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leogout··on AI CEO – Replace your boss before they replace you
No woman CEO ?
leogout··on Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux
It's sad that games like battlefield 6 use an invasive anti cheat that forces the use of windows and secure boot... But aside from this, my transition from win 10 to linux mint has been seamless
leogout··on Beliefs that are true for regular software but false when applied to AI
I'm a bit troubled with the phrasing

> most AI companies will slightly change the way their AIs respond, so that they say slightly different things to the same prompt. This helps their AIs seem less robotic and more natural.

To my understanding this is managed by the temperature of the next token prediction which is picked more or less randomly based on this value. This temperature plays a role in the variability of the output.

I wasn't under the impression that it was to give the user a feeling of "realism", but rather that it produced better results with a slightly random prediction.

leogout··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)
I've found motivation to work on a project I stopped lasr year. It's an interpreter for the duckyscript language to run it on a raspberry pi pico.

https://github.com/leogout/rasper-ducky

Duckyscript is a language for the USB rubber ducky that costs approximately 100$. A usb rubber ducky is an usb key that gets recognized as a keyboard and that starts typing text and shortcuts automatically once you plug it to anything. To specify to the key what to type, you can use duckyscript.

I'm using circuitpython. The last thing I did was to de-recursify the interpreter with a stack.

The more I'm implementing of duckyscript, the more i think that i should create my own language. Duckyscript sucks as a language...

leogout··on Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it
It also dissapear if you shake your phone (or computer screen but it's harder)
leogout··on Void: Open-source Cursor alternative
I subscribed to the mailing list of void long ago to be notified once the alpha opens, but i've never recieved anything. I forgot about it until today.
leogout··on Show HN: QuickDessert – generate quick dessert recipes and adjust Ingredients
Tried tiramisu and cheesecake, got no results, gave up...
leogout··on You Don't Have Time to Read Books That Won't Change Your Life
I wouldn't say that this applies to me because I do not intend to turn my life around for every piece of entertainment I read / watch. We could apply the same principle for movies, shows, music, etc. but I think this kind of mindset would lead me straight to burnout. Thanks for sharing your point of view, take care.
leogout··on [dead]
Why is that on the fp ?
leogout··on Greppability is an underrated code metric
Javascript is a bit trickier i think nowadays with the fat arrow notation : const myFunc = () => console. log("can't find me :p");
leogout··on Show HN: GPT-4-powered web searches for developers
Hello, thank you for sharing this project. I saw this entry on HN this morning and thought I could try it for one day. I have been a professional google user for the last 6 years so my search queries are biased, I tend to search for keywords exclusively in english. It's been refreshing to be able to talk in my native language and to explain clearly what my problem is instead of searching for broad keywords and narrow it down manually as I am used to.

One thing I found annoying was that I cannot copy paste part of the prompt while it is being generated because I cannot select it, the selection gets canceled.

leogout··on Ask HN: Developer abused “sign in with GitHub”?
Isn't your email exposed as well when signing up with a third party ? I do use third party auth but it does not protect me from unwanted emails so far...
leogout··on Ask HN: Developer abused “sign in with GitHub”?
So? Is the problem invald or resolved because the OP is "likely up to no good"?
leogout··on Automattic open to hiring ex-Twitter individuals or even entire teams
Does recruiting a whole team from another company actually works? I wonder if it is common practice for startups that come and go to move entire dev teams like they do in the show "Sillicon Valley" in Season 5.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Valley_(TV_series)

leogout··on Apple Rankings
Go read the worst ranked apples it is absolutely worth it. I've waken up my wife laughing out loud...
leogout··on Writing down what I do in Obsidian
Personnally I use tags for this usecase, I tag every single note in obsidian and I use a plugin called Tag Wrangler to show my tags as a tree. Tags then act like folders (for example a tag #python/pip will be under python > pip).

Pros :

- A note can fall under as many tags as you want

- The map view is pleasing to watch because tags can be shown but folders cannot, it also helps to categorize orhpan notes visually

Cons :

- You have to maintain the habit to tag each notes you write

Finally, Tag Wrangler allows you to rename / edit tags in bulk so that it is close to be as fluid as moving notes between folders.

leogout··on Writing down what I do in Obsidian
That is very true to me as well, in my head things are organized in a hierarchy of concepts. The nice thing about tags is that it allows you to store a note below multiple tags like in my case a note about something I did with Python at work, tagged with #work, #work/project_name but also with #python.

I use a plugin called Tag Wrangler to show my tags as a tree like folders (it interprets the "/" as a parent directory).

This allows me to keep a note below multiple tags which I think is useful, at least for my own usecase.

leogout··on CS quotes found while browsing Notepad++'s code
The one before the last is ascii art (I hope the formatting doesn't get messed up, sorry if it does). EDIT : It actually does, so here is a screenshot instead : https://ibb.co/Kr67DHk
leogout··on Nobody wants touch-screen glove box latches
I understand that this is a rant about a niche feature but you know what we really should stop doing right now? We should stop producing giant piles of metal with four weels weighting more than 2 or 3 tons. No matter what stupid options they have, SUVs and big cars and trucks are a total nonsense. Sadly they are slowly becoming the norm. We should keep our vehicles under a ton so that we stop wasting so much of our precious energy moving these f-ing tanks on the road. Roads that we pay for and that are decaying faster and faster the more we keep buying them. Not to mention car accidents involving those monstrosities...
leogout··on “When are we going to use this in our everyday life?” (2017)
I would say that these subjects are more likely to turn into vocations than the teaching of how law and economy works.

I see it like when I learned about programming, I was frustrated to learn about language theory, complexity, graphs, etc. I wanted to learn langages, frameworks, specifics for being ready to work right at the end of my degree but it would have made me more fragile and less versatile to future changes. Although law and economy are less likely to change as fast as the latest cool tech stack so this example is not the best.

leogout··on Maigret: Collect a dossier on a person by username from thousands of sites
I've tried out both today. As far as I can tell maigret generates nice reports whereas sherlock only gives you the urls and you have to dig yourself int those.
leogout··on ImHex – A Hex Editor
It looks like imgui, a declarative UI library optimized to be rendered by the GPU : https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
leogout··on Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera
How does the smart backlight can adjust luminosity without triggering the webcam's indicator then ? (genuenly curious, I don't know how it works)
leogout··on Why Segment Went Back to a Monolith
> One of the key takeaways was that spending a few days or weeks to do more analysis could avoid a situation that takes years to correct.

Exactly my point when I was working on a new project architecture and we had to choose between two authentication methods. Because once all your applications rely on an authentication system you can't just switch to the other one like that... Sadly we did not take the time six month ago and today we are working on a migration which could have been avoided.

leogout··on AI Gahuku: AI Generator Will Turn Your Photos into Renaissance Paintings
I wear glasses. I've tried with many photos of me with glasses and it always looks like it can't handle it. Do you think it is because it was trained with paintings at a time when glasses weren't common ?
leogout··on Ask HN: GitHub down?
Github is up for me, even if the charts on https://status.github.com/ says the opposite.