Hacker News: Geste

New comment by Geste in "It's cool to care (2025)"

Geste — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:00:02 +0000

Sometimes, I feel like conversation is just a way to talk to oneself, by using others as mirrors of what we want to believe. That article had that vibe.

I don't care about the show, the author doesn't know why she cares that much about the show, and I really, really don't understand what caring has to do with seeing the same show several times.

>Whenever somebody asks why, I don’t have a good answer.

I'll suggest the author (and everyone reading this) to really, really sit down and think of why they like the things they like. What are the variables that clicked for me when I interact with X ? The theme ? The way the thing is made ? The echo and specific resonance it has with my inner life ?

I would have gained much more from that article if the author had gone to the trouble of making me connect with the show in that way.

New comment by Geste in "A Theory of the World as run by large adult children"

Geste — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:19:24 +0000

Its care. Us humans can feel when something was made with care vs when it’s made to check some lists people with ties made. Same with music, food, books, art, software, hardware, design, houses. Most stuff today is made to avoid some risks instead of being what it ought to be. Not trying to please anyone is the best way to make great things. Or maybe it is my hate of focus groups who spoiled it all (and I used to be a game user researcher…)

New comment by Geste in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

Geste — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:28:59 +0000

Curious about that reasoning : where do you draw the line ?

Are you a builder if there is an middleman ? If not, what if the middleman is a tool ? If you use autocad to build the plans, are you still a builder ? What if autocad has a prompt feature, are you still a builder ?

New comment by Geste in "Mathematicians disagree on the essential structure of the complex numbers (2024)"

Geste — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 03:17:10 +0000

Unsure this would help, but maybe thinking in English Prime could be an interesting exercice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime

New comment by Geste in "Waymo exec reveals company uses remote workers in the Philippines"

Geste — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:23:47 +0000

The goal of it all is to reduce the costs of labor (you, basically). On that, AI and robotics are doing just fine !

New comment by Geste in "Claude Opus 4.6"

Geste — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 23:51:21 +0000

I'll have some of that coffee too, this is quite a sad time we're living where this is a proper use of our limited resources.

New comment by Geste in "After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand"

Geste — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:07:47 +0000

It takes some skill (that you seem to have) to learn to use those LLM. Sad that not everyone see it that way...

New comment by Geste in "Television is 100 years old today"

Geste — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:01:44 +0000

I'd say we did, you need more and more for the same effect.

Here is the first ad ever, for a watch : https://youtu.be/ho2OJfXkvpI

For comparison, here is the latest ad for the best selling watch as of today : https://youtu.be/kdMTc5WfnkM

New comment by Geste in "Code Is Clay"

Geste — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 02:17:32 +0000

The article did not do it for you. Do not apologize and thanks for sharing why he did not do it for you. It did not do it for me neither, for other reasons (I don't care that much about code, as a non-coder)

it's okay !

New comment by Geste in "Hyundai Introduces Its Next-Gen Atlas Robot at CES 2026 [video]"

Geste — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 03:49:19 +0000

...We are going to have to fight against it at some point, will we ?

New comment by Geste in "Report: Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet"

Geste — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 22:11:30 +0000

Not aiming at you specifically, but I am tired of seeing shitty behaviour that is dismissed as best as incompetence. I do not want to believe someone becomes the CEO of one of the strongest organization on earth without a strategy sixth sense. So, why would he be shoving AI everywhere ? What does he know that we don't about it ? Is it just plan surveillance ?

New comment by Geste in "My role as a founder-CTO: year 8"

Geste — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 21:29:08 +0000

Working 8 years to get to more than 100,000,000 $ and saying no to that...Maybe I'm just too poor to understand that. Sure, this is hackernews, so the hustle mindset is stronger here, but the difference you could make in others people lives just with 10 % of that...

I mean, you could house, feed or educate people and you chose to...not do that ? To have more ? Is there a endgame you are not sharing with us, a special number that would make it OK to sell ?

New comment by Geste in "It’s been a very hard year"

Geste — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 14:00:16 +0000

Sora's app has a 4.8 rating on the app store with 142K rating. It seems to me that the market does not care about slop or not, whether I like it or not.

New comment by Geste in "Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter"

Geste — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 01:39:14 +0000

Oof, nice one !

I was looking for some synths for my less-than-two-years kid, after seeing their face light up when I fiddle with my Lofi 12 XT in front of them.

I had all these criterias : -Something without any screens -Something simple enough -Something that could withstand some rough play

I looked and looked, was considering proper Aira Compact synths, but ended up with the antiquity of the Bliptronic 5000 from Thinkgeek. https://youtu.be/6rCfhF-fNb4 They love it, the buttons are beyond fun to them, but the knobs are quite hard to turn for a little kid (1st world problem, I know)

I felt they were too young for a Blipbox, and I also bought an Orba 2, we'll see how that one goes.

But I dreamed of such a device, with easy to turn knobs, and colorful display, something simple to modulate sounds and just hear melodies. Seeing how you created it is both inspiring and discouraging, as someone with limited free time and electrical knowledge, but, you never know !

New comment by Geste in "The history of Casio watches"

Geste — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:20:34 +0000

Is innovation over ? It sure felt like this reading that entry

New comment by Geste in "Why friction is necessary for growth"

Geste — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 00:33:42 +0000

>And I suspect that it is becoming increasingly difficult to find original ideas. That is a bias in itself, as originality should naturally grow with the number of people alive. The best time to catch one in a million ideas should be when we are more and more billions, no ?

New comment by Geste in "A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet"

Geste — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 00:04:34 +0000

This should have been a steam game. I played worse games there !

New comment by Geste in "ChatGPT Pulse"

Geste — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 00:01:23 +0000

Bad take about blockchain. Being able to send value across borders without intermediaries is unheard of in human history.

New comment by Geste in "Is life a form of computation?"

Geste — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:18:15 +0000

Love the work the Essentia foundation is doing, thanks for sharing !

New comment by Geste in "You Have to Feel It"

Geste — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 14:02:29 +0000

Truly, to each their own.

I couldn't bear to pour all my energy in something that, ultimately, is not mine. But I could feel your enthusiasm through your post, which made me a bit jealouse.

So, yeah.