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Re:Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @05:02PM (#49822564)
there is a strong environmental reason for this without even considering that there are plenty of alternatives to nuclear energy that do not require destroying the environment, because everything has consequences. destroying entire ecosystems puts many species at risk, mining requires huge amounts of water, money, and often involves legal slavery. plus, the extraction and processing process releases significant amounts of CO2 due to heavy machinery and refining. So thankfully, your country took a good decision
we are still here lol
I've been tracking my own health data for quite some time now, blood tests, sleep, how I feel, diet. The problem was always that everything lived in separate silos inside a basic CMS I have built. Some time ago I started taking a master's degree, in nature science and I started studying statistics and while looking for some project to exercise and apply what I was learning I decided to resurrect my health cms project try to tie some basic analysis in it, but then rabbit hole digging began ahah. I began reading papers on biomarker correlations, EWMA smoothing, allostatic load. At some point I thought: what if I actually modeled this properly?

So I refactored my whole app into something a bit more modern, thanks to AI helping me during this process and now I integrated some of the most interesting findings I found in the papers (linked in the readme of the repo). I named it Synaps, because it's about connections and integrated system, and so far this is what it can do: - Extracts biomarkers from lab report PDFs/photos via Claude vision - Tracks sleep, diet, activity, wellbeing, body composition, medications, environment (Open-Meteo, I'm mad about this stuff) - Computes continuous-time EWMA, z-scores, trend detection, and within-person Pearson correlations across domains with lag 0–2 days, autocorrelation correction, and Benjamini-Hochberg FDR - Builds a typed knowledge graph (biomarkers, conditions, lifestyle, environment) with AI-inferred edges validated against the statistical correlations - Estimates allostatic load from a 17-cohort IPD meta-analysis consensus

Everything runs on your own hardware. Install is a single curl | bash. No cloud, no subscription, you can also use it without AI and just analyse all your reports manually, but you lose some important feature.

In the next future I would like to also test how it perform with local models using ollama, but this is what I have been using for my self and I like it

Re:My Homelab Setup on Monday March 09, 2026 @09:10AM (#47308587)
For remote acces I use NetBird, I think is the best and secure option to not expose stuff directly on the web and put all your resources under a vpn. Is super easy to setup and it supports also sso with 2fa
Re:We Will Not Be Divided on Saturday February 28, 2026 @07:21AM (#47194424)
This is game theory 100%, who's gonna be the bad guy?
They lost mine! but they found it and brought it to me 2 days later at my door on the other side of Japan. Mind blowing efficiency
Why not ask Claude to recreate the website by scraping it?

Paying for 20 Years, banned overnight for 'cheating' I didn't do

Blizzard just banned my World of Warcraft account, which I've had for over 20 years (since 2005). The stated reason was "hacks" but I've never used hacks, gold sellers, or anything against the rules in WoW or any other game. I was just doing missions and chatting with a friend when I suddenly got disconnected and banned.I appealed, but the first ticket was closed without proof or explanation. I...

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Re:Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses on Thursday September 26, 2024 @08:50AM (#41657793)
UGLY as hell
Re:How I Made Google's "Web" View My Default Search on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @03:37AM (#40438308)
you are just used to google, it doesn't mean it's better than others. I switched to DDG several years ago, now I'm used to it. Sometimes when I go back to google i think the results are just bad, because I'm used to how DDG works now. Google just shows you always what you'd like to see, this is not good at all, you just live inside a walled garden.
Re:Teach Technology to Kids Through Storytelling on Friday March 15, 2024 @04:29PM (#39720383)
I embarked on this experience of dedicating my some of time to children, totally free of charge. I believe that we must give back our fortune somehow. This is my way.
Re:Ask HN: How are you dealing with the job market anxiety? on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @08:58AM (#38530737)
I just stopped working for other people/company, I only work for myself. Any kind of anxiety disappeared just after I learned how to survive by myself.
Only in USA. hhaahah
There is much offer in the browser world, i don't understand what's the point of keep using google shit suite

Ask HN: Insights for teching tech and coding to children

Hello everyone, I’m Stefano, a programmer deeply interested in education.I’m leading a project aimed at demystifying digital devices for elementary school children (7/9 years). We’re about to embark on the second phase and I’m seeking insights from this great community.Our journey began in a public school in Italy, where we introduced programming through an “analogical language”. This approach...

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Ask HN: Behind Digital Devices, Insights for An Educational Journey

Hello everyone, I’m Stefano, a programmer deeply interested in education.I’m leading a project aimed at demystifying digital devices for elementary school children. We’re about to embark on the second phase and I’m seeking insights from this great community.Our journey began in a public school in Italy, where we introduced programming through an “analogical language”. This approach involved the...

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Re:Italy bans cultivated meat products on Wednesday November 29, 2023 @09:41AM (#38459861)
I'm Italian, and unfortunately, we currently have shortsighted politicians. They seem clueless about their actions, and rather than promoting progress and research in various fields, they are attempting to halt time or, in some areas, even regress. They are a group of illiterate fascists who don't even understand how they attained their positions. The advent of cultivated meat doesn't mean that our Italian traditions will be eradicated in its favor. Both can coexist, allowing people to decide what's best for themselves and the planet. For instance, Italy has a ban on GMOs, yet our intensive farming practices involve feeding chickens and other animals imported GMOs daily. So, what's the point of this ban? It's mere propaganda with no scientific basis, and it's ruining our country.

Extra fun fact: Lollobrigida (Italy's minister of agriculture) holds his position as a Minister, solely because he is the husband of the Prime Minister's sister, and that's the extent of his qualifications.