Hacker News: karussell

New comment by karussell in "Anthropic forms $200M partnership with the Gates Foundation"

karussell — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:19:22 +0000

Bill-Anthropic ;)

New comment by karussell in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

karussell — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:46:19 +0000

Indeed cost can be another factor. Maybe also the main reason why Chrome added an offline model.

New comment by karussell in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

karussell — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:33:09 +0000

> What is the business model of open weight AI?

This is what I do not understand as well and advertising the knowledge and more advanced model is also the only thing that comes to my mind.

Since a month I am using gemma4 locally successfully on a MBP M2 for many search queries (wikipedia style questions) and it is really good, fast enough (30-40t/s) and feels nice as it keeps these queries private. But I don't understand why Google does this and so I think "we" need to find a better solution where the entire pipeline is open and the compute somehow crowdfunded. Because there will be a time when these local models will get more closed like Android is closing down. One restriction they might enforce in the future could be that they cripple the models down for "sensitive" topics like cybersecurity or health topics. Or the government could even feel the need to force them to do so.

New comment by karussell in "Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0"

karussell — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:55:18 +0000

Does somebody know the power values for idle and sleep for this release? When I tried Remix 43 on a m2 mb pro 1 month ago the idle power usage was above 5W (max 10h) and sleep roughly 3W (~20h).

New comment by karussell in "Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0"

karussell — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:42:17 +0000

Not OP but external display only works via HDMI directly atm (m2 mb pro).

New comment by karussell in "EU age verification app hacked, 2 minute How to posted"

karussell — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:09:54 +0000

Link to the code (I think?): https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android...

New comment by karussell in "EU age verification app hacked, 2 minute How to posted"

karussell — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:05:45 +0000

> why the EU doesn't want the app to run on rooted devices

Where does the EU say so?

New comment by karussell in "EU age verification app hacked, 2 minute How to posted"

karussell — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:04:38 +0000

IMO the implementation is crucial. If everything is locally on the device and I can confirm digitally that I'm older than 18 BUT NOTHING ELSE is leaked, like the German eID supports (I think).

Why/how would this be a bad thing?

New comment by karussell in "Discourse Is Not Going Closed Source"

karussell — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:19:11 +0000

> I also found Discourse to be... challenging to self-host.

Made a completely different experience. Every once in a while you have to run a command. Over the last 10-12 years there were I think 2 problems where this did not work out of the box.

New comment by karussell in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

karussell — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:33:12 +0000

With "Graph support" you mean "Microsoft Graph API"?

New comment by karussell in "Some Unusual Trees"

karussell — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:56:10 +0000

I highly recommend this 12min video "Trees Are So Weird"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSch_NgZpQs

New comment by karussell in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

karussell — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:09:45 +0000

Linux on Apple Silicon is already stable and nice if you accept a few downsides: only M1 & M2 so far, max 8h on battery ('office usage'), max 30h with closed lid ('sleep'), external display via hdmi and no touch ID.

More precise elevation data for GraphHopper routing engine

karussell — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:39:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.graphhopper.com/blog/2026/03/23/more-precise-elevation-data-for-graphhopper/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47491848

Points: 82

# Comments: 15

New comment by karussell in "BYD is seeing a flood of new EV buyers"

karussell — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:34 +0000

City speeds are way below 50kmh (even below 30kmh in most cities!) and ICE cars are a lot louder when accelerating. So I'd love to see more EVs in our city too. Especially in winter days when the motors are not (yet) warm enough to clean the exhaust gas...

New comment by karussell in "Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations"

karussell — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:00:09 +0000

It wasn't quick but I still found it fast enough. In my case I could even download it as an html file: https://gist.github.com/karussell/289aeb621a71597babd6f97eb2...

edit: claude just confirmed the initial version has a bug and 104-117 are not visible

New comment by karussell in "NitroPhone 10 comes with GrapheneOS (without Google and trackers)"

karussell — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:52:02 +0000

Here is some more description from their shopping page (https://shop.nitrokey.com/shop/nitrophone-10-880?category=4)

The NitroPhone 10 combines security, privacy and ease of use with modern hardware. Long-term software updates of up to 7 years guarantee sustainability and a low price per time. The NitroPhone is based on the high-quality Pixel hardware and GrapheneOS , the most hardened Android for private and professional. Gain full control of your smartphone without Google, Apple, and cloud!

btw: I'm not affiliated with them. Just found this on the internet.

NitroPhone 10 comes with GrapheneOS (without Google and trackers)

karussell — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:48:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nitrokey.com/news/2026/new-nitrophone-10-models

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47298279

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by karussell in "LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first"

karussell — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 21:43:22 +0000

The solution is to know when to use an existing solution like sqlite and when to create your own. So the biggest problem with LLMs is that they don't repel or remind you about possible consequences (too often). But if they would, I would find it even more awkward... and this is one of the reasons I prefer Claude Code over Codex.

New comment by karussell in "Palantir and Anthropic AI helped the US hit 1k Iran targets in 24 hours"

karussell — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:33:08 +0000

Just curious, for what exact purpose are you using Claude? Does it analyze geographic data for you or images or something? Or does it help you writing code that does this? Or does it create visualization for you?

New comment by karussell in "Roads to Rome (2015)"

karussell — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 02:21:52 +0000

That was a nice project. Gave GraphHopper some visibility :)

OpenCage did an interview with one of the creators Raphael Reimann:

https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/135637030948/open-geo-int...

btw: 2019 moovel kind of merged together with FreeNow (formerly mytaxi) which was recently aquired by Lyft...