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New comment by luplex in "Mistral raises €3B"

luplex — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:01:00 +0000

No, Thiel is talking about the UN and global minimum taxes when he talks about the Antichrist.

New comment by luplex in "Live map of public transport in Belgium"

luplex — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:22:28 +0000

same thing with global data (but of course not full coverage everywhere): https://travic.app

New comment by luplex in "Ask HN: How to roll out Agents for knowledge workers?"

luplex — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 11:50:58 +0000

oh that's nice! are the web-apps read-only, with nicely scoped access, or can they alter each other's documents?

Ask HN: How to roll out Agents for knowledge workers?

luplex — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 10:14:59 +0000

I work in a medium-size government agency in Germany, mostly comprised of middle management. We have already built and rolled out a web-based "internal GPT" with LangGraph and a custom frontend, based on Azure OpenAI, but it of course lacks far behind the commercial offerings in functionality. We also have secure on-premise infrastructure, so I'm not looking for security debate here, and instead just product features.

I'm looking for success stories to orient our future internal product strategy around. On the web, I mostly see AI slop stories about this sort of stuff, no concrete cases. Who is in town?

To anyone in enterprise IT rolling out AI, have you found benefits in giving knowledge workers more agentic AI? What do they actually end up doing?

Or do you have any pointers to use cases?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49596428

Points: 1

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New comment by luplex in "Ask HN: I've quit six systems for tracking my illness. What works?"

luplex — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:09:03 +0000

My friend paid someone to call her every day and ask her how she's doing, then write the rating in a spreadsheet.

New comment by luplex in "Future euro banknote design proposals"

luplex — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:10:41 +0000

what, Germans love the Eiffel tower

New comment by luplex in "Future euro banknote design proposals"

luplex — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:09:30 +0000

this is because people don't even recognize the buildings. Even I only recognized the commission and the ECB. I think if we put them on our money, citizens will recognize them more!

New comment by luplex in "Future euro banknote design proposals"

luplex — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:07:59 +0000

I think it's the other way around. Many people have no idea about how the EU works and what exactly is going on there. I believe highlighting the key institutions through their iconic buildings will raise awareness and increase trust in EU institutions!

And I think that's why it was considered.

New comment by luplex in "Future euro banknote design proposals"

luplex — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 19:24:03 +0000

Okay but would people in Spain really have an issue with da Vinci? isn't he cool af to everyone? isn't the Italian renaissance shared European history?

New comment by luplex in "Future euro banknote design proposals"

luplex — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 19:21:16 +0000

I think that actually these specific people would be a great choice for the Euro banknotes, because they are inspiring across borders. None of them are "national heroes". In Germany, we like Beethoven not because he was an exemplary German, but because he wrote bangers. In Germany, we look up to Marie Curie, because she won two Nobel prizes for cool research, no matter her nationalities! And they both migrated between European countries, like exemplary Europeans.

New comment by luplex in "Future euro banknote design proposals"

luplex — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 19:16:43 +0000

You know what, I have seen many hypothetical criticisms like this, but not a single complaint from someone whose country would "not be represented". Maybe this just isn't a problem? Like I'm from Germany, and I would be completely fine if they had picked only people from e.g. eastern Europe, if they were cool enough!

New comment by luplex in "Soofi – Sovereign Open Source Foundation Models"

luplex — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 07:28:08 +0000

It actually looks like an open source German model that might be useful! However, I'm not sure which version I should try - they provide two reasoning versions.

New comment by luplex in "Show HN: OpenClawMachines – Extending OpenClaw to the Enterprise"

luplex — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 06:18:46 +0000

I have a quite specific use case. I work for a government agency and we run our AI assistant with models from Azure, which works fine! (Although the models aren't always released with EU data residency)

Our most interesting data and documents are classified (VS-NfD), and I don't know of any good certified AI solutions for that yet. I would love to experiment more with deeper system integration, but we can't do that without frontier VS-NfD models.

New comment by luplex in "Show HN: 18 Words"

luplex — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:17:27 +0000

very fun to feel how a word with many repeatead letters is really much easier to spot, because the necessary search algorithm is just that much faster!

New comment by luplex in "Four by Three Puzzle"

luplex — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 10:05:19 +0000

I was just about to post the same thing. The fun is not just in solving the puzzle, but in solving it in a specific way (hub word first, purple category first)

New comment by luplex in "Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI"

luplex — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:28:07 +0000

It's a different country, and Switzerland is not even in the EU.

New comment by luplex in "Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI"

luplex — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:25:37 +0000

Sovereignty is a political buzzword. From the political point of view, you want your country to be as independent as possible. This means you need the capabilities to build and deploy good AI models. Initiatives like this are more about capability-building and less about LLM-building.

Why do we need capabilities in Europe? Because Trump and Xi can't be trusted to keep providing us with new frontier models in the next years.

New comment by luplex in "Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?"

luplex — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:30:25 +0000

We also have Eventim and many other local ticket shops. I usually get my tickets right at the venue's online shop, or maybe from the artist. They use all kinds of systems.

New comment by luplex in "Microsoft announces Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw"

luplex — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:55:52 +0000

Adding full interoperability with Matrix clients as a paid add-on to Teams would be this

New comment by luplex in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

luplex — Fri, 22 May 2026 11:41:10 +0000

Wero's messaging is so confusing. It's so many different things at the same time. In short: Wero is a brand name for a collection of payment services. They are merging multiple European alternatives, like Spain's Bizum and the Netherlands' IDeal. These mergers are in various stages, so what exactly "Wero" can do depends on: - your bank - your country

Wero-proper (like it is in Germany, not a rebrand of a pre-existing system) currently supports peer-to-peer payments via SEPA instant transfer, using a centralized phone number <> IBAN lookup server.

Wero also supports online e-commerce payments (with buyer's protection similar to credit cards, managed by the customer's bank). But not all banks that support Wero p2p also support Wero E-commerce. If your payments run on e.g. Stripe, you can enable Wero for all participating banks. Wero is cheaper than credit card payments.

Some time next year, Wero will offer in-store point-of-sale (POS) payments. Afaik, those are not live anywhere yet.

I think with all the mergers with established systems, the chance of success is really high.