Hacker News: willyyr

New comment by willyyr in "Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2"

willyyr — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:55:14 +0000

Loved the first part. Can't wait to play it. Didn't know there was an iOS Version for the first one, time to replay that on my phone on a plane :D

New comment by willyyr in "Vehicle Motion Cues"

willyyr — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:08:35 +0000

It absolutely is working on a ship. At least for me it helps e.g. when traveling on a big ferry etc. but I guess everybody has a different level of tolerance.

New comment by willyyr in "Mistral: Our first AI endpoints are available in early access"

willyyr — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 11:52:29 +0000

Mark Russinovich shares some of it in this recent Ignite session: https://ignite.microsoft.com/en-US/sessions/49347847-9ae4-43... *I work at Microsoft but have nothing to do with the datacenter engineering or other insights into the details behind it.

New comment by willyyr in "Steam turns 20 today: “We had to try a lot of different things over the years”"

willyyr — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 13:09:17 +0000

My Steam account is turning 20 today at 4:58pm (CET) and I cannot help but feel a bit old for the very first time. I still remember all my friends hating it so much in the beginning because it would slow our PCs down and cost us valuable FPS in Counter-Strike. It's amazing what Valve has achieved with Steam since then. Happy Birthday Steam!

New comment by willyyr in "OpenAI and Microsoft extend partnership"

willyyr — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 14:28:19 +0000

Related MS announcement with some more details: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/01/23/microsoftandopen...

New comment by willyyr in "Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST"

willyyr — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 18:07:28 +0000

Thank you for creating this. I was just looking for something like that to send notifications to my mobile without setting this all up and deploying my own app to the store. Using ntfy now :)

Possible Twitter BGP Hijack

willyyr — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 13:42:53 +0000

Article URL: https://bgpstream.com/event/288327

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30830400

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by willyyr in "Show HN: I built an internet speed analytics tool"

willyyr — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 12:34:45 +0000

Cool project. Looks a little bit like the one i've been using as a basis: https://github.com/brennentsmith/internet-speed-logger I just combined it with a CosmosDB and put the dashboard online with the actual tester running locally of course.

MAUI .NET Multi-Platform App UI

willyyr — Tue, 19 May 2020 15:28:10 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/dotnet/maui

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23235899

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Windows Package Manager (Winget)

willyyr — Tue, 19 May 2020 15:03:48 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23235608

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by willyyr in "Pi-hole 5.0"

willyyr — Mon, 11 May 2020 07:26:27 +0000

Can you recommend a good way to make sure the Pi and Pi-hole are always up to date? I imagine a simple cron with pihole -up is not sufficient?

New comment by willyyr in "LastPass stores passwords so securely, not even its users can access them"

willyyr — Mon, 20 Jan 2020 15:42:34 +0000

I tried that once but ran into so many errors for passwords that contained characters like ", or ;" that I gave up. Is there a way around this other then copying every entry manually?

New comment by willyyr in "Show HN: I made an open-source anonymous email forwarding service"

willyyr — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 20:08:36 +0000

Awesome! I wanted to have something like this for ever and planned to build it myself using a combination of gmail and Flow or something. Now LastPass , 1Password etc. need to integrate it so every time you generate a new password you can add a random email to the mix.

New comment by willyyr in "AI Portraits"

willyyr — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 10:58:37 +0000

It loads but very slow. Most of them seem to be from the MIT IBM Watson AI Lab. I like that they used generated portraits of themself :D

Extract of "Why":

"AI Portraits Ars uses Artificial Intelligence to reproduce artistic human portraits, with different styles and levels of abstraction. For our model training, we adopt a data set of tens of thousands of paintings from the Early Renaissance to Contemporary Art. This type of portraiture is quite distinctive of the Western artistic tradition. Training our models on a data set with such strong bias leads us to reflect on the importance of AI fairness. In the previous work AI Portraits Celebrity, we explored the concept of micro-bias linked to the training data of only actors, which in some way imposes an actorization of the user's portrait: “a collection of faces from the society of spectacle that are sedimented in the neural network, and vaporize my selfie in a cinematographic self." AI Portraits Ars introduces a very different type of bias with unique themes to explore."

// edit: Added extract of "Why"

AI Portraits

willyyr — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 08:58:36 +0000

Article URL: https://aiportraits.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20505365

Points: 170

# Comments: 53

New comment by willyyr in "AirPods with Wireless Charging Case"

willyyr — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 15:55:43 +0000

Since you mentioned: "be on a conference call". There is nothing more annoying then a participant in a conference call (or any call) using AirPods especially when they are at a busy place. My experience is that you hear everything around them and most of the time they are hard to understand because of how the voice is picked up. I always ask them to switch back to the phone so i can understand. Not sure if the new version improves that or if it's just my experience.

New comment by willyyr in "Microsoft’s commitment to GDPR, privacy and customers’ control of their own data"

willyyr — Tue, 22 May 2018 08:49:03 +0000

That's exactly what this option does. It deletes everything that has been collected up until that point.

New comment by willyyr in "Microsoft’s commitment to GDPR, privacy and customers’ control of their own data"

willyyr — Tue, 22 May 2018 07:49:16 +0000

There is an option to delete all diagnostic data collected (Windows 10 1803). You can find it under Settings->Privacy-> Diagnostics & feedback-> Delete diagnostic data. As others have mentioned you can access and manage it using the portal that is linked.*

* I work at Microsoft.

A unified API for all Microsoft AI speech services

willyyr — Mon, 07 May 2018 15:34:23 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/07/microsoft-launches-a-unified-api-for-all-of-its-ai-speech-services/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17013533

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by willyyr in "Launch HN: CoinTracker (YC W18) – Cryptocurrency portfolio and tax manager"

willyyr — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 22:02:26 +0000

Hi Chandan, great to see you put the domain to a good use and making it to YC W18 :). Congrats on the launch.