Hacker News: wyan

New comment by wyan in "Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?"

wyan — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:49:46 +0000

How are laptop GPUs these days in terms of energy consumption? My last experience was a while ago, but the battery drained fast with them active.

New comment by wyan in "Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating"

wyan — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:27:13 +0000

I only know the Uni system of a few European countries, but generally I would expect Philosophy to be a prerequirement that you take for your entrance examinations, not during studies per se (unless you're studying humanities, of course).

New comment by wyan in "Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments"

wyan — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:55:28 +0000

Taking propranolol in this case is, in fact, an example of being a functioning adult, and a solution that also works for oral examinations.

New comment by wyan in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"

wyan — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:11:46 +0000

I would claim the difference between being rejected an API request and being potentially jailed/shot is significant.

New comment by wyan in "Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics"

wyan — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:25:14 +0000

Not WW2, but GPS depends on General Relativity to calculate time differences between satellite signals and ground correctly.

New comment by wyan in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

wyan — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:26:42 +0000

Not lawmakers in this case, but judges having no understanding of what they're ruling on.

New comment by wyan in "Two Months After I Gave an AI $100 and No Instructions"

wyan — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:06:50 +0000

How much is it spending in the Anthropic API so far?

New comment by wyan in "Spanish legislation as a Git repo"

wyan — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 20:58:21 +0000

The fact that the oldest current law in the list is about places where nuns are allowed to be buried is quite amusing, in some sort of way.

New comment by wyan in "Spanish legislation as a Git repo"

wyan — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 20:50:55 +0000

To be fair, the BOE website often offers the consolidated version for many important laws, which includes further amendments by other laws in one text.

New comment by wyan in "Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android"

wyan — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:52:02 +0000

It says it's OSS, but I can't find a link to the source code in the website, am I just being dense?

New comment by wyan in "Making Wolfram tech available as a foundation tool for LLM systems"

wyan — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:09:14 +0000

Having been both in academia and industry, to me Stephen always sounds too academic for business, but for academia, a mix of too "industry" and a crank.

New comment by wyan in "Making Wolfram tech available as a foundation tool for LLM systems"

wyan — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:00:11 +0000

Or accelerated, since development would have ceased to be restricted to Wolfram's employees

New comment by wyan in "Making Wolfram tech available as a foundation tool for LLM systems"

wyan — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:56:43 +0000

Isn't there already Maxima which is several decades old?

New comment by wyan in "A4 Paper Stories"

wyan — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:05:06 +0000

The golden ratio makes for even less balanced paper than sqrt(2)

New comment by wyan in "Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years"

wyan — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 09:44:51 +0000

Not closer to the spoken sounds, closer to English orthography.

New comment by wyan in "Subway Builder: A realistic subway simulation game"

wyan — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 15:02:27 +0000

This was my experience too, lots of cities to choose but all of them US-based. Not even London or Berlin. I'll wait and see :)

New comment by wyan in "Murex – An intuitive and content aware shell for a modern command line"

wyan — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 08:09:21 +0000

Wasn't Murex some sort of backend software for financial institutions?

New comment by wyan in "Using AI to generate a JUCE tutorial"

wyan — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 11:09:20 +0000

I used my $20 welcome credit and the Orchestrator mode to generate a JUCE tutorial with kilocode.ai, hopefully I can use it as a base for teaching myself to code audio plugins.

Show HN: Using AI to generate a JUCE tutorial

wyan — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 11:09:20 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/wyan/juce-tutorial

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44796619

Points: 1

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New comment by wyan in "KDE Plasma prepares crackdown on focus-stealing window behavior under Wayland"

wyan — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 17:22:11 +0000

Thankfully it's quite easy to go for several weeks without rebooting, but this is so annoying.