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labarilem

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Check out my blog: https://marcolabarile.me/

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labarilem··on Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?
I'm building a manually curated catalog of videogames made by HN users. The UI is done and I'm in the phase of adding data to catch up to today's games. Check it out: https://hn-games.marcolabarile.me/ (includes games up to October 2024 atm).
labarilem··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
Trying out games posted to HN so i can add them to https://hn-games.marcolabarile.me/

Testing out some ideas to automate data entry workflows from an italian powerlifting federation (FIPL) to OPL https://www.openpowerlifting.org/

labarilem··on Ask HN: Vibe Coding over Easter?
I'm doing some quick programming and studying today from my laptop before lunch. I'd be interested too to know if anyone here has found a good and cost-efficient setup to vibe code from devices with small screens (eg. smartphones, tablets).
labarilem··on Ask HN: How Do You Relax?
In weekdays, laying on the couch after eating a healthy and tasteful dinner after an intensive strength training session at the gym. Weekends usually allow more freedom and I have more cognitive energy available too, so besides "usual" weekend activities I work on some side projects while discovering cool ambient music or study some interesting topics (usually CS).
labarilem··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
Thanks! That's not supported atm, but I will think about it. What's a genre combination you'd like to filter for?
labarilem··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
I'm building a manually curated catalog of videogames made by HN users. Currently I'm adding data to catch up to today's games.

Check it out: https://hn-games.marcolabarile.me/ (includes games up to June 2024 atm)

Feedbacks and feature requests are welcome!

labarilem··on Show HN: The HN Arcade
Cool project!

I'm building something quite similar at https://hn-games.marcolabarile.me/

I manually curate the data and add images too. Code and data are open: https://github.com/labarilem/hn-games

I've posted this project some time ago to HN but it didn't get much attention unfortunately.

NOTE: Data includes games up to April 2024, I add more games when I have some spare time and plan to catch up to today's games asap.

labarilem··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
I'm building a manually curated catalog of videogames made by the HN community. Currently I've added data up to the end of March 2024. The plan is to gather all data up to today and then keep updating the collection. Check it out here:

- https://hackernews.games/

- https://hn-games.marcolabarile.me/

Please let me know if this looks useful to you!

labarilem··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
https://marcolabarile.me/
labarilem··on Tell HN: Happy New Year
Happy New year to all! I've set my goals for this year and can't wait to see how it goes.
labarilem··on Ask HN: What are you building as a side-project or side-hustle in 2026?
Sorry I didn't catch your comment earlier! I can add it to the catalog if you submit it to HN. Check this page: https://hackernews.games/submit
labarilem··on Ask HN: What are you building during the holiday break?
Side project for fun, without profit. I'm building a manually curated catalog of videogames made by the HN community: https://hackernews.games/

Also I plan to build other fun mini-projects and write a couple of blog posts currently sleeping in my backlog.

labarilem··on Ask HN: What are you building as a side-project or side-hustle in 2026?
Side project for fun, without profit. I'm building a manually curated catalog of videogames made by the HN community:

- https://hackernews.games/

- https://hn-games.marcolabarile.me/

labarilem··on Ask HN: Why Do You Blog?
I like to share my ideas/projects with the world. Also, it helps me learn to express ideas and concepts. Bonus: sometimes you meet cool people interested in the niche you're exploring!
labarilem··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (Dec 2025)
I'm building a manually curated catalog of videogames made by the HN community. Currently I've added data up to the end of 2023. Now I'm working on adding more data and evaluating a free newsletter to notify users when new games are added to the catalog. Currently at about 400 visits/month.

You can browse the catalog at these addresses:

- https://hackernews.games/

- https://hn-games.marcolabarile.me/

labarilem··on Ask HN: What are you working on?
I'm building a manually curated catalog of videogames made by the HN community. Currently I've added data up to the end of 2022. The plan is to gather all data up to today and then keep updating the collection. I'm finding it a bit hard to add the 2023 games since there are lots of them(I guess thanks to the various LLMs).

You can browse the catalog at these addresses:

- https://hackernews.games/

- https://hn-games.marcolabarile.me/

labarilem··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)
I'm building a manually curated catalog of games made by the HN community. Currently the collection has data up to the end of 2022. The plan, of course, is to gather all data up to today and then keep updating the collection. You can browse the catalog at these addresses:

- https://hackernews.games/

- https://hn-games.marcolabarile.me/

labarilem··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)
I'm building a manually curated catalog of games made by the HN community. Currently the collection has data up to the end of 2022. The plan, of course, is to gather all data up to today and then keep updating the collection.

You can browse the catalog at these addresses:

- https://hackernews.games/

- https://hn-games.marcolabarile.me/

labarilem··on Show HN: Collatz Lottery
Yes that might be the cause. Maybe I need to increase the upper limit on iterations? I haven't tested it a lot with the bigger numbers since I've entirely coded this from my smartphone and it's quite slow at processing those numbers.
labarilem··on Show HN: HackerNewsGames [Alpha]
Thanks! Will look into it.
labarilem··on Ask HN: Do you still self-host a blog? What's your publishing stack?
Yep I do, at https://marcolabarile.me/

Quite simple stack: Jekyll on Github Pages.

labarilem··on Are there any good open source cursor alternatives?
Maybe cline? It's a vscode extension actually, but it lets you choose the LLM.

https://github.com/cline/cline

labarilem··on Happy New Year 2025
Happy new year!
labarilem··on Ask HN: Best dev environment for C in 2024?
I'm also using VSCode at the moment. Any extensions you'd recommend?
labarilem··on Ask HN: Best dev environment for C in 2024?
You're right: it's quite vague. It was intended as "best" for the reader. I'm picking up C again for general SW development after some years of stop, so I'm also wondering what people out there consider the best for their use cases.
labarilem··on Ask HN: Platform for senior devs to learn other programming languages?
As a self-guided alternative, you could try going through https://adventofcode.com/ problems with your language of choice.
labarilem··on Ask HN: How do you come up with side project ideas in 2024?
Usually I build something I need and doesn't exist or can be improved wrt existing solutions. I don't necessarily do it for money since it's a side project we're talking about. Focusing on solving the core issue instead of finding a viable monetization strategy has some pros:

- makes it more fun for me - feels lees like another job - users won't be exploited

If you only need beer money to keep the project running, there are good chances you can keep it running for free too. There are lots of cool free services out there for starting out (eg. Vercel).

For example, I've just built and deployed https://calcolomassimale.it/ on Vercel for free: a 1-Rep Max calculator for strength exercises. There are several tools like this out there but:

- most are in english - italian tools are clunky/have too much useless text for SEO purposes/use old and ugly interfaces

The idea in this case comes from a simple personal need.

labarilem··on Ask HN: Best books/courses to learn the theory behind strength training?
Thanks! Stronglifts looks like a gold mine of information to me. Just what I was looking for. Currently I'm training with a bodybuilder approach and I'm starting to doubt it because it's hard to increase weights when you only have mid-to-high-reps sets. Personally a lot of motivation comes from the increase in the weight I lift so maybe a powerlifting approach would suit me better. Since I'm a novice (started training about 2 years ago), I'm a bit scared of doing PRs though. But maybe it could be an efficient way to force me to improve form?
labarilem··on Gödel, Escher, Bach is the most influential book in my life (2022)
I love this book. It definitely changed the way I think and made me ask important questions. Bonus: it got me listening to Bach at the time.
labarilem··on Ask HN: How would you tackle a text classification problem in 2023?
This looks very promising, will definitely try it!
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