Hacker News: ricogallo

New comment by ricogallo in "Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)"

ricogallo — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:18:00 +0000

> We practice kindness between humans because of the law of reciprocity.

Yet, this law is so embedded in us that practicing kindness even towards a rock makes us feel good.

So practice kindness, first and foremost for yourself.

New comment by ricogallo in "Response to "Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language""

ricogallo — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:38:28 +0000

I feel the same. I think the reason is that GenAI has effectively abstracted away the tooling layer. Not perfectly, and not always efficiently, but in terms of going from requirements → workable outcome, it has removed much of the pain of choosing one developer experience over another.

New comment by ricogallo in "The trust collapse: Infinite AI content is awful"

ricogallo — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 13:39:16 +0000

It sounds like the "The City" in "Blame!"

New comment by ricogallo in "Researchers have found a faster way to do integer linear programming"

ricogallo — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 12:12:01 +0000

Would you care to elaborate?

New comment by ricogallo in "Show HN: EdgeDB Cloud and 4.0 with FTS and Auth"

ricogallo — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 18:34:24 +0000

Are there any plans to support stored procedures?

New comment by ricogallo in "Reconciliation is a knapsack problem"

ricogallo — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 16:47:26 +0000

I think they got their math wrong too: the binomial coefficient for (5 1) is 5, not 120.

New comment by ricogallo in "France experiencing worst drought on record"

ricogallo — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 19:33:26 +0000

I find your perspective interesting, but have the feeling that you are not thinking in systems (!). The sensory systems are perceptual systems, but they are subsystems of a larger "cognitive" system, and we cannot be sure that it exhibits the same logarithmic response behavior.

New comment by ricogallo in "France experiencing worst drought on record"

ricogallo — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 18:49:40 +0000

I am thinking more of an automatic ability to see how things are related. Chinese language(s) ↔ Taoism, in the context of a holistic approach to worldview [0]. I know I am exaggerating, but maybe some meditative training could help in this regard?

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/health/04iht-6sncult.1.10...

New comment by ricogallo in "France experiencing worst drought on record"

ricogallo — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 14:13:57 +0000

I actually wonder if humans lack a crucial adaptive advantage if they do not intuitively understand how systems work. But then it occurs to me that some ancient philosophies and religions emphasised the need to be in tune with the surrounding world.

New comment by ricogallo in "Tell HN: Collection of the some top HN Posts"

ricogallo — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 11:04:06 +0000

Tangential to this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31885615

New comment by ricogallo in "Ask HN: Should I publish my research code?"

ricogallo — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 15:57:47 +0000

Publish the code. At worst no one will look at it, at best you will draw more attention to your work and maybe get some good tips.

New comment by ricogallo in "Intel ME: The Way of Static Analysis"

ricogallo — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 11:51:19 +0000

That was a really good one :)

New comment by ricogallo in "Ask HN: Do you still use UML?"

ricogallo — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 14:02:00 +0000

Care to explain which are those communities you are referring to?

New comment by ricogallo in "Plasma Mobile – Turns your phone into a fully open hacking device"

ricogallo — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 23:19:31 +0000

This. I hate to readjust my usual scrolling habit just because they think their unique scrolling friction is better.

New comment by ricogallo in "On Being a Black Man"

ricogallo — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 23:00:48 +0000

I would love to say that Italy is not a racist country. But it is. Still, your words convey a deeper gap and racial segregation in the US.

I feel sorry you had borne all these wounds to your social identity, but I'm sure one day we will tackle the very roots of inequality and bigotry.

Show HN: YepJet – the simple flight booking API

ricogallo — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 18:44:55 +0000

Article URL: https://yepjet.com/?utm_source=hn

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10705796

Points: 11

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New comment by ricogallo in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to Modern JavaScript Tooling"

ricogallo — Sun, 26 Jul 2015 22:54:35 +0000

Please take a look at how I found my peace using GNU make in frontend development: https://gist.github.com/ricogallo/726fcb6e46d5a7405a9f

New comment by ricogallo in "How Walking in Nature Changes the Brain"

ricogallo — Fri, 24 Jul 2015 12:41:31 +0000

Yes, traditionally you need the 5% of error, or even 1%. Also the partial eta-squared is the ANOVA measure for the size of the effects studied, which happens to be very low too: 9%.

New comment by ricogallo in "Forcing Wordpress sites to use https even when not directed"

ricogallo — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 11:54:01 +0000

Indeed, but you can see that a bunch of Wordpress sites are obscure, ancient and insecure by default.

New comment by ricogallo in "How Walking in Nature Changes the Brain"

ricogallo — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 11:50:50 +0000

However I'd like to point out this nice dissection of the article, where a lot of serious flaws had been found. For instance: missing significance. http://neuroconscience.com/2015/06/30/a-walk-in-the-park-inc...