Hacker News: STELLANOVA

New comment by STELLANOVA in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

STELLANOVA — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:59:31 +0000

I don't think so, most of enterprise customers are US based companies. They will basically give Mythos to US citizens in R&D while others will use Opus. I hope this is not the actual intent.

New comment by STELLANOVA in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

STELLANOVA — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:41:28 +0000

Regarding the dual-citizenship, you are wrong to assume that. To US government you are US citizen and that is all that matters, even if you have 5 different citizenships government and justice system don't care, you need to follow the US laws and can't cherry pick what you want. Regarding users, for any of this big 3 (Alphabet, Anthropic, OpenAI) only important customers are enterprises, not individual users.

New comment by STELLANOVA in "Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux"

STELLANOVA — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:24:25 +0000

This sounds like a really good test for agentic coding and something Anthropic should seriously consider doing as a proof of Claude Code quality. They could easily have agents built per Linux distribution that will run on every new release and do complete testing and publishing. IF they can successfully do that it would be a nice marketing as well. :)

New comment by STELLANOVA in "Tony Hoare has died"

STELLANOVA — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 05:33:57 +0000

I uploaded lecture to Claude and asked to create skill using principles described. I guess we shall see if AI can actually follow them. :)

New comment by STELLANOVA in "France Wants to Replace Microsoft Teams and Google Meet with "Visio""

STELLANOVA — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 05:52:10 +0000

France wants to replace Microsoft Teams and Google Meet with "Visio", a sovereign tool for video calls. Based on LiveKit.

https://presse.economie.gouv.fr/souverainete-numerique-letat...

https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/produits/visio

https://github.com/suitenumerique/meet

France Wants to Replace Microsoft Teams and Google Meet with "Visio"

STELLANOVA — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 05:52:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.numerama.com/cyberguerre/2167301-la-france-veut-remplacer-microsoft-teams-et-google-meet-par-visio-un-outil-souverain-pour-les-appels-video.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46776018

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by STELLANOVA in "We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better)"

STELLANOVA — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 20:50:20 +0000

We did something similar +12 years ago with `streaming` AWS running app inside the browser. Basically you can run 3d studio max on chromebook. App is actually running on AWS instance and it just sending jpegs to browser to `stream` it. We did a lot of QoS logic and other stuff but it was actually working pretty nice. Adobe used it for some time to allow user to run Photoshop in the browser. Good old days..

New comment by STELLANOVA in "iPhone Air"

STELLANOVA — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:47:09 +0000

That is really wrong way of looking at things. USB 4 support doesn't require ANY innovation from Apple, any extra $$$ (maybe pennies) - it's pure representation that they lost focus and simply don't care. That port is CRITICAL for many things they actually focused on in the prerecorded ads we all watched today - video. All add-ons, storage are in 99% of cases directly connected to the phone via USB-C port. To not support the latest technology available but charge premium is really disappointing...

New comment by STELLANOVA in "iPhone Air"

STELLANOVA — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:09:24 +0000

This is becoming comical. iPhone Air only supports USB 2 speeds. Seriously? Also iPhone Pro only comes with USB 3 speeds while amplifying ProRes RAW support...

New comment by STELLANOVA in "Warp Code: the fastest way from prompt to production"

STELLANOVA — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 17:21:02 +0000

I am not really convinced that rate is higher without AI tooling. CVEs existed before AI tools with only humans generating code...

New comment by STELLANOVA in "M5 MacBook Pro No Longer Coming in 2025"

STELLANOVA — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 23:41:05 +0000

I got M1 Max with 64GB and 32 core GPU fro $1500 refurbished with zero cycle battery on 100%. As most companies doing refresh/write-off after 3 years 2025 is really a year where you can get a beast of machine for the money. I also have M4 Max for work and differences are only on really heavy tasks but for 3X less money I guess M1 Max is still good deal. This delay also means that M2/M3 ones will be good buy next year as well.

New comment by STELLANOVA in "White Noise – secure and private messenger"

STELLANOVA — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 05:45:30 +0000

How is this better than Session and how it compares?

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.04609

New comment by STELLANOVA in "Show HN: Nissan's Leaf app doesn't have a home screen widget so I made my own"

STELLANOVA — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 03:22:43 +0000

Great work! I love commitment to make it at no cost as @liamwire mentioned. Still not sure why on Earth car manufacturers would not just release APIs open to all owners (basically issue API key based on VIN) and let them use it. For developers to build apps that will only require API key to be entered would be win/win for everyone....

New comment by STELLANOVA in "Apple Debuts iPhone 16e"

STELLANOVA — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:03:15 +0000

Backup/restore is one common usecase. It's painfully slow with current speed. AFAIK only Pro model support USB3 speeds. Someone more knowledgable can maybe explain if there is any technical/cost reason behind it (I honestly don't see one ).

New comment by STELLANOVA in "Apple Debuts iPhone 16e"

STELLANOVA — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:54:20 +0000

USB-C connector with support for: USB 2 (up to 480Mb/s)

Can someone explain why they are pushing USB 2 speeds via USB-C connector in 2025? Can't believe it's cost... It's a shame.

New comment by STELLANOVA in "Apple AirPod Pro 2s can now work as hearing aids"

STELLANOVA — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 06:42:38 +0000

It's not really convincing what you're saying as Apple have much more money/technology/people then literally any professional hearing aid manufacturer. Just combine total market cap and revenue and it will be in single digits compared to Apple (Oticon parent company Demant is just ~2 billion - Oticon probably way less than that). I would like to see spec sheet of mild hearing loss hearing aid of any of the manufacturers that are charging 10 times more than Apple and see how that hardware is different from what Apple have in AirPods Pro 2. Is there any exact sample you want to share? I really want to see actual spec sheet and see type of hardware they are using as it's complete mystery...

You are underestimating number of people working on them and data that is flowing into Apple from all the people using them for years.

New comment by STELLANOVA in "iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max"

STELLANOVA — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 04:18:35 +0000

Not really. This is the first time Apple is betting on something that will not be available in huge portion of the market they are selling iPhone. This never happened before and Apple never directly connected almost all features of the hardware launch with geographically limited area. AI is the only reason why someone should upgrade from iPhone 14 and lower and yet it's only going to work in limited part of the world (China and EU are not going to have AI).

New comment by STELLANOVA in "iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max"

STELLANOVA — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 01:07:02 +0000

WiFi 7 Bluetooth 6 (yes it was just announced but Apple was aware and part of development so they could launch it)

New comment by STELLANOVA in "iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max"

STELLANOVA — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 01:03:58 +0000

It's really bad even for Apple. I really expected something more than a button and riding the wave of AI introduced months ago. We can see that technologically (mostly in hardware part) Apple is slowing down and can't innovate at the speed it was before. They still had a chance to add new stuff but for some reason skipped it - Wifi 7, support for JPEG XL, more base memory/RAM... Profit margins are going down and they really struggle to make it high as before. The fact that AI will not be available in most of the markets Apple is getting money from is really concerning and will probably hurt in the long term. The best part of this event is that AI actually pushed Apple to make really significant upgrade on base models.

New comment by STELLANOVA in "A reality bending mistake in Apple's computational photography"

STELLANOVA — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 06:05:43 +0000

Slight off-topic but I still can't believe Apple engineers are not able to fix stupid green dot flare when shooting with direct sunlight in the frame... Super easy to fix computationally but for some reason still there for years...