Hacker News: yoavm

New comment by yoavm in "Show HN: I put a $2.43 necklace on 3 outfits. VLMs priced it at $19 to $104"

yoavm — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:26:34 +0000

Not sure what you mean, but I can see the necklace very clearly.

New comment by yoavm in "New era for Gibraltar with removal of border controls with Spain"

yoavm — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:52:43 +0000

From my quick search, it doesn't at all seem like the majority of the people living in Ceuta and Melilla wish to be part of Morocco.

New comment by yoavm in "CarPlay Is Additive"

yoavm — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:19:27 +0000

I use Android and having Android Auto is absolutely a must have for me.

AUX cord? It's been a few years since I've seen a phone with a headphone jack, or a car with an AUX input. I also don't miss the time where my phone had to be connected on one side to USB for charging, on the other side to the sounds system, and my navigation was done using a a 6" screen that kept falling between the chairs. Android Auto/CarPlay let's you connect one thing (or not at all), have your phone charged, your navigation clear, and your music playing smoothly and controlled with the physical car knobs.

New comment by yoavm in "Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal"

yoavm — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:05:36 +0000

I'm using `opencode --web`. Running over HTTP means I can use it comfortably on my phone with Tailscale.

New comment by yoavm in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

yoavm — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 06:24:32 +0000

Wouldn't all of them be in Mandarin according to this theory? Are they?

New comment by yoavm in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"

yoavm — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:24:27 +0000

It's not about a loan. You have to put ~2,000 EUR in your company account in order to start it, and they might refuse opening an account for you. They're not going to talk with other banks, but if they have a good reason to think working with you is going to be difficult, chances are other banks will think so as well.

New comment by yoavm in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"

yoavm — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:22:46 +0000

I've also done it both in Sweden and the Netherlands. Sweden is a breeze if you have BankID, sure (and as you said, if the bank likes you). The Netherlands wasn't exactly a breeze — I had to book a face-to-face appointment with KVK and all the slots in Amsterdam were taken, so I took the train about an hour away.

New comment by yoavm in "Your ePub Is fine"

yoavm — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:31:00 +0000

Not that I know of, and it isn't listed as a supported device on the pmOS wiki: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Category:Kobo

I can run Firefox on my Kobo Clara HD, but it's not a pleasant experience. It is very, very, very slow.

New comment by yoavm in "Your ePub Is fine"

yoavm — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:28:31 +0000

For my daily reading before sleep usage, it is around 2 weeks.

New comment by yoavm in "Your ePub Is fine"

yoavm — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:35:13 +0000

One can also just run Linux on most Kobos. I wrote and am using this every day: https://github.com/bjesus/air

New comment by yoavm in "Your ePub Is fine"

yoavm — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:31:51 +0000

BOOX devices are great except for the GPL violation. It's really a shame.

New comment by yoavm in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"

yoavm — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:48:50 +0000

Skin tone? The aspiration to assign Western concepts of racism to Israeli society is so uninformed, if I am to be assuming good intentions, or very manipulative. More than half of Israeli Jews immigrated from Arab countries, and look Arab by all means. Including myself. It's literally impossible to tell if someone is an Israeli or a Palestinian based on their skin tone.

New comment by yoavm in "Waymo Premier"

yoavm — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:49:36 +0000

Do they run on air?

New comment by yoavm in "Siri AI"

yoavm — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:39:56 +0000

What is stupid about it? Sounds like (a slightly more) fair competition to me.

New comment by yoavm in "Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows"

yoavm — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:19:31 +0000

Looks kinda similar to https://github.com/rvaiya/warpd/ , which is open source and free software. Always worked very well for me on Wayland, but seems to be working on Xorg and macOS as well.

New comment by yoavm in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

yoavm — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:46:42 +0000

It doesn't conflate anything. The inclusion rules weren't given to us by God, they were created by humans because they thought, rightfully, that people will be interested in that as a product ("prefer"). As the market changes, the product can be adjusted.

Lastly, there's no such a thing as a real "market proxy", except the whole market. If you scope any subset of it, you're making some inclusion and exclusion rules.

New comment by yoavm in "Why China got rich and India didn't"

yoavm — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:24:05 +0000

Thanks, I very much agree with your points. I do however think it sounds very different to say "democracy has some prerequisites" and "democracy is not necessarily the best form of government for a nation. One can still think it's the best form (that we know of?) for all nations, albeit the path there isn't a one-step path.

New comment by yoavm in "Why China got rich and India didn't"

yoavm — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 07:10:48 +0000

Can you elaborate? What's unique about the nations for which democracy isn't the best form of government? What's unique about their people?

And is it still relevant to call the view that democracy _is_ the best form of government a "US-centric" idea, considering that the current US seems to not be concerned about (and sometimes even embrace) non-democratic powers, in-land and around the world? If anything, it sounds to me like over the past few years it became a US-centric idea that it's totally fine to not have democracy.

New comment by yoavm in "Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers"

yoavm — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:10:37 +0000

The essence of the this story is still true: many non-Americans are choosing non-US tech/products/services whenever they're faced with an alternative. Living in Sweden I see it around me all the time, and this is something no one even thought about two years ago.

New comment by yoavm in "EU browser choice rules send millions more users Firefox's way"

yoavm — Thu, 14 May 2026 07:20:01 +0000

Sorry, I should have made it clear: my comment is about the general population. It is about why Firefox is losing market share. Not about IT people, privacy-conscious people or alike. It is about why the average Joe stopped isn't using Firefox.