Hacker News: quietfox

New comment by quietfox in "German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protcol"

quietfox — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 07:05:46 +0000

Having completed our company’s ISO 27001 recertification process recently, this one really hits home with me.

New comment by quietfox in "Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger"

quietfox — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 06:55:01 +0000

That’s a nice idea. Taking off from Frankfurt am Main felt like that ultra long runway in Fast & Furious 6 though.

New comment by quietfox in "LinkedIn CringeBot 3000"

quietfox — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:11:28 +0000

Just like LinkedIn, this is not working as intended, so it’s spot on. (… getting the Oops-error).

New comment by quietfox in "Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open"

quietfox — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:54:10 +0000

Funny enough, there is a news story in which the same CEO that didn't care about the breach for 6 months told USA Today 'that European tech needs to be “bold but secure” to win the enterprise AI race'.

https://archive.is/QQy2b

New comment by quietfox in "Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open"

quietfox — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:56:51 +0000

I wonder how the HN algo chose this one link to Bobs blogpost to be the one to hit the front page. This story was committed three more times by three different users, 6 days ago (16 points), 4 days ago (11 points) and another one 4 days ago, again with 16 points.

New comment by quietfox in "Show HN: What should the GUI for AI agents look like?"

quietfox — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:08:26 +0000

A quick FYI: at marbles.com/learn, starting from „Turn Messy Notes into Today’s Task List“ the demo videos don’t work for me. I tried Safari and Chrome.

New comment by quietfox in "'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling"

quietfox — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:42:36 +0000

This is going to get some interesting responses by people commenting immediately after only reading the first paragraph.

New comment by quietfox in "GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization"

quietfox — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:10:19 +0000

‘I run an AI platform’ I have so many genuine questions I don’t even know where to start.

New comment by quietfox in "Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public"

quietfox — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 09:29:54 +0000

TIL about imginn.com Thanks, that’s really helpful!

New comment by quietfox in "Building Food Metadata with LLM Juries"

quietfox — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 08:22:52 +0000

I am taking from their hero image that something like a gluten allergy would have to be verified by the merchant, but I’m just guessing that’s true. Feeding failure cases into an AI-led prompt tuning agent to solve them seems prone to a lot of problems though.

New comment by quietfox in "QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall"

quietfox — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 06:33:16 +0000

Glad I’m not the only one. I’ve been tinkering with sensors, robotics, sdr and similar stuff for 20 years now, but this conversation was way over my head.

New comment by quietfox in "Show HN: Reviving my 2001 college band with AI"

quietfox — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:41:26 +0000

As a first reaction, I loved the idea, since I have had a handful of bands in my life and really loved how you revived (or aimed to revive) the old days with modern tools. I really liked the web design and nostalgia of the old photos combined with the possibilities of new technology. Then I hit play. AI sucked the soul out of your music. I am happy for you if you liked the results. But for me, each of the comparisons proved me right to loathe AI music.

New comment by quietfox in "Home made GPU escalated quickly [video]"

quietfox — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:30:41 +0000

The determination to pull through a project of this scale is mind blowing and the joy is contagious.

New comment by quietfox in "U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations"

quietfox — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 05:40:47 +0000

Comparing AI models with missiles is a far fetch as long as citizenship is the single qualifier used to decide who’s allowed to be a customer. This is not a security related policy, it’s about strategically controlled economic power.

New comment by quietfox in "Leaked OpenAI financials show $38.5B loss and compute burn"

quietfox — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:38:10 +0000

I’ve always been wondering how they are actually planning this scenario. If they cut human labor on a massive scale due to AI, consumption is about to drop heavily. AI doesn’t pay healthcare insurance or taxes, it doesn’t buy groceries or cars or gas and it doesn’t rent apartments. How do people imagine to compensate that?

New comment by quietfox in "I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of"

quietfox — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:18:04 +0000

Oh this is that this was called. A long time ago, like in Googles earlier stages, I tried so hard to find this from my memory, but I failed and over the years forgot about it. Thanks for bringing it up again.

New comment by quietfox in "Google de-indexed Bear Blog and I don't know why"

quietfox — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 08:40:27 +0000

I'll be honest, I read "Google de-indexed my Bear Blog" and was looking forward to discovering an interesting blog about bears.

New comment by quietfox in "The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora"

quietfox — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:05:10 +0000

That's interesting. I think besides the hard facts (like numnber of possible tokens before throtteling happens) the perceived quality differs from use case to use case. In that sense, ChatGPT is my daily driver, in terms of helping with coding problems or debugging Claude feels far superior to me. And when it comes to ideation and creativity (product idea validation, etc.) Gemini surpasses both of the other in my opinion.

New comment by quietfox in "Roc Camera"

quietfox — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 07:13:16 +0000

I really need to get back to that mindset. I keep catching myself unconsciously checking my hobbies and abilities for marketability. I've been playing guitar for almost three decades, one of them spent in a touring metal band. When I started, I used to enjoy making music so much that I played and composed so often an album would just come together naturally. And then another one and another one, I just couldn't stop. These days, I no longer sit down to play just for myself and the moment — instead, I catch myself thinking, “Can I sell sample packs from this? Record a course? Should I code a VST plugin for it and sell that?” And after weeks of moments like this, all I have are three random riffs and frustration.

New comment by quietfox in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

quietfox — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 12:10:42 +0000

I'm a Discord user myself, in private as well in job context. But we all have been here long enough to know that the only reliable constant is change.