Hacker News: conradfr

New comment by conradfr in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

conradfr — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:14:31 +0000

Taping tissue paper over the tweeter of ns10s was popular in studios back in the day ;)

New comment by conradfr in "NASA’s Artemis II Crew Launches to the Moon"

conradfr — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:45:16 +0000

And yet they didn't.

New comment by conradfr in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

conradfr — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:23:36 +0000

Maybe https://github.com/instructkr/claw-code

New comment by conradfr in "Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers"

conradfr — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:03:02 +0000

That can't be ... "Spotify engineers haven't coded since December"

New comment by conradfr in "US missile hit military base near Iran school, video analysis shows"

conradfr — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:51:49 +0000

The school was part of the military base years ago, possibly the origin of the strike.

New comment by conradfr in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

conradfr — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:07:28 +0000

Next it will be all devices able to run Doom.

New comment by conradfr in "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"

conradfr — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 07:22:14 +0000

I don't see the appeal, it takes more "clicks" to do many actions and I had to disable the ridiculous new oversized "rectangle tab preview block" (whatever it's called).

New comment by conradfr in "Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%"

conradfr — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:50:36 +0000

I almost didn't see their email because it's sent by "notification" (notification@hetzner.com, no name set). Title is "Update on our pricing".

Anyway my increase is: EX44 (HEL1) € 44.76 -> € 50.76

Not pleased especially as the reason for the increase for existing customers is a nebulous "The costs to operate our infrastructure has increased dramatically."

Why?

Windows chief shared MS emails with Epstein regarding the Surface RT disaster

conradfr — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:02:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/former-windows-boss-shared-confidential-microsoft-emails-with-epstein-reveals-chaos-as-leaders-realized-surface-rt-was-a-catastrophic-failure

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46861499

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

New comment by conradfr in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"

conradfr — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:50:02 +0000

And it's not even cheap (actually its success kind of baffles me but great I guess).

New comment by conradfr in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"

conradfr — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:49:36 +0000

And not developing their own motor since this year :(

New comment by conradfr in "The percentage of Show HN posts is increasing, but their scores are decreasing"

conradfr — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:37:19 +0000

There is on average a new submission every minute on HN. So basically an entry exposure in /newest first page is 30 minutes.

How many real people actually visit this page, browse submission, let alone consult the links, vote in earnest vs bot manipulation? Being on the front page of HN is valuable.

You can't downvote submission (or at least I can't) so low quality posts score can't even really be corrected (except flagging I guess, which sometimes feels abused but that's another problem).

New comment by conradfr in "Fix your robots.txt or your site disappears from Google"

conradfr — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 20:40:08 +0000

Google Adsense docs says that ads.txt is not mandatory and yet I remember having no ads displayed on my website until I added one.

New comment by conradfr in "Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them"

conradfr — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 09:15:53 +0000

Yeah I've been trying Claude Code for a week (mostly Opus) and in a C++ Juce project it kept hallucinating functions for a simple task ("retrieve DAW track name if available") and actually never got it right.

It also failed a lot to modify a simple Caddyfile.

On the other hand it sometimes blows me away and offers to correct mistakes I coded myself. It's really good on web code I guess as that must be the most public code available (Vue3 and elixir in my case).

New comment by conradfr in "No management needed: anti-patterns in early-stage engineering teams"

conradfr — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 13:26:29 +0000

The minimum wage thing in France is true but it's so low for developers that it doesn't play any role in salary négociation.

Never seen any upper threshold except just what the company décides.

By law people with the same job and same qualification etc in a company must earn the same thing but that's theory more than practice, except maybe large companies.

Also being in an union or not does not change anything.

New comment by conradfr in "Scott Adams has died"

conradfr — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 09:15:51 +0000

AFAIK he tried it in addition to regular treatment but I could be wrong.

New comment by conradfr in "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"

conradfr — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 23:55:20 +0000

That's wrong, he is coding, well, vibecoding.

https://github.com/torvalds/AudioNoise

New comment by conradfr in "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"

conradfr — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 23:39:00 +0000

Do people actually enjoy reviewing PRs?

See, that also works.

New comment by conradfr in "Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11"

conradfr — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:50:15 +0000

Does Satya Nadella even use a windows laptop?

New comment by conradfr in "Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11"

conradfr — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:44:42 +0000

That can work if you're not expecting to be fired on a whim in one of those 20k+ layoffs when suddenly you have a skill no one seeks while you have not grown in the other area the market wants.