Hacker News: Coeur

New comment by Coeur in "Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions"

Coeur — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:53:34 +0000

Beautiful perspective if you need to take a left in 500 meters. Not so great if you have to take a left in 3 kilometers because that would just not be visible.

Now of course you could change the parameters so that the upper screen border is 3 kilometers. But normal standard perspective is even better, because it can show you up to infinity. The inherent concept here is that there is a cut-off at the top, and that there is always a lot of unnecessary stuff near you whizzing by to look at / dopamine kicks. So you would have to constantly look at the screen - instead of at the road.

Navigon (among others) back in 2009 showed a perspective that balanced between showing the next junction and the next few kilometers. And leaving out anything unnecessary. I like that better. Example: https://www.notebookcheck.com/fileadmin/_processed_/csm_Garm...

New comment by Coeur in "Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items"

Coeur — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:48:54 +0000

Also, https://www.zuerich.repair/reparaturkarte/ .

New comment by Coeur in "New Bedford police officer accused of using Flock cameras to track ex-partner"

Coeur — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:03:34 +0000

The trigger email should obviously go to somebody with more power than a police officer (so that the fear of getting asked ugly questions might slightly intimidate the police officer). Not sure who exactly that somebody would be.

New comment by Coeur in "How Hollywood stopped making movies in Hollywood"

Coeur — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 23:38:51 +0000

Is this Pioneertown, CA?

New comment by Coeur in "Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9"

Coeur — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:53:06 +0000

Or even create new platforms where we're not bound by platform owners' imposed artificial limitations.

New comment by Coeur in "Apple WWDC 2026"

Coeur — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:26:40 +0000

My guess is that it's deliberate - that Siri window hovers over all apps so that you remain in your current context, and can add files/images/texts from any app to the Siri conversation. There might also be a Siri app on the Mac that was not yet shown.

New comment by Coeur in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

Coeur — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:21:21 +0000

This seems to be part of a type of brand marketing where a brand claims it has invented something, but the only thing that ever exists of significant economic value is the attention raised by the promo video / article. Not the thing/service.

Examples:

- Samsung safety truck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GNGfse9ZK8

- Citroën motion sickness glasses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aco63dlq_WE

- Amazon Prime Air https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AVVTBmtDdo

- IBM Smart Ads https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbEMVdzXiCY (implies they created lots of ad posters, but they only made 3 posters for this video)

- Lexus Hoverboard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFf7Meqkim8

I wonder if there is a term for this. "Vaporware marketing"?

New comment by Coeur in "It Took Me 30 Years to Solve This VFX Problem – Green Screen Problem [video]"

Coeur — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:31:58 +0000

Well there was ZCam, which was a time-of-flight add-on for ENG cameras. It couldn't really handle edges perfectly and existing bluescreen tech was good enough for TV production, so they pivoted into gaming and sold to Microsoft for the Kinect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZCam (Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7Kcmx29RCE )

New comment by Coeur in "Mullvad VPN: Banned TV Ad in the Streets of London [video]"

Coeur — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:03:18 +0000

Mullvad's focus on privacy has been fantastic so far. But this ad made me reconsider: I want a VPN service that silently does its job in the background, not one that screams "look at me" with silly stunts and attempts at becoming viral.

New comment by Coeur in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

Coeur — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 07:39:17 +0000

Many countries in Europe do indeed require consent. More details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights#France

New comment by Coeur in "SynthID: A tool to watermark and identify content generated through AI"

Coeur — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:33:10 +0000

This already exists: https://c2pa.org , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Authenticity_Initiativ... . Support by camera makers is - spotty.

New comment by Coeur in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

Coeur — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:09:40 +0000

Not sure Wero will succeed, but European country-specific mobile payment systems like Swish (Sweden), Vipps (rest of Scandinavia), Bizum (Spain), iDeal (Netherlands), Bluecode (Germany and Austria), Twint (Switzerland), BLIK (Poland) etc. are also working on interconnectivity under the EMPSA association. Combined they already have 110+ million users.

