Hacker News: olivierestsage

New comment by olivierestsage in "My Images Are Dithered"

olivierestsage — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:15:56 +0000

New comment by olivierestsage in "98.css"

olivierestsage — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 02:14:55 +0000

Still waiting desperately on a KDE theme for the win32 aesthetic

New comment by olivierestsage in "Sam Neill has died"

olivierestsage — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:53:55 +0000

Rest in peace. Like many here, his performances were hugely influential on my childhood (and adulthood). One I haven’t seen mentioned here yet is Merlin.

New comment by olivierestsage in "I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to Draw (With 9front)"

olivierestsage — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 10:19:16 +0000

I’ve never used 9front but I love the whole culture around it in posts like these.

New comment by olivierestsage in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

olivierestsage — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:43:49 +0000

They’re almost always wrong too, so they just beep at you for going over 50 when you’re in a 90 zone

New comment by olivierestsage in "Ask HN: Why are so many "AI evangelists" posting such insufferable content?"

olivierestsage — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:46:41 +0000

I’m going to get this post as a tattoo. Somewhere really visible to maximize its reach- maybe the face.

New comment by olivierestsage in "Weird Al Yankovic Pulled Out of AI Ad Deal: 'I Can't Be the Poster Boy for AI'"

olivierestsage — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:45:30 +0000

Best possible ad for Weird Al.

How did we get here? Why am I, a lifelong tech enthusiast, on a tech enthusiast board championing someone for resisting technology? I’ve been on HN for years but it’s starting to feel absurd ever since I’ve been out of sync with the whole AI thing. Thanks for listening to my Ted talk.

New comment by olivierestsage in "Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%"

olivierestsage — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:23:05 +0000

I feel like a toxic part of this cycle is that a successful fan project has the potential to actually inspire Nintendo to attempt to do the same thing, leading to #2 as a punishment for success.

New comment by olivierestsage in "The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level"

olivierestsage — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:55:05 +0000

Sorry but you’re smoking crack if you don’t think quality of life is deteriorating in the US. The anxiety and misery is literally palpable.

New comment by olivierestsage in "It's Only When You Look Back"

olivierestsage — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 06:02:53 +0000

The naïveté in posts like this is actually astonishing (assuming it's not satire).

New comment by olivierestsage in "Reid Hoffman says SpaceX 'not an AI company', xAI 'complete train wreck'"

olivierestsage — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:01:45 +0000

Imposing AI on the young when you no longer stand to experience the negative consequences because of your age is its own form of ageism.

New comment by olivierestsage in "I canceled my French tutor and built an LLM tool that does it better"

olivierestsage — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:20:29 +0000

I think the author would have had a better reception without the triumphant “canceled French tutor” framing. The juxtaposition of “learning a language” with “cutting out the human element” is very off-putting.

New comment by olivierestsage in "Ask HN: Are people optimistic about the future?"

olivierestsage — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 20:43:38 +0000

If there's one thing I've learned, it's that computer technology is morally evil

New comment by olivierestsage in "Spotify Killed the Thrill of the Hunt"

olivierestsage — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:15:33 +0000

Just leave Spotify behind and buy music again if you care about music in more than a casual way. It feels great. Bandcamp rules.

New comment by olivierestsage in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

olivierestsage — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:51:06 +0000

Em dashes are really good actually and a standard stylistic choice for non-technical writing, particularly outside the US.

Ask HN: Any good language learning apps/sites that don't use LLMs/GenAI?

olivierestsage — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:17:13 +0000

I'm looking to learn a language interactively with an app/program/website, but a lot of the "household names" I know from the past seem to use AI now, which isn't what I want. Curious if others here have any recommendations. Thank you!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48444372

Points: 1

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New comment by olivierestsage in "Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux"

olivierestsage — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:46:30 +0000

No horse in this race because I don’t want a Claude app, but the median Linux user is increasingly just a normal person who doesn’t want spying telemetry or ads or whatever

New comment by olivierestsage in "US House lawmakers release draft bill to prohibit state AI rules"

olivierestsage — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:43:45 +0000

Sure sign that we are not dealing with a coercive situation! :)

New comment by olivierestsage in "Martin Scorsese Is Embracing A.I."

olivierestsage — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:00:27 +0000

I've noticed a tendency among people who have built careers known for visionary, forward-thinking work that they hesitate to make the natural move into more "conservative" positions/approaches as they age. This leads to missteps, because as one ages, one inevitably becomes further removed from the zeitgeist. On paper, embracing AI might seem like a great idea if you don't want to become an old fogey, but not all changes are positive and I doubt this decision will age well

New comment by olivierestsage in "Magic the Gathering format: Fun 40"

olivierestsage — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:37:07 +0000

Is there any reasonably practical way to play a "restricted" version of MtG with physical cards and a somewhat stable ruleset, reminiscent of what play was like in the late 90s (as I remember it)? I like what's being proposed here, but I don't have access to old cards.

I'm not averse to buying new cards, I just don't want to be on an infinite treadmill of buying new cards and learning new rules forever, it's just not fun in my opinion