Hacker News: dr_hooo

New comment by dr_hooo in "Voxtral 3"

dr_hooo — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:36:03 +0000

Oh, wow, I wasn't aware. Weird choice...

New comment by dr_hooo in "Voxtral 3"

dr_hooo — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:04:35 +0000

Too bad it's not open, unlike the previous version.

However, I found Qwen ASR and QwenTTS to be quite good, and not too large. Also https://github.com/kyutai-labs/pocket-tts was also great (but only a few languages)

New comment by dr_hooo in "Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser"

dr_hooo — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 06:16:30 +0000

Mr moneybags over here... True, but for mere mortals that was a pretty high bar. Speaking from experience from fighting a 486DX2-80

New comment by dr_hooo in "People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination"

dr_hooo — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:48:01 +0000

I've wondered about this: if you can hold an image clearly in your mind - e.g. the Eifel tower - wouldn't you be able to reproduce it well on paper? I know that's not artistic ability in the creative sense, but still..

New comment by dr_hooo in "Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop"

dr_hooo — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:58:46 +0000

Thanks for the straight answer, sadly I use neither of those providers. As a suggestion: maybe you could add an option to just disable e-mail integration, for users like me? Right now I'll be getting, "finalize your app setup" vibes... forever.

Again, great app - all the best for the future!

New comment by dr_hooo in "Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again"

dr_hooo — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:40:53 +0000

> If you speak decent enough ~~English~~ German, then basically if you get along, they forget about where you come from.

This has been my exact experience in Germany though.

New comment by dr_hooo in "Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop"

dr_hooo — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:21:09 +0000

Look really great! I'm a bit sad that the only way to connect to email is gmail. Is a generic IMAP connector on your roadmap?

New comment by dr_hooo in "Job application asked for my SAT scores"

dr_hooo — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:43:21 +0000

Regardless of the content, a test filters for people willing to put in the work to pass. All else being equal, given two candidates, where one has passed a test and another one who didn't bother, the first one sends a stronger signal to the potential employer.

It's still worth discussing if the particular test is ideal, but the answer IMO is not to say let's remove tests in general.

Satya Nadella 'Not Sure' Who Said Microsoft Wanted to Make Addictive AI

dr_hooo — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:05:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/satya-nadella-not-sure-who-said-microsoft-wanted-to-make-addictive-ai-is-looking-for-guy-who-did-this/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48408581

Points: 26

# Comments: 6

New comment by dr_hooo in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

dr_hooo — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:28:13 +0000

I read this as "the agent should have asked for confirmation before running".

New comment by dr_hooo in "Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work"

dr_hooo — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:56:49 +0000

They do (it's just text), if they are there...

New comment by dr_hooo in "Android Developer Verification"

dr_hooo — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:36:13 +0000

Likely true, but also many technically oriented people (myself included) would turn away from Android if f-droid stopped working. And I would actively start recommending friends and family against it. What is the benefit of Android at this point? an extended Ads platform, controlled by Google.

New comment by dr_hooo in "NanoGPT Slowrun: 10x Data Efficiency with Infinite Compute"

dr_hooo — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:48:13 +0000

On a much simpler level, llm frameworks could re-summarize their context to keep relevant, use-case-specific facts, cleanup and also organize long and short term memory on some local storage, etc. So kind of like sleep. I think these examples are low hanging fruit to improve the perceived intelligence of LLM systems (so probably they're already used somewhere).

New comment by dr_hooo in "Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world"

dr_hooo — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:15:19 +0000

No true regarding the IDs, only PhD titles can be added. Not job descriptions. Source: academia person in Germany.

New comment by dr_hooo in "EU Council approves Chat Control mandate for negotiation with Parliament"

dr_hooo — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 22:44:42 +0000

Sadly, another attempt will likely be made at some point. At least the regulation is quite explicit:

> This Regulation shall not prohibit, make impossible, weaken, circumvent or otherwise undermine cybersecurity measures, in particular encryption, including end-to-end encryption, implemented by the relevant information society services or by the users. This Regulation shall not create any obligation that would require a provider of hosting services or a provider of interpersonal communications services to decrypt data or create access to end-to-end encrypted data, or that would prevent providers from offering end-to-end encrypted services.

New comment by dr_hooo in "LLMs are steroids for your Dunning-Kruger"

dr_hooo — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 22:26:57 +0000

> The same thing happened when Internet arrived. "Don't believe anything you read on the Internet."

Isn't the saying "Don't believe *everything* you read on the Internet."? Which is quite different (and still holds today).

New comment by dr_hooo in "Show HN: TutaCrypt, post-quantum encryption protocols for securing emails [pdf]"

dr_hooo — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 10:22:56 +0000

I was all for post-quantum crypto until I heard the news about SIKE being broken with a simple computer.

How will you make sure this does not happen to the algorithms you chose?

New comment by dr_hooo in "Meta Thinks Your Privacy Is for Sale. Would You Pay 120 Euros a Year"

dr_hooo — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 11:23:19 +0000

Question is whether they will stop tracking you, even if you pay.

New comment by dr_hooo in "A 1990 experiment to test whether we could discern life on Earth remotely"

dr_hooo — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 22:04:44 +0000

From my understanding, there is a strong assumption backed by observations that matter and physics work the same way everywhere in our universe.

New comment by dr_hooo in "Meduza co-founder's phone infected with Pegasus"

dr_hooo — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 17:44:07 +0000

Could you provide some information on the Victoria Neuland thing?