Hacker News: Thomashuet

New comment by Thomashuet in "Texico: Learn the principles of programming without even touching a computer"

Thomashuet — Mon, 04 May 2026 10:53:35 +0000

There are some nice ideas but no continuity, it's just random bits put together. ♫ tekisco, tekisco, tekisco ♫

New comment by Thomashuet in "FontCrafter: Turn your handwriting into a real font"

Thomashuet — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:35:17 +0000

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to support cursive, which is how I and most people I know write.

New comment by Thomashuet in "Intellect-2 Release: The First 32B Model Trained Through Globally Distributed RL"

Thomashuet — Mon, 12 May 2025 08:08:29 +0000

Summary: We've use the most complexest, buzzwordiest training infrastructure to increase the performance of our base model by a whopping 0.5% (±1%).

Fyre Festival 2 Postponed

Thomashuet — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 15:42:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/apr/17/fyre-festival-2-postponed

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43718494

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by Thomashuet in "Learn Arabic"

Thomashuet — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 14:10:34 +0000

But is there such a thing as "modern standard Arabic"?

New comment by Thomashuet in "Seeing Through the Spartan Mirage"

Thomashuet — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:06:08 +0000

If it just means "don't take my guns", that's what they would write on their merch instead of some greek letters most people can't read. By using this Spartan phrase they're trying to evoke the mythical greatness of Sparta, and that is what this article is about.

New comment by Thomashuet in "Who would have won the Simon-Ehrlich bet over different decades?"

Thomashuet — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 08:30:12 +0000

The main problem with this is that we're looking at the evolution of inflation-adjusted prices for common ressources. By definition, inflation-adjusted prices for common ressources must be constant, that's how we measure inflation. So it shouldn't come as a surprise that the prices do not change much in the long term.

Jaywalking legalized in New York City

Thomashuet — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 06:50:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/29/new-york-jaywalking-legal

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41992399

Points: 296

# Comments: 358

New comment by Thomashuet in "New Mac Mini with M4"

Thomashuet — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 18:30:30 +0000

You don't have to, you can run your favorite flavor of Linux. Unlike with the Mac Mini which can only run macOS.

Journalist or Russian spy? the case of Pablo González

Thomashuet — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 14:07:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/15/journalist-russian-spy-pablo-gonzalez-kremlin-illegal

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41848767

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by Thomashuet in "ByteDance is abusing the free video downloading service Cobalt for mass scraping"

Thomashuet — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 11:15:34 +0000

You're just saying that Cobalt is small and non-profit so they must be good and YouTube and ByteDance are big and rich so they must be evil. But if you only look that what they are actually doing here, it's very similar: bypassing protections to use a service in a way that the service provider doesn't like.

New comment by Thomashuet in "ByteDance is abusing the free video downloading service Cobalt for mass scraping"

Thomashuet — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 11:08:12 +0000

Short version: a service known for evading YouTube's bot protection is complaining that ByteDance is bypassing their own protections. I agree that it's not nice from ByteDance but I find it hypocrite from Cobalt to call it evil.

New comment by Thomashuet in "GitHub notification emails used to send malware"

Thomashuet — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 11:20:30 +0000

Their claim that nothing tells you the email corresponds to the new issue is wrong, the "(Issue #1)" in the title means exactly that. I have actually received the same email myself and immediately recognized it as a new issue created on the repo. This user is obviously not used to GitHub issues as is made clear by the fact that this is the first issue on this repo. I guess GitHub needs to do a better job teaching new users.

New comment by Thomashuet in "DifuzCam: Replacing Camera Lens with a Mask and a Diffusion Model"

Thomashuet — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 20:49:09 +0000

I don't understand the use of a textual description. In which scenario do you not have enough space for a lens and yet have a textual description of the scene?

New comment by Thomashuet in "Base 3 Computing Beats Binary"

Thomashuet — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 14:32:00 +0000

> Tonal languages allows individuals to express way more than Latin based languages.

Do you have any evidence of this? I've never heard this claim before.

New comment by Thomashuet in "Training AI"

Thomashuet — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 16:28:57 +0000

I don't see how opt-in solves the problem of people who content they don't own. They could opt-in your content just as they can currently post it on their website.

New comment by Thomashuet in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

Thomashuet — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 20:15:08 +0000

Could you expand on this? Where is the line? What's work and what's business?

New comment by Thomashuet in "Mathematician who made sense of the universe's randomness wins Abel Prize"

Thomashuet — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 12:13:37 +0000

The Nobel prize is usually awarded to old (around 60) researchers at the end of their career whereas the Fields medal is only awarded to researchers under 40 (and since it's only awarded every 4 years, the cutoff age can even be 36 if you're not lucky). In that sense the Abel prize is more of a Nobel equivalent than the Fields medal.

HDMI Forum does not allow an open source implementation of the HDMI 2.1 spec

Thomashuet — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 07:02:12 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/hdmi-forum-to-amd-no-you-cant-make-an-open-source-hdmi-2-1-driver/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39559318

Points: 290

# Comments: 163

New comment by Thomashuet in "Gemini AI"

Thomashuet — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 15:48:29 +0000

Technical report: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemini/gemini_...

"We trained Gemini models using TPUv5e and TPUv4"