Hacker News: zengineer

New comment by zengineer in "Why Are There No Empires in Age of Empires? (2019)"

zengineer — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:20:09 +0000

And I have to add that the Wololo tournament was insane and even a spectacle for people who have barely played the game.

New comment by zengineer in "Ask HN: Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of 3 billion dollars"

zengineer — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:24:29 +0000

or: Increase revenue!

New comment by zengineer in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

zengineer — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:23:44 +0000

same process, same near heart attack - especially some days ago I had malicious activity on my platform and thought that now they actually found something.

Apparently you can trigger an Action (e.g. prevent uploads) when the billing alert triggers, but then my platform wouldn't work anymore, just because AWS had an issue. Also insane that Amazon still hasn't send an email to clarify.

New comment by zengineer in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

zengineer — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:20:16 +0000

Same - just had some malicious bots running through my platform last week and really thought they found a security hole after all. Even though the amount sounded ridicoulus, I got quite nervous and a very bad feeling when I logged-in AWS and saw that price.

New comment by zengineer in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

zengineer — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:14:00 +0000

true, whenever I ask Gemini to help me with a prompt for generating an image of XYZ, it generates the image.

New comment by zengineer in "Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage"

zengineer — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:25:17 +0000

The other day I read some old blog posts of mine (~2016) and they contain "em dashes". According to you they were all written by AI.

New comment by zengineer in "Pose Animator – An open source tool to bring SVG characters to life (2020)"

zengineer — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 14:53:13 +0000

I have built something similar for kids once, also using tensorflow: a game where you control a goal keeper with your body. Optionally kids (ok and adults) can color the goal keeper(https://dibulo.com/world/frutball

Tensorflow.js made it easy and it was quite fun to build. I still use it for breaks, where I want to move a bit and have fun

New comment by zengineer in "Apps SDK"

zengineer — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 08:51:33 +0000

I would try using AI to book flights - then double check if I can't get a better offer. Do this a couple of times and when I see AI is as good or even better at getting me flights, then sure, why not use it.

New comment by zengineer in "My Deus Ex lipsyncing fix mod"

zengineer — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 09:26:49 +0000

and not to forget the soundtrack masterpiece, which until today gives me goosebumps.

New comment by zengineer in "Swiss vs. UK approach to major tranport projects"

zengineer — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 12:00:51 +0000

I live in Switzerland since 10 years and I am always - not only amazed to read about how the Swiss gov / people tackle things, but experience it first hand in my daily life. Above all the train system is very interesting. From the smooth timetables to even the smallest details (E.g the acronyms sound or music notes in trains is based on the railway abbreviations SBB / CFF / FFE). I even made a post about it when creating a "Swiss train world": https://medium.com/@franzeus/building-an-interactive-colorin...

New comment by zengineer in "Our Farewell from Google Play"

zengineer — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 09:22:21 +0000

Totally agree - I have a platform with an app which hardly changes but I constantly need to do maintenance which doesn't help my platform or is a gain for my users.

New comment by zengineer in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2025)"

zengineer — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:17:17 +0000

Location: Switzerland, Zurich Remote: Yes or Hybrid Willing to relocate: Depends

Technologies: * Javascript (VueJs, Sveltekit, NodeJS, Tailwind) * Python (FastAPI, Flask) * GCP, Firebase, Supabase, Fly.IO, SQL and NoSQL dbs, K8, Docker, Websockets * AI (LangChain / Graph, RAG, MCP, Prompt Engineering, Evals) * Mobile: Cordova, Capacitor, Android Native

Email: hn@airfrancois.com

Résumé/CV: I am a generalis with 13+ years of experience. Hats:

- Full-Stack Engineer - Game Dev (HTML5 Games) - Partner Solutions Architect - Engineering Manager - Serial founding member and founder of my own company

Not looking for freelancer gigs, but a long-term position.

New comment by zengineer in "Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others"

zengineer — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 14:27:33 +0000

I found https://dibulo.com - where you (ok and kids) can do it at home :)

Show HN: Interactive coloring and learn about space (for kids)

zengineer — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 08:27:51 +0000

Hi there,

we have just launched our new space world, where kids (and often also grown ups) color planets, rockets, astronauts and then bring them alive on a screen.

Additionally to the coloring-fun you learn interesting facts about all kinds of space things.

Right now the facts are all in English, but soon more languages are gonna be supported.

Happy coloring!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44591022

Points: 2

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New comment by zengineer in "If the moon were only 1 pixel: A tediously accurate solar system model (2014)"

zengineer — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 13:18:14 +0000

Love it! Are there stats on how many people scrolled to the end? :)

New comment by zengineer in "Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service"

zengineer — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 07:04:25 +0000

Well done - I like the style of the page and simplicity!

We recently created one too, where you get a printable version: dibulo.com/editor - the next step will be to bring the templates to life again.

New comment by zengineer in "Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service"

zengineer — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 07:01:58 +0000

You may want to give dibulo.com a try. We also launched a photo -> coloring page, but we will go one step further that you can bring it to life again.

New comment by zengineer in "Show HN: I made a web app to bring children's drawings to life"

zengineer — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 09:41:34 +0000

I have built something similar (without AI)which lets a group of children build a world together with their colored templates: dibulo.com - We have lots of schools / kindergartens using it.

New comment by zengineer in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)"

zengineer — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 07:29:12 +0000

congrats - very interesting and well done platform! :)

New comment by zengineer in "SAM 2: Segment Anything in Images and Videos"

zengineer — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 07:26:13 +0000

Would love to use it for my startup, but I believe it is to self-host on a server with GPU? Or is there an easy to use API?