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Paolo Scanferla
Personal blog · pscanf.com · on HN as pscanfprogrammingai
Paolo Scanferla's personal blog at pscanf.com covers programming and ai. Since 2018, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Can We Measure Software Slop? An Experiment”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-06, and you can follow it by feed.
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Most-linked posts?
- Can We Measure Software Slop? An Experiment3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2026-04-05
- Hyper Typing3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-05-05
- Own Data, Own Software2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-03-10
- The User Is Visibly Frustrated2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-07
What Hacker News says?
In theory, sort of, but I think that in practice this is not a solid enough solution to make an app and its data future-proof. As I see it, PWAs and browser-based databases are more like an offline cache rather than a permanent way to store apps and data: - They don't get backed up or synced between devices. - It's very easy to delete them (e.g, you clear browsing data) or lose them (e.g., you get a new computer). -…
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on “Local-First and Ejectable”Submitted Hyper Typing as a story · 104 points
HN discussion> Imagine a world where your data isn’t trapped in distant data centers. Instead, it’s close to home—in a secure data wallet or pod, under your control. Now imagine pairing that with a loyal personal AI assistant, a private, local tool that lives with you, learns from you (with your permission), and acts on your behalf. Your AI. Not theirs. This is almost exactly what I say on the landing page¹ of the product I'm bu…
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on “AI is killing privacy. We can't let that happen”Submitted Hyper-Typing as a story · 19 points
HN discussionWe sorely need a way to reliably detect AI slop, but unfortunately it doesn't seem possible and it's just getting harder and harder. Last month I tried my hand at finding a way to tell whether an OSS project is slop or not, based on the amount of "human attention" it received vs the amount of code it contains. The idea is that a 100k LOC project which received 3 days' worth of attention from a human is most certainl…
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on “The Wonders of AI: We Are Retiring Our Bug Bounty Program”Submitted Own Data, Own Software as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI recently ran an experiment where I tried to use _quantitative signals_ (and not _qualitative_ ones) to tell whether something is vibe-coded or not. My idea was that, if I see that your project is growing 10k LOC per week and you're the only developer working on it, it's most likely vibe-coded. I analyzed some open-source projects, but unfortunately it turns out not to be so clear cut. It's relatively easy to estim…
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on “Show HN submissions tripled and are now mostly vibe-coded”Submitted The User Is Visibly Frustrated as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> your methodology would seem to be a reasonable approach/response to get the benefits of this and to shield against the detriments If you're referring to the sandboxing / isolation of each app, I agree. Plus, the user can change the app quite easily, so if when they spot a bug, they can tell the agent to fix it (and cross their fingers!). > ensure that a human developer understands the code before committing Just t…
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on “LotusNotes”Submitted The User Is Visibly Frustrated as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using a mock server for front end development as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Own Data, Own Software as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can We Measure Software Slop? An Experiment as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can We Measure Software Slop? An Experiment as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can We Measure Software Slop? An Experiment as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hyper-Typing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hyper Typing as a story · 1 points
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