Hacker News: danelski

New comment by danelski in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

danelski — Mon, 04 May 2026 09:24:08 +0000

OK, but are you able to put an order on 100+ brand-new hauls if you're just starting out without the enormous capital to back you?

New comment by danelski in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

danelski — Mon, 04 May 2026 09:21:25 +0000

Many people, myself included, will gladly be 'hurt' on a 2-3 hour flight, if that means we can save some noticeable amount of money on the fare.

New comment by danelski in "OpenTrafficMap"

danelski — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:53:09 +0000

In my experience, the congestion data is not the issue: even with the split across Google / TomTom / Here / Apple / some hyperlocal alternatives, everyone seems to have reasonably good idea where the traffic jams are. Having up to date POIs is a different can of worms only solved by Google, not by some clever algo, but through the sheer brand recognition. They're the only ones that have this data fed to them by POI owners.

New comment by danelski in "Mistral Medium 3.5"

danelski — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:46:57 +0000

I believe they'll get profitable sooner than their frontier competition. Their operating costs seem to peanuts compared to the providers they're compared to most often while having the local advantage of not being Chinese nor American.

New comment by danelski in "Mistral Medium 3.5"

danelski — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:41:00 +0000

How do you feel about the responsiveness of gemini-cli? I tried it on a paid plan and the 10-minute hang-ups (per step, not the whole plan execution) really break the illusion of performance gains, unless you run it in the background and do something else in the meantime. It's more noticeable when Americans are awake.

New comment by danelski in "AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing"

danelski — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:29:31 +0000

Couple of years ago I was (as a human being, not my career span) 20. Spare for the usual StackOverflow / blog snippets, that was my experience and I suppose most of those just starting out. I think it's very recent to have fresh grads that barely type code themselves.

New comment by danelski in "Anthropic's Claude loses its >99% uptime in Q1 2026"

danelski — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:31:11 +0000

GeminiCLI is absolutely terrible, nothing comparable to the browser access. I've started using the 'AI Pro' tier lately and I get 15 minutes response times from Gemini 3 'Flash' on a regular basis.

New comment by danelski in "Marriage over, €100k down; AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion"

danelski — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:07:53 +0000

'Coolest'? I guess this could also be said for drugs, but I don't see it as a benefit.

New comment by danelski in "Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy"

danelski — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:01:51 +0000

That's akin to being grateful for your local shop owner that they allowed you to sweep the floor for other customers.

New comment by danelski in "Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy"

danelski — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:59:55 +0000

Most of the new culture and website contents is under full copyright. How much of an obstacle was that to these companies?

New comment by danelski in "Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy"

danelski — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:56:36 +0000

They've had ample access to the final output - our code, but they still hope with enough data on HOW we work they can close the agentic gap and finally get those stinky, lazy humans that demand salary out of the loop.

New comment by danelski in "Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy"

danelski — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:53:00 +0000

Quite simply, that's just a matter of the corporate internal policy and its (lack of) enforcement. This problem is just a subset of the wider IP breach with some people happily feeding their work documents into the free tier of ChatGPT.

New comment by danelski in "Mistral AI Releases Forge"

danelski — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:55:26 +0000

That's one of the possible benchmarks, not the only one. Being 59th there, on a list enriched with every variation of Model_Name X.Y (March 2025 Preview) Pro-Thinking, translates to being in the top 10 providers worldwide which is a very interesting mark of failure considering that coincidentally they're also number 1 from their economic area. If you don't know why the last part is important, go read some news.

New comment by danelski in "Mistral AI Releases Forge"

danelski — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:40:41 +0000

> Its bottom floor for LLMs.

What? That's just demonstrably false. The market doesn't consist of 5 providers.

New comment by danelski in "I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure"

danelski — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:50:00 +0000

That post mostly concerned infrastructure, you won't likely run the same managed DB with 2 different providers, for example, but you can well offer sign-in with EU/non-EU options, and as long as the first one is viable, I'd say that would already be a win in terms of OP's goals.

New comment by danelski in "I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure"

danelski — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:27:32 +0000

Did you try to register VAT-free by any chance? My first guess would be that you could have set the tax region wrong.

New comment by danelski in "I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure"

danelski — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:26:24 +0000

> They know everyone in the world will never pause when they see their logo on the buttons.

As in, that they won't run away when they see them or that they will all happily use them? If you mean the latter, then it's just false. Also, why do you assume that such product would need to be used worldwide all of a sudden? Having something for the local market would be sufficient to call it a success in this instance. There's an ICC judge who could tell you a thing or two about having a whole digital life on the hook of services from one country, so reducing this dependency is a clear benefit.

New comment by danelski in "I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure"

danelski — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:14:31 +0000

Sign-on with the external identity provider doesn't help if data related to your account like the billing information, your government ID info etc. are released in the breach, that's the sore point.

New comment by danelski in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

danelski — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:32:11 +0000

Sorry, I don't see your point. While lifting up the masses out of extreme poverty globally is obviously good, it doesn't transfer to your situation unless you happen to live in one of these upstart countries. The society you live in is not global, even if we share more of popculture and technology now.

New comment by danelski in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

danelski — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:32:33 +0000

The baristas example can only make me think that with the growing wealth disparity and no obvious exit path for white collars we might see a big return of servant-like jobs for below 1%. Who wouldn't want to wake up and daily assist life of some remaining upper-middle class Anthropic's employee?