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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...

New comment by la_fayette in "Coral Protocol: Open infrastructure connecting the internet of agents"

la_fayette — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 10:53:22 +0000

Thinking without idiology about it, it seems to make sense to have an autonomous agent with a wallet. A requestor could send money (in whatever form) into the wallet of the agent and would buy tokens, processing time or whatever from the agent.

New comment by la_fayette in "Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?"

la_fayette — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 09:06:54 +0000

I can recommend Apache Camel (https://camel.apache.org) for similar data integration pipelines and even agentic workflows. There are even visual editors for Camel today, which IMHO make it extremely user friendly to build any kind of pipeline quickly.

Apache Karavan: https://karavan.space/ Kaoto (Red Hat): https://kaoto.io

Both are end 2 end usable within vscode.

New comment by la_fayette in "Firefox is the best mobile browser"

la_fayette — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 17:48:25 +0000

Although I didn't collect numbers, but I made a similar experience in my workplace. I assume many people are highly distracted by ads and work efficiency is even reduced. Even many software engineers seem to not be aware of ublock... Would be interesting to know how many students started using an ad blocker at the end of your lecture :)

New comment by la_fayette in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"

la_fayette — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 07:27:08 +0000

Great, I will check it out, I am a Java dev and always wanted to learn about game programming!

New comment by la_fayette in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"

la_fayette — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 06:51:00 +0000

I am working on an open source audioguide app for museums and similar institutions https://www.smartcompanion.app/

Feel free to give my repos a star on GitHub, thx

New comment by la_fayette in "Claude Sonnet 4.5"

la_fayette — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 06:47:38 +0000

Since such a database should evolve continuously, I wouldn't see that as a problem. The important thing is, that each example is somehow verifiable, in the form of a unmodifiable test setup. So the LLM provides a solution, which is executed against the test to verify. Something like ACID3 Tests... But sure it can be gamed somehow in probably all setups...

New comment by la_fayette in "Claude Sonnet 4.5"

la_fayette — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 18:28:26 +0000

At this point it would be an interesting idea, to collect examples, in a form of a community database, were LLMs miserably fail. I have examples myself...

New comment by la_fayette in "Claude Sonnet 4.5"

la_fayette — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 18:25:25 +0000

I think HN might be one of the few communities where people have been running extensive experiments with LLMs since their inception. Most here take a realistic view of their capabilities. There are certainly proven use cases where LLMs provide clear productivity gains—for example, copying an error message and retrieving potential solutions. At the same time, many recognize that marketing fantasies, such as the idea of having a "PhD in your pocket," are far beyond what this technology can deliver.