Hacker News: julosflb

New comment by julosflb in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

julosflb — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:56:48 +0000

I had similar idea, a tool to model the economy of a country. The idea would be to give to every one a simple tool to groundcheck political programms before voting. The economy is complex, there is no simple solution to a complex problem, only trade offs. But you need to see the effect of these trade offs before making a decision and elect one or another politician.

New comment by julosflb in "The unbearable cheapness of open weight models"

julosflb — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:29:48 +0000

I like to think of llms as seamless plagiarism machines.

New comment by julosflb in "Chevron signs 20-year power agreement with Microsoft for West Texas data center"

julosflb — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:29:54 +0000

And in the mean time, western europe is having its second heat wave even before summer starts.

New comment by julosflb in "I'm done making desktop applications (2009)"

julosflb — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:14:30 +0000

Not having to install is huge avantage in corporate environmeent where user can't install nor run binaries that have not been approved by IT dept.

UK says Chinese wind turbine maker poses national security threat

julosflb — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 06:57:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/3bbf79be-08f7-4012-b0b7-a5894181af1b

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47527375

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by julosflb in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

julosflb — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:51:06 +0000

There is a french company (https://unseenlabs.com/fr/) that specializes in tracking ship at sea through observing their RF emission from space. Cool tech. I'm pretty sure their main clients are not all civil...

New comment by julosflb in "Wind power slashed 4.6B euros off electricity bills in Spain last year"

julosflb — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:14:02 +0000

Yes that's sound weird but this is to make sure gas peaker plants which by definition run only a fraction of time can be profitable and be built.

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

julosflb — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 07:58:45 +0000

Working on D2xlab, a fast, browser-based tool to explore, clean, and compare time series (CSV, simulation outputs, etc.) visually.

https://www.d2xlab.com

'Unprecedented' alerts in France as blistering heat grips Europe

julosflb — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 04:47:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y7781e915o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44430666

Points: 42

# Comments: 63

Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024

julosflb — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 18:26:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.earth-system-science-data.net/about/news_and_press/2025-06-19_indicators-of-global-climate-change-2024-annual-update-of-key-indicators-of-the-state-of-the-climate-system-and-human-influence.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44321203

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by julosflb in "Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change"

julosflb — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 19:34:51 +0000

Diesel engines are also more efficient.

New comment by julosflb in "Launch HN: Maritime Fusion (YC W25) – Fusion Reactors for Ships"

julosflb — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 17:03:06 +0000

Nearly 40% of shipping volume worldwide is moving fossil fuels (coal, oil, gaz). The easiest way to reduce drastically shipping emission is reducing usage of fossil fuels...

https://www.ics-shipping.org/resource/shippings-role-in-the-...

New comment by julosflb in "HD Hyundai set to debut production 14 ton hydrogen wheeled excavator"

julosflb — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 19:13:08 +0000

And electric motors are way more efficient than ICE motors that hardly reach 40% efficiency.

New comment by julosflb in "Nearly half of teenagers globally cannot read with comprehension"

julosflb — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 06:56:22 +0000

They didn't wait for their parents to tell - they figured out with their friends.

New comment by julosflb in "New images show state of preservation of Ernest Shackleton's ship"

julosflb — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 19:31:07 +0000

I can confirm. I didn't know the story and I picked up that book randomly in a book store a couple years ago. I loved it.

New comment by julosflb in "FFT-based ocean-wave rendering, implemented in Godot"

julosflb — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 12:53:25 +0000

Very neat! I'm hydrodynamics by background and I wondered a long time ago why this kind of approach was not used as I always found ocean waves to look awful in movies. Once you describe ocean sea state in frequency domain, it is quite easy to give to floating objects like ships realistic motions using what we called RAO in this field (linear operator). You can also model sea disturbance (diffracted and radiated waves) caused by an object in a similar fashion.

Indicators of Global Climate Change 2023

julosflb — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 05:09:36 +0000

Article URL: https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/16/2625/2024/essd-16-2625-2024-discussion.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40581566

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by julosflb in "Everything we can't describe in music"

julosflb — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 17:49:19 +0000

I visited conservatoire des arts et metiers museum in Paris a couple years ago. It is full of fascinating scientific devices from the past. Among then was the timbre analyser. I was blown away. A purely analogic spectrum analyser.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Timbre_analyser-CNAM...

New comment by julosflb in "Self-pay gas station pumps break across NZ as software can't handle Leap Day"

julosflb — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 08:00:20 +0000

In France at least, more and more stations require pre-paying at the counter, especially stations in big cities.

New comment by julosflb in "525 Private jets departed Las Vegas after the Super Bowl ended"

julosflb — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 18:21:08 +0000

The problem with this line of thinking in my opinion is that we have 30x3% problems... sure individually they would not make a difference but we need to act on all front.