Wero is like a monolith, while EMPSA is more like mobile phone roaming. If I would bet, I would bet on EMPSA.

https://empsa.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Mobile_Payment_System...

New comment by Coeur in "Luce: First Electric Ferrari"

Coeur — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:04:02 +0000

Note that the exact date in May has not yet been announced, but there is a hint: in all the videos and screenshots of displays the date and time is shown as "Mon 25 10:10".

Now when Ive was still at Apple, the first screenshots of iPhone showed a time of 9:42 because that was the time they expected when the device was first shown. And that time was placed in all the official PR images well in advance.

Extracting from that, a Monday the 25th could be the time we'll first see the full car. Going through all 25ths of each month this year, May is indeed the only month where it falls on a Monday, so it's probably the 25th of May.

New comment by Coeur in "Captain Disillusion – Secrets of the Film Slate [video]"

Coeur — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:34:04 +0000

Thanks for posting this, celias! Much appreciated.

New comment by Coeur in "Mobile carriers can get your GPS location"

Coeur — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 22:23:27 +0000

"Mobile phone (cell phone) microphones can be activated remotely, without any need for physical access"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_listening_device#Remote...

And the linked sources are:

- Kröger, Jacob Leon; Raschke, Philip (2019). "Is My Phone Listening in? On the Feasibility and Detectability of Mobile Eavesdropping". Data and Applications Security and Privacy XXXIII. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 11559. pp. 102–120. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-22479-0_6. ISBN 978-3-030-22478-3. ISSN 0302-9743.

- Schneier, Bruce (5 December 2006). "Remotely Eavesdropping on Cell Phone Microphones". Schneier On Security. Archived from the original on 12 January 2014. Retrieved 13 December 2009.

- McCullagh, Declan; Anne Broache (1 December 2006). "FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool". CNet News. Archived from the original on 10 November 2013. Retrieved 14 March 2009.

- Odell, Mark (1 August 2005). "Use of mobile helped police keep tabs on suspect". Financial Times. Retrieved 14 March 2009.

- "Telephones". Western Regional Security Office (NOAA official site). 2001. Archived from the original on 6 November 2013. Retrieved 22 March 2009.

- "Can You Hear Me Now?". ABC News: The Blotter. Archived from the original on 25 August 2011. Retrieved 13 December 2009.

- Lewis Page (26 June 2007). "Cell hack geek stalks pretty blonde shocker". The Register. Archived from the original on 3 November 2013. Retrieved 1 May 2010.

New comment by Coeur in "Richard Feynman Side Hustles"

Coeur — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:33:08 +0000

So dirt as a factor that clogs up the sensor does not play into it at all? It's all just about moving it into different environments to measure?

New comment by Coeur in "Richard Feynman Side Hustles"

Coeur — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:17:33 +0000

I still don't get it. The outside is dirty, right? He said in his post "You dip this probe into beer, sewage, or canned food a-stewing". So when you say "when really the window is just dirty" I don't get it - yes it will always be, because that's what it is placed in, no?

New comment by Coeur in "Stargaze: SpaceX's Space Situational Awareness System"

Coeur — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:54:52 +0000

Now I would really love to know who the other operator was.

New comment by Coeur in "Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops"

Coeur — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:30:28 +0000

Remember when the original dev of TrueCrypt (the VeraCrypt predecessor) suddenly abandoned the project and wrote that people should use BitLocker instead? [1] [2]

We now know that BitLocker is not secure, and an intelligent open source dev saying that was probably knowingly not saying the truth.

The best explanation to me is that this was said under duress, because somebody wanted people to move away from the good TrueCrypt to something they could break.

[1] https://truecrypt.sourceforge.net

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueCrypt#End_of_life_announce...

New comment by Coeur in "Nuudel: Non-Tracking Appointment Tool"

Coeur — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:28:30 +0000

Nice. This obviously references https://doodle.com/ , which was super popular 15 years ago (in Europe), but then turned unnecessary complex, added intruisive advertisements and aggressive monetisation.

Would love to see a popular option that stays free.