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danielfalbo

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danielfalbo··on Structured Procrastination (1995)
How do we know it's from 1995?

> Site designed by the author's granddaughter, who did the work while avoiding the far more weighty assignment of her literature test.

Impressive for 1995, he must've thought her HTML and how to use a computer first

HTML 2.0 came out in 1995

danielfalbo··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)
I would love to read about the psychology of why we may want those notes to be hidden from them before our death/injury.
danielfalbo··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)
reminds me of https://contexts.co/
danielfalbo··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/managedsettings/ma...
danielfalbo··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)
Studying multivariable calculus to graduate. I currently have 108 CFUs[1] and I will graduate when I'll reach 180. Follow my journey live at

https://danielfalbo.com/university.md

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_training_credit

danielfalbo··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)
https://bifrost.bativephp.com unreachable from my machine, there may be a typo
danielfalbo··on I built and launched the first AirPods-Controlled Game
Reminds me of when the first iPhones came out and developers were very creative for the time with the available features: flashlight app, bubble level app, asphalt 4
danielfalbo··on I built and launched the first AirPods-Controlled Game
This is amazing! I'm about to waste my entire afternoon playing this. Feature request: nod to restart
danielfalbo··on Blind Lossless Audio Test
update: I got it working with Apple Music by following this https://community.roonlabs.com/t/tutorial-apple-music-output...
danielfalbo··on Blind Lossless Audio Test
Do you play your own files or did you get it to work with Apple Music? If the latter, how?
danielfalbo··on Ode to libraries (the book ones)
let's make a collaborative list https://github.com/danielfalbo/awesome-london-laptop-cafes
danielfalbo··on Ode to libraries (the book ones)
let's make a collaborative list https://github.com/danielfalbo/awesome-london-laptop-cafes
danielfalbo··on Blind Lossless Audio Test
As I noted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45396104, do you also feel like when you're listening to hi-res music with your usual setup songs sound way better than either of the samples from the web test?
danielfalbo··on Blind Lossless Audio Test
I wonder whether doing this on Chrome on macOS (+ DAC, headphones or whatever your setup) plays the actual files at their best resolution

I feel like Apple Music Hi-res + my DAC and headphones sounds way better than either of the samples from the test

danielfalbo··on Blind Lossless Audio Test
And here's another one: https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/02/411473508/...
danielfalbo··on Just let me select text
I have https://shottr.cc/ installed on my macbook, so when I want to select unselectable text I just do OCR with a simple and fast shortcut
danielfalbo··on Ode to libraries (the book ones)
If only one could have Zoom calls in libraries
danielfalbo··on Ode to libraries (the book ones)
> So what to do? Go to nearest coffee shop. You’re lucky if they don’t play tasteless trendy music. You’re lucky if a waiter doesn’t keep asking if you need anything, isn’t intrusive, and doesn’t subtly let you know when it’s time to leave by checking on you constantly . You’re lucky if no teenagers talking loudly about their-whatever-teens-talk-about-these-days. Oh, by the way, pay a lot of money to be here and to drink a nice cup of burnt coffe.

You're right, but there are coffee shops that are actually friendly to work at. When I was living in Rome, I compiled for myself a maps list of work-friendly bars https://maps.app.goo.gl/8nZUdYEbs7H8MCDd7 - Now I moved to London and I'm doing the same

danielfalbo··on Show HN: Dayflow – A git log for your day
It would be useful for freelancers if Dayflow automatically detected the client they were working for, to count hours spent on client, similar to what toggl.com does but automated
danielfalbo··on Shiller PE Ratio
what are ETFs and/or financial products that take this into consideration? what difference does it make in terms of volatility and/or expected returns to invest in something like SP500 or $VT compared to Shiller-PE-adjusted products? does this matter in the long-term, or better, when exactly is "long-term" long enough so that Shiller PE doesn't matter and one can just go with SP500/$VT without sleepless nights?
danielfalbo··on Shiller PE Ratio
+1, just like the dot-com bubble
danielfalbo··on Show HN: Dayflow – A git log for your day
Maybe both asked the same LLM for inspiration
danielfalbo··on The Theatre of Pull Requests and Code Review
Jane Street implements an awesome code review system: https://janestreet.com/tech-talks/janestreet-code-review

> [...] Telling a Story with Commits [...]

> [...] it should take the average reviewer 5-10 minutes [...]

Jane Street code review system kinda solves this problem by

- making each commit a branch,

- stacking branches on top of each other (gracefully handling rebases and everything that comes with it), and

- reviewing one iteration at a time

So one reviews single commits independently (takes probably around 5mins), and "forces" the reviewer to re-live the story that led to the bigger diff.

I do not work at Jane Street but I frequently find myself pondering on how broken the common code review system/culture is. I've heard of tools like graphite.dev that build on top of git to provide a code review system similar to the Jane Street one, but I'm not an active user yet (I just manually stack PRs, keep them small and ask for review to one at a time to my colleagues, and handle the rebasing etc. manually myself for now).

danielfalbo··on Do YC after you graduate: Early decision for students
For whoever wants to re-read one of the articles that mentions the idea, there you go: https://paulgraham.com/before.html#f7n:~:text=You%20can%20do...
danielfalbo··on Trump's new visa fees spur offshoring talks, hiring turmoil
I don't see the issue: talented individuals can get O1, and not-talented individuals are not worth hiring at startups anyway.
danielfalbo··on OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems
And the bubble keeps bubble-ing
danielfalbo··on "Radiohead – Pyramid" Song 800% slower via extreme sound stretching algorithm
"PaulStretch" algorithm: https://www.paulnasca.com/algorithms-created-by-me#h.4c6i2ab...

PaulXStretch software: https://sonosaurus.com/paulxstretch/

danielfalbo··on My personal website, but now it's just plain HTML
inspired by antirez's invece.org
danielfalbo··on Universities should be more than toll gates
I spent my high school afternoons on github.com/ossu/computer-science ; years later during my actual bachelor’s in computer science I just had a good time with the people around me. I’m grateful for the internet, life is good, universities are mostly for credential and the fun part is the best.
danielfalbo··on func-to-route/next: turn any function in a Next.js API route with 1LOC
Simple as

export const GET = funcToRoute(sayHello)

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