Hacker News: sica07

New comment by sica07 in "Kyoto cherry blossoms now bloom earlier than at any point in 1,200 years"

sica07 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:04:37 +0000

Cherry trees all across Japan (not just Kyoto) are blooming earlier and earlier and this confirms that the trend cannot be explained by local urbanization alone c(https://gizmodo.com/japan-hasnt-seen-cherry-blossoms-this-ea...). However, Kyoto's transformation into a dense urban environment has for sure made the local signal worse.

New comment by sica07 in "Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop"

sica07 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:23:10 +0000

This is what rquickshare documentation says: "Wi-Fi LAN only. Your devices need to be on the same network for this app to work." So no, it's not an AirDrop replacement.

New comment by sica07 in "We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT"

sica07 — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 07:25:52 +0000

vello.ai is very, very slow. I used it for web searching but waiting (sometimes) more than 30 seconds for a simple queries is unacceptable

An analysis reveals fungal involvement in gastrointestinal and lung tumours

sica07 — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 18:14:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.biocodexmicrobiotainstitute.com/en/pro/pan-cancer-mycobiome-analysis-reveals-fungal-involvement-gastrointestinal-and-lung-tumours

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37471260

Points: 21

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Effect of Antibiotics on Fungal Microbiota

sica07 — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 05:21:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.biocodexmicrobiotainstitute.com/en/pro/unexpected-effect-famous-antibiotic-fungal-microbiota

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37205747

Points: 2

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The simplest thing that could possibly work

sica07 — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 09:13:42 +0000

Article URL: https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-simplest-thing-that-could-possibly-work-8f0d8b43

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34980301

Points: 1

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New comment by sica07 in "Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?"

sica07 — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 14:08:40 +0000

Laravel all the way. It comes with all the basic functionality I would need and tons of packages for almost any scenario.

New comment by sica07 in "Show HN: FrankenPHP, an app server for PHP written in Go"

sica07 — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 08:15:05 +0000

Not a benchmark but some helpful stats can be found in this slide: https://speakerdeck.com/dunglas/frankenphp-a-modern-app-serv...

New comment by sica07 in "Htmx – high power tools for HTML"

sica07 — Fri, 29 May 2020 09:29:45 +0000

Yes, you are right. My response was based on the presentation from the first page: "htmx allows you to access AJAX, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes". In the meantime I read the documentation and, as you just said, it supports animations and much more.

New comment by sica07 in "Htmx – high power tools for HTML"

sica07 — Thu, 28 May 2020 10:06:01 +0000

You are comparing apple to oranges :) alpine and stimulus are frameworks (doing all sorts of stuff: css animation, data <-> objects, etc) while htmx is a library focusing solely on ajax. From your list, the only similar project to htmx is intercooler-js, but... htmx is actually the new version of intercooler-js (both projects by the same author).

New comment by sica07 in "Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls"

sica07 — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 08:45:42 +0000

Mazda did it first :) The new Mazda 3 2019 model (launched in october 2018) has no tuchscreen control.

5680-year tree-ring temperature record for southern South America

sica07 — Sun, 29 Dec 2019 22:30:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379119306924

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21909051

Points: 7

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The Unique Health Benefits of Autumn Hikes

sica07 — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 08:30:48 +0000

Article URL: https://elemental.medium.com/the-unique-health-benefits-of-autumn-hikes-cacacc5d4bf4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21626368

Points: 2

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Overactive Brain Has Been Linked to a Shorter Life

sica07 — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 09:09:00 +0000

Article URL: https://elemental.medium.com/overactive-brain-has-been-linked-to-a-shorter-life-77366516dca7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21533959

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Astronomers just found the first evidence that 'Mini Black Holes' exist

sica07 — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 08:00:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.livescience.com/mini-black-holes-could-exist-universe.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21439718

Points: 2

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New comment by sica07 in "A new book critiques medicine"

sica07 — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 12:42:54 +0000

I agree with you but in a different way :) (what follows its a long text written in bad English but I hope I'll manage to make my idea clear)

Regarding your idea that "By any standard of effectiveness, this is not looking good for pharmaceuticals": This is a very complex topic and I don't think anyone has a clear and objective view/explanation about this.

For example, we have a big problem with the antibiotics. We eat a lot of meat from animals that where treated with antibiotics. We "overuse" antibiotics. Etc. Because of this, new antibiotics-resistant bacteria appeared and classical antibiotics became less and less effective in fighting against them. How should we categorize this issue? Should we see it as a proof of the fact that medicines are not as effective as advertised? It's not a problem with antibiotics per se. Or as a proof that modern medicine is overrated? Medicine correctly identified the problem(bacteria) and the treatment(antibiotics). In reality it is a problem generated by mostly by the rising popularity of automedication, lack of basic medical/pharmaceutical education and urban myths (antibiotics are good for anything), medicines used on animals (which is not a problem of human medicine), and, I would say, only a tiny part of the problem is the treatments that unnecessarily include antibiotics and are prescribed by medicine doctors. But, let's say that we don't know anything about the above mentioned facts and we study some statistics. What would we think when seeing a clear correlation between the increase in the number of antibiotics and decrease of the effectiveness of the treatments? We could see it as a proof that "the quality of medicine drugs has decreased resulting in an increase of ineffective treatment".

The point I'm trying to make is that the reason why the effectiveness of many treatments decreased and now we have a decline in life expectancy it's a very complex issue and it's not fair to see it as simple as a fact failure of pharmaceutics or/and medicine.

Regarding your last statement, I think that we are not seeing improvements because our modern environment and life style has changed and is changing in such a rapid and unpredictable way that medicine can keep the pace. Medicine it's improving, but it's improving too slow. It is as out environment and lifestyle is traveling by plane while medicine and pharmaceutics are traveling by bus...

New comment by sica07 in "A new book critiques medicine"

sica07 — Sun, 14 Jul 2019 18:12:21 +0000

There were and are a lot of articles about the fact that many prescription drugs and many treatments are overrated and I totally belive that. But saying that "most" medical treatments & prescription drugs are worthless it's quite a radical view based on... pure speculation.

New comment by sica07 in "The cortex is a neural network of neural networks"

sica07 — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 15:33:41 +0000

What I don't understand is the part about the supralinear/sublinear particularity of the dendrite. First, the article explains that: " If enough inputs are activated in the same small bit of dendrite then the sum of those simultaneous inputs will be bigger than the sum of each input acting alone (...) A bit of dendrite is “supralinear”: within a dendrite, 2+2=6." Further in the article, I find this explanation: "Because dendrites are naturally not linear: in their normal state they actually sum up inputs to total less than the individual values. They are sub-linear. For them 2+2 = 3.5". What makes the difference between a bit of dendrite spiting a sublinear vs. supralinear "result"? I feel that the difference lays in the 'if enough inputs are activated' vs. 'in their normal state'. If that's the case, what's the "normal state"? Could anybody help me understand this part?