Hacker News: fersarr

New comment by fersarr in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

fersarr — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:51:29 +0000

I'm improving my web app to learn languages with short stories: https://webbu.app. I've been making it easier to track your progress, hear pronunciation of words, and adding more advanced levels.

New comment by fersarr in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

fersarr — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:44:09 +0000

Interesting! Maybe making this info avilable to local LLMs would be useful too. Side thought: when we plan big trips I tend to pre-populate google maps with loads of markers of interesting points. I would love to be able to save this offline and combine them with other sources like youtube/instagram clips offline somehow.

New comment by fersarr in "An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open"

fersarr — Fri, 01 May 2026 16:29:18 +0000

I can't sign because the cloudflare verifier says I'm not human...

New comment by fersarr in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

fersarr — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:02:14 +0000

why do people care so much? it's just an agentic loop

New comment by fersarr in "You Want to Visit the UK? You Better Have a Google Play or App Store Account"

fersarr — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:24:03 +0000

Apart from the fact that some countries don't allow dual citizenships so you would loose the other one:

- cost: ~2k

- time: 2 exams

- paperwork required to keep other nationalities in some cases

- after feb 2026, you can only re-enter the UK with a British passport (more cost) or with extra paperwork to enable your other passport (more costs ~500)

New comment by fersarr in "AWS Adds support for nested virtualization"

fersarr — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:16:35 +0000

When will AWS add a statement about being bound to professional secrecy (e.g s203 in Germany) so we use the LLM endpoints for sensitive industries https://repost.aws/es/questions/QUOuFPk9TLSUuClI_wYNmVCQ/ser...

New comment by fersarr in "Good Riddance, 4o"

fersarr — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:10:18 +0000

I wish Azure would provide acces to gpt-5.x models in the EU datazone... Stuck in 4.x.

Also I don't see any of the big cloud providers (apart from Azure) saying they are bound to professional secrecy acts (e.g. the S203 in Germany)

New comment by fersarr in "I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year"

fersarr — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 09:59:33 +0000

How do people get more than 2tb of backup/cloud storage? it seems expensive to pay 20+ per month for this. 2tb+ should be very common these days?

New comment by fersarr in "iOS 26.3 brings AirPods-like pairing to third-party devices in EU under DMA"

fersarr — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 09:51:13 +0000

also usbc in iphones! finally we can just carry one cable

New comment by fersarr in "How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants"

fersarr — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:01:55 +0000

+1 to "We audit financial markets. We should audit attention markets too"

New comment by fersarr in "Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration"

fersarr — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 22:26:11 +0000

My attempts always had validation issues that stopped the ads from running but I never figured it out and stopped trying

New comment by fersarr in "Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain"

fersarr — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:39:12 +0000

Looks very nice and I'm tempted. Can you disable Bluetooth while not in use?

New comment by fersarr in "Show HN: I made a fireplace for your wrist (and widgets)"

fersarr — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 13:56:38 +0000

looks cool, are you planning an Android version? what was the biggest challenge in making this?

New comment by fersarr in "Ask HN: LLM apps for doctors/lawyers in Germany given section 203"

fersarr — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 15:24:13 +0000

Just found this from Azure which specifically talks about Section 203 from Germany: https://assetsprod.microsoft.com/mpn/data-secrecy-amendment-...

> Microsoft is aware of legal obligations with regard to allowing access to Customer’s clients’ information and that non-compliance with such obligations can entail criminal sanctions for the parties involved (cf. in particular §§ 203, 204 StGB) (imprisonment or fines).

> Microsoft shall be obliged to maintain confidentiality in accordanc...

Would be great to find something like this from AWS or GCP.

Ask HN: LLM apps for doctors/lawyers in Germany given section 203

fersarr — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 22:08:08 +0000

Hi HN, thanks for having a look! We are building productivity apps for doctors and lawyers in Germany and are a bit confused by the requirements of Section 203 (professional secrets). I have high hopes that someone here can help us answer our questions.

Section 203 (professional secrets) [1][2] states that companies must only use providers that offer the same level of secrecy or are contractually bound to section 203. How does this work when using LLM APIs from the big cloud providers (Azure, AWS, GCP), do they state somewhere that they are bound to section 203? I am guessing using OpenAI or Anthropic directly is a no-go?

Thank you very much for your time

[1]: https://www.telekom.com/resource/blob/1020528/f9504762be7deaeb66dab63d94024c1a/dl-obligation-to-protect-confidential-information-pursuant-to-section-203-stgb-aeb--data.pdf

[2] https://www.lewik.org/term/15709/violation-of-private-secrets-section-203-german-criminal-code/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45921274

Points: 1

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New comment by fersarr in "TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)"

fersarr — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:34:34 +0000

agreed it's not the same league, but it's still annoying for tiny companies that don't have much revenue

New comment by fersarr in "TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)"

fersarr — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:33:52 +0000

yeah that is true, but still really annoying for the tiny companies I talked to

New comment by fersarr in "TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)"

fersarr — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 09:55:29 +0000

the UK seems to be going in this same bad direction now "As part of our journey to modernise and digitise our filing routes, all accounts must be filed using commercial software from 1 April 2027." https://changestoukcompanylaw.campaign.gov.uk/changes-to-acc...

you used to be able to do this yourself on the gov website for free

New comment by fersarr in "Apple M5 chip"

fersarr — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 14:44:18 +0000

same here

New comment by fersarr in "Show HN: Write It Down – Personal finance tracker"

fersarr — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 13:42:34 +0000

Very cool. What did you see to do the screen recordings?