Hacker News: king_crimson

New comment by king_crimson in "Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2"

king_crimson — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:15:47 +0000

Why does every AI lab feel the need to build their own coding agent…? Don’t we have more than enough already?

New comment by king_crimson in "Helsinki Hacker News Meetup"

king_crimson — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:17:16 +0000

Feel free to contact me via the mail in my bio (also in german)

New comment by king_crimson in "Helsinki Hacker News Meetup"

king_crimson — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:11:25 +0000

Wherever, can be also in a Brauhaus :) Updated my bio with an email, feel free to contact me (also in german)

New comment by king_crimson in "Helsinki Hacker News Meetup"

king_crimson — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 10:54:00 +0000

Anyone who’d be interested in a meetup in Cologne?

New comment by king_crimson in "The real prices of the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini"

king_crimson — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 21:06:15 +0000

Question is, does Motorolas offering support the mmWave frequency band? I know that the Motorola Edge+ does support those bands, however it had an introductory price of 999$ so not exactly a bargain.

New comment by king_crimson in "Why is Apple acting like an asshole?"

king_crimson — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 08:30:05 +0000

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New comment by king_crimson in "Help Make the 19th Century Searchable"

king_crimson — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 21:34:37 +0000

For about a year now i am working on an iOS Application that requires good OCR. With the release of iOS 13 Apple has added an API for this in their Vision Framework and i have to say i am shocked how good it works. It works completely on device and, according to Apple, uses Machine Learning.

You can feed it an image that contains text, with the only constrained being that the text should not be rotated. Depending how much text there is it can digitize a 12MP image in about .5 to 2 seconds on an iPhone Xs.

I compared it to ABBYYs OCR SDK and i have to say Apple's OCR outperforms it nearly every time both in speed as well as in recognition quality. I am still fascinated by it and would really like to know how this is working under the hood.

New comment by king_crimson in "Ask HN: Would you vaccinate against SARS-CoV-2?"

king_crimson — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 14:16:34 +0000

Well, you can't test a treatment for 5 years if you release it within 18 months.

Ask HN: Would you vaccinate against SARS-CoV-2?

king_crimson — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 14:02:27 +0000

To achieve the goal of creating possible vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 asap, the procedure of testing given vaccine needs to be done in a much smaller time-frame. This could lead to possible side effects (especially long-term) of the drug not being discovered. Even Bill Gates acknowledged in his Interview with the BBC that there may be compromises in the safety measures.

As a reminder, the vaccine Pandemrix, which was developed as a treatment for the swine flu, caused narcolepsy in over 1000 patients.

Would you be willing to put up with possible side effects or would you rather take the risk of possibly getting infected with SARS-CoV-2? Also, what would be your stance regarding a mandatory vaccination against SARS-CoV-2?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22968028

Points: 9

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