Hacker News: Gys

New comment by Gys in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

Gys — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:46:49 +0000

The biggest benefit of the ios dropbox app is to search through the contents of all files. When accessing from the files app that is not possible, unfortunately.

New comment by Gys in "Ask HN: Founders of estonian e-businesses – is it worth it?"

Gys — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:40:54 +0000

It is mentioned a bit in other comments: be aware that in the country where you live, the tax authorities can argue that your 100% owned company in country X is managed by you. This means it is taxable in your country. It is then up to you to counter their point of view…

New comment by Gys in ""

Gys — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:42:40 +0000

I think the weight is by design. I once read a story consumers associate more heavy headphones with quality and therefore will pay a higher price. For example see https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-theater/beats-by-dre-head...

New comment by Gys in "Will the U.S. confirm that aliens exist before 2027? (27%)"

Gys — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:20:28 +0000

Incredible, I will seriously consider Trump to make such announcement because no further proof is required.

New comment by Gys in "The Tulip Creative Computer"

Gys — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:32:06 +0000

Funny! In the '80s Tulip Computers NV[1] was a Dutch computer manufacturer that manufactured PC clones.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_Computers

New comment by Gys in "Show HN: Customizable OSINT dashboard to monitor the situation"

Gys — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:52:03 +0000

OSINT = open source intelligence

Had to look it up and might not the only one

New comment by Gys in "Zen-C: Write like a high-level language, run like C"

Gys — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:20:03 +0000

Initial commit was 24h ago, 363 stars, 20 forks already. Man, this goes fast.

New comment by Gys in "Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?"

Gys — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 18:07:25 +0000

You define ‘successful’ as ‘managed to push to production’? I think that is a disappointing low barrier.

New comment by Gys in "CO2 batteries that store grid energy take off globally"

Gys — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 19:06:57 +0000

Lithium supply is limited. So an alternative based on abundant materials is interesting for that reason I guess?

New comment by Gys in "Can large language models generalize analogy solving like children can? [pdf]"

Gys — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 12:19:55 +0000

From the abstract:

Children and adults easily generalized their knowledge to unfamiliar domains, whereas LLMs did not. This key difference between human and AI performance is evidence that these LLMs still struggle with robust human-like analogical transfer.

Can large language models generalize analogy solving like children can? [pdf]

Gys — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 12:19:55 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.02348

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301136

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by Gys in "Show HN: A 2-row, 16-key keyboard designed for smartphones"

Gys — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:24:10 +0000

i tried it and think it needs at least three improvements for me to use it:

normally a sentence starts automatically with a capital but not with this keyboard

double space should result in a dot and a space, to end a sentence. Now I need to switch layout for a dot

automatic suggestions are not enabled (or implemented)

New comment by Gys in "Just 0.001% hold 3 times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds"

Gys — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 11:22:17 +0000

It is a topic in the EU. France and Italy, IIRC, want to make this policy. I also found this https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/11/european-parliament-target...

New comment by Gys in "Just 0.001% hold 3 times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds"

Gys — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 10:07:34 +0000

Taxing them will be difficult. There will always be places welcoming them with low taxes if they just spend money.

Most of their wealth is probably in companies operating globally. It seems more easy to tax profits in local markets. And increase competition…

New comment by Gys in "Epsilon: A WASM virtual machine written in Go"

Gys — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 09:22:10 +0000

This could have been a Show HN?

Also: would be nice to see wazero (https://github.com/wazero/wazero) mentioned. What was the reason to create Epsilon as an alternative?

New comment by Gys in "Frequently Asked Unicycling Questions"

Gys — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 10:05:57 +0000

> an electric one

Those also exist? I was curious and checked your faq but it is not mentioned. You should add it!

New comment by Gys in "Ask HN: Do you believe aliens are visiting Earth?"

Gys — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 21:19:43 +0000

> Testimonies/memories/personal experience can certainly secure a conviction in a human court of law.

I am certain that if I go to the police blaming someone of something bad then even if my story is very very detailed, without any other (!) evidence the other person will not be convicted.

> Where we draw the line?

By requiring more evidence :) Just as an example: it is funny that despite camera’s being ubiquitous nowadays, all video evidence of aliens, big foot, ghosts, etc is very limited and always vague.

New comment by Gys in "Ask HN: Do you believe aliens are visiting Earth?"

Gys — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:46:54 +0000

> Facts: there's abundance of testimony that would secure conviction in court regarding abductions, encounters (of variosu "kinds"), and "multi-sensor data".

'testimony' as in 'statements from people' should not nearly be enough to convince a court. Pretty sure there are also many testimonies that confirm the existence of trolls, elf's, the devil, reincarnation, angels, big foot, Loch Ness monster, etc.

New comment by Gys in "Show HN: F32 – An Extremely Small ESP32 Board"

Gys — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 19:41:39 +0000

> PCBWay does also offer assembly services

Seriously? For a tiny board like this also? Genuine question.

New comment by Gys in "Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10"

Gys — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:05:34 +0000

> We used to be able to send files over Bluetooth before the iPhone came out.

Cross platforms, really? So for example between a Blackberry and a Windows CE phone?