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New comment by francoispiquard in "LMArena is a cancer on AI"

francoispiquard — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 10:44:00 +0000

There is wisdom in the crowd but yes agreed

New comment by francoispiquard in "Ask HN: How to Make the Most of an Acquisition?"

francoispiquard — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 21:43:14 +0000

For context, currently a faang IC.

I am trying to get that "plus" to founder and investors indeed.

New comment by francoispiquard in "Ask HN: How to Make the Most of an Acquisition?"

francoispiquard — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 21:40:43 +0000

The amount is quite low, so really not there. No investors, all bootstrapped.

Ask HN: How to Make the Most of an Acquisition?

francoispiquard — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 09:56:31 +0000

Hello HN I was in the lucky position of selling my saas recently.

Are there some hiring manager/VC tips on how to communicate on that/ what you look for for when you see that on a CV.

I can't disclose the amount but I would like to make sure I can capitalize on that for my """personal brand"""

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46474754

Points: 3

# Comments: 4

New comment by francoispiquard in "Show HN: Turn Your Git Commits into Tweets"

francoispiquard — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 19:49:24 +0000

Funny I had the same idea just now and wanted to validate it to see if anyone was working on it!

Your links on the bottom of the page are broken, but the landing page looks amazing

LLM guidelines, do you have the same pblm

francoispiquard — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:24:42 +0000

Hey folks,

Nothing built yet, but I was wondering if you’ve also run into the problem of keeping strong, opinionated guidelines when working with LLMs.

I’m thinking about an open-source solution to help teams define and share high-level project guidelines (PEP8, architectural rules, naming conventions, product principles, tone of voice, etc.) in a way that’s actually usable by LLMs.

The idea would be simple:

- a few clicks to configure your guidelines.

- you get a public URL with LLM-readable content and a YAML file you can download and plug directly into Cursor/Copilot/Google Cli/other tools

The goal is that teams can have shared, explicit, opinionated guidelines that stay consistent across prompts, editors, and contributors. without copy-pasting the same instructions everywhere or relying on tribal knowledge.

Think:

- onboarding new devs faster.

- less “LLM drift” over time.

- clearer defaults for AI-assisted code and writing

- guidelines that live next to the project and evolve with it.

So, very early idea, but curious: - does this resonate with problems you’re seeing? - what kind of rules or constraints would you actually want to encode? - anything like this you’ve tried before (and why it didn’t stick)?

Happy to hear thoughts or pushback.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46276575

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by francoispiquard in "McDonald's removes AI-generated ad after backlash"

francoispiquard — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 11:34:56 +0000

The fact that we are talking about it here (and offline - had that discussion with a colleague) means that they are getting what they want --> attention

It's lame but it works

New comment by francoispiquard in "Why Startups Die"

francoispiquard — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 11:33:35 +0000

IMO as soon as the investment dry this is going to be seen as "smart" and "grounded" but it should have been the only way of doing.

Having VC gamble on start-up all the time is just not sustainable. If a product is not generating $ then maybe it deserves to die

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

francoispiquard — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 11:29:02 +0000

I think they are trying too much to have you jump on GCP. Having a simpler UI with a credit limit (maybe even at a different rate) would actually get more people to use it imo.

New comment by francoispiquard in "Show HN: AlgoDrill – Interactive drills to stop forgetting LeetCode patterns"

francoispiquard — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 11:55:32 +0000

Seems like a good idea, is it the same kind of concept as the woodpecker method in chess ?

New comment by francoispiquard in "Show HN: ReadyKit – Superfast SaaS Starter with Multi-Tenant Workspaces"

francoispiquard — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 12:45:21 +0000

Not OP but I think it's a bit harsh on flask tbh.

If you want to validate a product or run with a few K users (which I think this is helping), I really think that flask is a proven WS framework that just works.