Hacker News: thetoon

New comment by thetoon in "QGIS 4.0"

thetoon — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 13:29:42 +0000

I remember, 10 to twenty years ago, when GIS was still a huge part of my job. QGIS then went from being the "cheap opensource contender" to being my main tool... How much better it was than the previous ones...

New comment by thetoon in "Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting"

thetoon — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:44:07 +0000

Great news. Haven't played UO in forever. What kind of client are people using on modern systems, these days? Is there a client working well on linux?

New comment by thetoon in "Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark"

thetoon — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 07:51:14 +0000

> look up the term in French

Wasn't that also called SneakerNet, back in the time? We used it in western Europe as well (both term and distribution method)

New comment by thetoon in "Marble by World Labs: Multimodal world model to create and edit 3D worlds"

thetoon — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:51:12 +0000

Not to belittle this or anything (it does look good and show promise), it feels like they somehow generate several consistent (but discrete) views of a given world, then feed all that to the good old pose estimation + gaussian splatting workflow. Whenever you leave the generated area (which isn't exactly huge on the few I tested) you get tell-tale signs of GS.

New comment by thetoon in "Ask HN: How would you set up a child’s first Linux computer?"

thetoon — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 06:40:53 +0000

It does work in Chrome with Amazon Luna, IIRC.

New comment by thetoon in "EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages"

thetoon — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 06:58:07 +0000

This, but with something oddly french about it, at least in the way it sounds.

As a native french speaker, no other language gives me that "why don't I understand what they say... oh, right, that's not my language!" feeling. Something with frequencies used, I suppose, but it always puzzles me.

New comment by thetoon in "$912 energy independence without red tape"

thetoon — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 22:09:00 +0000

Does that mean all of your appliances, which should supposedly each run on a separate line, now are all plugged on a big single-line powerstrip? Sure, this single-line is only used when battery and sun are out, but when it happens...

New comment by thetoon in "FLUX.1 Kontext [Dev] – Open Weights for Image Editing"

thetoon — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 18:27:50 +0000

What amount of VRAM is this supposed to work with?

New comment by thetoon in "AI video you can watch and interact with, in real-time"

thetoon — Thu, 29 May 2025 08:42:27 +0000

Could probably be (semi?)automated to run on 3d models of places that doesn't exist. Even ai-built 3d models.

New comment by thetoon in "Nuclear fusion: WEST beats the world record for plasma duration"

thetoon — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 06:37:26 +0000

Naive question here : how do we expect to collect thermal energy from it if we can't allow it to cool even a little ?

New comment by thetoon in "Valve releases Team Fortress 2 game code"

thetoon — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:10:44 +0000

Maybe that's where a project like Nuclide could step in? I'm always a bit confused between their projects' names, but I've read somewhere they had progress on the HL2 front.

New comment by thetoon in "It is time to ban email"

thetoon — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 19:46:26 +0000

Some people would very much want us to do that, though

New comment by thetoon in "Sony ends production of Blu-ray Disc, recordable MiniDisc, and MiniDV media"

thetoon — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 01:24:32 +0000

Is this true for the Millenial Disks as well? Would somewhat defeat their purpose...

New comment by thetoon in "Show HN: Tramway SDK – The Unholy Union Between Half-Life and Morrowind Engines"

thetoon — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 22:03:25 +0000

That would call for a Wii port ;)

New comment by thetoon in "INFP: Audio-Driven Interactive Head Generation in Dyadic Conversations"

thetoon — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 22:12:59 +0000

Nothing, unless you're french-speaking (basically reads as "I just farted")

New comment by thetoon in "Introducing Our New Name"

thetoon — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 05:47:27 +0000

VoxeLibre is trying to be less of a Minecraft replica, now. Mineclonia still is, though.

New comment by thetoon in "LÖVR – A simple Lua framework for rapidly building VR experiences"

thetoon — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 06:41:42 +0000

For what it's worth, after years of (occasionally) trying to get ALVR working, I've had a surprisingly fast success with WiVRn.

New comment by thetoon in "LÖVR – A simple Lua framework for rapidly building VR experiences"

thetoon — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 06:40:47 +0000

Sounds fair, though I had hopes for such a client (at least something to just check out on the virtual world state without spinning up a whole desktop client).

Since you seem rather active with the project, do you know whether openxr is on the roadmap, or if you're stuck with openvr for the foreseeable future?

New comment by thetoon in "LÖVR – A simple Lua framework for rapidly building VR experiences"

thetoon — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 21:03:06 +0000

Great news! Do you know if overte also intends to fork the (upcoming) web client?

New comment by thetoon in "LÖVR – A simple Lua framework for rapidly building VR experiences"

thetoon — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 20:42:27 +0000

Wasn't Vircadia also derived from High Fidelity?