Hacker News: cfn

New comment by cfn in "EU countries approve Mercosur trade deal after 25 years of talks"

cfn — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 14:16:33 +0000

Here in Portugal we already have many products (specially fruit) from Brazil, Peru and other South American countries. Will the prices go down as they won't have to pay EU tariffs?

New comment by cfn in "A 30B Qwen model walks into a Raspberry Pi and runs in real time"

cfn — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 08:28:49 +0000

Or 4 thousand for the NVIDIA RTX A6000 which also runs the 120b just fine (quantized).

New comment by cfn in "The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café"

cfn — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 09:28:58 +0000

If you are over 50 and live in Southern Europe this used to be a ver common way to spend an afternoon. Maybe add a newspaper and definitely a cigarette to go with your coofee. Very relaxing.

New comment by cfn in "Worlds largest electric ship launched by Tasmanian boatbuilder"

cfn — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 09:47:14 +0000

Two hundred million would be really good compared with 35 for a 10-12 car ferry. We have had larger ferries in the past which would do the whole archipelago and would take over 100 cars.

New comment by cfn in "Worlds largest electric ship launched by Tasmanian boatbuilder"

cfn — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 16:16:45 +0000

I had no idea that would be the cost of a ferry albeit old. We have a massive problem with transportation between islands due to lack of ships/investment. For example, out of the 9 islands only three have daily voyages and right now even that isn't happening as one boat broke down and another is away on maintenance. We could do we a couple even old ones.

The main issue I saw here with the electric ferry was that 90% of the installed generation in the islands uses HFO so we would be charging the ferry with a fuel that pollutes more than the diesel used to run it.

New comment by cfn in "Worlds largest electric ship launched by Tasmanian boatbuilder"

cfn — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 14:10:50 +0000

I would like to know its price. Here in the Azores Islands there was a project to replace an ICE ferry with an electric one but they couldn't agree on the price with the boat builders. It went up to as much as 35 million Euros but it ended up being cancelled as that, apparently, wasn't enough for a ferry that can do 1-1.5 hour crossings with a dozen cars or so.

New comment by cfn in "Netflix Open Content"

cfn — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 14:52:41 +0000

And when I click them I get a page with "Did you mean netflix.com? The site you just tried to visit looks fake. Attackers sometimes mimic sites by making small, hard-to-see changes to the URL." which then sends me to the Netfçix home page. Chrome on MacOS.

New comment by cfn in "Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices"

cfn — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 14:08:10 +0000

The price increases seem reasonable (from 6 to 7, 12 to 14, etc) given inflation. Have they been increasing prices frequently or am I missing something?

New comment by cfn in "We Induced Smells With Ultrasound"

cfn — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 09:02:24 +0000

This would be very cool within a game setting. Just imagine feeling the sensation of fresh air as you go through a door. Even if it were small effects it could add a huge leap in realism and immersion. Smell is a very powerful sense.

New comment by cfn in "Ask HN: Do you have an aversion to recent TLDs?"

cfn — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 07:46:43 +0000

For me the oddest thing are the prices they go for.

New comment by cfn in "Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI"

cfn — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 07:34:45 +0000

The main thing is that LLMs aren't software programs and as such should not be compared to them.

New comment by cfn in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"

cfn — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 22:12:30 +0000

Implementing Gene Expression Programming* in CUDA for our software: https://www.genexprotools.com/

* https://gene-expression-programming.com/

New comment by cfn in "Become unbannable from your email"

cfn — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 05:38:52 +0000

No try giving that email at the store.

New comment by cfn in "FyneDesk: A full desktop environment for Linux written in Go"

cfn — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 04:56:53 +0000

This actually looks quite good for a brand new development. I am big fan of vertical docks but that vertical time...

New comment by cfn in "25L Portable NV-linked Dual 3090 LLM Rig"

cfn — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 07:34:55 +0000

I have an A6000 and the main advantage over a 3090 cluster is the build simplicity and relative silence of the machine (it is also used as my main dev workstation).

New comment by cfn in "Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search"

cfn — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 06:49:08 +0000

This is the story of all the niche software products out there. Put together a smoke and mirrors demo, get a customer, build the product.

New comment by cfn in "iPhone Air"

cfn — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:07:53 +0000

I do, I've been waiting for thinner iPhones to retire my iPhone 11.

New comment by cfn in "I tried vibe coding in BASIC and it didn't go well"

cfn — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 07:34:36 +0000

Just for fun I asked ChatGPT "How would you ask an LLM to write a drawing program for the ATARI?" and it asked back a bunch of details to which I answered "I have no idea, just go with the simplest option". It chose the correct graphics mode and BASIC and created the program (which I didn't test).

I still agree with you for large applications but for these simple examples anyone with a basic understanding of vibe coding could wing it.

New comment by cfn in "Grok 4 Launch [video]"

cfn — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 11:36:21 +0000

Maybe this is the dawn of the multicore era for LLMs.

New comment by cfn in "RapidRAW: A non-destructive and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor"

cfn — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 07:39:50 +0000

No an expert here but RAW is the data generated by the sensor and requires some heavy processing before you can show it on screen. A bitmap is an image format (assuming you mean the BMP files).