Hacker News: VadimPR

New comment by VadimPR in "Bring back crappy forums"

VadimPR — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 06:57:36 +0000

We still maintain phpbb forums, but activity on them is close to nil when compared to the Discord server. This is for a MUD client too, not exactly a mainstream audience!

New comment by VadimPR in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"

VadimPR — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:26:59 +0000

The hard part, I heard, was closing a UK company!

New comment by VadimPR in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"

VadimPR — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:26:26 +0000

They can't convince others, so I shopped around until I found a willing bank. This is due to introduced KYC requirements and the harsh penalties associated with them - so banks are preferring to err on the side of caution.

Same story goes for opening a personal account.

New comment by VadimPR in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"

VadimPR — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:07:28 +0000

Before Europe gets lumped in as one country, founding a company in Netherlands and Sweden, speaking from personal experience, is a breeze.

Although Sweden is a bit strange in the fact that banks have as much equal say as the government authority does in you starting a company, and if they don't want you as a customer, they can simply deny the right for your company to start!

New comment by VadimPR in "Apple Foundation Models"

VadimPR — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:43:59 +0000

How can you practically use this in software if you're to deploy this to users? Asking a user to create and enter their own API key is a bar too high for good UX.

New comment by VadimPR in "OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision"

VadimPR — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:43:18 +0000

The release post is AI-written with little human oversight and it shows.

New comment by VadimPR in "Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude"

VadimPR — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:06:18 +0000

Claude is also surprisingly good at analyzing system issues on a Linux system and solving them!

New comment by VadimPR in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

VadimPR — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:00:45 +0000

The question is where do you go?

New comment by VadimPR in "Is my blue your blue?"

VadimPR — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:41:31 +0000

I find that fascinating as well! I hope tech will give us the answer in our lifetimes.

New comment by VadimPR in "Is my blue your blue?"

VadimPR — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:40:34 +0000

I had the same discussion with the color of a river in Albania with my wife. The test says my boundary is a bluer than 85% of the pop - sounds about right!

New comment by VadimPR in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

VadimPR — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:06:26 +0000

Appreciate the honesty from the team.

At the same time, personally I find prioritizing quality over quantity of output to be a better personal strategy. Ten partially buggy features really aren't as good as three quality ones.

New comment by VadimPR in "French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data"

VadimPR — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:51:19 +0000

I'm dissatisfied about the TAP leak as well! I was affected, and like you, didn't even receive a notification - nevermind compensation for having leaked my personal data to the dark web enabling all sorts of shenanigans that make my personal life difficult.

New comment by VadimPR in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

VadimPR — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 04:04:17 +0000

What would mathematics have to do with internal company politics, a soft/people skill demanding job?

New comment by VadimPR in "Codex for almost everything"

VadimPR — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:37:00 +0000

https://github.com/patrickjaja/claude-desktop-bin seems to be trying hard to but I haven't tried it.

New comment by VadimPR in "Codex for almost everything"

VadimPR — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:28:32 +0000

Only on macOS though? This doesn't seem to work on Linux. Neither does Claude Cowork, not officially.

New comment by VadimPR in "ChatGPT for Excel"

VadimPR — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:01:12 +0000

Can it work with comments in sheets as well? When I looked into it, that seemed like a limitation.

New comment by VadimPR in "US national level OS-level age verification bill proposed"

VadimPR — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:57:43 +0000

US should first implement a national identifier that can be used for healthcare purposes before implementing age verification, that would be a lot more helpful.

New comment by VadimPR in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

VadimPR — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:31:43 +0000

Anyone here familiar with the details of GendBuntu[1], the Ubuntu distro used by the French Gendarmerie? I'd love to hear what is working and what isn't on the ground.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GendBuntu?useskin=vector

New comment by VadimPR in "Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates"

VadimPR — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:23:14 +0000

If someone is willing to put in the work in governance, FOSS projects would be willing to fund it - at least Mudlet would be. We get income from Patreon to cover the costs.

New comment by VadimPR in "Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates"

VadimPR — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:33:37 +0000

I'm in Europe and ended up creating an organization since I have my own company, but they messed up the verification of one of the legitimate documents, and there was no way to reach them once they made that mistake. Frustrating, and definitely a lost customer for them.