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New comment by frr149 in "Digital euro clears key hurdle as EU seeks to break free from U.S. credit cards"

frr149 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:09:18 +0000

Credit cards in Europe are a form of very short term credit: you spend and pay the entire balance on the next month. The is very different from the model in the US, which is designed to keep you in debt forever.

New comment by frr149 in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

frr149 — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:15:53 +0000

We have all overused a single solution to "finding stuff on the web": the search engine. Now it's dying, killed by AI and by Google's greed.

There's no alternative left, no webrings, no web directories. If all your content is now only on your server, you're invisible.

New comment by frr149 in "Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines"

frr149 — Fri, 22 May 2026 10:24:03 +0000

I do, with different tools and most of the time at a higher level of abstraction. The same way we understood the machine code 2 years ago, even though we didn't write it directly. Just another layer, nothing more.

New comment by frr149 in "Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines"

frr149 — Fri, 22 May 2026 06:29:58 +0000

I used to be obsessed about language design and now, since I almost never write code directly (it's always Claude), I completely lost interest.

It feels like a total waste of time and I wonder if other feel the same.

One of the consequences of the LLM tsunami might be the freezing of research and development in programming languages.

Maybe we'll be stuck with J's and python forever...

New comment by frr149 in "Uv is fantastic, but its package management UX is a mess"

frr149 — Fri, 22 May 2026 06:24:41 +0000

It's still the best thing that happened to Python in a long time

New comment by frr149 in "Show HN: I reverse engineered Apple's video wallpapers"

frr149 — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:26:32 +0000

One of the first things I removed from my Mac was the 45 gb (sic) worth of wallpaper videos.

Cloudflare's "Ask AI" created an API token with read access to my account

frr149 — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:08:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.frr.dev/posts/cloudflare-ask-ai-api-token/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222849

Points: 5

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New comment by frr149 in "Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter"

frr149 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:33:42 +0000

I see a lot of people trying to run away from Anthropic "window of doom" affair lately, me myself included. What has stopped me so far is the lack of real alternative to Opus. Not even gpt5.4 comes close

New comment by frr149 in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

frr149 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:56:11 +0000

I've been using fedora desktop on laptop for years, alongside a Mac, without any issues

New comment by frr149 in "You’re a little company, now act like one (2009)"

frr149 — Sun, 25 May 2025 09:05:26 +0000

I'm experience, that doesn't work if you main clients are big corporations. The average corporate drone mistrusts and disregards small companies. Not out of arrogance, I believe, but out of fear: a generalized version of the old "no one was fired for buying IBM" trope. Small companies are seen as higher risk.

New comment by frr149 in "AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830k"

frr149 — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 16:44:25 +0000

Maybe the scammer was the ex husband.

New comment by frr149 in "How Discord stores trillions of messages (2023)"

frr149 — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 08:44:25 +0000

What's the problem with Scylla? Honest question, BTW

New comment by frr149 in "Wave activity on Titan strong enough to erode the coastlines of lakes and seas"

frr149 — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 07:59:31 +0000

And doesn't need to wear warm jumpers.

New comment by frr149 in "Enshittification: How Platforms Die"

frr149 — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 08:48:50 +0000

Sounds just like reddit the last few years

New comment by frr149 in "A Case of the MUMPS (2007)"

frr149 — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 11:05:29 +0000

I'll check it out, thanks!

New comment by frr149 in "A Case of the MUMPS (2007)"

frr149 — Sat, 10 Jun 2023 10:01:37 +0000

MUMPS: A lousy language with a brilliant data structure

New comment by frr149 in "The Little Learner: A Straight Line to Deep Learning"

frr149 — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 22:15:15 +0000

Shut up and take my money! Now!

New comment by frr149 in "The Python Paradox (2004)"

frr149 — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 09:45:50 +0000

Icon, that's a name I havent heard in a long time...

New comment by frr149 in "Fun with Magnets"

frr149 — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 08:29:56 +0000

Wont it shut come out the other end?

New comment by frr149 in "How transportation technologies shaped empires"

frr149 — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 16:57:03 +0000

Evwn better, Spain and the Philipines