Hacker News: esquire_900

New comment by esquire_900 in "Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights"

esquire_900 — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 14:29:09 +0000

In the Netherlands many people use these kinds of detachable bike lights. I've never came across soldered batteries in the dozen or so I've replaced batteries for. Not always cheaper, but just tossing the whole thing seems like such a waste.

Well done!

New comment by esquire_900 in "Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash"

esquire_900 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 09:18:43 +0000

The blog post itself is technically unimpressive, and feels like the slop future. Amongst many things - Scrolling in firefox is a nightmare (only uBlock origin) and the console is full or warnings and debug data. - Videos are all flashy but just fail to communicate anything beyond what can be said in a small paragraph (and with horrible stock music). - Figure 1, the headpiece; too small to read, can't zoom in

New comment by esquire_900 in "A Koi Pond Mosaic Made from 10 Pounds of 3D Printer Waste"

esquire_900 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 04:53:48 +0000

So the author recycled 10 pounds of plastic, but used 8.5 pounds of glue to do so (184 sticks at 0.74 oz which seems to be average for glue sticks).

Cool project, but that ratio seems very ineffective. Especially since there is a realistic chance this ends up in landfill within some decades anyway.

New comment by esquire_900 in "An Introduction to YOLO26"

esquire_900 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 04:44:10 +0000

We've been running YOLO for a number of years (since v5) on soccer videos. None of the recent iterations have been significantly better, with v26 scoring worse then v9 and v11 on our tasks. Makes me wonder why this version is being pushed by roboflow and ultralytics.

New comment by esquire_900 in "Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'"

esquire_900 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:44:40 +0000

We happened to be in Borsh beach around a week or so ago, and that will be a tourist wreck in 2 years. Multiple working sites, 70% of the beach already claimed by beds.

Quite laid-back in May / start of June, but I do not want to be there in the high season.

New comment by esquire_900 in "Show HN: Live breath detection and biofeedback from a phone microphone"

esquire_900 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 07:45:29 +0000

Very interesting idea, I hope you can progress this into a well working, proven application.

I tried to do something very similar a year or 2 ago, more directed towards meditation. (Ie as a helper that uses breath to detect a wandering mind). A microphone in itself wasn't sufficient in my case, and detection was quite hard. I ended up using wired earbuds with microphones.

Nice focus as well, less scoring and more signal. All the best in your project!

New comment by esquire_900 in "Dobase – Open-source, self-hosted workspace with installable tools"

esquire_900 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 08:14:16 +0000

This seems exactly not what you want. If fully invested in this, you never have the freedom to switch tools, ie go to a different team chat solution. The benefits of having these apps in one UI / ecosystem are relatively small: files - teamchat makes sense, but todo-email, kanban-recpies doesn't add any value.

Like samdixon mentions with ClickUp, the downside is quite large UX wise: you'd be constantly switching context witin dobase. Having 10 pinned tabs for all your tools is very convenient, checking a todo while working on an email in dobase feels messy.

New comment by esquire_900 in "Mamba-3"

esquire_900 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 06:24:08 +0000

This is sort of what their first sentence states? Except your line implies that they are fast in training and inference, they imply they are focusing on inference and are dropping training speed for it.

It's a nice opening as it is imo

New comment by esquire_900 in "I put my whole life into a single database"

esquire_900 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:24:57 +0000

And here I am, feeling slightly ashamed at taking 1 or 2 flights a year. These "commute" statistics are staggering.

New comment by esquire_900 in "Show HN: Llama 3.1 70B on a single RTX 3090 via NVMe-to-GPU bypassing the CPU"

esquire_900 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:07:27 +0000

Cost wise it does not seem very effective. .5 token / sec (the optimized one) is 3600 tokens an hour, which costs about 200-300 watts for an active 3090+system. Running 3600 tokens on open router @.4$ for llama 3.1 (3.3 costs less), is about $0,00144. That money buys you about 2-3 watts (in the Netherlands).

Great achievement for privacy inference nonetheless.

New comment by esquire_900 in "Why applicant tracking systems are broken by design"

esquire_900 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:03:40 +0000

Which seems weird, it's very technical. Monolith design, relationship types, I've never met an HR person who wondered about those kinds of things

New comment by esquire_900 in "Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete"

esquire_900 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 06:36:31 +0000

Surprising how badly Jetbrains implemented AI. Apparently to such an extent that even after multiple years of LLM's someone felt confident enough to build a company that can do better.

This looks really neat, interesting technical writeup as well!

New comment by esquire_900 in "Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project"

esquire_900 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 05:50:23 +0000

Cool social experiment. It's interesting how narrow the scope of all top voted PRs are: change this or that detail in the voting (daily, count down votes etc), or make it more efficient (rust).

I wonder if this has the potential to build a "community" that will take this into a completely different direction, or if it will neatly stay within the initial boundaries.

New comment by esquire_900 in "Head in the Zed Cloud"

esquire_900 — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 06:22:16 +0000

Is the dependancy on Cloudflare worth the saved time in infrastructure? Getting a big bare metal and deploying a docker should go a long way.

This implementation sounds fully dependant on a service that Zed has little to say about.

New comment by esquire_900 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2025)"

esquire_900 — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 16:29:37 +0000

Smart 11 | React Native Software Engineer | Netherlands (Breda) / Remote | Part or Full time | smart11.ai

Smart11 helps soccer players to become more intelligent on the field. We're a small team of 3 engineers and are looking for a react native developer to continue development on our mobile app.

Our soccer learning methods rely heavily on video (and a touch of vision AI) to help players learn from their own actions on the field. The app is crucial in that process, and used hundreds of hours a week by clubs and pro players alike. Your work might directly contribute to the improvement of soccer players around the world!

We're a productive, balanced team, and are looking for someone with a builder mentality. Apply at connect [at] smart11.ai, or send me a PM (I'm the CTO). If you're interested but are only experienced in related techniques, please do get in touch, we like to invest in the right people!

New comment by esquire_900 in "Signal Technology Salaries"

esquire_900 — Thu, 22 May 2025 06:28:13 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion, I missed that!

Signal Technology Salaries

esquire_900 — Wed, 21 May 2025 13:53:27 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.simonnouwens.nl/signal-technology-salaries/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44051477

Points: 3

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New comment by esquire_900 in "Escaping surprise bills and over-engineered messes: Why I left AWS"

esquire_900 — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 05:30:25 +0000

Super easy? Getting that setup for the first time from zero knowledge will probably take a few days. And that's before understanding all the intricacies like your AWS bill, the hidden costs of cloud, properly securing IAM and setting up your VPC etc etc

New comment by esquire_900 in "The race to replace Redis"

esquire_900 — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 05:57:08 +0000

Which is peanuts compared to the 350 million that the VCs invested. You're totally right, but I think the internal financial pressure is higher.

New comment by esquire_900 in "Show HN: An AI-Powered WordPress Site Builder That We Are Open-Sourcing Today"

esquire_900 — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 20:19:34 +0000

I'm using it for a 10.000+ multisite installation (quite simple personal blogs), and even though it has it quirks it works quite well. Almost nothing is best in class and a slight pain to get it working, but the sheer size of the ecosystem is still it's biggest plus. In general every problem or feature you can imagine already exists or is easy to bolt on.