Hacker News: Guillaume86

New comment by Guillaume86 in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

Guillaume86 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:34:46 +0000

Yeah this should be a citation in the sanewashing wikipedia article.

New comment by Guillaume86 in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

Guillaume86 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:47:21 +0000

Yes it's even more effective this way IMO, we will probably see some 11/10 mental gymnastics from people condemning this and failing to apply the same standards to billions dollars corps.

New comment by Guillaume86 in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

Guillaume86 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:38:16 +0000

Yeah it's just a slightly more honest and simplified presentation of what LLMs providers do IMO.

New comment by Guillaume86 in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

Guillaume86 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:07:35 +0000

Eh I think part of the joke is that LLMs have gobbled up the original source code, and if you help them enough (identical type signatures and specs), they will output the same code, it's the copyright laundering problem.

New comment by Guillaume86 in "Microsoft guide to pirating Harry Potter for LLM training (2024) [removed]"

Guillaume86 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:26:18 +0000

Yeah it’s funny this little mishap gets traction here in the age of commercial LLMs and generative AI... Bashing microsoft never gets old I guess

New comment by Guillaume86 in "Microsoft guide to pirating Harry Potter for LLM training (2024) [removed]"

Guillaume86 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:18:50 +0000

Yeah it’s hilarious seeing people lose their shit over this and not like, every commercial LLM vendor...

New comment by Guillaume86 in "AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox"

Guillaume86 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:54:55 +0000

He said he know about it and your conclusion is that he doesnt know about the other ones...

New comment by Guillaume86 in "Show HN: Sol LeWitt-style instruction-based drawings in the browser"

Guillaume86 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:27:22 +0000

I remember writing a parser for some SL instructions following an HN thread, seems like it was 13 years ago -_- : https://github.com/guillaume86/SolLewitt

New comment by Guillaume86 in "Fined $48k for using a jammer to keep commuters from using phones while driving"

Guillaume86 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:24:00 +0000

Don't need to be a nerd, 5 secs google search: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-road-incident...

New comment by Guillaume86 in "Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS"

Guillaume86 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 13:19:42 +0000

Well that explains it then, don't offer stupid salaries before you make stupid money...

New comment by Guillaume86 in "We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months"

Guillaume86 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:11:37 +0000

They also outperformed themselves before being in a leader position...

New comment by Guillaume86 in "Helping Valve to power up Steam devices"

Guillaume86 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 23:52:39 +0000

The switch is underpowered to the point that most A(AA) games cannot run on it without a ton of effort and compromise, an M chip powered device would be a different story. But anyway it's never going to happen, just daydreaming about a perfect gaming setup...

New comment by Guillaume86 in "Helping Valve to power up Steam devices"

Guillaume86 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 22:50:36 +0000

I'm definitely dreaming but I think it could be a win-win situation if Apple decided to licence its chips to Valve: the resulting handheld and VR headsets would be power/efficiency monsters and PC devs would finally have a good reason to target ARM, which could finally bring native PC gaming to MACs.

New comment by Guillaume86 in "SQL Anti-Patterns"

Guillaume86 — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 15:20:20 +0000

You should use the DB explain or equivalent command to spit out the query plan, limit 1 shouldn't change anything in your case, if it's not the case you should file an issue, it's pretty much 101 of query optimization.

New comment by Guillaume86 in "SQL Anti-Patterns"

Guillaume86 — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 17:57:40 +0000

Only if your table is missing an unique index on that column, which it should have to enforce your assumption, so yeah LIMIT 1 is a code (or schema in the case) smell.

New comment by Guillaume86 in "Birth of Prettier"

Guillaume86 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 15:18:41 +0000

They would obviously fix it pretty quick if you reported something like that, the still open github issue is about pure styling/readability issue...

New comment by Guillaume86 in "What .NET 10 GC changes mean for developers"

Guillaume86 — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 15:44:24 +0000

Try "go to implementation" in place of go to definition.

New comment by Guillaume86 in "Kagi News"

Guillaume86 — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 20:24:46 +0000

The Belgian section has no french language articles, they still need to work some things out but I welcome the idea.

New comment by Guillaume86 in "Will I run Boston 2026?"

Guillaume86 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 08:50:21 +0000

It's a cutoff delta, you have to subtract it from the "preliminary" qualifying time.

New comment by Guillaume86 in "Will I run Boston 2026?"

Guillaume86 — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 19:07:53 +0000

Doesn't look true, I inputed the times in an age grading calculator and 39 cutoff time was easier than 44, even if it's not very accurate I doubt it's "much easier".