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sylvinus
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About sylvinus
Angel investor in 120+ companies and 10+ funds.
Now working with the French government: https://sylvainzimmer.com/blog/2025/01/public-sector/
All my projects: http://sylvinus.org/
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/sylvinus; my proof: https://keybase.io/sylvinus/sigs/jQNfmDNeTbuL2y1OAPyyoDrd7JYaHnFzi650ZkAWWuw ]
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Comment #49242946
Are we all posting our agent VM containers ? :) https://github.com/sylvinus/agent-vm
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Comment #48074779
Why not try to define a strict subset of the current specs, that would target ease of implementation & graceful degradation? I'd rather have many different clients compatible with …
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Comment #48011498
Thanks for the write up. Always interesting to see how very senior developers interact with AI these days. @antirez: Introducing a regex feature that late into the project for a se…
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Comment #47301381
I'm using this as my main way to run Claude & others, it's just a shell wrapper but it provides a lot of niceties and a pretty good developer experience in a single command line. C…
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Comment #46960519
Love Oxide and what they're building, but I'm not sure raising even more VC money is the way to build a generational company. Quite the opposite? With money you don't need, you're …
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Comment #46877975
This is the way to go! On my side I've build a very small `claude-vm` wrapper to run each instance in a VM with Lima: https://github.com/sylvinus/agent-vm
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Comment #46877898
We do support the foundation: https://www.numerique.gouv.fr/sinformer/espace-presse/dinum-...
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Comment #46877892
Exactly, we do have private forges we build and deploy from.
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Show HN: A single command to run Claude Code inside Lima VMs
I am very afraid to run claude (or even npm) on my host system. It is a security incident waiting to happen. To fix that but still keep the friendly developer experience of just ty…
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Comment #44128103
ClickHouse has native support for sampling https://clickhouse.com/docs/sql-reference/statements/select/...
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Comment #44027150
Facts (and code) are following. We're building a fully open source workspace ( https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/en ) among other ambitious initiatives ( https://beta.gouv.fr/ ). T…
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Comment #43383415
AFAIK, there are lots of contributions from developers in the French government to the Grist open source repository. We also deploy it, we have instances running in various governm…
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Comment #43382809
Well I think that most of our users have never typed a "[" character... So for them, Markdown is definitely complex :)
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Comment #43382324
Indeed, Docs is already available both in English and German :) AFAIK we took a lot of inspiration from Gov.uk and 18F/USDS (RIP), at least for digital services. You can look at ht…
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Comment #43380899
Hey. A few developers from the team are on HN and will be happy to answer any questions here! We also made a small scratchpad you can use to test collaboration features, if it does…
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Comment #43380874
Not really a database, but I've made a prototype integration of Docs with IronCalc: https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs/pull/466 This could also take the form of a custom block …
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Comment #43380859
Our primary target is indeed larger organizations but we're working on one-click deployment solutions and an all-in-one container.
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Comment #41845928
The Ulanzi TC001 is a great, cheap piece of hardware. I found a second-hand one for $20 and flashed it via USB with https://github.com/lubeda/EspHoMaTriXv2 , a more practical firmw…
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Comment #37610924
I don't know him but most of his GitHub activity seems to be contributing to the ClickHouse ecosystem, including popular projects like this one: https://github.com/Altinity/clickho…
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Comment #37610376
AFAIK, the author is indeed trying to contribute back, that is the whole point: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/54644
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Comment #37610090
There's a kind of survivorship bias here! I'm sure that if Altinity (or others) weren't forced to do RFCs on GitHub like the one mentioned in this article that get low/no attention…
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Comment #37484052
I recently made a small game with https://defold.com/ , and it was very pleasant. Completely free and cross-platform out of the box (including Switch & PlayStation support!)
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Comment #36731190
I think this is the part done with the Service Worker, which intercepts network requests: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Service_Wor...