<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: harrouet</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=harrouet</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:02:05 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=harrouet" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by harrouet in "Hello, me. It's been a while"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is it an AI self-realizing its own existence?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 05:18:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49294985</link><dc:creator>harrouet</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49294985</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49294985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by harrouet in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Inspiring article, I will keep the following bits:<p>- with AI, bad engineers (bad designs?) lead faster to catastrophe
- Frontier AI companies pay their SW engineers very much<p>--> we need highly-skilled sw engineers and the lesser ones will get out.<p>Kind of what outsourcing did but x100.<p>As a manager, I'll still have to think how I grow young SW engineers to top SW managers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:13:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49283414</link><dc:creator>harrouet</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49283414</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49283414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by harrouet in "France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As a young telecom engineer working in "Intelligent Networks" in the late 90's in the UK, I learnt that UK phones had a code that could be dialed during a call, so that the line could not hang up anymore.<p>That was geared against telemarketers or abusers, so that the callee could fetch a police officer that would acknowledge the fraudulent call.<p>Today all this data exists in databases. It would be so easy to check call logs from telemarketers to check if they ever called someone on a do-not-call list.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:39:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49269420</link><dc:creator>harrouet</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49269420</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49269420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by harrouet in "Why Wall Street is ignoring big tech's debt [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Uber is the wrong example here, as it has destroyed $27B of value since inception.<p>Or maybe that's exactly the right example...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:38:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49240058</link><dc:creator>harrouet</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49240058</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49240058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by harrouet in "The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Actually if that can bring up your morale, just replacing coal power plants with nuclear (or other 24x7 clean energy source) would keep up at the 1.5°C objective.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:50:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49209003</link><dc:creator>harrouet</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49209003</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49209003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by harrouet in "Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>These laws, which exist in a similar way in Europe, intend to prevent media control by closed groups to take over democracy.<p>To be honest, scraping them on broadcast TV will probably have little influence, even though in the wrong direction, because TV is no longer the media with the most influence.<p>The real failure is that no one cared to regulate ownership of digital medias, i.e. social networks, Youtube, etc. These have shown documented examples of influencing elections directly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:59:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49206843</link><dc:creator>harrouet</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49206843</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49206843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by harrouet in "What I love about Django"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ah the old debate about function-based views and class-based views.<p>I totally understand why the OP would use only FBV, however when writing REST APIs you will want CBV to reuse base classes such as ListView.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:30:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49194468</link><dc:creator>harrouet</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49194468</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49194468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by harrouet in "What went wrong with data lakes? A 15-year reality check"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have the same feeling about quoting Gartner studies, tbh.<p>The paper is actually poor in data and mostly requotes other studies.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:12:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49193923</link><dc:creator>harrouet</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49193923</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49193923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by harrouet in "I'll be stepping back from leading product for X"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is this guy the reason why xcancel.com exists ?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 05:24:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192801</link><dc:creator>harrouet</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192801</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by harrouet in "Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am talking about reconfigurable gates to implement an LLM in silicon, i.e. an FPGA...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:19:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167677</link><dc:creator>harrouet</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167677</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by harrouet in "What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"we have more than 3,000 tests"...<p>Great, but since no human has looked at them, how do you know that they are relevant and actually test undesired behavior?<p>Also, would you be able to point at which tests should be added in the future?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:17:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167650</link><dc:creator>harrouet</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167650</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by harrouet in "What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is very hard to make sense of these benchmarks given that at least some of these models have probably been trained on the code base of these projects.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:11:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167571</link><dc:creator>harrouet</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167571</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49167571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by harrouet in "Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I could definitely image Apple embedding a kind of LLM-optimized FPGA: slow to load (update) an LLM, but blazing fast at computing tokens.<p>Who needs memory when your model is set in silicon ?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 06:30:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49164981</link><dc:creator>harrouet</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49164981</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49164981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by harrouet in "SwiftUI After 7 Years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Agreed that SwiftUI because bloated and hacky, when it promised simplification and transparency.<p>But is there a single UI abstraction that succeeded in affordability for newcomers while maintaining performance and solid architecture?<p>It is high time to solve the write-3-apps for each usecase (iOS, Android, Windows). I use MAUI on some projects but it is still not perfect.<p>The way forward for Apple is to open source more and more and let the Swift community build a cross-platform solution.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:17:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49152285</link><dc:creator>harrouet</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49152285</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49152285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by harrouet in "Show HN: Kakehashi – Experimental userspace to run macOS binaries on Linux ARM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Kakehashi is perfectly fine for the 2/3 of humanity that live in Asia.<p>Open up your mind and learn other cultures.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 06:57:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49152126</link><dc:creator>harrouet</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49152126</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49152126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by harrouet in "3D Pinball for Windows (1995)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Exactly what I was looking for for my non-US keyboard :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:29:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49110545</link><dc:creator>harrouet</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49110545</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49110545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by harrouet in "The Productivity Mirage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>100% with the OP:<p>At the end it is more productive to be focused on the right target, than to gain 15% of productivity because you use whatever tools. Note that this is not mutually exclusive, but putting brain power in thinking about the product, rather than about the productivity hacks, is what matters.<p>The problem is that most companies don't care about thinking. You may have more chances to get promoted because you are sweating and running everywhere, instead of calmly thinking, looking through the window and developing mental models.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:31:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49108562</link><dc:creator>harrouet</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49108562</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49108562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by harrouet in "Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It depends on what you are looking at.<p>Time to 1st token is faster on the M5 because of HW accelerators helping the prompt interpretation (and it is CPU-bound).<p>Token generation after that is GPU-bound and will profit from the higher bandwidth of the M4 Max.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:06:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49107218</link><dc:creator>harrouet</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49107218</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49107218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by harrouet in "1,741 "informed" consents with one click? GDPR complaint filed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I see so many sites that pretend that they have 350 /legitimate interest/ partners. Time to crack down on abuses.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:46:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49106761</link><dc:creator>harrouet</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49106761</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49106761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by harrouet in "I'd not buy a LG monitor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hint for Microsoft:<p>- Display drivers don't need access to the network<p>- Display drivers don't need to write to the window manager<p>- Display drivers just need to display the data that needs displayed<p>- If you sign a driver, you take responsibility for it. Else just leave people run any driver they see fit</p>
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