Hacker News: jcelerier

New comment by jcelerier in "Gpiozero Flow"

jcelerier — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 22:56:30 +0000

> you'll quickly see the implementations of the real world procedures users are crafting become unwieldy rather fast.

maybe but for some users that's the only way they will ever work

New comment by jcelerier in "2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026"

jcelerier — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 22:48:07 +0000

> This can be a negative multiplier: code I thought I wanted that gets immediately abandoned is a net-negative if no one else wants it (lets face it, this is the safest default posture for software of unknown providence).

obviously not ? negative result is still a result, just like in science. It adds new information ("approach X does not work" / "is useless") which is the only thing that matters

New comment by jcelerier in "What if useful AI is a fantasy?"

jcelerier — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 02:01:40 +0000

I had to find the manual for my parent's oven a few months ago, just finding the model n° was almost impossible

New comment by jcelerier in "Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge"

jcelerier — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 23:15:27 +0000

> However, you're not going to want to look at yourself through your selfie camera with a filter that hides your imperfections when you're checking to see if something is stuck in your teeth on a date, don't you think?

No, but you definitely use it in all the pictures you put on dating apps

New comment by jcelerier in "Learn WebGPU for C++"

jcelerier — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 23:14:04 +0000

Nvrhi sadly doesn't support metal. I use QtRhi and that gives metal, d3d11/12, Vulkan, OpenGL and even works on wasm

New comment by jcelerier in "Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude"

jcelerier — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:57:12 +0000

> They did not change the laws.

yes they did?

in Québec: https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/uber-is-officially-a...

in France: loi Thévenoud and Grandguillaume (which were the follow up to negociations between the french gov' and uber), etc.

other countries are the same around the same period, e.g. https://legislation.nsw.gov.au/view/html/inforce/current/act... etc etc

New comment by jcelerier in "Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude"

jcelerier — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:28:38 +0000

it was a crime to run your own unregistered taxi service in many places until uber came and the laws changed to adapt

New comment by jcelerier in "Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge"

jcelerier — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 22:45:19 +0000

> Alternatively, perhaps we'll see models fine-tuned or steer-able towards accuracy that customers can themselves use to get a more honest view on what the product would look like in person.

we live in a world where the norm is to use filters on pictures of your own face to lie about how you look, imagine thinking than people actually care about truthness

New comment by jcelerier in "Qwen 3.8"

jcelerier — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 03:31:29 +0000

Isn't it borderline illegal for publicly traded companies to not try to maximize profit? "interest of the company" in theory but in practice

New comment by jcelerier in "What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard"

jcelerier — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 03:27:32 +0000

> Imagine we had that for software - "your JS is too big, you can't ship until you get it under 50 kB".

... that's a very normal constraint in many fields of SWE?

New comment by jcelerier in "Neverclick: Desktop application for performing mouse actions with your keyboard"

jcelerier — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:14:11 +0000

Not even, this was deemed too insecure. So now we have to have one protocol per-use case instead of something that allows to handle easily all the use cases we already know exist - the most stupid thing possible

New comment by jcelerier in "$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol"

jcelerier — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:12:46 +0000

> it's the clash between reality and the intent (whether a location or practical set constraints), the individual skill of everyone involved, costume and prop department

That's not art, that's the limitations that everyone working in this industry have been working night and day to overcome for hundreds of years

New comment by jcelerier in "Neverclick: Desktop application for performing mouse actions with your keyboard"

jcelerier — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:53:02 +0000

The protocol for this has recently been accepted, now it has to be implemented by every compositor

New comment by jcelerier in "Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine (1965) [pdf]"

jcelerier — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 01:55:59 +0000

> The required high degree of connectivity might be attained with the help of microminiature radio transmitters and receivers.

I mean pretty much everything has a wifi chip these days

New comment by jcelerier in "No LLM Code in Dependencies"

jcelerier — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 23:27:44 +0000

I've seen developers pushing code repeatedly to car engine firmware with for-loops that weren't even valid C syntax, have yet to see a modern LLM do this kind of mistake

New comment by jcelerier in "A native graphical shell for SSH"

jcelerier — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:28:47 +0000

> computers and Internet shouldn't exist and life would be better

I don't think that's remotely controversial

New comment by jcelerier in "A native graphical shell for SSH"

jcelerier — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 02:48:29 +0000

> there's at least one customer in need for a product

just because whales exist does not mean feeding them is a goal to aim for as a society. 99.9% of technology could disappear tomorrow and life would become better.

New comment by jcelerier in "Enhancing x11 Application Security with LXC (2025)"

jcelerier — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 11:30:08 +0000

What's your opinion on software like https://www.autohotkey.com/ then?

New comment by jcelerier in "Deno Desktop"

jcelerier — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:20:40 +0000

But a lot of people are still running macOS < 10.15

New comment by jcelerier in "10Gb/s Ethernet: switching to a Broadcom SFP+ module"

jcelerier — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:18:21 +0000

In throughput but not in latency, and especially not in variability