Hacker News: frevib

New comment by frevib in "We’re making Bunny DNS free"

frevib — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:02:33 +0000

Scaleway and OVH. Upcloud close second.

New comment by frevib in "Claude Fable 5"

frevib — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:20:17 +0000

At this point Anthropic is a pure marketing and PR company. Super catchy names like Opus, Mythos and Fable trying to get you to think that these software products are actually super-human life changing experiences. Boris Cherny coming to HN “Hi! it’s Boris from the Claude Code team” to get real tech people’s goodwill.

From Opus 4.6 there are no noticeable improvements for me in code generation. It works very well, till 90% completion, if you guide it correctly. And you need a little luck. For serious production code I need to understand what I’m doing so it helps a bit, sometimes.

New comment by frevib in "Italy's Bending Spoons, owner of AOL and Vimeo, files for Nasdaq IPO"

frevib — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:35:37 +0000

This guy dubbed it “get Komooted”, as they pulled the same trick for used-to-be-great cycling app Komoot: https://bikepacking.com/plog/when-we-get-komooted/

The app quality almost immediately went down the drain after the acquisition by Bending Spoons.

New comment by frevib in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

frevib — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:38:39 +0000

“the reality of AI right now is that it only works for coding.”

Kind of…

New comment by frevib in "The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon"

frevib — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:06:16 +0000

I think saying no is more important now with AI, as features can be built so quickly now. But there are a lot more costs after the feature has been built. Mostly with AI the code isn’t understood that well, wich incurs a cognitive debt. Then there are extra maintentance and documentation costs. And the costs of carrying around features that add no value.

I can imagine that if you’re a startup and want to try new features quickly, it makes sense to say yes more. But the senior mentioned in the article will also be able to understand that.

New comment by frevib in "The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon"

frevib — Wed, 27 May 2026 05:27:06 +0000

Code is a liability. Saying no is because the engineer wants to reduce complexity, not because she/ he is so subjectively “obsessed” with code quality. The term “quality” is nowadays misunderstood by management. It means the right amount of effort to build the product as fast and for as low as cost possible, taking into account a team of engineers that can easily add and modify code.

This description is the better one: https://www.nair.sh/guides-and-opinions/communicating-your-e...

New comment by frevib in "Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier"

frevib — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:52:59 +0000

CLOUD Act and FISA §702

New comment by frevib in "Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier"

frevib — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:36:39 +0000

They’re not doing too great atm: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/topstocks/kyndryl-s-stock-is...

New comment by frevib in "Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier"

frevib — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:34:41 +0000

> AFAIK Solvinity can't access the data.

Solvinity is the hoster. It can fully access the stack.

New comment by frevib in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"

frevib — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:30:08 +0000

Scaleway has introduced Edge services recently: https://www.scaleway.com/en/edge-services/

No ddos protection yet.

New comment by frevib in "When life gives you lemons, write better error messages"

frevib — Wed, 13 May 2026 06:04:29 +0000

To the user: friendly message with uuid.

In the logs: detailed technical message with uuid.

New comment by frevib in "Googlebook"

frevib — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:02:27 +0000

> without a solid privacy guarantee.

That’s a promise, no technical guarantee. Then there’s Cloud Act and FISA.

> Google is likely very happy to give up on the privacy violations

“likely”, exactly. This can change any time. We’ll just have to trust them. Scrolling through this thread it seems about zero trust in a US ad company who’s specialty is feeding off people’s privacy.

We should by now demanding technical guarantees. Open source, end-to-end encrypted with e.g. an overseer board checking the company. Companies like Proton are doing this.

New comment by frevib in "Googlebook"

frevib — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:56:31 +0000

Same here. They’re subsidized by taking kids’ privacy.

New comment by frevib in "Googlebook"

frevib — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:28:20 +0000

Please not the schools. We don’t need privacy-invading closed systems with built-in slot machines. We need deterministic open systems where kids’ privacy is protected.

Please not schools…

New comment by frevib in "Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy"

frevib — Wed, 06 May 2026 07:52:46 +0000

> I've have personally never seen a good example where a cross vendor account provisioning actually working.

At enterprise level, account provisioning with SCIM is the industry standard.

New comment by frevib in "Heat pump sales rise across Europe"

frevib — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:37:40 +0000

Drilling alone is €10.000. The whole installation of a air/water heat pump is €10.000. Mostly not worth it.

New comment by frevib in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

frevib — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:55:53 +0000

> What part of GitHub's executives' grand plan is "have a barely-functional service

What about lock-in, being a monopoly? Why wouldn’t you maximize on saving costs? Sure some people leave, but the majority is not going anywhere. And if the platform dies they’ve made more money than to keep it alive.

New comment by frevib in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

frevib — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:32:46 +0000

I mean the stars, social features and branding of Github make it more or less a lock-in. You can go somewhere else, but it’s not the same experience.

> If you think you need those sweet GitHub stars, I can't help you.

The majority of users need it.

New comment by frevib in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

frevib — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:44:19 +0000

I think Microsoft’s home game is “monopolize and enshittify”. They are the masters and know the exactly what amount of enshittification is too much. E.g. Hashimoto quitting GH is probably totally worth the 10 SREs they fired. Us plebs cannot go anywhere.

New comment by frevib in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

frevib — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:54:50 +0000

> It's not "enshittify or lose"

I think it’s “find natural monopoly and reduce costs (aka enshittify)”.

Github is a natural monopoly and users cannot go anywhere. Unless you’re famous like Mitchell Hashimoto.