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806 karma · joined July 27, 2011

Hi, my name is Jose Simas and I run Gepsoft (www.gepsoft.com).
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cfn··on Meet the Ig Nobel Prize Winners
I like that so many of the winners attended the ceremony, one should never take yourself too seriously.
cfn··on Boot a Virtual iPhone via Apple's Virtualization.framework
I have had instances where the app runs fine on the simulator but crashes on the device. This might solve that.
cfn··on EU countries approve Mercosur trade deal after 25 years of talks
Here in Portugal we already have many products (specially fruit) from Brazil, Peru and other South American countries. Will the prices go down as they won't have to pay EU tariffs?
cfn··on A 30B Qwen model walks into a Raspberry Pi and runs in real time
Or 4 thousand for the NVIDIA RTX A6000 which also runs the 120b just fine (quantized).
cfn··on The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café
If you are over 50 and live in Southern Europe this used to be a ver common way to spend an afternoon. Maybe add a newspaper and definitely a cigarette to go with your coofee. Very relaxing.
cfn··on Worlds largest electric ship launched by Tasmanian boatbuilder
Two hundred million would be really good compared with 35 for a 10-12 car ferry. We have had larger ferries in the past which would do the whole archipelago and would take over 100 cars.
cfn··on Worlds largest electric ship launched by Tasmanian boatbuilder
I had no idea that would be the cost of a ferry albeit old. We have a massive problem with transportation between islands due to lack of ships/investment. For example, out of the 9 islands only three have daily voyages and right now even that isn't happening as one boat broke down and another is away on maintenance. We could do we a couple even old ones.

The main issue I saw here with the electric ferry was that 90% of the installed generation in the islands uses HFO so we would be charging the ferry with a fuel that pollutes more than the diesel used to run it.

cfn··on Worlds largest electric ship launched by Tasmanian boatbuilder
I would like to know its price. Here in the Azores Islands there was a project to replace an ICE ferry with an electric one but they couldn't agree on the price with the boat builders. It went up to as much as 35 million Euros but it ended up being cancelled as that, apparently, wasn't enough for a ferry that can do 1-1.5 hour crossings with a dozen cars or so.
cfn··on Netflix Open Content
And when I click them I get a page with "Did you mean netflix.com? The site you just tried to visit looks fake. Attackers sometimes mimic sites by making small, hard-to-see changes to the URL." which then sends me to the Netfçix home page. Chrome on MacOS.
cfn··on Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices
The price increases seem reasonable (from 6 to 7, 12 to 14, etc) given inflation. Have they been increasing prices frequently or am I missing something?
cfn··on We Induced Smells With Ultrasound
This would be very cool within a game setting. Just imagine feeling the sensation of fresh air as you go through a door. Even if it were small effects it could add a huge leap in realism and immersion. Smell is a very powerful sense.
cfn··on Ask HN: Do you have an aversion to recent TLDs?
For me the oddest thing are the prices they go for.
cfn··on Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI
The main thing is that LLMs aren't software programs and as such should not be compared to them.
cfn··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)
Implementing Gene Expression Programming* in CUDA for our software: https://www.genexprotools.com/

* https://gene-expression-programming.com/

cfn··on Become unbannable from your email
No try giving that email at the store.
cfn··on FyneDesk: A full desktop environment for Linux written in Go
This actually looks quite good for a brand new development. I am big fan of vertical docks but that vertical time...
cfn··on 25L Portable NV-linked Dual 3090 LLM Rig
I have an A6000 and the main advantage over a 3090 cluster is the build simplicity and relative silence of the machine (it is also used as my main dev workstation).
cfn··on Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search
This is the story of all the niche software products out there. Put together a smoke and mirrors demo, get a customer, build the product.
cfn··on iPhone Air
I do, I've been waiting for thinner iPhones to retire my iPhone 11.
cfn··on I tried vibe coding in BASIC and it didn't go well
Just for fun I asked ChatGPT "How would you ask an LLM to write a drawing program for the ATARI?" and it asked back a bunch of details to which I answered "I have no idea, just go with the simplest option". It chose the correct graphics mode and BASIC and created the program (which I didn't test).

I still agree with you for large applications but for these simple examples anyone with a basic understanding of vibe coding could wing it.

cfn··on Grok 4 Launch [video]
Maybe this is the dawn of the multicore era for LLMs.
cfn··on RapidRAW: A non-destructive and GPU-accelerated RAW image editor
No an expert here but RAW is the data generated by the sensor and requires some heavy processing before you can show it on screen. A bitmap is an image format (assuming you mean the BMP files).
cfn··on Proton threatens to quit Switzerland over new surveillance law
The contents of the emails are encrypted so you have a normal login plus a key to unencrypt your email locally. They save your encrypted email conyents and your login but not the key and they also don't log your access (I'm assuming here from reading the article).
cfn··on 20 years working on the same software product
When he dies, if not before, he or his family can sell the business. There's even websites/communities where you can post this kind of business for sale.
cfn··on You can't use your $6,299.00 Camera as a Webcam. That will be $5
And the funniest part is that when you buy from Amazon (ES, DE, etc) that tax is not applied further hurting the local shops.
cfn··on Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable?
If there's one thing I was surprised when I moved to the UK from Portugal were the number of stories work colleagues told about bullying in school. Although there were fights and stupid games in the schools I went to in Portugal there was never systematic bullying.
cfn··on Is XYplorer really written in VB6?
That's how I learned HTML, building the page in Frontpage and then looking at the markup. I don't remember it being free though.
cfn··on Surveillance and the suppression of civil society in Serbia
It's the law. You can't pay in cash for anything above three thousand euros. If you're a company the limit is even lower at 1000 Euros. Interesting though that a foreigner, such as a tourist, can pay up to 10 thousand euros in cash as long it's not a business transaction.
cfn··on Using an 8K TV as a Monitor
For anyone 50+ of age wider monitors are harder to use than multiple monitors specially if you don't use varifocal glasses. I bought a 47 inch monitor some time ago but had to go back to a multi monitor setup with smaller monitors because I can't see the sides and corners of the larger one without moving or standing up. Works better if you have a standing up desk though.
cfn··on Apple may stop producing Vision Pro by the end of 2024
I spend way more than 100/week in food for two people. To spend less than a quarter of that I would have to scale down or remove fruit, vegetables, meat or fish from the menu. Probably would have to eat pasta and rice with some sauces all the time which isn't healthy at all. And I'm in Portugal, not the most expensive place in Europe by a long shot.
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