Hacker News: gioele

New comment by gioele in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

gioele — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:29:39 +0000

No silver option?

New comment by gioele in "The Olivetti Company"

gioele — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 20:04:18 +0000

> Excellent technical history, but it misses what made Olivetti incomparable: Adriano's human-centric philosophy that business and human culture were inseparable. > > The article mentions worker housing and urban planning in passing, then moves on. But that was the strategy. Ivrea wasn't welfare—it was integrated design. Factory, housing, schools, public spaces all operating under one coherent philosophy: machines and lives should both be beautiful and functional. > > [...] > > That's why Olivetti succeeded where technically equivalent competitors didn't. They engineered for humans, not just machines.

Two decades ago I randomly found myself in a tiny lecture room with a Very Important Manager from a Very Big European Bank. She started her talk stating "In the '80s, the Italian politics had to choose between the economic model of the Olivetti's family and that of the Agnelli's family. They choose Agnelli's. That was a mistake." Followed by a long string of expletives.

For context and for contrast, the Agnelli family was the owner of FIAT, then the biggest private employers in Italy. They were strongly anti-unions. They even bought the most important newspaper in Turin (the headquartiers of FIAT) to suppress reports of workers initiatives and strikes.

New comment by gioele in "Debian's Git Transition"

gioele — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 22:15:36 +0000

> The whole patch quilting thing is awful. Just keep the patches as commits.

I'd say that `quilt` the utility is pretty much abandoned at this point. The name `quilt` remains in the format name, but otherwise is not relevant.

Nowadays people that maintain patches do it via `gbp-pq` (the "patch queue" subcommand of the badly named `git-buildpackage` software). `gbp-pq switch` reads the patches stored in `debian/patches/`, creates an ephemeral branch on top of the HEAD, and replays them there. Any change done to this branch (new commits, removed comments, amended commits) are transformed by `gbp-pq export` into a valid set of patches that replaces `debian/patches/`.

This mechanism introduces two extra commands (one to "enter" and one to "exit" the patch-applied view) but it allows Debian to easily maintain a mergeable Git repo with floating patches on top of the upstream sources. That's impossible to do with plain Git and needs extra tools or special workflows even outside of Debian.

New comment by gioele in "Show HN: Real-time system that tracks how news spreads across 200k websites"

gioele — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 13:48:26 +0000

Kudos on releasing Yandori!

We have been (low-keep) working on something similar (more from an academic point of view) for the past few years:

This is the introductory article (open access): "Comparison of news commonality and churn in international news outlets with TARO" https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3603163.3609062

(Allow me a moment of pride for the student leading this project: the paper won the Ted Nelson Award at ACM Hypertext 2023.)

We need to talk about Mastodon gGmbH

gioele — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 20:51:09 +0000

Article URL: https://social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/115492120189076969

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45815742

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

New comment by gioele in "EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy"

gioele — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 21:58:58 +0000

We need to drive down the cost of dealing with nuclear waste. Possibly to zero, because that is a cost that will have to be paid basically forever.

Between 1961 and 2023 «5,600 TWh of electricity were generated from nuclear energy in Germany». [1]

Every year Germany spends (and will have to spend until the end of time) at least 2 billion Euros just to keep the existing nuclear waste safe [2] (more than half of the yearly budget of the ministry of the environment and about 0.5% of the yearly government budget). That's a drag. Think about it: it's all unproductive money, that does not produce any new energy, and stopping these payments will cause irreparable damage to the environment. Forever.

[1] https://kernd.de/en/nuclear-energy-in-germany/ [2] https://www.bundesumweltministerium.de/ministerium/struktur/...

The Hamilton Pub Performance Archives

gioele — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 15:44:05 +0000

Article URL: https://archive.org/details/hamiltonpubperformances

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40706811

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Forth Haiku Salon

gioele — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 15:07:13 +0000

Article URL: https://forthsalon.appspot.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37420012

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by gioele in "Use the XDG Base Directory Specification"

gioele — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 08:00:54 +0000

There is work going on at freedesktop to standardize drop-in config files:

«basedir: support separate (vendor/local) trees and masking for config files» https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-specs/-/merge_request...

«basedir: support drop-ins for configuration paths» https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-specs/-/merge_request...

Testing Vulkan drivers with games that cannot run on the target device

gioele — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 11:55:40 +0000

Article URL: https://blogs.igalia.com/dpiliaiev/gfxreconstruct-test-mobile-gpus/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32286103

Points: 18

# Comments: 0

One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age: Digging Through the Geocities Torrent

gioele — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 15:12:20 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.geocities.institute/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31631683

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Base16384: Encode binary files using 16384 Chinese characters

gioele — Sun, 22 May 2022 09:50:32 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/fumiama/base16384

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31466466

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by gioele in "Ask HN: Mailing list providers with global deliverability?"

gioele — Wed, 18 May 2022 06:24:49 +0000

MailmanLists is a valid service run by competent people: https://www.mailmanlists.net/

They provide plain good ol' GNU Mailman lists. You can bring your own domain or subdomain. They also have a good handle on privacy issues (GDPR requests and so on).

Settlement with Patrick McHardy

gioele — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 14:51:34 +0000

Article URL: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/Ye6jCQm7z0Yr3bqA@salvia/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30058265

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by gioele in "When my wife developed Alzheimer’s, the story of our marriage kept us connected"

gioele — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 20:52:13 +0000

Related to this topic (spouse with Alzheimer), there is a touching story by Alice Munro: "The Bear Came Over the Mountain", the closing story of the book "Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage".

The Lost Digital Poems and Erotica of William H. Dickey (2020)

gioele — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 12:43:38 +0000

Article URL: https://lithub.com/the-lost-digital-poems-and-erotica-of-william-h-dickey/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29529128

Points: 10

# Comments: 1

New comment by gioele in "Fingerprints can be hacked"

gioele — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 23:21:54 +0000

Just a remark: the person whose fingerprints have been reconstructed and that was the defense minister of Germany at time of the stunt (Ursula von der Leyen), is now the president of the European Commission (~= head of the EU government).

Quadlet, an easier way to run system containers (with podman)

gioele — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 16:08:10 +0000

Article URL: https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2021/10/12/quadlet-an-easier-way-to-run-system-containers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28841423

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by gioele in "Steve Jobs in Kyoto"

gioele — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 08:32:37 +0000

> The only thing that Japanese dont get ( and they somehow still dont ) is Software.

cough Ruby cough

New comment by gioele in "Why interruptions are frustrating to developers"

gioele — Fri, 28 May 2021 18:12:16 +0000

In far fewer words: https://heeris.id.au/trinkets/ProgrammerInterrupted.png