Luca Molteni
@lucamolteni.bsky.social
Father, Software Engineer @ IBM
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We #adhd folks should start calling all the useless knowledge we gathered while avoiding other work and/or while in hyperfocus „collateral knowledge“
November 27, 2025 at 6:58 AM
We #adhd folks should start calling all the useless knowledge we gathered while avoiding other work and/or while in hyperfocus „collateral knowledge“
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James Dyson owns more UK land than the actual KING. But he pays an effective tax rate of LESS THAN 1%* on his total wealth.
Here’s a novel idea @keirstarmer: to fund schools and hospitals, TAX THE BILLIONAIRES.
📍Station Lane, Bristol - near James Dyson’s £20m country estate Dodington Park
Here’s a novel idea @keirstarmer: to fund schools and hospitals, TAX THE BILLIONAIRES.
📍Station Lane, Bristol - near James Dyson’s £20m country estate Dodington Park
November 12, 2025 at 11:45 AM
James Dyson owns more UK land than the actual KING. But he pays an effective tax rate of LESS THAN 1%* on his total wealth.
Here’s a novel idea @keirstarmer: to fund schools and hospitals, TAX THE BILLIONAIRES.
📍Station Lane, Bristol - near James Dyson’s £20m country estate Dodington Park
Here’s a novel idea @keirstarmer: to fund schools and hospitals, TAX THE BILLIONAIRES.
📍Station Lane, Bristol - near James Dyson’s £20m country estate Dodington Park
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![4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiby6can6k76yzfmv2czxs4pu2l7zie7bqbrpswi7h3ifmiadkuqvu@jpeg)
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The system is rigged against you. Here's how
November 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The system is rigged against you. Here's how
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The full set of slides is here: hollycummins.com/quarkus-ridi...
Six and a half ridiculous things to do with Quarkus - Holly Cummins
Let’s abuse the tools! Everyone knows Quarkus is computationally efficient, expressive, and rock-solid for production.
But did you know that…
hollycummins.com
October 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The full set of slides is here: hollycummins.com/quarkus-ridi...
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convenzione rinnovata all'ultimo: lo spid rimarrà per altri 5 anni
October 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
convenzione rinnovata all'ultimo: lo spid rimarrà per altri 5 anni
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Hibernate Validator 9.1 == faster validation. Reduced memory allocation and overall increase in throughput. Check the detailed report: in.relation.to/2025/09/29/h... #Hibernate #Java #Validation #Performance
September 30, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Hibernate Validator 9.1 == faster validation. Reduced memory allocation and overall increase in throughput. Check the detailed report: in.relation.to/2025/09/29/h... #Hibernate #Java #Validation #Performance
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You can just build stuff. Here’s to 5 years of willing SuperStation One into existence.
October 1, 2025 at 9:06 AM
You can just build stuff. Here’s to 5 years of willing SuperStation One into existence.
This is brilliant
This satirical blog post really illustrates the problem with a lot of technical writing. Amazing technical writing is so good and then everything else reads like this
https://anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-a-non-developer-read-the-tutorial-you-a-developer-wrote-for-me-a-beginner
https://anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-a-non-developer-read-the-tutorial-you-a-developer-wrote-for-me-a-beginner
我，一个初学开发的人，是如何阅读你，一个开发者，为我编写的教程的
How I, a beginner developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me (anniemueller.com)
09:27 ↑ 106 HN Points
anniemueller.com
September 25, 2025 at 8:16 AM
This is brilliant
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You want to vibe code, I want Hoogle for every programming language I use integrated into my editor
September 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
You want to vibe code, I want Hoogle for every programming language I use integrated into my editor
Gameshittifaction
The last time I was at a studio with a layoff, a meeting was derailed because the director asked, with increasing irritation, which engineer was supposed to design a feature that underpinned the whole game. That engineer had been laid off 2 days prior, and no one else knew how to do it.
Layoffs wreck studios. Institutional knowledge is SO valuable in the games industry. When you eventually replace that laid off employee, I don’t care if they’ve got 30 years of experience and dozens of games under their belt. They still have to learn the pipeline, the software, the systems.
September 9, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Gameshittifaction
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You come for me like this, in my own timeline…
September 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
You come for me like this, in my own timeline…
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...yeah, I love the idea of European AI and Cerebras-hosted inference, but if Mistral is SOTA for EU LLMs right now, we're pretty much screwed 🫠
(just a sample question. I got so many hallucinations and made-up facts *despite* web search, like a model from 2022)
(just a sample question. I got so many hallucinations and made-up facts *despite* web search, like a model from 2022)
September 2, 2025 at 11:27 PM
...yeah, I love the idea of European AI and Cerebras-hosted inference, but if Mistral is SOTA for EU LLMs right now, we're pretty much screwed 🫠
(just a sample question. I got so many hallucinations and made-up facts *despite* web search, like a model from 2022)
(just a sample question. I got so many hallucinations and made-up facts *despite* web search, like a model from 2022)
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We need to tax wealth not work.
