Hacker News: elar_verole

New comment by elar_verole in "Ask HN: Why are OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down? Coincidence?"

elar_verole — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:44:16 +0000

Pretty sure it's a US thing since it's available here in France. What exactly is down, idk

New comment by elar_verole in "ChatGPT Is Throwing 404"

elar_verole — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:21:24 +0000

No issues on claude or chatgpt in France, must be some US specific infrastructure going down ?

New comment by elar_verole in "Show HN: Weedout – Safari extension that hides YouTube AI-labeled videos"

elar_verole — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:40:53 +0000

Should have been called YouMan !

New comment by elar_verole in "GEIPAN – French government UFO investigations"

elar_verole — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:25:13 +0000

It's called "OVNI(s)" (French equivalent for UFO(s))

New comment by elar_verole in "Starbase, LA"

elar_verole — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:50:45 +0000

Just watching him play POE should show you he's not the genius you think he is

New comment by elar_verole in "Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025)"

elar_verole — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:17:38 +0000

I'd argue that your colossal overreaction to a small invitation to discuss a somewhat interesting hypothetical is what warrants medical attention

Ask HN: What's the endgame of the AI comments buried in every post?

elar_verole — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:40:45 +0000

A lot of submissions nowadays have a few LLM comments (whether directly written by an agent, or human with a LLM I don't know), often downvoted and sitting at the end of the comment section. No-one even bothers to call them out anymore, it's just part of the landscape. Just wondering why ? What's the point for these people ?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49362305

Points: 17

# Comments: 11

New comment by elar_verole in "Position: LLMs Can't Jump"

elar_verole — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:11:44 +0000

I think this can't work because an LLM needs too much data, and before the internet there probably just wasn't enough to get close to what we have now

New comment by elar_verole in "Ask HN: Is Multi-core a thing of the past?"

elar_verole — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 15:07:08 +0000

>Unless maybe the CPU vendors - are making these powerful CPUs knowing they will be rented by the thread

I think you answered your question already. AWS buys it -> you get instances that use a small part of the huge CPUs basically.

New comment by elar_verole in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

elar_verole — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:55:10 +0000

Working on our game which is a twin stick shooter with auto-battler / TFT style shops and upgrades. We have a demo out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4805740/runz_Demo/

going fine, good reviews + average playtime isn't bad at all for only a demo, but it's frustrating to just struggle to get eyes on it.

New comment by elar_verole in "GPT-2: Too Dangerous To Release (2019)"

elar_verole — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:06:18 +0000

Thank you, been saying that everywhere this "Gotcha" argument comes up, the internet DID become a cesspool of spam and fake content. That's literally what they were scared about.

New comment by elar_verole in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

elar_verole — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:51:10 +0000

Several things:

https://github.com/openclaw/wacli for WhatsApp,

https://github.com/diamondburned/arikawa for discord, and

https://github.com/mautrix/meta for messenger.

There was a bit of initial setup extracting tokens for messenger and discord I believe, but now it's smooth sailing. Some issues sometimes correctly mapping ids to usernames / convos make it so some conversations are duplicated for messenger, but when I have time I think some smart reconciliation heuristic will be able to take care of it.

It's great !

New comment by elar_verole in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

elar_verole — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:16:18 +0000

My favorite is: https://github.com/theo-sardin/instant-switcher

Instant windows switcher with custom shortcuts and instant "opt+tab" and trackpad switching. Simple does exactly what I need it to do (just bypasses the slow window switching that is annoying), with no additional features or bloat.

I've also done a TUI that combines my messages from WhatsApp + messenger + discord which is pretty handy at work.

New comment by elar_verole in "MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second"

elar_verole — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:53:56 +0000

Yeah, this seems to be the easiest path for overall agents efficiency in the short term

New comment by elar_verole in "[dead]"

elar_verole — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:55:18 +0000

I just thought it was interesting to remind everyone how mind boggling chatGPT first public version was to everyone, as it was released 3.5 years ago.

Nothing came close before it, and now we have agents / models that are not even comparable in terms of capabilities and "intelligence".

We'll see where it goes from here !

New comment by elar_verole in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

elar_verole — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:02:49 +0000

Sometimes feel like I'm the only one still using it around me, but the service is still great and functional

New comment by elar_verole in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

elar_verole — Mon, 11 May 2026 10:05:46 +0000

Started some playtests for our game with my brother (I mean we don't REALLY have testers yet, we need a bit more work first because right now it's lacking 1 or 2 core elements of the fun / gameplay loop): https://srdnvntrz.itch.io/runz

also created and got our steam page validated: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4704420/runz/

We've been moving fast, it's our second project and we hope to deliver something people find fun and appealing, at least for our friends !

We suck at marketing though (such is the game dev burden), but we're having fun and learning stuff, which is what it's all about I guess.

New comment by elar_verole in "Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them"

elar_verole — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:52:04 +0000

Yes, I love how everyone uses this argument, when what they were saying was among the lines of "GPT-2 would make it too easy to generate spam, deepfakes, content to manipulate opinion..." (not the actual quote but something like that). Turns out it was completely correct if you look at the state of the internet right now.

Obviously, they still overhype and oversell this end of humanity stuff, but this argument regurgitated ad-nauseam is not THAT great of an example when you think about it.

Show HN: Instant macOS space and app switcher

elar_verole — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:06:18 +0000

Hello HN,

I want to share a small wrapper I built around https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47708818.

The idea is to allow instant switching between fullscreen apps / desktops, with the ability to register shortcuts to instantly jump to your favorite apps, without animations.

To be clear most of the hard work was done here: https://github.com/jurplel/InstantSpaceSwitcher, this is just a wrapper to build custom shortcuts around this solution, Ala Apptivate.

This is mostly vibe coded, but took me a bit of time to get right and is really useful for my workflow, and I know it's a very common pain point for Mac tech users, so thought I would share.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47762718

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by elar_verole in "Data centers are transitioning from AC to DC"

elar_verole — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:02:36 +0000

People need heroes. It's like the Keanu Reeves or Musk era, all the ""badass"" stories about this or that soldier / local hero / w/e that are very often overblown and get further and further away from the initial facts every time they resurface. No hate here, just noticing there is a weird visceral need to distill stories to their most essential, good vs evil, and the Tesla v Edison thing embodies this perfectly I think.