Hacker News: remir

New comment by remir in "Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3"

remir — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 02:31:14 +0000

Grok has been integrated into Tesla vehicles, and I've had several voice interactions with it recently. Initially, I thought it was just a gimmick, but the voice interactions are great and quite responsive. I've found myself using it multiple times to get updates on the news or quick questions about topics I'm interested in.

New comment by remir in "Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11"

remir — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 17:57:50 +0000

I wish there was a "power user" mode in Windows that you could activate and you'd get the ability to have classic themes (my MS themselves), classic Control Panel, no constant nudging, no weather/Xbox/Solitaire apps, etc...

New comment by remir in "Steam Frame"

remir — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 22:48:22 +0000

It's a console basically. It comes ready to play without much maintenance needed from the user.

New comment by remir in "Genie 3: A new frontier for world models"

remir — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 17:20:13 +0000

That's pretty much the basis for the simulation theory. See also "My Big TOE" (Theory of Everything) from Tom Campbell.

New comment by remir in "'Europe must ban American Big Tech and create a European Silicon Valley'"

remir — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 20:13:37 +0000

It worked for China because they were in position of power. The US wasn't established in China and they needed Chinese users to grow their global user base and influence. Meanwhile, China had the wealth and power to say no and instead fund and develop their own homegrown tech equivalents.

Europe doesn't have that same level of power. If tomorrow morning you banned Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon, Salesforce in Europe, you'd destroy their economy.

What Europe needs to do is create the conditions for tech companies to emerge that could truly compete against US big tech. As long as European will prefer working for US corporation, there's no chance for Europe to compete. Simple as that.

New comment by remir in "Microsoft is killing Skype"

remir — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 01:42:30 +0000

The P2P aspect of Skype was really interesting. I remember there were even physical handsets you could buy that had Skype built-in, which I thought were cool. I remember seeing business cards with Skype username on them also. That's how popular the thing was!

It's honestly baffling how we're still relying on old PSTN/phone numbers to reach people in 2025.

New comment by remir in "Microsoft is killing Skype"

remir — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 01:34:50 +0000

I don't know anyone who prefer Teams over Slack.

New comment by remir in "iMac G4(K)"

remir — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 01:58:32 +0000

To me, that kind of product is what sets Apple apart from other companies in the industry. There's an optimism and playfulnes to that design that is refreshing.

New comment by remir in "Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition"

remir — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 00:36:57 +0000

The reality is most people are well served by either Windows and/or macOS.

Both platforms have received billions of dollars in developpment by MS and Apple over the years and both have an extremely rich and mature app ecosystems. For most people, there's no real need or desire to use anything else.

That's it.

It's not an issue of drivers, games or app compatibility. If there were serious demand for Linux on the desktop, there would be good money to be made there and these issues would get fixed pronto.

New comment by remir in "How I run LLMs locally"

remir — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 05:42:08 +0000

Woah! Dude, I'm blown away by the app! The UX is wonderful! Just what I was looking for!

New comment by remir in "Augment, a GitHub Copilot rival, launches out of stealth"

remir — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 00:25:46 +0000

Possibly to create hype.

New comment by remir in "Single dose of LSD provides immediate and lasting relief from anxiety, study say"

remir — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 00:38:27 +0000

Never tried LSD, but a couple of weeks ago I consummed canabis oil from a small spray bottle I bought from our province's official canabis store. Not knowing much about canabis and proper dosage, I decided to try it, but it's clear I took too much...

The trip was like a mental battle between moments of lucidity and negative thought loops and light paranoia. It forced me to see my own automatic thinking process and this "inner voice" I have with more clarity.

I realized we can orient our thinking and it's polarity at any moment and it would influence our perception of reality. Sounds obvious on the surface, but it became clear when I realized negative thoughts were appearing and I would reorient my thinking elsewhere, the vibe changed and it felt like I was becoming more lucid.

New comment by remir in "VATSIM: The International Online Aviation Network"

remir — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 17:29:48 +0000

Discovered VATSIM by chance watching a Youtube video about MS FlightSimulator and was impressed by the dedication of the various participants. This is the kind of stuff that make the internet awesome.

New comment by remir in "VMware vSphere ESXi free edition is dead"

remir — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 17:51:05 +0000

*Along with the termination of perpetual licensing, Broadcom has also decided to discontinue the Free ESXi Hypervisor, marking it as EOGA (End of General Availability).

Regrettably, there is currently no substitute product offered.*

You can feel that the employee that wrote this knows this is a sinking ship.

New comment by remir in "VMware is now part of Broadcom"

remir — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 00:08:40 +0000

XCP-NG + Xen Orchestra is a solid combo. XCP-NG is based on Xen.

New comment by remir in "VMware is now part of Broadcom"

remir — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 23:55:54 +0000

XCP-NG + Xen Orchestra is a winning combo. If I had a large VM infra, that's the stack I would select. All open source too!

New comment by remir in "Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted"

remir — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 22:48:35 +0000

When I got arrested and sent to prison last year for retweeting a government tweet

Could you expand on that? What the complete story?

New comment by remir in "Fuchsia F14"

remir — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 22:40:06 +0000

Beside Google, is there other companies contributing to and building products with Fuchsia?

New comment by remir in "ChromeOS is Linux with Google’s desktop environment"

remir — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 23:09:23 +0000

It became successful because the Linux-y stuff are invisible to the average non tech users, just like on Android.

New comment by remir in "GM to use Tesla charging network, joining Ford"

remir — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 00:08:59 +0000

Design by committee is my guess.