Hacker News: rippeltippel

New comment by rippeltippel in "Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card"

rippeltippel — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:05:09 +0000

How is it different from the Oyster card in London?

New comment by rippeltippel in "Mistral Patent for “Code implemented tool calls”"

rippeltippel — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 22:11:29 +0000

Isn't that patent similar to CodeAct [1], originally described in this paper [2]?

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/agent-framework/agents/cod...

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01030

Wildfire Forces Evacuation of NASA's Deep Space Network Complex in Spain

rippeltippel — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:52:54 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/07/wildfire-forces-evacuation-of-nasas-deep-space-network-complex-in-spain/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49056753

Points: 4

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New comment by rippeltippel in "ScreenWall – Turn old phones into synced widgets for your space"

rippeltippel — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:46:12 +0000

Very nice project, thank you for sharing it on HN! May I ask why login is required, and how are emails/passwords stored?

New comment by rippeltippel in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

rippeltippel — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 05:12:59 +0000

I've never seen the word "cyber" sprinkled so generously.

New comment by rippeltippel in "Making Software: How to make a font"

rippeltippel — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 07:26:42 +0000

Misleading title. This is an explainer on how fonts are encoded and rendered, not a tutorial on how to actually make a font.

New comment by rippeltippel in "OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe"

rippeltippel — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:45:12 +0000

How about Nothing phones? I'm considering those, when my OP7 will die.

New comment by rippeltippel in "Leaking YouTube creators' private videos"

rippeltippel — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 05:32:15 +0000

In the country where I live there are two university degrees: Computer Science (depends on Mathematics) and Information Engineering (depends on Engineering). I took the latter, where there is more maths (despite not depending from the Maths department), physics, electronic, automation. I now work with healthcare data: a highly regulated field. Can you please explain what is _not_ engineering, given this context?

New comment by rippeltippel in "TOP500 at ISC’26: We have a New Number 1 Supercomputer"

rippeltippel — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:15:04 +0000

Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48658334

Chinese supercomputer ranks #1 in Top500

rippeltippel — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 11:48:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.top500.org/news/lineshine-debuts-no-1-top500-enters-new-global-exascale-era/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48658334

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by rippeltippel in "Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning"

rippeltippel — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 05:31:33 +0000

US citizens don’t get scolded enough for having elected (twice!) a president who denies human-induced global warming.

AC would not be so much needed if we started reducing pollution and greenhouse gases.

New comment by rippeltippel in "Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning"

rippeltippel — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 05:29:09 +0000

Eventually yes, perhaps. But first heat gets trapped in Earth's atmosphere, because pollution and greenhouse gases make it hard for it to dissipate into space. It's called global warming, and no - it's not a hoax.

SiliconScope: Local-AI Cockpit for Apple Silicon

rippeltippel — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:36:34 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/kennss/SiliconScope

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48629943

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rippeltippel in "Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool"

rippeltippel — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 05:11:52 +0000

Since the author is referring to a specific model, I think it makes sense to ignore how the model (or local models in general) may improve over time.

It's like buying a car: I drive that car and get attuned to its characteristics; I don't think how that car (or similar cars) may improve. That's my tool and I want to make the most of it.

It is true that switching a local models it technically very cheap, but there's a considerable time investment in squeezing the most out of it, which may not work on a newer version of that model.

New comment by rippeltippel in "EU Commission looking at practical consequences of Anthropic decision"

rippeltippel — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:32:09 +0000

Hopefully, EU-based Yann LeCunn's AMI Labs will develop foundational world models at some point. As I see it, the main problem in EU is not lack of talent: it's lack of investments. Mistral itself recently secured 4B, which is 50 times less than what it could have made in the US.

New comment by rippeltippel in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

rippeltippel — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:19:14 +0000

If I were Dario Amodei, I would start relocating Anthropic to the EU, where there's a huge interest in supporting domestic AI. Also, EU politics are so fragmented that a suspension like this one would be very hard to be agreed.

Yann LeCun got that right with AMI Labs.

New comment by rippeltippel in "The computer science degree isn’t dead"

rippeltippel — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:16:08 +0000

I agree with the "what" but not with the "how".

The article essentially says that, for a junior to be hired, they should demonstrate the same experience as a senior: deploy real system that solve real problems, know how systems behave in production, etc. That is precisely the skillset that someone builds up in a professional environment, i.e. after being hired.

In my view and experience (20+ years in the field) the value of junior colleagues is not in what they already know how to do, but in the freshness of their ideas, and the ability to learn the skills required to bring those ideas to fruition.

So, I agree that the hiring pipeline is broken, but for a different reason: companies stopped looking at juniors as a long-term investment.

I can think of a few reasons for that. In any case, that mindset is to blame, not the "kids" and their education.

Office 2019 for Apple to become useless from July

rippeltippel — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:44:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/applications/2026/06/11/apple-version-of-office-2019-becomes-useless-in-a-month/5254197

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48491941

Points: 3

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New comment by rippeltippel in "Show HN: macOS menu bar gauges for your Claude Code quota"

rippeltippel — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:45:59 +0000

I use CodexBar, which supports more providers: https://github.com/steipete/codexbar

New comment by rippeltippel in "The Smallest Brain You Can Build: A Perceptron in Python"

rippeltippel — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 05:30:53 +0000

That's great, now make it learn something :)