get more results that I could find interesting. I am 100% sure they thought about this, but ignored it for the most profitable option.

The Technical Debt Manifesto (2025)

fscaramuzza — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:54:19 +0000

Article URL: https://techdebtmanifesto.github.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920961

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by fscaramuzza in "Linux Kernel Explorer"

fscaramuzza — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 09:19:55 +0000

My bad, the network I was connected to didn't like the certificate for some reason. Cool project!

New comment by fscaramuzza in "Linux Kernel Explorer"

fscaramuzza — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 08:57:48 +0000

Am I the only one that can't access the website due to certificate problems with the .dev?

New comment by fscaramuzza in "Pasta Cooking Time"

fscaramuzza — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 08:27:42 +0000

Well, Italian *nonnas rarely used more than one pan for cooking, and it was very common to just put pasta without the sauce in the plate, and a generous spoonful of sauce on top. This is what you used to find in restaurants, too.

The cooking water in the large pan is a rather new thing. Or maybe it's something just from my region :)

New comment by fscaramuzza in "Strange CW Keys"

fscaramuzza — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 08:57:56 +0000

I like the Aluminum Finger Pieces from the first URL.

New comment by fscaramuzza in "Monodraw"

fscaramuzza — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 11:23:41 +0000

or even the "export to ascii" of draw.io? I would be happy to hear what the advantages could be.

Mustard Watches (1990)

fscaramuzza — Tue, 27 May 2025 21:48:54 +0000

Article URL: https://girard.perso.math.cnrs.fr/mustard/article.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44110931

Points: 96

# Comments: 32

New comment by fscaramuzza in "108B Pixel Scan of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring"

fscaramuzza — Thu, 01 May 2025 08:58:30 +0000

There are plenty of these here :)

https://artsandculture.google.com/search/asset?project=art-c...

O'Reilly – Vibe Coding: The Future of Programming

fscaramuzza — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 09:59:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/vibe-coding-the/9798341634749/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43791958

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by fscaramuzza in "OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an "AI-first" experience"

fscaramuzza — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 11:39:27 +0000

New Gemini models are quite good, Gemini 2.5 Pro is 1st in the user-benchmarks [1]. They also have Gemma, very good model that can run locally [2]. Benchmarks are not oracles of truth, but I feel like Google is not a kid who arrived late at the party anymore.

[1] https://lmarena.ai/

[2] https://blog.google/technology/developers/gemma-3/

New comment by fscaramuzza in "Rost – Rust Programming in German"

fscaramuzza — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 11:53:28 +0000

waiting for the italian version Past

Asking Students to Do All the Work

fscaramuzza — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 15:46:39 +0000

Article URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3402942.3402992?casa_token=pxyyfDhlXQEAAAAA:q8xxYtwXBgpQd8ChkEIXGmDTBcTMn5UcwKaHwGOy3bPz61MUiPAysacq7F4CYjtsHjWt1XMYrtJK

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42451402

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

OpenAI breach is a reminder that AI companies are treasure troves for hackers

fscaramuzza — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 10:26:38 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/05/openai-breach-is-a-reminder-that-ai-companies-are-treasure-troves-for-hackers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40889476

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by fscaramuzza in "Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (1996) [pdf]"

fscaramuzza — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 23:13:52 +0000

> Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. This is so true. It has happened too often that a professor has decided to explain the most difficult topic in 5 minutes overtime. Before lunch. What a mistake.

Don't Expect Juniors to Teach Senior Professionals to Use Generative AI

fscaramuzza — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 10:55:48 +0000

Article URL: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4857373

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40704296

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by fscaramuzza in "Content Injection Attack on GitHub"

fscaramuzza — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 10:05:30 +0000

GH just fixed it, but there's a snapshot from few hours ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20240608060046/https://github.co...

New comment by fscaramuzza in "Cracking the Scheduling Code in Hay Day"

fscaramuzza — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 21:40:59 +0000

This kind of project reminded me of the homework we had to do in uni for the "formal methods for real-time systems" course. We had to use UPPAAL [1] to verify the stability of a transportation belt with some machines doing things with some delays and other stuff. As far as I remember UPPAAL provides also some python libraries, that can be used to make automated tests. It would be interesting to see how Hay Day scenarios could be implemented in UPPAAL and test different approaches. Anyway, very nice project, the article is really well written as well.

[1] https://uppaal.org/

New comment by fscaramuzza in "Show HN: Foosbar – My autonomous foosball-playing robot"

fscaramuzza — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 22:41:02 +0000

OMG, the French "pissette". Last semester I was there for an internship, took me a full week to get used to it. Then there was the "râteau", used only by one of my colleagues (the strongest) when he was clearly loosing (very rare).

New comment by fscaramuzza in "History of the Paper Clip (2016)"

fscaramuzza — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 16:59:51 +0000

Thank you very much, now I want to play Universal Paperclips so bad.

https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/