Hacker News: aweb

New comment by aweb in "Google's Antigravity bait and switch"

aweb — Fri, 22 May 2026 05:36:50 +0000

I trie to use it, it's actually really bad IMO. It's very slow and often completely misunderstands my requirements

New comment by aweb in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

aweb — Tue, 12 May 2026 05:30:07 +0000

Is there a specific list of countries whee they'll be closing down?

New comment by aweb in "No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user"

aweb — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 08:35:39 +0000

I'm surprised, isn't it forbidden to use the Max plan as part of a company? Just curious, as I thought it was forbidden by the ToS but I'm not sure if I have a good understanding of it

New comment by aweb in "A new Little Prince museum has opened its doors in Switzerland"

aweb — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 07:31:33 +0000

Very surprised and sad to see so many dismissive comments of the book. It's a really popular one in France for a very good reason. It's so creative, poetic and touching that I doubt you can read it and stay indifferent.

If you've never read it, do yourself a favor and do so! It's quite short, and I hope you'll like it.

New comment by aweb in "Show HN: Stop It – an iOS app using visual therapy to help break habits"

aweb — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 14:54:03 +0000

That looks really interesting! Is there a plan for an Android or web-based version?

New comment by aweb in "Project Europe aims to drive European innovation"

aweb — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 18:16:45 +0000

Totally agree. Maybe they want less experienced people that can be manipulated into working tons of hours?

In any case, I'm pretty sure that's illegal under anti discrimination laws

New comment by aweb in "The Surreal Magnificence of Fatherhood"

aweb — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 13:35:25 +0000

We actually start what we call "diversification" (=eating solid food) even earlier in France: we were advised by our paediatrician to do it when the baby was 4 months old.

Apparently if you start early and have him try a lot of different stuff (especially potentially allergenic things like nuts), it causes less allergy problems later on.

It's worked very well for us, the kid loves it and feeding him is quite fun (although certainly messy!)

It's interesting to see how different it is depending on the country though!

New comment by aweb in "Python Chart Examples"

aweb — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 13:46:14 +0000

Wow, these examples are amazing!

I've used matplotlib in the past and was disappointed by the final look of the generated charts, nice to know there's hope and I can make them look good the next time I need it :D

New comment by aweb in "Using Lidar to map tree shadows"

aweb — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 09:21:09 +0000

The French mapping service is starting to do HD LIDAR captures of the whole of France, and some of them are already available: https://geoservices.ign.fr/lidarhd (At the bottom)

I'd be curious to know if you plan to include these in your app at some point in the future?

Thanks for all the work you did on Shademaps!

New comment by aweb in "Show HN: A gallery of graphs built with React and D3.js"

aweb — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 15:11:39 +0000

Wow, I don't know a thing about dataviz but I really liked the website! The real world examples are really helpful to understand why we could use a certain kind of chart. Keep up the good work!

New comment by aweb in "Ask HN: Where to Feature Startup on Spanish, Portuguese, German, French?"

aweb — Fri, 12 May 2023 14:52:06 +0000

For french, there's a decent website similar to Product Hunt: https://lespepitestech.com/

It has a good following and a weekly e-mail list so it's probably worth it to post there as well

New comment by aweb in "The new age of sleeper trains"

aweb — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 21:31:06 +0000

A big argument for night trains is ecology and diminishing your CO2 footprint, which won't be affected by airport efficiency

New comment by aweb in "Sweet Home 3D is a free interior design application"

aweb — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 22:37:55 +0000

Agreed, I use it a lot for personal projects and it's quite straightforward to use while still pretty powerful. I'd just like to export the data somehow though

New comment by aweb in "Tech Industry Warns That More Remote-Work Jobs Are Headed Out of U.S."

aweb — Tue, 10 May 2022 14:38:20 +0000

To be honest, as a European I think it's a good thing and we're already seeing its consequences: salaries which are way lower than US ones have already started rising, and lots of interesting startups that didn't want to hire us before have changed their minds.

So at least on our side of the ocean it's pretty good! I just hope there's no negative impact for Americans and we can all enjoy this change.

New comment by aweb in "Zas Editor"

aweb — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 11:38:30 +0000

Wow that sounds like a really interesting editor for Golang! Only missing thing I absolutely need is the debugger+a test runner. Once those are here I think I'll buy a license!

New comment by aweb in "70% of startups offer remote work options as hiring heats up, YC data shows"

aweb — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 10:29:08 +0000

I was wondering about that topic recently!

Before COVID, offering remote was a big differentiator for startups and definitely considered a perk.

Now, it's becoming so common that I guess they should offer something new to attract talent, and I'm wondering if it could be a 4-day week? I'd be very interested by that in any case.

New comment by aweb in "Software Engineering Salaries in Europe vs. the United States"

aweb — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 08:46:18 +0000

It's pretty standard for France, come work here! :)

New comment by aweb in "Neural.love: An AI-powered HD portrait generator"

aweb — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 08:52:40 +0000

The examples certainly look cool! I was curious to try it until you asked for an account, which I'm not motivated to do just to try this kind of toy service, sorry.

New comment by aweb in "Apple asks staff to return to office 3 days a week starting in early September"

aweb — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 07:44:42 +0000

That's definitely uncommon in Europe to work on weekends/holidays/vacation. It's quite frowned upon, and for good reason IMO. Work life balance is important, and there's other stuff to do in life than work.

New comment by aweb in "Stamper"

aweb — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 10:45:53 +0000

Chrome's not the only desktop browser!