Hacker News: simonebrunozzi

New comment by simonebrunozzi in "OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom"

simonebrunozzi — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:51:42 +0000

Interesting comment, but the comparison with hard disk drives is probably unfair.

The IBM 350 was commercialized 70 years ago; it took 70 years for someone like you to be able to compare that to a multi-TB SSD.

Furthermore, nothing says that Moore's Law will necessarily apply to LLMs, for decades to come.

Robert Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke interview with Walter Cronkite – Apollo 11 [video]

simonebrunozzi — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:17:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PLTkYJ7C40

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48658578

Points: 1

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A friendly, non-technical introduction to differential privacy

simonebrunozzi — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:10:34 +0000

Article URL: https://desfontain.es/blog/friendly-intro-to-differential-privacy.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48658514

Points: 1

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New comment by simonebrunozzi in "A deadly fungus that can infect cats and people is spreading"

simonebrunozzi — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:09:02 +0000

Reminds me of the TV Series "The Last of us" [0], which: "... is set decades after the collapse of society caused by a mass fungal infection that transforms its hosts into zombie-like creatures". Of course, minus the zombies.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_of_Us_(TV_series)

New comment by simonebrunozzi in "Millimeter wave technology drills 100 meters into granite"

simonebrunozzi — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 06:49:38 +0000

Quite the opposite. They use proven reactor tech, and they are now going straight to commercial, vs other startups that need to go supercritical first.

Roald Amundsen

simonebrunozzi — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:59:54 +0000

Article URL: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Amundsen

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48650491

Points: 2

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Macrofinancial Implications of Foreign Crypto Assets for Developing Economies [pdf]

simonebrunozzi — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:25:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.imf.org/-/media/files/publications/ftn063/2023/english/ftnea2023012.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48650068

Points: 2

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New comment by simonebrunozzi in "Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place"

simonebrunozzi — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:33:46 +0000

> The business is sucker farming: manufacturing a product whose counterparty is a retail customer who does not understand that he is the one being farmed. It could have played by the existing rules. It has decisively chosen not to.

Bingo.