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maremmano··on Tell HN: Couchsurfing.com is now vibe-coded and with official AI generated pics
Well, got my CS registration on Fri, May 18, 2007, 9:38 AM

It was fun while it lasted. Lots of nice stories here in Europe.

maremmano··on Ask HN: If I innovate using AI, will it share my innovation?
Hmm… only if you innovate on the unsolved Millennium Prize Problems.
maremmano··on Getting Started with AT Protocol
ATDT
maremmano··on NSA chief says Mythos breached 'almost all' classified systems in hours
didn't they have weeks of advance use to patch? Goddamn
maremmano··on LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first
this won't age well.
maremmano··on Show HN: The Yatima Scale – Measuring civilizations by depth, not energy
Site not found.
maremmano··on Paged Out Issue #8 [pdf]
I like this magazine vibe, it reminds me of the good ol' l33t zines from the late '80s and '90s. However, if I can offer a suggestion, I'd also pair the technical articles with a little more punky, down-to-earth stuff. They were cheerful, informal, and full of that cheeky, irreverent, cocky smart-ass humor, plus this mysterious edge that made them absolutely magnetic to me. Life just wasn’t so heavy back then.
maremmano··on Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors
I got both Sublime and VSCode. Sublime is a work of love. You can probably do more things with vscode, but I'm not sure you can do many of these things better or faster than sublime. I don't think so.
maremmano··on Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors
Thanks. I'm on it right now. Testing.
maremmano··on Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors
I’m on version 8.8.8, which says a lot.

This time I unfortunately have to move on from Notepad++. Vibes have been negative for a while but out of inertia (and because there weren't obvious alternatives) I never pulled the trigger. Now it's time. The trust is gone.

Thanks NP++ for being free and useful for so many years.

Can anyone suggest a solid alternative on Windows? I'm fine with Linux and macOS but I have to keep a Windows machine around for some legacy, win only, software.

Maybe Sublime Text could be an option? At this point I'd rather pay for something lightweight, fast, and probably better.

I don't like tooling that increases my exposure to bad state actors (whatever state they're from).

maremmano··on San Remo Pasta Measurer
No way! just go with 120gr of whatever pasta you have (must be: spaghetti, linguine, paccheri, mezze maniche or rigatoni).
maremmano··on The tool for conquering STEM problems–Goth
Domain is "for sale"
maremmano··on Genergo: Propellantless space-propulsion system
It so happens that a friend of a friend of mine works at this company. I'll ask for some details.
maremmano··on Genergo: Propellantless space-propulsion system
And anyway, we Italians have done some good things in the past. Not that this can't be a new EmDrive.
maremmano··on Tailwindcss.com load time is now very fast
Wow, very fast. Looking at: https://builtwith.com/detailed/tailwindcss.com
maremmano··on Show HN: ASCII Automata
Speechless. I love this kind of creativity and agency.
maremmano··on Ask HN: What do you do while ChatGPT-5 is thinking?
Obviously I move the mouse pointer so as not to freeze the machine and speed up the process.
maremmano··on Lights (at sea): See every lighthouse across Europe on an interactive map
Probably (but not sure) is this: https://geodienst.github.io/lighthousemap/
maremmano··on Beginner Guide to VPS Hetzner and Coolify
COST is $153/ONE YEAR (not monthly).

8 vCore + 24 GB RAM + 200 GB SSD NVMe VPS @ OVH

maremmano··on Beginner Guide to VPS Hetzner and Coolify
OVH is just as reliable as Hetzner, and right now they have a much cheaper offer: https://us.ovhcloud.com/vps/configurator/?planCode=vps-2025-...

Aside from that, which distro would you choose for Coolify? I’m debating between Ubuntu 24.04 and Debian 13.

maremmano··on Pashtouki – postcards that carry stories
Very interesting project. Congratulations on the support you're giving to people in great difficulty.
maremmano··on Google's $250 AI agent can only help you book restaurant reservations
Does anyone remember "that call"?
maremmano··on LLM advises to delete the Linux dynamic linker during a troubleshooting session
I don't see the link to the conversation with Claude in the Reddit thread. Did anyone find it?
maremmano··on Italy OKs $15.5B project to build suspension bridge from mainland to Sicily
don't worry it will be 45 billion but we won't build it anyway. But you know, between expropriations, bribes, friends of friends, projects, etc. some money will have to be spent.
maremmano··on French Open 2025 – Court Philippe-Chatrier – Finale
Epic Battle, longest final ever. Too bad Jannik lost but, Ad maiora!!
maremmano··on Poll: Agentic AI IDE/tool that you recommend?
jules.google.com ??
maremmano··on Show HN: I built an all-in-one social media downloader for 50 platforms
If you don't understand this, in my opinion you have a little to learn about how the world works. That said yt-dlp is great.
maremmano··on Trump says US will 'go as far as we have to' to get control of Greenland
The lesson is clear. You cannot delegate your defense to others if they are in competition with you. I don't understand why my comment got so many downvotes. I would have appreciated a discussion on the topic instead.
maremmano··on Trump says US will 'go as far as we have to' to get control of Greenland
Nice lesson for the, so called, EU.
maremmano··on Ask HN: What kicked-off the latest AI boom?
Maybe these papers: "Attention Is All You Need" (Transformer paper, 2017) "Improving Language Understanding by Generative Pre-training" (GPT-1, 2018) "Language Models are Unsupervised Multitask Learners" (GPT-2, 2019)
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