Hacker News: virgulino

New comment by virgulino in "The Origins of Agar"

virgulino — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 17:04:24 +0000

Unrelated but in name:

Agar-Agar, the Parisian artsy synth-pop duo - "How do we find out if we already live in a simulation?"

https://youtu.be/7Qp44a0uaeU

New comment by virgulino in "A party balloon shut down El Paso International Airport; estimated cost –$573k"

virgulino — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:34:28 +0000

We posted simultaneously! :)

New comment by virgulino in "A party balloon shut down El Paso International Airport; estimated cost –$573k"

virgulino — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:31:01 +0000

"99 Luftballons", Mariachi remix.

New comment by virgulino in "The Day the Telnet Died"

virgulino — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:46:26 +0000

> The sky is not falling.

Great analysis, thank you!

New thread: Reports of Telnet's Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46980355

New comment by virgulino in "The Day the Telnet Died"

virgulino — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 03:54:07 +0000

Never mind telnetd. Tier 1 transit providers doing port filtering is EXTREMELY alarming. They have partitioned the Internet, and in a way that automatic routing (BGP) can't get around.

New comment by virgulino in "Pentagon clashes with Anthropic over military AI use, sources say"

virgulino — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:00:20 +0000

"The Pentagon is at odds with artificial-intelligence developer Anthropic over safeguards that would prevent the government from deploying its technology to target weapons autonomously and conduct U.S. domestic surveillance, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters."

The Málaga virus: The code that haunted Google's security director

virgulino — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 16:58:56 +0000

Article URL: https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-12-23/the-story-of-the-malaga-virus-the-code-that-haunted-googles-cybersecurity-center-director-for-30-years.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46412442

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by virgulino in "Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade's Manifesto Antropófago (1928)"

virgulino — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 03:38:00 +0000

Some good information in video form:

What was the Anthropophagic Movement and how did it EAT European art? // A 1m30s video: https://youtu.be/oh0gZxX1WNM

How Brazil Redefined Modern Art (And Why It Matters) // By a Brazilian historian: https://youtu.be/VDeIH1r5IZ4

Tarsila, the mother of Brazilian Modern Art // Short CBS report: https://youtu.be/9prEjZUG63Y

New comment by virgulino in "LLMs develop social norms like groups of people"

virgulino — Thu, 15 May 2025 15:11:51 +0000

Groups of large language models playing simple interactive games can develop social norms, such as adopting their own rules for how language is used

https://archive.is/moB6H

LLMs develop social norms like groups of people

virgulino — Thu, 15 May 2025 15:11:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01500-6

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43995875

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by virgulino in "Wikipedia’s nonprofit status questioned by D.C. U.S. attorney"

virgulino — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 16:51:07 +0000

I agree. The pages on Brazilian politics are often grotesque propaganda. There was even a famous case in which a slanderous and fraudulent edit on two journalists' pages was traced back to an IP address in Dilma's Presidential Palace (Dilma was Lula's hand-picked successor).

New comment by virgulino in "Making any integer with four 2s"

virgulino — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 18:40:29 +0000

There's the classic “four fours”, which I learned as a child in the book “The Man Who Counted”.

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

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

New comment by virgulino in "Early Iron Age horse sacrifice at a royal tomb in southern Siberia"

virgulino — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 14:41:00 +0000

Tuva or Bust!

New comment by virgulino in "The Difference Between a Standard DIMM and a Cudimm or Csodimm"

virgulino — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 00:03:58 +0000

"STH may say “home” in the title which confuses some. Home is actually a reference to a users /home/ directory in Linux. We scale from those looking to have in home or office servers all the way up to some of the largest hosting organizations in the world. This site is dedicated to helping professionals and enthusiasts stay atop of the latest server, storage and networking trends."

https://www.servethehome.com/about/

New comment by virgulino in "18,000 Miles Later, an American Woman Has Cycled the World"

virgulino — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 02:08:44 +0000

RIP Iohan Gueorguiev, my tragic cycling poet! He is a great inspiration, as an earthling, as a human being and as a cyclist.

https://www.cyclingabout.com/tribute-to-iohan-gueorguiev-bik...

New comment by virgulino in "Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison"

virgulino — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 03:11:01 +0000

Inside Windows NT, the 1st edition, by Helen Custer, is one of my all-time favorite books! A forgotten gem. It's good to see it being praised.

New comment by virgulino in "Telum II at Hot Chips 2024: Mainframe with a Unique Caching Strategy"

virgulino — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 00:17:42 +0000

"Why Do Mainframes Still Exist? What's Inside One? 40TB, 200+ Cores, AI, and more! - Dave explores the IBM z16 mainframe from design to assembly and testing. What's inside a modern IBM z16 mainframe that makes it relevant today?" - by Dave Plummer.

This is an amazing 23-minute video by the Microsoft programmer who developed the Windows NT Task Manager, among other things. He visits IBM and talks to engineers about the Telum chip architecture (Hot Chips 2023), used in the z16 mainframe. Special attention is paid to the cache.

https://youtu.be/ouAG4vXFORc

New comment by virgulino in "Did Sandia use a thermonuclear secondary in a product logo?"

virgulino — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 08:04:04 +0000

For anyone interested in the basics of nuclear weapons, I highly recommend the "Nuclear 101: How Nuclear Bombs Work" lectures by Matthew Bunn, a man heavily involved in nuclear arms control.

His lectures are always highly entertaining, a real pleasure to watch.

This is a clip from his lecture explaining the basics of thermonuclear warheads:

https://youtu.be/YMuRpx4T2Rw

And the full “Nuclear 101” lecture, in two parts:

https://youtu.be/zVhQOhxb1Mc

https://youtu.be/MnW7DxsJth0

New comment by virgulino in "Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky"

virgulino — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 00:44:55 +0000

Starlink will not block X-Twitter in Brazil:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41421531

New comment by virgulino in "Brazilian court orders suspension of X"

virgulino — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 00:43:51 +0000

Starlink will not block X-Twitter in Brazil:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41421531