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New comment by massimosgrelli in "Peter Salus has died"

massimosgrelli — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:50:08 +0000

Thanks for sharing this link. I'll read it right away. If you are passionate about Unix history, you should also get Unix: A History and a Memoir by Brian Kernighan https://www.amazon.com/UNIX-History-Memoir-Brian-Kernighan/d...

New comment by massimosgrelli in "The lasting influence of Netscape Time"

massimosgrelli — Tue, 19 May 2026 08:21:53 +0000

I watched Code Rush tens of times. That was my time, I just had my degree in Computer Science in Milan, Italy. Before Mosaic and then Netscape, the only way to get access to information was through an Ampex terminal using tools like Gopher and Veronica. Internet connection was rare and hard to get, and the first browser changed my life forever. Soon after, the first ISPs emerged, and in an instant, access to information became available, even from my 10,000-person town. Netscape is how I became aware of Silicon Valley, and it took me almost 15 years to get there. It has been a lot of fun and excitement; I knew something big was happening, but nobody believed me or even understood me. When Code Rush finally became available on YouTube, it was like being part of the pirate crew from my small town for the first time. I still watch it once a year. It changed everything.

New comment by massimosgrelli in "[dead]"

massimosgrelli — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:15:06 +0000

This is an oral history interview with Ken Thompson, created in partnership by the Association for Computing Machinery and the Computer History Museum, in connection with his A.M. Turing Award in 1983.

Will AI Agents Change the Internet Forever?

massimosgrelli — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 16:18:28 +0000

Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/agentic-web

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45824665

Points: 2

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New comment by massimosgrelli in "Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf"

massimosgrelli — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 07:34:14 +0000

Yes and no. Are AI companies overvalued? Yes. Will most of them crash and burn? Yes, they will. Are the words "intelligence" or "reasoning" misused? Absolutely. Nonetheless, nobody can deny that some of these tools are useful and have demonstrated they can generate revenue like no other tool, app, or device before. There is something different from the dot-com bubble; many barriers have come down since 2000. Everyone can be connected 24/7 for a few tens of dollars a month. People trust the internet as a medium to perform transactions and access data. The real bubble is in the private market valuations, especially in the pre-seed stage. Many young entrepreneurs don't understand that raising their first round at $30M, $50M, or even $100M post-money will put a heavy weight on their shoulders approaching the Series A. Raising a funding round is a promise you make to the market. Increasingly high expectations will burn many wanna be entrepreneurs whose contribution to make things better for everyone will be lost forever. I'm deeply convinced that the reality check for all those companies is the public market, and in today's world, you can't go public after 3-5 years if your initial valuation has been built on a 20-year-long promise. All the trillion-dollar companies we know today went public a few years after their creation: Apple, Google, Microsoft, NVIDIA, etc. OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cursor are black swans, not evidence of the power law.

New comment by massimosgrelli in "Between the Booms: AI in Winter – Communications of the ACM"

massimosgrelli — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 23:23:33 +0000

I'm not an expert in the field, but I find this article incredible. For someone like me who didn't major in AI at CS, it's clear and entertaining.

New comment by massimosgrelli in "1M Users"

massimosgrelli — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 07:47:26 +0000

It's incredible how this type of revival from the past gained such meaningful traction, but, in a way, I fully understand it. The online world has become so confusing that many desire a simple one. The same feeling drove me to adopt Threads over Twitter/X—even if I still use them both.

Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities

massimosgrelli — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 08:38:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si9iqF5uTFk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41407388

Points: 1

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Rubycarp: A Detailed Analysis of a Sophisticated Decade-Old Botnet Group

massimosgrelli — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 09:56:16 +0000

Article URL: https://sysdig.com/blog/rubycarp-romanian-botnet-group/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39988876

Points: 2

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New comment by massimosgrelli in "Interview with the "Father of the PC" Ed Roberts in the early 2000's [video]"

massimosgrelli — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 16:22:21 +0000

Raw footage of an interview done in the Early 2000's. I found this video thanks to this article https://every.to/p/the-secret-father-of-modern-computing

Interview with the "Father of the PC" Ed Roberts in the early 2000's [video]

massimosgrelli — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 16:22:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcgP1k7IjfA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38655639

Points: 1

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Nvidia Envy: understanding the GPU gold rush

massimosgrelli — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 15:45:57 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.johnluttig.com/p/nvidia-envy-understanding-the-gpu

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38290969

Points: 1

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New comment by massimosgrelli in "Ask HN: What good is a VPN if Hulu and Netflix still know where I am?"

massimosgrelli — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 06:14:52 +0000

Can anyone explain to me how they can detect a VPN?

New comment by massimosgrelli in "Bees are astonishingly good at making decisions"

massimosgrelli — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 10:16:24 +0000

and our computer model explains how that's possible

Bees are astonishingly good at making decisions

massimosgrelli — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 10:16:24 +0000

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2023-06-bees-astonishingly-good-decisionsand.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36904915

Points: 3

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2,200 Forgotten Vintage Computers Are Being Liberated from a Barn in MA

massimosgrelli — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 10:10:08 +0000

Article URL: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/23/06/28/2012229/2200-forgotten-vintage-computers-are-being-liberated-from-a-barn-in-massachusetts

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36904886

Points: 1

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New comment by massimosgrelli in "Launch HN: PeerDB (YC S23) – Fast, Native ETL/ELT for Postgres"

massimosgrelli — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 08:38:03 +0000

I love it. We'll talk soon.

New comment by massimosgrelli in "It's 2023, so of course I'm learning Common Lisp"

massimosgrelli — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 08:55:49 +0000

I'm sorry about my basic question. Back in the 80s, AI was betting on Lisp machines — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine — now, of course obsolete. Is Lisp still relevant in the AI space?

New comment by massimosgrelli in "It's 2023, so of course I'm learning Common Lisp"

massimosgrelli — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 08:13:33 +0000

Always been fascinated by Lisp, but I never spent enough time to enjoy its elegance and applications. I went through Lurk, a Lisp dialect, a Turing-complete programming language for recursive zk-SNARKs in the last year. I started to grasp a bit of its potential in solving real-world problems, but still too little to understand why it's so right for solving some problems. I'm curious about what other projects you guys are successfully and better solving because of Lisp today.

Dennis Ritchie’s page on Bell Labs website

massimosgrelli — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 16:55:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36187174

Points: 225

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