gregolo's comments

On: Wabi – Personal Software Platform

[gregolo]

It looks like it doesn’t exist yet and they’re just collecting early leads with this landing page to validate the idea.

On: iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

[gregolo]

This is irrelevant to Apple, still 10% of all customers

[Der_Einzige → gregolo]

That 10% of the customers pays a lot more per customer than most do. We are likely responsible for far, FAR more than 10% of the revenue or 10% of the profit of apple.

On: Show HN: Zerox – Document OCR with GPT-mini

[gregolo]

And OpenAI uses Tesseract in the background, as it sometimes answers that Hungarian language is not installed for Tesseract for me

[s5ma6n → gregolo]

I would be extremely surprised if that's the case. There are "open-source" multimodal LLMs can extract text from images as a proof that the idea works.

Probably the model is hallucinating and adding "Hungarian language is not installed for Tesseract" to the response.

On: Ask HN: Is it possible to make FAANG salaries without working there?

[gregolo]

But they don't pay well, so...

On: xAI announces series B funding round of $6B

[gregolo]

Chris Szegedy is a big name at least

[riku_iki → gregolo]

It sounds like he did published some results at pre-LLM era before 2017, and there was silence after that.

[dagmx → gregolo]

Ah yeah you’re right. Though I am surprised he lists himself online as co-founder while being so far down the list here.

I wonder if everyone on this list is a co-founder? I would imagine they’d have preferred to list by seniority.

On: Magic UI: UI Library for Design Engineers

[gregolo]

Nice, but your site is buggish