Hacker News: lccerina

New comment by lccerina in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

lccerina — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:19:14 +0000

The complaint is totally understandable, BUT the examples do not make sense. Arduino did not start as some dude selling less than 10 boards a year, but as an educational tool, which THEN ramped up to 100s of boards produced every day.

If your perspective is "I may sell 10 boards this year, maybe", your target is some local/national maker-faire, not a EU marketplace.

I think makers with such limited productions will just fly under the radar (if you sell so little, it's likely you probably won't need to incorporate or declare taxes in a lot of EU countries). If they sell 100s of products across EU, they probably have at least one over-worked accountant taking care of existing compliance stuff.

New comment by lccerina in "Shunning AI is the human choice"

lccerina — Sat, 23 May 2026 08:36:36 +0000

Exactly, my vaccine against GenAI chatbots is to not use them, which is the equivalent of masking when covid vaccines were not available.

I am just waiting for the GenAI vaccines (ideally regulations, practically people rioting in municipal councils against gigantic data centers opening at their door).

New comment by lccerina in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

lccerina — Sat, 23 May 2026 08:30:31 +0000

Indeed. It's a step forward and two backwards, personally I don't have payment cards on the phone wallet because one company surveilling my purchases is enough. Hopefully there will be some Wero-powered card option. From a UX point of view, both payers and merchants, it's still the most practical and fast.

New comment by lccerina in "Hating AI Is Good"

lccerina — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:03:21 +0000

How many devs would be able to keep working if GitHub disappeared tomorrow? You can do inference on SOME laptops, but the current shape of GenAI need massive data centers to be used at scale.

Also the existence of various big tech companies rely on these data centers being place, without them they are useless.

New comment by lccerina in "Shunning AI is the human choice"

lccerina — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:00:08 +0000

You don't need to have a "good knowledge" of a misused technology to hate it when it's used by malevolent people. In the same way I don't need to be a virologist to know that is better to avoid the flu, I don't need to be a ML/AI expert to see its direct detrimental effects on people, communities, and the internet as a whole.

New comment by lccerina in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

lccerina — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:10:31 +0000

The idea is that merchants will ditch the card-pos in the long run. You scan a QR-code or send money through some app. Satispay does that in Italy and got massive rollout from stores because fees were pretty low also for smaller transfers, so no more "sorry, at least 5 euros to pay with card"

New comment by lccerina in "Google Just Killed Search as We Know It"

lccerina — Wed, 20 May 2026 10:33:02 +0000

Google started to crap on search six years ago. At this point anyone choosing to use google search (I am excluding here all the people that are not aware other search engines exist because Google pays to be the default search engine) are masochists.

New comment by lccerina in "48000 Samsung workers ready to strike"

lccerina — Wed, 20 May 2026 10:22:56 +0000

Samsung is making heaps of money thanks to AI-induced RAM shortages, workers rightfully want a piece of that cake too.

48000 Samsung workers ready to strike

lccerina — Wed, 20 May 2026 10:22:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.engadget.com/2177466/samsung-strike-union-workers-korea/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48205537

Points: 3

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New comment by lccerina in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

lccerina — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:12:54 +0000

No, simply 95% of games don't have copy and anti cheat, and some anti cheats run ok on Linux

New comment by lccerina in "SecurityBaseline.eu"

lccerina — Wed, 13 May 2026 11:58:05 +0000

It's almost as if putting competent people in the right place and with the right budget is the best way to achieve government/public-funded results...

New comment by lccerina in "As researchers age, they produce less disruptive work"

lccerina — Wed, 13 May 2026 08:12:13 +0000

With the (somehow sadly) added value that the TV broadcast algorithm is kinda known by everyone (morning programs, prime time etc), and that if there wasn't nothing interesting to watch, we would just do something else.

New comment by lccerina in "SecurityBaseline.eu"

lccerina — Wed, 13 May 2026 08:06:44 +0000

Honestly surprised that Italian municipalities are doing relatively well compared to other countries. Maybe it helped a push from the government to have a shared design for municipal websites (https://github.com/orgs/italia/repositories?q=comuni)

New comment by lccerina in "RAM prices are forcing companies to choose higher prices, worse specs, or both"

lccerina — Wed, 06 May 2026 14:18:12 +0000

And then Google is moving at full speed to lock-up the whole Android experience (bootloaders, OS, app store, etc.) so that even tech-savvy consumers are forced to get new, crappier devices when the old ones start slowing down. Enshittification at its highest level

New comment by lccerina in "Fedora is now the default Linux recommendation, and Ubuntu did this to itself"

lccerina — Wed, 06 May 2026 11:38:37 +0000

It's a quid pro quo from Valve. They are investing profusely in Linux ecosystems, and the distro-devs are following that. Meanwhile Epic Games still lacks a first-party app on linux, and users need to pass from Lutris, Heroic etc...

New comment by lccerina in "The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy"

lccerina — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:59:04 +0000

It seems that Zig people are following the path of ZeroMQ [1]: "To enforce collective ownership of the project, which increases economic incentive to Contributors and reduces the risk of hijack by hostile entities."

A healthy contributor community is more important than mere code performance, quantity of features or lines of code, etc..

[1] https://zguide.zeromq.org/docs/chapter6

New comment by lccerina in "The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy"

lccerina — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:50:01 +0000

If you see them, why don't you help squash them?

New comment by lccerina in "Sauna effect on heart rate"

lccerina — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:29:58 +0000

Not at all, if you have a lot of data coming from imperfect hardware (which can mean both a fixed bias and unknown variance), and you don't know the variance for plenty of practical reasons, you are left with a result that is statistically significant, but wrong

New comment by lccerina in "Anthropic's Mythos Model Is Being Accessed by Unauthorized Users"

lccerina — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:26:47 +0000

On other news, the AI company recently found to have poor cybersecurity posture, still has poor cybersecurity.

New comment by lccerina in "Sauna effect on heart rate"

lccerina — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:18:27 +0000

If this was a peer-reviewed paper, it won't pass.

- Is the wearable accurate enough to be sure that 3bpm is not a measurement fluke? - Why did you use the minimum heart rate value (which could be a measurement glitch) and did not compare a percentile (e.g., 2.5th lowest percentile)? - Were all assumptions for paired t-testing valid? How did you account for likely temporal correlations in the data (e.g., sauna could have an effect also on a night 2 days after it, same for exercise)? - How can you define a "comparable-intensity exercise day" if you don't know the characteristics of the sauna?