Why? Because usually no matter how hard you work, the compound interest on huge wealth grows much faster than your wages + the rich use this passive income to buy all the assets.
Someone made a game to show this:
therichdont.work
Why? Because usually no matter how hard you work, the compound interest on huge wealth grows much faster than your wages + the rich use this passive income to buy all the assets.
Someone made a game to show this:
therichdont.work
Idle — The Wealth Race
Can your hard work beat The Rich? Play and find out!
therichdont.work
September 3, 2025 at 12:25 PM
We need to tax wealth not work.
Why? Because usually no matter how hard you work, the compound interest on huge wealth grows much faster than your wages + the rich use this passive income to buy all the assets.
Someone made a game to show this:
therichdont.work
Why? Because usually no matter how hard you work, the compound interest on huge wealth grows much faster than your wages + the rich use this passive income to buy all the assets.
Someone made a game to show this:
therichdont.work
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It's another double win.
If you install solar panels on land sheep are currently grazing, not only can the sheep continue to graze there, they're actually *happier* (because of the shade and more diverse vegetation), and they produce more wool.
Hmm, is that actually a triple win?
If you install solar panels on land sheep are currently grazing, not only can the sheep continue to graze there, they're actually *happier* (because of the shade and more diverse vegetation), and they produce more wool.
Hmm, is that actually a triple win?
August 28, 2025 at 7:26 AM
It's another double win.
If you install solar panels on land sheep are currently grazing, not only can the sheep continue to graze there, they're actually *happier* (because of the shade and more diverse vegetation), and they produce more wool.
Hmm, is that actually a triple win?
If you install solar panels on land sheep are currently grazing, not only can the sheep continue to graze there, they're actually *happier* (because of the shade and more diverse vegetation), and they produce more wool.
Hmm, is that actually a triple win?
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Low interest rates after 2008 failed to achieve any real growth or increase in living standards in the UK.
If we stopped obsessing over rates, we might see how the resources are distributed – and how it's this that's holding our economy back, not monetary policy.
If we stopped obsessing over rates, we might see how the resources are distributed – and how it's this that's holding our economy back, not monetary policy.
August 24, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Low interest rates after 2008 failed to achieve any real growth or increase in living standards in the UK.
If we stopped obsessing over rates, we might see how the resources are distributed – and how it's this that's holding our economy back, not monetary policy.
If we stopped obsessing over rates, we might see how the resources are distributed – and how it's this that's holding our economy back, not monetary policy.
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I don’t know if it’s true, but I read that Microsoft’s #1 customer service question right now is “how do I disable Copilot” 😂
August 2, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I don’t know if it’s true, but I read that Microsoft’s #1 customer service question right now is “how do I disable Copilot” 😂
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I blogged! This is the longest article I have ever written, so I hope it can bring more eyes to the fantastic @quarkus.io project!
The role of Quarkus in the modern Java ecosystem javapro.io/2025/08/22/t... via @javapromagazin
#quarkus #java #framework #innovation
The role of Quarkus in the modern Java ecosystem javapro.io/2025/08/22/t... via @javapromagazin
#quarkus #java #framework #innovation
The role of Quarkus in the modern Java ecosystem - JAVAPRO International
Since its inception in 2019, Quarkus has gradually grown both in user adoption and innovation. The number of…
javapro.io
August 22, 2025 at 5:44 AM
I blogged! This is the longest article I have ever written, so I hope it can bring more eyes to the fantastic @quarkus.io project!
The role of Quarkus in the modern Java ecosystem javapro.io/2025/08/22/t... via @javapromagazin
#quarkus #java #framework #innovation
The role of Quarkus in the modern Java ecosystem javapro.io/2025/08/22/t... via @javapromagazin
#quarkus #java #framework #innovation
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Happy to have my biases confirmed in this way ...
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
July 11, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Happy to have my biases confirmed in this way ...
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Basically a good rule of thumb post 2018 is if the person selling a thing to you describes it as "AI", run away; and if the person selling it to you describes it as "machine learning", consider using it. If someone says "AI" that's a flag they don't think they can sell their product without lying
July 9, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Basically a good rule of thumb post 2018 is if the person selling a thing to you describes it as "AI", run away; and if the person selling it to you describes it as "machine learning", consider using it. If someone says "AI" that's a flag they don't think they can sell their product without lying
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I was trying to explain how fun vibe coding is to SPJ over a coffee and now he wants me to look at the GHC type checker and I'm not feeling the vibes any more
March 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I was trying to explain how fun vibe coding is to SPJ over a coffee and now he wants me to look at the GHC type checker and I'm not feeling the vibes any more
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⚠️You can still submit your proposals to @DevoxxMA 🔥
We extended the Call For Proposals to July 9th ⏲️ so you still have ten days to send your talks 🏃♂️🏃♀️🤓
dvma25.cfp.dev#/
#DevoxxMA #TechMorocco
We extended the Call For Proposals to July 9th ⏲️ so you still have ten days to send your talks 🏃♂️🏃♀️🤓
dvma25.cfp.dev#/
#DevoxxMA #TechMorocco
June 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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