Hacker News: coredev_

New comment by coredev_ in "Software engineering is about managing complexity"

coredev_ — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:47:25 +0000

Thanks, might be the best blog I've read in 2026. AI can of course do architecture as well but oh boy will you have a bad time when your application breaks and neither you or AI can fix it.

New comment by coredev_ in "Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork"

coredev_ — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:59:46 +0000

I mean there is Mistral?

New comment by coredev_ in "Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources"

coredev_ — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:01:44 +0000

PayPal seems to me like something from the past that no one uses. But sure, they have a market and a profit, but a future?

Will Stripe move customers from PayPal to Stripe or will they fix PayPal?

New comment by coredev_ in "Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources"

coredev_ — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:33:27 +0000

Why, what is the play here? I know PayPal is used extensively in some countries (like Brazil?) but in most countries there are other/local services that have substantial market share and I do not think that PayPal can compete.

New comment by coredev_ in "An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation"

coredev_ — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 07:14:06 +0000

They discuss why this might be a bad idea in the article.

New comment by coredev_ in "Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model"

coredev_ — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:02:31 +0000

Do they really? "SOTA" is great for development and creating content but for industrial needs.... perhaps they are not really "SOTA"?

New comment by coredev_ in "Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained"

coredev_ — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:11:58 +0000

Whoa, where do you get your news from - Fox?

New comment by coredev_ in "The truth about being a manager"

coredev_ — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:35:47 +0000

This is an fantastic article (atleast for me as a swede). Most of it can be true depending on your situation but please remember "Being a manager can be fun and fulfilling".

Seeing a peer grow into seniourship or be instrumental fixing a problem in a team is the reward. Yes being a manager costs but there are fantastic moments when it's clear that it was worth it.

New comment by coredev_ in "The EU Open Source Strategy"

coredev_ — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:22:19 +0000

CRA is pretty damn cool

New comment by coredev_ in "Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit"

coredev_ — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:11:04 +0000

I don't agree that they are falling behind. Using both chat and cli I get what I need and it's comparable to "sota" when I compare.

New comment by coredev_ in "Microsoft reports AI is more expensive than paying human employees"

coredev_ — Sat, 23 May 2026 07:12:29 +0000

Interesting development, it's impressively fast. How will this affect OpenAI and Anthropic when this hit the market?

New comment by coredev_ in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

coredev_ — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:09:45 +0000

The market for these kind of apps in Europe is very divided (just in the Nordics you have Swish, MobilePay and Vipps) but the dent in MC/Visas dominance is significant today. In 2 years, Klarna, Swish and Vipps will be more common both in e-commerce and POS that MC/Visa.

Do we need a pan-EU standard? I'm actually not so sure, but yes it would be nice when traveling.

New comment by coredev_ in "EU weighs restricting use of US cloud platforms to process government data"

coredev_ — Sun, 17 May 2026 19:12:48 +0000

It's very funny to me that all of our municipal EU customers requires that we host in EU. But they all run Microsoft online email, Entra and so on themselves.

New comment by coredev_ in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"

coredev_ — Thu, 14 May 2026 03:46:01 +0000

I would say that both US and China are using the data we trust upon them for industrial espionage. So don't use their models if you are working defence or other sensitive areas

New comment by coredev_ in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"

coredev_ — Thu, 14 May 2026 03:37:04 +0000

This is spot on. The US under MAGA are actively dismantling their once leading position in IT as well as defence. I guess it is hard to see as a US citizen but from outside this is clear as glass.

New comment by coredev_ in "Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired"

coredev_ — Thu, 14 May 2026 03:30:57 +0000

Europe is not falling behind on anything that is not reasonable.

The increased growth in USA the last decade have largely been created by means that one day will be quite costly for you (debt).

The USA under MAGA is falling apart. EU and others are actively minimizing risk by selecting non-US IT providers. EU and others are actively selecting non-US defence aystems.

I say that it is very positive to protect your citizens. Russia (sending their citizens en masse to a certain death on the front lines) and USA have more in common politically than USA and EU.

New comment by coredev_ in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

coredev_ — Fri, 08 May 2026 10:42:26 +0000

Why don't you research this and report back your findings. Learning is a cool experience, compared to prejudice.

New comment by coredev_ in "Kyoto cherry blossoms now bloom earlier than at any point in 1,200 years"

coredev_ — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:05:51 +0000

Good lock with that denial it's surely must be due to anything but the super obvious thing that science is warning us about and all data points to.

New comment by coredev_ in "Iran caused more extensive damage to U.S. military bases than publicly known"

coredev_ — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:38:42 +0000

Can you please provide sources for your claims.

New comment by coredev_ in "[dead]"

coredev_ — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:46:34 +0000

Ah, GOP-jugend.