Hacker News: raphinou

New comment by raphinou in "Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code"

raphinou — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 06:26:39 +0000

But why? What can be the internal justification? What do they think they win by doing this?

New comment by raphinou in "Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone"

raphinou — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:24:00 +0000

Any advice on in and outdoor detectors os small particles for home use?

New comment by raphinou in "US oil reserves are so low, the caverns holding them could be damaged"

raphinou — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:28:37 +0000

This is probably a naive question, but I'm wondering: isn't the usefulness of a reserve seriously diminished if using it prevents refilling it afterwards? What was the use case covered by this huge reserve if only a small part can be used before geopardising its future?

New comment by raphinou in "Iceberg Collapses and Flips over in Ilulissat, Greenland (July 25, 2026) [video]"

raphinou — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:43:39 +0000

I would have thought it would generate enormous wave, but that's clearly not the case. I think some of the biggest waves was generated by a mountain sliding or collapsing in the sea. I expected something similar here. Anyone know why not?

New comment by raphinou in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

raphinou — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:52:32 +0000

Was it a book you read? In interested.

New comment by raphinou in "Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time"

raphinou — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:36:22 +0000

so all such 'energy' storage are to be used as heat and no other form of energy? The name energy storage is somewhat confusing then, even if not incorrect? Heat storage would be more accurate iiuc.

New comment by raphinou in "Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time"

raphinou — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:29:47 +0000

But all the examples you give have a heat source of high temperature and dense energy, and a lot of energy is lost in it's transformation, as illustrated by the combustion engine. How can heat be a good energy storage if so much is lost when you want to use it?

New comment by raphinou in "Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time"

raphinou — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:10:43 +0000

I think I have read that heat is hard to convert to useful energy. Can someone confirm? But the, if that's true, why use heat as energy storage?

New comment by raphinou in "Why Book Corners won't sync contributions back to OpenStreetMap"

raphinou — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:51:59 +0000

Maybe an alternate process could use streetcomplete? Make the imported data available in streetcomplete for validation, then include it only after x validations?

New comment by raphinou in "Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library"

raphinou — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:33:31 +0000

Such attempts are quite common. Some I remember:

https://ocsigen.org/ in Ocaml too

https://websharper.com/ for fsharp and csharp. Really good when I used in in fsharp

Maybe https://melange.re/v7.0.1/ too? (Not sure)

New comment by raphinou in "The Glass Famine"

raphinou — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:58:14 +0000

I find it interesting that the book is available about everywhere save for North America according to the author, but the first distances in the text are given in yards, mainly used only in North America. Ok, this is not the exact book text, but still, it looks as a misfit to the audience of the book.

New comment by raphinou in "The Cold Email"

raphinou — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:03:49 +0000

Things evolve though. Early 2000, I received a lot of reactions to cold emails (eg when organising events), but these days, it's rather rare. Even people I know might ignore my mails! One explanation I got is that there are a lot more phishing mails these days, and people have learnt to be suspicious.

New comment by raphinou in "Show HN: Edky, a CLI to convert Ed25519 public keys from one encoding to another"

raphinou — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:20:25 +0000

Thanks for the appreciation and the tip! I'll keep an eye on edky!

Asfaload is easy to selfhost, if it is of any interest to you.

New comment by raphinou in "Show HN: Edky, a CLI to convert Ed25519 public keys from one encoding to another"

raphinou — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:23:57 +0000

Interesting. I'm using ed25519 keys in my open source project [1] to sign GitHub releases (amongst other things) and the encoding question appeared during the development. I settled on supporting reading ssh keys, but saving keys in a specific format. I'll need to have a look to possible revisit my choices as it is developed in rust too.

1: https://www.asfaload.com

Sources at https://github.com/asfaload/asfaload

New comment by raphinou in "Incremental – A library for incremental computations"

raphinou — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 05:16:46 +0000

I think websharper's Var are similar to this, and it is really great to develop dynamic web interfaces (in fsharp).

Open Source License Compatibility Checker

raphinou — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:51:57 +0000

Article URL: https://fossa.com/resources/devops-tools/license-compatibility-checker/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48946796

Points: 2

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New comment by raphinou in "G# – A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics"

raphinou — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:59:45 +0000

Is the familiar syntax so important? I learnt f# being used to algol syntax, and the syntax was not a hurdle.

New comment by raphinou in "Filmgrab: Films A-Z"

raphinou — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:18:35 +0000

Wondering if with such shady tactics, they respect the fact that I didn't consent and closed the (private) tab I opened the page in.

New comment by raphinou in "Interrail: 6,379Km and 13 Countries over 7 weeks"

raphinou — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:04:36 +0000

Did you use some specific tools to collect the data to be displayed on that map?

New comment by raphinou in "Interrail: 6,379Km and 13 Countries over 7 weeks"

raphinou — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:52:28 +0000

I would love to take an Interrail, eg to visit France, but it's x days in one month (8 days is 292€ per person) and doesn't match my travel habits. I would prefer to make short travels everyday rather than long travels 8 days of the month.

Edit: global passes let you travel everyday of your pass, with passes of up to 3 months: https://www.interrail.com/en/interrail-passes/global-pass