Hacker News: vannucci

New comment by vannucci in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

vannucci — Thu, 07 May 2026 09:08:48 +0000

Our team is assessing some new tools and one of our VPs produced a document just like this and none of us read it because it was obvious that it was generated slop and way too long. I don't get what value such tomes are actually providing when you're comparing three SaaS tools against each other.

New comment by vannucci in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

vannucci — Thu, 07 May 2026 00:02:19 +0000

I'm wondering what this could mean to the future of software work and AI use, care to weight in? I don't have a good mental model for this period of time (I do agree with your sense of things).

New comment by vannucci in "Indifference is a power (2015)"

vannucci — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:39:30 +0000

This is the exact phrasing I was just searching for, and I fear the same thing that this pop stoicism revival is trying to formalize some really asocial behaviors.

New comment by vannucci in "Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com"

vannucci — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 12:23:09 +0000

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New comment by vannucci in "Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system"

vannucci — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 21:18:57 +0000

Definitely want to talk about this too. I've been thinking of my own daily learning through tools like Anki and trying to devise a sort of "life stack" where I'm adding stuff and refreshing myself on it and this top comment from OP just sort of crystalizes that.

New comment by vannucci in "In orbit you have to slow down to speed up"

vannucci — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 12:28:57 +0000

I tried to teach a group of HS students about orbital mechanics as a high school physics teacher using KSP. It was... difficult. Not impossible. But I agree it's an excellent learning tool.

New comment by vannucci in "Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents"

vannucci — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 23:58:28 +0000

This so much this. We don’t even have a good model for how invertebrate minds work or a good theory of mind. We can keep imitating understanding but it’s far from any actual intelligence.

New comment by vannucci in "Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?"

vannucci — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 09:12:31 +0000

My personal version of this was realizing that the bar for being a functional, relatively successful adult is FAR lower than I realized as a kid. Many adults can't get things which I find fairly rudimentary right and it explains a lot.

New comment by vannucci in "AI is killing the web – can anything save it?"

vannucci — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 21:29:33 +0000

Personally this is what I’m hoping for. Stories I read about services sold as AI turning out to be minimum wage workers tells me that as much as everyone thinks this is the dawn of a new age of hyperintelligent machines we haven’t gotten as far as we wanted to as fast as we wanted, or hoped.

New comment by vannucci in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

vannucci — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 12:49:31 +0000

You've sent me down a really interesting rabbit hole as someone who is trying to move away from just writing and understanding how React works. Can you explain a little more why this felt worth pursuing? I'm interested in what sorts of advantages this could have.

New comment by vannucci in "Ask HN: How are you finding the job market in July 2024?"

vannucci — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 14:52:32 +0000

If I had my druthers on specific industries to focus on it would likely be in either finance or some sort of logistics field. My last role was an education CMS product and while that was fine it never felt like things would go anywhere I wanted to go. But, with the aforementioned "deadness" of things, I'm willing to take a role almost anywhere at any level just to stay writing software.

New comment by vannucci in "Ask HN: How are you finding the job market in July 2024?"

vannucci — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 14:28:13 +0000

US East Coast === Also Dead. edit: I'm a frontend focused JS/TS dev with 5 years experience and I was laid off at the end of May and never before has my anxiety been this high about landing another SWE role. At this point I've been heavily considering some sort of "hold over job" just to keep the lights on and keep me from going crazy, but I'm hoping I don't have to go down that route.

New comment by vannucci in "New Marine radios cement electromagnetic spectrum superiority"

vannucci — Wed, 22 May 2024 13:33:08 +0000

"Get out of the way, phlogiston theory, electromagnetics are here to stay."

New comment by vannucci in "Car manufacturers break promise about sharing location data with police"

vannucci — Wed, 01 May 2024 14:06:31 +0000

I've been doing the same, my next car and hopefully my last will be an old Grand Marquis. I can fix it myself, no tracking, and just goes forever.

New comment by vannucci in "Surgeons transplant pig kidney into a patient"

vannucci — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:58:42 +0000

It does at the end of the article: "The procedure was performed under a Food and Drug Administration protocol known as a compassionate use provision, which is granted to patients with life-threatening illness who might benefit from an unapproved treatment. New drugs to suppress the immune system and prevent rejection of the organ were also used under the protocol."

New comment by vannucci in "Pinball Map: Crowd-sourced worldwide map of public pinball machines"

vannucci — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 19:40:13 +0000

Glad to see that the Silverball Museum in Asbury Park, NJ has more machines than anywhere else to the state. Love that place.

New comment by vannucci in "Remembering Bell Labs as legendary idea factory prepares to leave N.J. home"

vannucci — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 14:28:45 +0000

NB/EB resident, has construction ever stopped in this area since 2000? I'm glad that 18 is finally (mostly) done as you say

New comment by vannucci in "How to Work Effectively with Someone You Don't Like"

vannucci — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 15:16:04 +0000

Your 3rd bullet really hits hard, I had many colleagues at an old job who would do insane things for our company because they were on a visa and had purchased a home and they explained to me that they can't afford to not do every single thing asked. It was so heartbreaking.

New comment by vannucci in "25 Gbit/s at home, part 1"

vannucci — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 17:43:18 +0000

I'm so jealous of this. I live in a major metro area of NYC and there's still no fiber out to my town. This is so cool.

New comment by vannucci in "Internet-connected cars fail privacy and security tests conducted by Mozilla"

vannucci — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 17:07:21 +0000

I totally agree I just feel like there's a sweet spot in the early 2000s where crash safety was better (not the best, but way closer to modern) and traction controls were standard but you didn't have all the spyware. My 2000 4Runner was unfortunately designed in the 1990s which means the doors are super thin as are the roof pillars. Not a deal breaker mind you, it's just the sort of thing that I won't want it until it's too late.