Hacker News: carlos_rpn

New comment by carlos_rpn in "Do you enjoy reading any type of AI written text?"

carlos_rpn — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:10:35 +0000

When it answers something I asked, or when I play with a small model with llama.cpp, I sometimes find their reasoning funny while they go in circles.

New comment by carlos_rpn in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

carlos_rpn — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:41:00 +0000

Replying here to throwaway2037 because I can't reply directly to him, but yes, even most informal businesses accept PIX, including some random guy selling candy or bottled water at a stop signal.

The only exception I have found to consistently refuse PIX are some parking lots, and they refuse credit cards as well, accepting only cash, probably to hide their earnings.

New comment by carlos_rpn in "UK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee system"

carlos_rpn — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:12:26 +0000

I'm pretty sure they're "employed for life" because otherwise every new administration would replace as many people as possible.

Can you picture a company replacing 90% of their workforce every 4 or 8 years, all at once? Because that's what I think would happen if government employees could be fired as easily.

New comment by carlos_rpn in "Ask HN: Why do LLMs use em dashes so often?"

carlos_rpn — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:27:45 +0000

Maybe this will help: https://marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-i-dont-write-li...

And I think I saw some others similar articles and blog posts over the years, but the tl;dr; is that a large enough ammount of text used in their training contains em-dashes because a large ammount of writers use them.

New comment by carlos_rpn in "Why TUIs are back"

carlos_rpn — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:18:42 +0000

What do you mean by "It's not automatable at all..."?

At a former job we had automated extraction of data from a 3270 terminal (several of them actually).

New comment by carlos_rpn in "Windows Notepad to Receive New Age Verification Feature"

carlos_rpn — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:03:37 +0000

Is this satire?

The way things have been going, I can't tell.

New comment by carlos_rpn in "RIP Orelhao"

carlos_rpn — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:13:44 +0000

I thought they had been retired long ago.

I think it's been years since I last saw one at Rio de Janeiro.

New comment by carlos_rpn in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

carlos_rpn — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:42:44 +0000

It feels like it won't be long before Microsoft starts helping with that (by making Windows less stable, not improving Wine).

Facing US oil blockade, Cuban man powers car with charcoal

carlos_rpn — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:13:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/facing-us-oil-blockade-cuban-man-powers-car-with-charcoal-2026-03-19/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47438834

Points: 4

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New comment by carlos_rpn in "Ask HN: How does one get involved in FPGA development?"

carlos_rpn — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 18:03:36 +0000

Take a look at https://old.reddit.com/r/FPGA/

Whatever people may say about reddit, it seems to be a good starting point to get started with pretty much any hobby (even if it's just to get a link to another community).

Edit: https://github.com/BrunoLevy/learn-fpga looks interesting.

New comment by carlos_rpn in "How do we make web accessibility doable for devs with zero a11y budget?"

carlos_rpn — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 14:21:34 +0000

Good looking, acessible, "default" themes for popular CSS frameworks?

Like "here's Bootstrap5 default theme, here's another for high contrast, here's another for X problem, etc..."?

Not hidden away in some github repo you find on HN or Reddit, but either collected in some "resources for acessibility" website, or actively promoted by the frameworks themselves.

Maybe an AI tool to get a page source, a screen capture and generate alt texts and aria-roles?

New comment by carlos_rpn in "WebGPU is now supported in major browsers"

carlos_rpn — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 18:28:20 +0000

On Windows and MacOS.

Linux support is still a work in progress on both Chromium base browsers and Firefox.

New comment by carlos_rpn in "Is Lichess.org Hacked?"

carlos_rpn — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:37:40 +0000

Could it be related to the Cloudflare issue?

New comment by carlos_rpn in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

carlos_rpn — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:29:05 +0000

Is Cloudflare being down the work of conservative hackers and the rest of the internet is just collateral damage?

New comment by carlos_rpn in "Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders"

carlos_rpn — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:41:12 +0000

Lots of Linux software these days are also distributed as flatpack or appimage, and appimage in particular is dead simple if what you want has it available: place the file wherever on the path, make it executable, and done.

New comment by carlos_rpn in "Steam Machine"

carlos_rpn — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 11:39:03 +0000

Damn, a smartphone made by Valve would make me splurge for more than middle-low end, for the respect they give us alone.

It just needs my banking apps, and and I'll be happy to pay for it.

New comment by carlos_rpn in "72% of devs believe Steam has a monopoly on PC games, according to study"

carlos_rpn — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 12:32:53 +0000

Anytime I see the complaint about the 30% fee, I wonder what people feel would be fair for the service, because it also includes storage, distribution for new instalations and patching for older ones, along with generating keys to be sold at other stores.

Would people feel better with a lower fee, but no distribution network, for example?

New comment by carlos_rpn in "Ask HN: Best way to create a searchable knowledge base?"

carlos_rpn — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 18:00:12 +0000

I never dealt with it or tried anything like you need, but isn't it a good use case for an AI with Retrieval Augmented Generation?

New comment by carlos_rpn in "Ask HN: When will the AI bubble burst?"

carlos_rpn — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 17:33:23 +0000

There was an interview on Fortune where a Wall Street executive believes it probably won't happen for at least 9 months, but will likely happen within the next 24.

https://fortune.com/2025/10/07/ai-bubble-cisco-moment-dotcom...

New comment by carlos_rpn in "Why this one area of cities is usually the poorest"

carlos_rpn — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 17:25:01 +0000

https://archive.is/QylCx