Hacker News: la_fayette

New comment by la_fayette in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"

la_fayette — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:51:23 +0000

ok thanking the team for this work over the years. i hope yt will stay ad-free :-)

New comment by la_fayette in "Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open"

la_fayette — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:14:15 +0000

I started using Herdr and I really like it. Since the main features I wanted are already there, I have no issue with the commercialization. I still wonder how this can be turned into a profitable business. It'll be really interesting to follow Herdr's future. All the best to the founder!

New comment by la_fayette in "Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage"

la_fayette — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:27:02 +0000

you can just use the --tools flag to disable bash tool

New comment by la_fayette in "More German than many Germans"

la_fayette — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:49:18 +0000

let's see how this turns out, but I would not underestimate the german engineering culture...

New comment by la_fayette in "Organic Maps"

la_fayette — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 05:28:40 +0000

ok cool, i see there is already a similar project called wanderer, so i assume the difference would be in the planning module? thx

New comment by la_fayette in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

la_fayette — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 06:00:38 +0000

I started to work on an open source audioguide app as PWA or mobile app. This app can be used by museums or similar institutions https://github.com/smartcompanion-app/audioguide-app.

After my experience in consulting museums, I found that they spend a lot of money on software, which could potentially be replaced with open source software. Therefore I started an awesome list with FOSS software for museums: https://github.com/smartcompanion-app/awesome-open-source-mu....

New comment by la_fayette in "How LLMs work"

la_fayette — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:46:38 +0000

i am not sure acctually of the math is acctually that complicated/important. the math around neural networks is calculus/chain rule etc and for model comparison/validation one needs statistics. the required math for e.g. understand transformers is quite accessible.

New comment by la_fayette in "Cloudflare Flagship"

la_fayette — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:18:33 +0000

When reading your comment, it just reminds me on how feature flags can be misused as application configuration/customization. An antipattern i could observe at various organzations already.

For me feature flags go along with trunk based development to enable features in QA settings, but not on PROD yet, for PO/PM testing. Trunk based development allows for fast/easy devops, without complicated branching strategies.

Application configuration is, for me, part of the application and has the business context for customizing the application accordingly. Not sure if there are specific frameworks/tools out there. But one should clearly distinguish these two.

New comment by la_fayette in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

la_fayette — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:01:14 +0000

depends, JavaScript in the Browser has many useful things available, which I miss with python, e.g., fetch, which in Python you need a separate package like requests to avoid a clunky API. Java had this issue for long time as well, since Java 11 there is the HttpClient with a convenient API.

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la_fayette — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 12:34:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.swarovskioptik.com/int/en/hunting/products/binoculars/ax-visio

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47386810

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New comment by la_fayette in "Microgpt"

la_fayette — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 10:51:21 +0000

Yes, that’s true! That could be my next step… though I have to admit, writing this in a HN comment feels like a bit of a challenge.

New comment by la_fayette in "Microgpt"

la_fayette — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 10:02:41 +0000

This guy is so amazing! With his video and the code base I really have the feeling I understand gradient descent, back propagation, chain rule etc. Reading math only just confuses me, together with the code it makes it so clear! It feels like a lifetime achievement for me :-)

New comment by la_fayette in "Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills"

la_fayette — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 23:15:51 +0000

The claim in the article that AI is good at writing code, is that claude code is written by claude code.

New comment by la_fayette in "Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out"

la_fayette — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 14:23:31 +0000

I don't get your point here. User targeted ads are the main business model of the internet? Yes, few days ago it was revealed how billions of user data points could be gathered from Meta [1], did anybody care, outside a small privacy community? So indead these things are not surprising... My thoughts don't go so far to consider the effects on society, idk, do you?

[1] https://www.heise.de/en/news/3-5-Billion-Accounts-Complete-W...

New comment by la_fayette in "Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out"

la_fayette — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 12:43:07 +0000

It is no surprise, somehow they need to earn money. It will be interesting though how much the response of the LLM will be adapted. At least legally advertisement need to be marked for users. So either the response of an LLM will be extended with ad content or replaced by ad content.

New comment by la_fayette in "Agent design is still hard"

la_fayette — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 17:42:39 +0000

I use GenAI for text translation, text 2 voice and voice 2 text, there it is extremely useful. For coding I often have the feeling it is useless, but also sometimes it is useful, like most tools...

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

la_fayette — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 08:16:28 +0000

https://github.com/smartcompanion-app/audioguide-app

An open-source audioguide app that helps museums and cultural spaces create engaging visitor experiences. Feel free to give me a star on GitHub.

New comment by la_fayette in "Valdi – A cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance"

la_fayette — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 16:24:07 +0000

It might not be possible but others have scraped just the app store and matched based on Android meta data: https://people.ece.ubc.ca/amesbah/resources/papers/mobilesof...

New comment by la_fayette in "Valdi – A cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance"

la_fayette — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 08:15:21 +0000

Somebody scraped the play store and checked the framework, so a list for Android WebView apps, built with capacitor, is here: https://capgo.app/top_capacitor_app/ Maybe an equivalent is there on iOS for the same app...

New comment by la_fayette in "Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move"

la_fayette — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:46:44 +0000

Let's see what will the future of Graphene be, since Google is not publishing the device tree anymore for Pixel devices...