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New comment by coulix in "Show HN: Open-weight OCR got so cheap I had to share it"

coulix — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 06:18:35 +0000

Spot on..

New comment by coulix in "Mistral OCR 4"

coulix — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:22:57 +0000

True, same conclusion, but the few samples I tried showed some real improvements since dec 2025 version.

New comment by coulix in "Mistral OCR 4"

coulix — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:25:44 +0000

I wonder how it does compare to reducto, pulse, extendai.

New comment by coulix in "Show HN: Beautiful interactive explainers generated with Claude Code"

coulix — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 07:11:49 +0000

Looking great, how did you standardized animations / canvas work? Did AI help?

New comment by coulix in "Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries"

coulix — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:21:18 +0000

The YouTube citation thing feels like a quality regression. For medical stuff especially, I’ve found tools that anchor on papers (not videos) to be way more usable like incitefulmed.com is one example I’ve tried recently.

New comment by coulix in "Show HN: OCR Arena – A playground for OCR models"

coulix — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 05:35:44 +0000

We need to see Landing.ai DPT-2, from my tests its the best in term of ability to extract structure from complex tables so far.

New comment by coulix in "DeepSeek OCR"

coulix — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 08:54:55 +0000

This.

Any complex parent table span cell relationship still has low accuracy.

Try the reverse, take a complex picture table and ask Chatgpt5, claude Opus 3.1, Gemini Pro 2.5 to produce a HTML table.

They will fail.

New comment by coulix in "LiveLeak shuts down after 15 years online"

coulix — Thu, 06 May 2021 07:04:21 +0000

You are right and things can revert backward very fast.

New comment by coulix in "Scaling NSQ to 750B Messages (2016)"

coulix — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 04:44:55 +0000

What pushed you to move to Kafka?

New comment by coulix in "The First 30lbs Bitcoin"

coulix — Mon, 27 May 2019 11:35:56 +0000

It all started a year ago during a crypto fever run. A bitcoin coin is cool, but you know what's better? A gigantic Bitcoin bronze.

At first with an out-of-scale wooden version, then things started getting serious. 3D printer, silicon, and molten copper. Making such a piece with a mirror finish requires fine art expertise and took several trials.

The sculpture is signed by the foundry and encrusted with the bitcoin payment transaction hash on its side. It is close to impossible to counterfeit such a piece. Each foundry has its own signature based on the shares of each metal composing the bronze. Moreover, being handmade, two sculptures will never look exactly the same.

What do you think?

The First 30lbs Bitcoin

coulix — Mon, 27 May 2019 11:35:29 +0000

Article URL: http://bitcoinsculpture.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20021269

Points: 1

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New comment by coulix in "An old theory of quantized gravity is gaining new life"

coulix — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 10:50:05 +0000

In France we use it in our Math curriculum.

New comment by coulix in "Show HN: PDFLayoutTextStripper – Converts PDF to text while keeping the layout"

coulix — Sat, 25 Feb 2017 06:53:58 +0000

SHA-256 ;)

New comment by coulix in "Trump Is Right: Silicon Valley Using H-1B Visas to Pay Low Wages to Immigrants"

coulix — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 16:21:56 +0000

New comment by coulix in "Vue 2.0 is here"

coulix — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 19:43:02 +0000

I have worked on ember, backbone marionette and react. Vue JS really shines by its simplicity and speed while embracing all the concepts we expect from a modern js framework _ component based, flux style store management with vuex, reactive dom. Documentation is great and we built great stuff and enjoyed the journey so far.

New comment by coulix in "Cultivating Friendgineers"

coulix — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 04:24:04 +0000

I agree, maybe it's also cultural but saying how great everyone was at each retro just dampers the intended effect.

New comment by coulix in "Show HN: Anime.js – Polyvalent JavaScript Animation Engine"

coulix — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 17:09:02 +0000

He is French from Paris and yes in this context polyvalent === flexible.

New comment by coulix in "Ask HN: What are some examples of successful companies rejected by YC?"

coulix — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 16:36:16 +0000

Plus one on that. Also because YC already had a similar bet in this area.

New comment by coulix in "Tcl/tk vs. the web"

coulix — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 01:49:09 +0000

Granted the current state of JS is a bit of a joke. That said spend a week or two on understanding web components, virtual dom, immutable.js, webpack, babel and its plugins and you are good to go.

New comment by coulix in "Show HN: Code4Startup - Learn to code by cloning real life startups"

coulix — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 12:35:05 +0000

Great concept. Really.