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gosubon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)

  Location: Rome, Italy (UTC+1)
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Maybe (depending on destination)
  Technologies: Lisp, Python, Linux, DevSecOps
  Résumé/CV: https://github.com/gosub/cv/releases/latest
  Email: giampaolo.guiducci@gmail.com
  GitHub: https://github.com/gosub

cv: https://github.com/gosub/cv/releases/latest

gh: https://github.com/gosub

I’m a Cybersecurity Architect currently focused on large-scale security platform design and DevSecOps integrations for enterprise (SAST/DAST/SCA, CI/CD automation, secure toolchain orchestration). After many years consulting and building security capabilities, I want to go back to creating things with computers, software, and AI, not just securing them. I love lisp, emacs, functional programming, programming languages and GOFAI.

gosubon Ffmpeg Buddy

Can I have magit for ffmpeg and openssl, please?

gosubon Ask HN: Best way to avoid link rot?

my strategy would be diversification: link + archive.org + archive.is + local copy + github/gitlab copy

worrying about linkrot, some years ago I wrote a little local webserver that took a link via a bookmarklet and saved a page in multiple formats:

    - html with wget -archive | tar.gz
    - pdf with wkhtmltopdf
    - txt with links
    - png with firefox --screenshot

gosubon Old Laptops as Secondary Monitors

If any mainstream unix-like OS kept the promise that "everything is a file" (like Plan9), adding a secondary monitor from another pc could be easy like:

    mount /dev/screen2 user@remotehost:/dev/screen1

gosubon 70.6% of people who were infected with Covid-19 “Always” wear masks [pdf]

What about the people who infected them?

gosubon OB–4 – Portable high fidelity loudspeaker

The example on the webpage sounds like a radio station passed through a granulator with a lot of reverb, something like Clouds from Mutable Instruments. It's an open-source granular effect eurorack module, there is a software port in VCV-Rack. This is another famous granulator: https://www.ableton.com/en/packs/granulator-ii/

gosubon X

colorForth uses colors for semantics

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

gosubon Scikit-Learn’s Defaults Are Wrong

TLDR: scikit-learn's 'LogisticRegression' function violates the principle of least astonishment by automagically using L2 regularization.

gosubon TREE vs. Graham’s Number [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXliQvd1vW0&list=PL3A50BB9C3...

enjoy!

gosubon The Unix Game

    $(".login-popup")[0].remove()

gosubon In Defense of Richard Stallman

I hope RMS is safe, and that someone finds a way to let us all help him, in any meaningful way.

The most disgusting thing is that whose who witch-hunted him, from their higher moral ground, will face no consequences at all.

gosubon Get Started Making Music

You should take a look at Reaper. It has macros, total reconfigurability and deep scripting. It's the emacs of the DAW world.

gosubon Ask HN: What timesaving Git aliases do you use?

    lol = log --decorate --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit
    auto = !git add --all && git commit -m \"AUTOCOMMIT $(date)\"
    todo = grep TODO

gosubon Pollen: the book is a program

You should watch "stop drawing dead fish" by Bret Victor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfytHvgHybA

gosubon Go to the Wrong Hospital and You’re 3 Times More Likely to Die

from the abstract:

Risk-adjusted outcomes were calculated after adjusting for population factors, co-morbidities, and health system factors. Even after risk-adjustment, there exists large geographical variation in outcomes

gosubon Apple’s new MacBook Pro kills off most of the ports you probably need

> This was a company that said they cared.

Has any company ever said that they didn't care?

gosubon Systemd programming, 30 months later

Could you elaborate on why `systemctl disable` was not working? I do not uderstand the difference between mask and disable.

gosubon Ask HN: Should flag have a confirmation dialog?

I think this behavior is the correct one.

    - If i want to do something, do not make me click more than once
    - If I clicked wrong, let me undo it

gosubon The Deconstructed Standard Model Equation

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/files/2008/07/y-combi...

gosubon Clash Rules Everything Around Me

This mashup with fugazi is amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ourDnKp6x14

gosubon MIT Design and Analysis of Algorithms (Spring 2015)

or use youtube-dl on the youtube playlist

gosubon Don't tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to

If only we had a way to deal with state without it being mutable...

gosubon Open-source geo is really something right now

If it can compute, it's a computer. If it can store and retrieve data, it's a database.

gosubon Microsoft Edge WebGL engine open-sourced

Does eee still work when you release your software under a free license?

gosubon Tontines may make sense despite their history of disrepute

nuda proprietà

gosubon Bone Lisp – Lisp Without Garbage Collection

structural sharing is what clojure does. But you can have immutable data structures in old lisps if you only use cons, car and cdr, avoiding set-car and set-cdr.

gosubon RMS on the Ogg Vorbis license (2001)

you mean lossy?

gosubon Systemd v230 kills background processes after user logs out, breaks screen, tmux

I would be happy to replace systemd on my system with sys-emacs-d.el

gosubon Apricity OS: A Beautiful Arch Linux Distro

I don't know if a mechical/automatic process is possible, but it works for haskell and python packages from Hackage and PyPI.

nix packages are not exactly packages, as in rpm or deb files, they are expressions in a functional language (think build recipes). there is a central repository of recipes on github: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs

but you can make your own, and eventually make a pull request. They are more similar to Arch's PKGBUILDs. Packages in the central repository are constantly built by a continuos built process (http://nixos.org/hydra/), that works both as a binary cache and as a testing system. This is an expression I wrote to install SuperCollider plugins https://gist.github.com/gosub/a42e265ec38d9df203d6 using the Arch PKGBUILD as a reference https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=sc3-p...

gosubon Apricity OS: A Beautiful Arch Linux Distro

Yes, you are right.