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New comment by maelito in "Blaise Pascal invented fixed route public transport (2024)"

maelito — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 18:02:34 +0000

Thanks ! Yes, the French system is strange, it's a mess. Regionalised.

New comment by maelito in "Blaise Pascal invented fixed route public transport (2024)"

maelito — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 17:43:23 +0000

Yes it's almost constantly under heavy load from illegal LLM indexers.

You can see regional coach networks by clicking "car", it means coach bus in French.

New comment by maelito in "Blaise Pascal invented fixed route public transport (2024)"

maelito — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 14:39:57 +0000

Well he'd be proud to see the extend of the fixed routes network in France today : https://cartes.app/?style=transports#6.32/47.811/2.097

Each blue polygon is a network. Zoom to see the lines.

Of course we should do way better, and unify all that with a single ticket and single website for route planning.

New comment by maelito in "Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale"

maelito — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 13:44:01 +0000

Related, though less artistic. See this French LIDAR data visualisation of buildings : https://batiment3d.ign.fr, and this other visualisation that shows France in 3D, measurable (measure heights, distances) : https://julesrumeau.github.io/Scopus

New comment by maelito in "Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans"

maelito — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 08:38:29 +0000

So... models built by humans prefer to belong too ?

New comment by maelito in "The same AI request emits 8.5 times more CO2 in Texas than in Sweden"

maelito — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 08:34:23 +0000

That's why Mistral is even more important than just being the only competitive european LLM builder : it's on the French grid.

France's OVHcloud plans frontier AI models to become Europe's second LLM player

maelito — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 20:47:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/frances-ovhcloud-plans-frontier-ai-models-become-europes-second-llm-player-2026-06-17/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50187400

Points: 5

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New comment by maelito in "Mistral Large 4"

maelito — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 20:43:45 +0000

Because people acclaim European competition on the LLM scene, I guess. We don't have much to show.

New comment by maelito in "Mistral Large 4"

maelito — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 20:41:33 +0000

It's well known that every Mistral employee is a fonctionnaire. No.

New comment by maelito in "Mistral Large 4"

maelito — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 20:07:43 +0000

What's more impressive is the datacenter used for training. It shows you can get "sub-SOTA" for one tenth of the resources of SOTA.

New comment by maelito in "MicroG: Free-libre re-implementation of Google's proprietary Android user space"

maelito — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 12:36:40 +0000

I have never understood why people using MicroG can use apps like SNCF-Connect, while I cannot.

SNCF-connect is the largest online marchant in France. Since june, I cannot click the "pay" button anymore. It coincides with the new feature of Pay with Google.

So : is it because MicroG allows calls to Google services on e/OS devices, while my LineageOS refuses ? Or because MicroG implemented a try catch around this call, without any call to Google's servers ?

New comment by maelito in "Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models"

maelito — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:15:11 +0000

Maybe their Mistral 4 usage spiked with the news.

New comment by maelito in "Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models"

maelito — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:35:22 +0000

The GLM offering in the last months was blazingly fast for me.

New comment by maelito in "Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models"

maelito — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:04:23 +0000

Location based maybe ? I'm in France.

New comment by maelito in "Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models"

maelito — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:19:56 +0000

Just tested Mistral 4 too in Vibe and it's slow. It works well, but is way too slow. Switched back to Mistral's GLM5.3, which is awesome.

Edit : working with GLM5.3 now, it's also slow. Maybe Mistral's under heavy load.

Disclaimer : Not Cofounder of The Forecasting Company here

New comment by maelito in "Tesla Roadster"

maelito — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:59:33 +0000

Meanwhile, Renault makes small and useful cars being sold more in France, for a fraction of Tesla's valuation.

New comment by maelito in "Thank You, Deno"

maelito — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 10:07:59 +0000

I do hope there will be forks. Some are mentioned in the comments.

Bun and Deno are now big-tech dependent. For the better, and the worse.

New comment by maelito in "OpenCode 2.0"

maelito — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:39:32 +0000

The main animation is hungry.

New comment by maelito in "Tiny Little Office"

maelito — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 10:58:44 +0000

It also means you shouldn't bet on the tool to still be available next month.

New comment by maelito in "OpenCode 2.0"

maelito — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 07:28:23 +0000

All the power of LLMs in the hands but a page impossible to read on my phone...