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New comment by antoinec in "Show HN: Ronda lets non-technical users safely edit your webapp"

antoinec — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:17:14 +0000

Thank you for the kind words! Indeed, they don't know what Git is, however from my experience, they kind of know what Github is and know that the codebase of their company lives there. My assumption is that it will be enough for them to push engineering to set them up with that tool :)

Show HN: Ronda lets non-technical users safely edit your webapp

antoinec — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:53:56 +0000

Article URL: https://useronda.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48354236

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by antoinec in "Show HN: Daily Jailbreak – Prompt Engineer's Wordle"

antoinec — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 19:00:51 +0000

Yes that's what I figured! I agree that it's cool to see all the different prompts

New comment by antoinec in "Show HN: Daily Jailbreak – Prompt Engineer's Wordle"

antoinec — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 18:55:44 +0000

You probably should remove or at least obfuscate parts of the successful prompts. I was able to get the #1 rank on the leaderboard by copying the previous #1 and removing the last character.

New comment by antoinec in "OpenAI adds MCP support to Agents SDK"

antoinec — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 10:27:10 +0000

I have two that I use a lot: - Postgres one connected to my local db - A browser (Playwright) That way I can ask cursor something like: "Find an object with xxx property in the db, open its page in the browser, fix console errors" And it's able to query my db, find relevant object, open the browser, check logs, fix the code based on errors.

Even simpler stuff: - copying pasting a broken local url in cursor, and asking it to fix all console errors. Works really well. - or when you have a complex schema, and need to find some kind of specific record, you can just ask cursor "find me a user that has X transactions, matches Y condition, etc..". I found it much faster than me at finding relevant records

New comment by antoinec in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

antoinec — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 14:21:03 +0000

Reminds of when you see people questioning the usefulness of getting vaccines for some diseases because they have almost entirely disappeared for the past 50 years (especially in 1st world countries for some), without realizing that this is precisely the reason why they don't reappear.

New comment by antoinec in "Show HN: I made a all-in-one web app to help me with my freelance admin tasks"

antoinec — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 10:51:51 +0000

How did you do those small demo videos on the homepage? It looks really cool!

Treasury Designates Roman Semenov, Co-Founder of Sanctioned Mixer Tornado Cash

antoinec — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 00:48:51 +0000

Article URL: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1702

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37243820

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by antoinec in "My Overkill Home Network"

antoinec — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 08:54:49 +0000

Good question, not sure how I would know the answer though. You probably should ask the guy. Given how he seems to track everything, I wouldn't be surprised if he came up with a way of measuring that as well.

New comment by antoinec in "My Overkill Home Network"

antoinec — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 08:32:36 +0000

Looks like he is powering at least part of his installation through solar: https://blog.networkprofile.org/17kw-enphase-solar-install/

New comment by antoinec in "Ask HN: Those with money-making side projects,how did you come up with the idea?"

antoinec — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 16:51:43 +0000

I started https://www.tryethernal.com which is pretty niche (developer tooling for blockchain developers). I needed this tool when I got into Solidity development, and after a few hours of googling something like that, I couldn't believe it didn't already exist, so I built it.

New comment by antoinec in "The deception of “buying” digital movies"

antoinec — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 13:26:33 +0000

I'd be curious to see if a system like that exists already for some kind of digital asset: secondary sales for something that is not limited in quantity, and can still be bought from the source at a higher price.

New comment by antoinec in "The deception of “buying” digital movies"

antoinec — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 13:10:07 +0000

> Another significant issue with digital movies and games is the inability to resell the content once you're done with it.

I get your point but I don't see how this could actually work. As a buyer, why would I buy an iTunes movie from someone else and not from iTunes? And as a seller, why would I sell it at a lower price than what it is on iTunes? It's not like it would come with a box that would look used/damaged, or a DVD with scratches on it.

Cal.com – Open Startup

antoinec — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 18:06:53 +0000

Article URL: https://cal.com/open

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32630507

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

I Eat for Free in NYC Using Python, Automation, AI, and Instagram

antoinec — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 13:03:22 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@chrisbuetti/how-i-eat-for-free-in-nyc-using-python-automation-artificial-intelligence-and-instagram-a5ed8a1e2a10

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30778028

Points: 61

# Comments: 39

New comment by antoinec in "Welcome to Web 3.0"

antoinec — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 09:01:32 +0000

Definitely, yes! That was just a theoretical example to say that this kind of claim can be proven wrong very easily and publicly (probably not worded the best way though :))

New comment by antoinec in "Welcome to Web 3.0"

antoinec — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 08:47:01 +0000

Maybe blockchains immutability is going to actually make people think twice before putting something online.

"Web2" makes us think that we can delete whatever we post, or what we send is not going to be stored. And we believe it because it is technically possible, even though we don't have any way to double check.

If a service claims that you can delete/hide whatever data you uploaded on the blockchain, you'd be able to verify it and not only trust them. And if you are told that using this service, there is no way to delete it, and that anybody can see it, you might avoid doing something that you'd have done with web2 and regretted later.

New comment by antoinec in "What I learned running a SaaS for a year"

antoinec — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 12:40:28 +0000

Mixpanel, their UI is amazing and they make it really easy to setup graphs that are actually useful.

I'd recommend only sending server side events so you get really accurate stats and no privacy invasion.

I tried to limit the number of events tracked as well, and made sure I knew why I was tracking something, and not just "because I can", I found that it made it easier to focus on what matters.

New comment by antoinec in "Ask HN: What tech stack would you use to build a new web app today?"

antoinec — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 16:37:42 +0000

Backend: Firebase, between Firestore and Real-Time Database you get enough flexibility to quickly iterate on your db schema, Functions are also good enough to handle any kind of backend (easy to integrate with express). They have a dropin authentication UI/backend that take care of all the signin/signup/forgot password logic.

Frontend: Vue.js + Vuetify, you get a simple frontend framework that gets you started in a couple of minutes, and more than enough UI components that you'd need for a POC

New comment by antoinec in "Genius Sells to Media Lab for $80M"

antoinec — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 13:47:38 +0000

This is assuming that they could have created profits early enough to support them, which might not have been the case (then maybe it means that this shouldn't have been a business at all, but that's another question...)