Hacker News: maremmano

New comment by maremmano in "LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first"

maremmano — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:25:10 +0000

this won't age well.

New comment by maremmano in "Show HN: The Yatima Scale – Measuring civilizations by depth, not energy"

maremmano — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 11:23:31 +0000

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New comment by maremmano in "Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]"

maremmano — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:48:58 +0000

I like this magazine vibe, it reminds me of the good ol' l33t zines from the late '80s and '90s. However, if I can offer a suggestion, I'd also pair the technical articles with a little more punky, down-to-earth stuff. They were cheerful, informal, and full of that cheeky, irreverent, cocky smart-ass humor, plus this mysterious edge that made them absolutely magnetic to me. Life just wasn’t so heavy back then.

New comment by maremmano in "Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors"

maremmano — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:27:24 +0000

I got both Sublime and VSCode. Sublime is a work of love. You can probably do more things with vscode, but I'm not sure you can do many of these things better or faster than sublime. I don't think so.

Show HN: NoteBAD++ a PowerShell tool to detect Notepad++ supply chain compromise

maremmano — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:52:21 +0000

Following Kaspersky's disclosure of the Notepad++ supply chain attack (June–Dec 2025), I (and a lot of Claude) built a PowerShell-based IOC scanner to help identify affected systems.

The attack exploited GUP.exe (the auto-updater) to deliver Cobalt Strike/Chrysalis backdoors. While highly targeted (~12 machines globally, mostly gov/finance in APAC), many admins want to verify their systems are clean.

NoteBad++ runs 22 checks: SHA-1/SHA-256 hash verification against known IOCs, registry persistence, malicious services, scheduled tasks, DNS cache, network connections to C2 IPs, event logs, and more.

Requires Admin privileges.

Returns exit code = number of findings (useful for automation).

GitHub: https://github.com/maremmano/notebadpp

If you're running Notepad++ < v8.8.9, I'd recommend updating regardless.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46886510

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by maremmano in "Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors"

maremmano — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 07:41:51 +0000

Thanks. I'm on it right now. Testing.

New comment by maremmano in "Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors"

maremmano — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 07:17:29 +0000

I’m on version 8.8.8, which says a lot.

This time I unfortunately have to move on from Notepad++. Vibes have been negative for a while but out of inertia (and because there weren't obvious alternatives) I never pulled the trigger. Now it's time. The trust is gone.

Thanks NP++ for being free and useful for so many years.

Can anyone suggest a solid alternative on Windows? I'm fine with Linux and macOS but I have to keep a Windows machine around for some legacy, win only, software.

Maybe Sublime Text could be an option? At this point I'd rather pay for something lightweight, fast, and probably better.

I don't like tooling that increases my exposure to bad state actors (whatever state they're from).

New comment by maremmano in "San Remo Pasta Measurer"

maremmano — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:48:30 +0000

No way! just go with 120gr of whatever pasta you have (must be: spaghetti, linguine, paccheri, mezze maniche or rigatoni).

New comment by maremmano in "The tool for conquering STEM problems–Goth"

maremmano — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 08:26:52 +0000

Domain is "for sale"

New comment by maremmano in "Genergo: Propellantless space-propulsion system"

maremmano — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 22:14:52 +0000

It so happens that a friend of a friend of mine works at this company. I'll ask for some details.

New comment by maremmano in "Genergo: Propellantless space-propulsion system"

maremmano — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 22:13:54 +0000

And anyway, we Italians have done some good things in the past. Not that this can't be a new EmDrive.

Genergo: Propellantless space-propulsion system

maremmano — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:43:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.satcom.digital/news/genergo-an-italian-company-builds-the-worlds-first-known-propellantless-space-propulsion-system-flight-tested-and-validated-on-orbit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45931224

Points: 79

# Comments: 69

New comment by maremmano in "Tailwindcss.com load time is now very fast"

maremmano — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 15:55:02 +0000

Wow, very fast. Looking at: https://builtwith.com/detailed/tailwindcss.com

New comment by maremmano in "Show HN: ASCII Automata"

maremmano — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:07:35 +0000

Speechless. I love this kind of creativity and agency.

New comment by maremmano in "Ask HN: What do you do while ChatGPT-5 is thinking?"

maremmano — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 14:27:26 +0000

Obviously I move the mouse pointer so as not to freeze the machine and speed up the process.

New comment by maremmano in "Lights (at sea): See every lighthouse across Europe on an interactive map"

maremmano — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 11:21:41 +0000

Probably (but not sure) is this: https://geodienst.github.io/lighthousemap/

New comment by maremmano in "Beginner Guide to VPS Hetzner and Coolify"

maremmano — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 17:12:11 +0000

COST is $153/ONE YEAR (not monthly).

8 vCore + 24 GB RAM + 200 GB SSD NVMe VPS @ OVH

New comment by maremmano in "Beginner Guide to VPS Hetzner and Coolify"

maremmano — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 11:58:54 +0000

OVH is just as reliable as Hetzner, and right now they have a much cheaper offer: https://us.ovhcloud.com/vps/configurator/?planCode=vps-2025-...

Aside from that, which distro would you choose for Coolify? I’m debating between Ubuntu 24.04 and Debian 13.

New comment by maremmano in "Pashtouki – postcards that carry stories"

maremmano — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 11:02:04 +0000

Very interesting project. Congratulations on the support you're giving to people in great difficulty.

New comment by maremmano in "Google's $250 AI agent can only help you book restaurant reservations"

maremmano — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 19:02:48 +0000

Does anyone remember "that call"?