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New comment by pietroppeter in "Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]"

pietroppeter — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 20:31:05 +0000

If you have not been following and focus on the cancer slide as an anti AI take, Tao has been involved and has a positive attitude towards AI for a while, he is just thinking a bit ahead on how the work of humans might change. https://teorth.github.io/tao-web/ai-views.html

Shimano Bicycle Museum Review

pietroppeter — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 05:12:58 +0000

Article URL: https://inrng.com/2026/10/shimano-bicycle-museum/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49930047

Points: 315

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New comment by pietroppeter in "Using AI to Contribute to Open Source"

pietroppeter — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 03:27:45 +0000

Since I ever saw this list of levels for AI usage disclosure it always felt right and I keep referring people to it. I suspect other people have arrived or will arrive at it independently. Useful also for all content production, not only Open Source

Using AI to Contribute to Open Source

pietroppeter — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 03:24:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.visidata.org/blog/2026/ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49839852

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by pietroppeter in "Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them"

pietroppeter — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:27:55 +0000

Has the industry already started to search for a better name than AI SEO for this?

New comment by pietroppeter in "Twenty Years of Pandoc"

pietroppeter — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:01:15 +0000

TIL pandoc for the people, courtesy of pandoc compiled to WASM. cool

https://pandoc.org/app/

New comment by pietroppeter in "The New AI Superpowers: Focus and Followthrough"

pietroppeter — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:51:27 +0000

Appreciate the quote of the Essentialism book by Greg McKweon, which I am currently reading. Funnily enough I decided the book when I found out (on Imprint app) that one of the key values of the “essentialist” is playfulness. I was sold.

New comment by pietroppeter in "Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work"

pietroppeter — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:43:48 +0000

Congrats! I had a great time doing a batch remotely from Italy (2.5 years ago), there is a lot of investment in making sure the remote experience is great and it shows!

New comment by pietroppeter in "Nim Conf 2026 (Online, Sat June 20)"

pietroppeter — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:52:19 +0000

AFAIK main focus of Nim 3 is about incremental compilation and enabling better developer tooling bringing in innovations experimented in Nimony (key is NIF intermediate format).

The new compile time memory mgmt was the focus of Nim 2 (it is possible there are still improvements)

New comment by pietroppeter in "Nim Conf 2026 (Online, Sat June 20)"

pietroppeter — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 07:05:56 +0000

personal highlight I looked forward to:

- Araq's update on Nimony and Nim 3 (and NIF, which is so cool)

- Constantin's love letter to Nim (long overdue and I expect to connect strongly with this one)

- Treeform talking about Nim and AI (always very clean and inspiring presentations)

- Capocasa's testimony about building a (economic) coding agent in Nim

- Gianmarco talking about Nim for embedded

- Peter telling the story on how he introduces Nim to his company's new hires

I am pretty sure the general quality will be good and there will be hidden pearls (last year pearl for me was the one about putting Nim on e-ink screens all over the house)

(you won't find name of authors in the conf page but you will find them in the youtube playlists)

New comment by pietroppeter in "Nim Conf 2026 (Online, Sat June 20)"

pietroppeter — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 03:40:52 +0000

Two tracks this year (a first).

As usual, videos are prerecorded and released as YouTube Premiere.

Track 1: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHI4D93Ts8_k&si=06qsQgYUd...

Track 2: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHUPmLYoCMoY&si=iMwL7UeIO...

Nim Conf 2026 (Online, Sat June 20)

pietroppeter — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 03:38:31 +0000

Article URL: https://conf.nim-lang.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48580504

Points: 83

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New comment by pietroppeter in "I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard"

pietroppeter — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:48:08 +0000

Related project discussed here 2 years ago FrameOS https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38855337

New comment by pietroppeter in "Pogacar and Ku Coin"

pietroppeter — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 01:16:34 +0000

> You can easily make the case that Tadej Pogačar is one of the world’s best athletes. Plus he enjoys a wholesome reputation, a cherubic look at races and a cheerful presence on social media. Good luck finding someone who knows him to say a bad word. He ought to be the face of Kelloggs cereal, Gillette razors, Pepsi Cola or Visa cards. Maybe all of them at the same time. Crypto? Meh, but why not. But Ku Coin?

Pogacar and Ku Coin

pietroppeter — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 01:15:57 +0000

Article URL: https://inrng.com/2026/01/ku-coin-pogacar-deal/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46819383

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by pietroppeter in "The Olivetti Company"

pietroppeter — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 07:38:04 +0000

If you happen to pass by Ivrea (short trip from Turin or Milan) there is a very nice small museum which showcases most of the machines mentioned. It has also a working Programma 101 and if you are lucky there might be a volounteer that can demo it. There also volounteer giving guided tours and if you are with kids you have the option to have them do a workshop (includes some 3d printing).

https://www.museotecnologicamente.it/category/collezione/

New comment by pietroppeter in "Fran Sans – font inspired by San Francisco light rail displays"

pietroppeter — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:38:05 +0000

Great work! As a side track, it led me to dive into the history of the manufacturing company of Breda trains. Originally founded in Milan late 1800s by Ernesto Breda for locomotives, expanded in the war products during the wars, and went through nationalization, fusion to become AnsaldoBreda and later bough by Japanese to become Hitachi Rail Italy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitachi_Rail_Italy

New comment by pietroppeter in "Why is Zig so cool?"

pietroppeter — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 07:23:11 +0000

I wish we had that for Nim too!

New comment by pietroppeter in "Python 3.14 is here. How fast is it?"

pietroppeter — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 07:13:07 +0000

Yet another appreciation story for Miguel’s mega tutorial. In 2017 I used it to create our wedding site and learn a bit of web dev (my background is in data science). To motivate me to actually do it I used the strategy the fund the then occurring refactoring of the tutorial. I am still very fond and proud of that first time I actually went and funded some open source effort, it gives you back more than you might expect

Making Operations Research More Accessible: Insights from the Rise of ML

pietroppeter — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 06:10:28 +0000

Article URL: https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/ijds.2025.0076

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45048976

Points: 1

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