Hacker News: iRomain

New comment by iRomain in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

iRomain — Mon, 04 May 2026 07:19:59 +0000

Well there’s Bosch. Software wise I salute their home connect initiative which is maybe not the best UX but at least it works locally so either it is good forward thinking software engineering choices either it shows neglected software engineering practices.

New comment by iRomain in "Stack Overflow AI Assist–a tool for the modern developer"

iRomain — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 18:48:10 +0000

Sadly AI assist is dead as of now as it received the internet hug of death

New comment by iRomain in "How Home Assistant became the most important project in your house"

iRomain — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 18:43:20 +0000

I am glad home assistant (HA) gets some exposure. I run it in a VM on a proxmox server (because I use it for other stuff), it works like a charm. If you only need HA buy the dedicated hardware they sell or buy a mini PC. For my lights and switches (via the wall module), I am 100% Philips hue which is expensive but make the best smart lights money can buy and works as expected locally even if the internet or my HA server were to go down. Beware the rabbit hole of home automation though

New comment by iRomain in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

iRomain — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 08:38:23 +0000

Great idea!

New comment by iRomain in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

iRomain — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 08:08:27 +0000

This looks really cool, will try it out!

New comment by iRomain in "Show HN: A tool to benchmark LLM APIs (OpenAI, Claude, local/self-hosted)"

iRomain — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 18:37:14 +0000

LLM

New comment by iRomain in "Two Grand Canyon-size valleys on far side of the moon formed within 10 minutes"

iRomain — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 23:29:20 +0000

Funnily enough I went to the article because I guessed that it would have literally formed overnight by some surface movement originating from within the moon not some external cause. And I believe my guess is as good as yours except in hindsight of course.

New comment by iRomain in "How Africans are changing French, one joke, rap and book at a time"

iRomain — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 08:22:37 +0000

Here's a classic example :

Je suis allé à une teuf de ouf => je suis allé à une fête de fou

Literally :

I went to an zeecray teepar => I went to a crazy party

C'est pas oim => c'est pas moi (It's not me)

Fais pas ièch => fais pas chier (stop bothering /(f*cking with) me)

Je l'ai ken => je l'ai niqué(e) (I screwed him/her)

Found that with a quick Google search: https://www.francaisavecpierre.com/le-verlan/

New comment by iRomain in "The midwit home"

iRomain — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 20:11:19 +0000

I wired together all the cables behind the switches in my home and covered them with smart switches

New comment by iRomain in "The midwit home"

iRomain — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 17:29:38 +0000

Just go with Philips Hue, you can't go wrong.

Then, when you're ready, setup home assistant but setup everything so basic functionality still works even if your server or internet went down.

My hue bulbs are at the center of this strategy with each bulb controlled by either a remote control or a hue movement detector. Hint: remote controls in rooms where you stay, sensors where you pass by or if you stay only a little while.

I can also control everything via Alexa and can't wait for the day there is a viable privacy-friendly / low-maintenance alternative (Home assistant are working on this). Again, if internet goes down, I still have the remotes/detectors so my lights always work.

Also, for any other equipment you would buy, make sure it's compatible with Matter.

New comment by iRomain in "Lego MRI Scanners donated to hospitals to help children cope with anxiety (2022)"

iRomain — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 12:20:27 +0000

I was also intrigued to see a real MRI scanner built with Legos. Also disappointed to see they only give away 600 of these. What's the total cost of this marketing campaign for Lego? $20k?

New comment by iRomain in "Google no longer offers new domain registrations"

iRomain — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 17:44:48 +0000

I have 200 domains at Dynadot and keep my personal/most valuable ones at Cloudflare. Dynadot has improved a lot in the past few years.

New comment by iRomain in "Better ways to read Hacker News"

iRomain — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 14:06:31 +0000

Same here

New comment by iRomain in "GPT-Prompt-Engineer"

iRomain — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 10:30:38 +0000

Cool for you. What about if you contribute to this one or open-source yours?

New comment by iRomain in "Show HN: React95 – A React components library recreating the look of Windows 95"

iRomain — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 05:01:49 +0000

Crazy to think OP wasn’t even born when Win95 was used. Congrats on the job!

New comment by iRomain in "Ask HN: I want to be an expert in many things but my lifetime won't be enough"

iRomain — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 19:25:42 +0000

Great advice

New comment by iRomain in "The endless search for a crypto use case"

iRomain — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 17:31:58 +0000

I stopped reading after « with nary a mainstream use case to show for it other than drugs and ransomware »

Wether you like them or not, DEFI, ICOs and NFTs are all very valid use cases which attracted people with backgrounds different enough that we can call it mainstream. Yes you can do pretty much all of them without blockchain but so can you with drugs and ransomware. I don’t know what is it with crypto that it generates so much extremism in both sides.

New comment by iRomain in "France bans veggie ′steaks,′ ′sausages′ to describe vegetarian products"

iRomain — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 14:00:19 +0000

I like these as well!

New comment by iRomain in "France bans veggie ′steaks,′ ′sausages′ to describe vegetarian products"

iRomain — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 09:39:08 +0000

So in French it could be:

Steak végétal => Steakal or Stékal

Saucisse végétale => Saucissal or Saucissal

Done

New comment by iRomain in "Upptime/upptime: Uptime monitor and status page powered by GitHub"

iRomain — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 04:23:23 +0000

Pretty cool! But, before you jump into it... Unless Github have changed their terms, this is against the ToS of Github actions. If I recall correctly, they are meant to be used for building/testing/maintaining the project included in the repo.