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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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New comment by massimosgrelli in "Ask HN: Can you be a founder while being a sole bread winner?"

massimosgrelli — Wed, 17 May 2023 08:01:00 +0000

In your situation, it takes effort to take the leap of faith. I did it 10 years ago, and it was tough even if I had savings and no debts/mortgages. The main issue is managing the 24/7 mental stress for years; back then, I had two teenagers, and life was expensive. Most of the time, the founder's salary is not enough to support your family—at least in the Bay Area—and, besides, when you work 7 days a week, the situation becomes even harder to sustain. That puts much pressure on you and your partner for years before you can get something back. My suggestion: a) If you want to do that, be sure you have at least 2 years of savings, and not just to survive, but to live a good life. b) Be sure that your partner is truly happy with your choice. c) Startup vs life-style business. Creating a startup when you have a family and financial obligations is much more challenging than becoming an entrepreneur and creating a company to make a living. Be entirely sure that is the road you want to pursue. If you have doubts, wait. d) Some people have a positive—and balanced—approach to life that can help a lot when your launch your startup. If you are one of those, maybe it's a Yes.

New comment by massimosgrelli in "Realistic computer-generated handwriting"

massimosgrelli — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 19:16:45 +0000

Who is behind this project?