Hacker News: gcatalfamo

New comment by gcatalfamo in "I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it"

gcatalfamo — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:17:55 +0000

Sharing them would be interesting. However, it is getting nonsensical that this is needed.

New comment by gcatalfamo in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

gcatalfamo — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:31:44 +0000

Honest question: isn't AI Google better than the Standard Google of the past 2 years? I mean all the privacy concerns are still there, but the current product is just better than the SEO SPAM-ridded result page we used to have.

New comment by gcatalfamo in "How to sell if your user is not the buyer"

gcatalfamo — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 16:00:32 +0000

"If they already use it, why should I buy it?"

It sounds like a trivial question to answer, but it just exposes the level of detachment that exists between who makes the purchase decisions and its users in SME context.

New comment by gcatalfamo in "Ask HN: What's your most interesting automation?"

gcatalfamo — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 16:56:27 +0000

Can you explain the second part of your automation?

New comment by gcatalfamo in "Why won't some people pay for news? (2022)"

gcatalfamo — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 15:26:37 +0000

I will pay for news when people competent on the different matters will be writing them.

New comment by gcatalfamo in "A Japanese hikikomori released a game after 6 years of development [video]"

gcatalfamo — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 08:05:39 +0000

I warmly recommend to go see the TV documentary about this guy they made some time ago, when I saw the videogame I immediately recognised him.

New comment by gcatalfamo in "Dell Says Remote Employees Won't Be Eligible for Promotions: Report"

gcatalfamo — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 16:23:15 +0000

Servant leaders die very fast when your own reports undermine your efforts at being one.

A bad boss doesn't undermine it, bad reports yes. It would be an otherwise ideal way of working.

New comment by gcatalfamo in "Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer"

gcatalfamo — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 12:35:01 +0000

Fascinating, but I have photo-sensitivity and continuous blinking would give me an headache.

But I used to reproduce a similar behaviour with music (repetitive)

New comment by gcatalfamo in "Investigating the impact of cold plunges on brain activity"

gcatalfamo — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 12:25:37 +0000

If I have muscle or respiratory difficulties, 100% I can't take a cold shower.

New comment by gcatalfamo in "Dengue rates plunged after release of lab-altered mosquitoes"

gcatalfamo — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 17:27:13 +0000

Starfield companions would've frown upon this solution.

More seriously though: 10 years is a long time, this is super interesting but one would wonder if in such time other limiting dengue factors might've arose.

New comment by gcatalfamo in "Ask HN: What do you think about Apple's report to the “Mother Nature”?"

gcatalfamo — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 14:21:07 +0000

Very cringy. I am sure there are a lot good things Apple is doing on the matter, but that segment was super cringe-worthy in its delivery. And needlessly long.

edit: I don't mind the loud virtue signaling, I just think its delivery was incredibly bad. Opinion.

New comment by gcatalfamo in "Ask HN: Now That Phillips Is Enshittified, How Can I Run My Phillips Hue Lights?"

gcatalfamo — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 13:05:38 +0000

Or homebridge.

Anyway as soon as you configure the phillips hue lights through homekit you never have to use their app ever.

New comment by gcatalfamo in "Ask HN: What's the most minimal way to setup a shop on personal website?"

gcatalfamo — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 11:11:21 +0000

Aside from the suggestions, sometimes having a third-party processor "visible" is kind of helpful in case your website is not super well-known, because it gives "trustworthiness".

I know it's 2023, but yeah, mistrust in online transactions is still alive.

New comment by gcatalfamo in "Microsoft is unbundling Teams from Office in Europe to address regulator concern"

gcatalfamo — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 12:27:21 +0000

EU fails to understand that if my market widely adopts Teams as a mean of communication, I will use it to conduct my business regardless of what the EU gov thinks about it.

But when they regulate the unbundling and Microsoft might make me pay extra to use something that I always had "included", they are actively making more difficult to run a business.

It's just a tool. If I want to use Zoom, I will use it. It's not like I am being "protected" by a move like this.

New comment by gcatalfamo in "Worldcoin: A solution in search of its problem"

gcatalfamo — Sun, 30 Jul 2023 20:40:16 +0000

I am going to be downvoted to death, but it is clear from last year events that Sam Altman is truly that kind of "Blade Runner/Robocop(1)"-like antagonist character that has a narcissistic drive to destroy the world just so he can show everybody he is saving it.

(1) Pick your 80's Sci-Fi movie dystopia that fits here.

New comment by gcatalfamo in "The Mac Pro’s biggest problem is the MacBook"

gcatalfamo — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 08:32:53 +0000

Ok about the 13, but aren't the current 14 and the 16 already designed with apple silicon in mind?

New comment by gcatalfamo in "Google Bard blocks all European Union countries"

gcatalfamo — Fri, 12 May 2023 12:24:05 +0000

Western civilization was a figure speech

New comment by gcatalfamo in "Google Bard blocks all European Union countries"

gcatalfamo — Fri, 12 May 2023 11:57:58 +0000

Of course that's the reason, but the way it was delivered it's what makes it embarassing.

New comment by gcatalfamo in "Google Bard blocks all European Union countries"

gcatalfamo — Fri, 12 May 2023 11:54:11 +0000

Honestly, announcing public release in 180+ countries, and omitting that you are leaving out half of western civilization, it's outright malignant.

New comment by gcatalfamo in "Google keeps failing its Nest customers"

gcatalfamo — Tue, 09 May 2023 09:07:02 +0000

I already knew what xkcd was linked, before opening it.