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Zopieux··on Ask HN: What in the world is taking Ubuntu so long?
NixOS, naturally.
Zopieux··on Search for everyone
This is stupidly expensive. Many mom&pop cloud providers have $2/mo plans for email/office/drive packages.
Zopieux··on Search for everyone
+1. I'm no market researcher but my activation energy for deciding to spend on a commodity like search is < 3€ / $3 a month, otherwise I don't bother and just find another way.
Zopieux··on Search for everyone
Same vibe. Tired of having so many non trivial subscriptions which add up.

Let me give you $1 or $2 per month (or $24/year) for my 10-ish search requests a week and you've got yourself a subscriber.

Zopieux··on Show HN: I built a tool that prices a pre-built PC part by part
The vibeslopped HN reply spam is a nice touch as well. What a terrible time to know how to read.
Zopieux··on Guerrilla bike lanes: San Francisco makes illicit infrastructure permanent (2016)
I consider myself a pretty chill, calm person. I couldn't believe how angry and annoyed sitting in my car would make me. Cars really do something weird to your brain, in no time at all.

I'm very glad I'm in a city with superb public transportation.

Zopieux··on SOML – A Config Format for Humans
Yeah there claudisms are so off-putting is it crazy.
Zopieux··on Genie 4
Who wants this
Zopieux··on Show HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard
Hi op, great app. What's a rough time and $ estimate for the Claude cost of such a refined outcome, with all those vector assets, animations, options?
Zopieux··on Shaders, WebGPU Components for React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, JavaScript and Framer
Thank you.
Zopieux··on Strands Decider 2B: a small, open-source, decision model
Thanks!
Zopieux··on Strands Decider 2B: a small, open-source, decision model
This is not advertised on their page, did you make this up?

I believe image classification/analysis by deciders (not just OCR, not everything is about text) is still lacking.

Cloudflare's Clef had fair results on my test, but it's larger and slower. Wondering about Strands.

Zopieux··on City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2
Unfortunately this seems nauseously US-centric, like most of the genre.
Zopieux··on Woking Electrical Control Room (2016)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/132123913@N03/48775624516/in/a...

Backside of the panels. This might help you understand why the amount of space used is not at all extravagant. We're spoiled with our disposable, tiny electronics. Those things were meant to last decades.

Zopieux··on Woking Electrical Control Room (2016)
Thanks. The only thing I wanted to see, which to me is truly a marvelous craft, is the wiring job. Cable management porn anyone?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/132123913@N03/48775624516/in/a...

Zopieux··on Tiny Brutalism
"Latest tech shit with the occasional gem" (like this post) is a deeply accurate, if not slightly depressing, description of HN.
Zopieux··on Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy
You know when rivers run not-low? In winter when we need to heat all those freezing homes. Crazy how that works. Yup, it's not ideal in a summer heat wave... but that's precisely when solar can shine.

We need both until we've solved storage. There's no need for more false dichotomies and FUD.

Zopieux··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
Don't forget about the rest of the world which does not use imperial and have access to plywood stock that is e.g. 18mm birch in metric standard dimensions for the cut sheet. Being able to customize what stock I have access to locally and adjust measurements and cuts automatically, e.g. rounding to cm not quarter inches.
Zopieux··on Global shortage has led to motor oil rationing at Costco
Oops! Car dependency has consequences!
Zopieux··on Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap
Seeing the amount of complaints in this comment section, I sure start to question the average savvyness of the average HN reader.

Yes, josm is an ugly java tool but this did not prevent me from doing a lot of mapping back in the days.

Zopieux··on DeepSeek launching v4.1 flash cheaper and more capable than v4 pro
Friends Don't Let Friends Use Ollama. https://sleepingrobots.com/dreams/stop-using-ollama/
Zopieux··on 27.5KB language-agnostic WebGPU syntax highlighter
The bootstrap.css example shows a lot of very random highlighting around numbers (some are blue, others black) and rule names (some are purple, others black).

While the premise is neat (syntaxes and tokenizers are pretty similar, how much diversity can humans possibly come up with??), this does not inspire much confidence in the accuracy.

Zopieux··on Show HN: Public Muscriptor Instance (latest, most powerful Audio-to-MIDI model)
I'm not sure I get it. This looks like a worse repackage of muscriptor but with a 10s limit, making it useless.
Zopieux··on Splitting a Git Commit
It's funny how people assume Dehian/Ubuntu's ice cold release schedule is the norm, when the rest of us have been enjoying rolling releases and timely, stress-free (easy rollback) updates with NixOS and Arch back in the days. It's been at 10+ years now.
Zopieux··on How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)
Bad take. This is exactly how I use non-auto-backup Photos: 99% of my shitty smartphone pictures are local only, and I don't care to lose them.

Occasionally though, I want to share or save a photo. Having this (small) button is quite convenient.

Zopieux··on Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
What's the status on automatic debloating (non interactive) scripts for Windows these days? With vibe coding I'd expect hundreds of those to exist by now. Something everyone would run after a clean install, to revert, disable or uninstall all the stupid defaults and enshitifications Microsoft added in the past decades.

Anyone can recommend one of those?

Zopieux··on Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
Patent was being sarcastic. Everybody heard about (or had the displeasure of seeing) those ads.
Zopieux··on Show HN: CheapFoodMap – A map of good meals under $10
(US only)
Zopieux··on $100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol
Woah that sucks. Closed the tab when I saw the cartoonishly stupid, completely out of place smoking thermometer.

A music video is not (necessarily) a depiction of what the lyrics say at any moment. Soulless for sure.

Zopieux··on AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region
The trope of vibe coded pages adding this slide-up transition on every paragraph needs to die yesterday.
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