Hacker News: fnands

New comment by fnands in "I hacked into the worst e-bike and fixed it [video]"

fnands — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:51:21 +0000

I'm pretty sure if he did that someone would complain that he is using people as free labour to increase his youtube revenues.

It's impossible to do anything on the internet without someone in the peanut gallery telling you you are doing something wrong.

New comment by fnands in "OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision"

fnands — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:39:48 +0000

That seems to be the way things are going.

Large general models have taken over in NLP, and (outside of embedded/low latency applications) it seems like they are coming for CV next.

So you should soon be able to have large generic model that can detect whatever for you.

It's already pretty much possible with open-vocabulary detectors like SAM3, where you could just prompt it with "Apple": https://ai.meta.com/research/sam3/

New comment by fnands in "We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot"

fnands — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:11:28 +0000

Fighting AI with AI?

What a wild future.

New comment by fnands in "Details of the Daring Airdrop at Tristan Da Cunha"

fnands — Fri, 15 May 2026 09:25:01 +0000

Visiting Tristan Da Cunha is on my bucket list. Just a shame it takes so long to get there, but maybe that's part of the appeal.

New comment by fnands in "Details of the Daring Airdrop at Tristan Da Cunha"

fnands — Fri, 15 May 2026 09:24:01 +0000

That jump video is wild. Can't see the island until the last few minutes.

New comment by fnands in "Show HN: GlycemicGPT – Open-source AI-powered diabetes management"

fnands — Fri, 15 May 2026 08:48:11 +0000

The alerts system and sharing with caregivers is a solved problem already (e.g. Dexcom's Follow, Abbot's LibreLinkUp).

Do you find the analytics actually helps? I.e. a lot of this will depend on what you ate and whether or not you logged it?

New comment by fnands in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

fnands — Thu, 07 May 2026 07:55:10 +0000

Yeah, it seems that it is much easier to avoid enshittification when you are publicly held (and print money)

New comment by fnands in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

fnands — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:50:10 +0000

This is more aimed to warn pedestrians who wear ANC headphones. Should people be prohibited from wearing headphones while walking?

New comment by fnands in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

fnands — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:37:59 +0000

Eh, it's pragmatic.

It's replacing a problem you can't solve (human stupidity), with one you can (a better bell).

New comment by fnands in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

fnands — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:33:51 +0000

For a moment I thought this was an April fools joke product.

Pretty cool though!

New comment by fnands in "CERN levels up with new superconducting karts"

fnands — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:25:23 +0000

Alright then: killjoy

New comment by fnands in "CERN levels up with new superconducting karts"

fnands — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:34:04 +0000

Gérard Hommelibre?

Bonjour, and bienvenue to the Black Mesa - pardon, la Mesa Noire - Établissement de Recherche. Please keep your hands inside le tramway at all times, and do try not to provoquer une cascade de résonance. Merci.

New comment by fnands in "CERN levels up with new superconducting karts"

fnands — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:59:47 +0000

They do some good tours. They are first come/first serve, so show up in the morning for the best chance to get a place.

New comment by fnands in "CERN levels up with new superconducting karts"

fnands — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:45:59 +0000

Nice, I didn't get it.

I just realized "Kyouryuu" is Japanese for dinosaur.

And Pfirsich is of course Peach.

New comment by fnands in "CERN levels up with new superconducting karts"

fnands — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:34:35 +0000

They got the intern to write a funny post. Probably took them an hour and it drums up a bit of good press for the Hi-Lumi LHC.

Money well spent if you ask me.

New comment by fnands in "CERN levels up with new superconducting karts"

fnands — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:12:42 +0000

I always look forward to CERN's April fools jokes!

CERN levels up with new superconducting karts

fnands — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:27:13 +0000

Article URL: https://home.cern/news/news/engineering/cern-levels-new-superconducting-karts

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47597935

Points: 395

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New comment by fnands in "Car Seats as Contraception"

fnands — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:46:35 +0000

Could be as if you live in a city in Germany you don't necessarily need a car?

But I would be surprised if car seats are the main driver here in any case.

New comment by fnands in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

fnands — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:33:09 +0000

Related (OpenAI announcement): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47438716

New comment by fnands in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

fnands — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:29:14 +0000

Woah, first Anthropic buys Bun, now OpenAI Astral?

Seems like the big AI players love buying up the good dev tooling companies.

I hope this means the Astral folks can keep doing what they are doing, because I absolutely love uv (ruff is pretty nice too).