Hacker News: himlion

New comment by himlion in "When AI writes the software, who verifies it?"

himlion — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 07:44:55 +0000

I do that all the time with Claude. What part is not working?

New comment by himlion in "How far back in time can you understand English?"

himlion — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:15:43 +0000

His subsequent podcast: "revolutions" is also really good.

New comment by himlion in "Ask HN: What cheaper cities are the best?"

himlion — Fri, 19 May 2023 16:46:37 +0000

I always thought Las Vegas wouldn't be the worst place to raise a family despite it's reputation as Sin City.

New comment by himlion in "Ask HN: Engineering managers, how do you “upskill” your team?"

himlion — Mon, 15 May 2023 15:07:43 +0000

* Work from anywhere, anytime, but try to keep a core schedule from 9 to 15.

That's almost three quarters of the work day.

New comment by himlion in "100K Context Windows"

himlion — Thu, 11 May 2023 18:55:59 +0000

I overlooked the unified memory on those machines. Can it really run this performantly?

New comment by himlion in "A cryptocurrency company had a $65M bill, per Datadog’s Q1 earnings call"

himlion — Sat, 06 May 2023 04:58:06 +0000

I wonder if that kind of marketing is actually quite successful. You'd think they wouldn't risk their reputation otherwise right?

New comment by himlion in "OpenAI’s Red Team: the experts hired to ‘break’ ChatGPT"

himlion — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 12:42:05 +0000

In my experience contracting for bigger companies you can be close to 100% billable by just billing a default 8 hours per day. Not counting the time without an assignment of course, but that should not be long if you have skills and a network.

New comment by himlion in "OpenAI’s Red Team: the experts hired to ‘break’ ChatGPT"

himlion — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 12:40:28 +0000

You can definitely make close to that as a contractor / freelance web dev. I make about 85-90 per hour and should be charging more..

New comment by himlion in "SFUSD's delay of algebra 1 has created a nightmare of workarounds"

himlion — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 04:06:12 +0000

Ironically, as a Dutch tech worker without a degree the USA is one of the very very few countries I can't emigrate to.

New comment by himlion in "Source code for Dutch DigiD app released under Dutch Open Government Act"

himlion — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 13:58:38 +0000

I recently bought a car second hand, and for this flow logging in with ID verificiaton was mandatory.

New comment by himlion in "Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT"

himlion — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 11:47:06 +0000

And probably when the profit starts to reach that level they can just change it again..

New comment by himlion in "Space-based solar power is getting serious"

himlion — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 13:07:38 +0000

Because of complexity, safety requirements and disposal of spent material.

New comment by himlion in "TOTP tokens on my wrist with the smartest dumb watch"

himlion — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 10:08:00 +0000

AWS asks you to sync by inputting subsequent codes if it detects keys from the wrong time window.

New comment by himlion in "ASML's Secret: A view from inside the global semiconductor giant [video]"

himlion — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 16:54:50 +0000

They are also very much limited by the housing crisis in the Netherlands. They are perpetually looking for places to house their employees.

New comment by himlion in "Tom Stoppard Finally Looks into His Shadow"

himlion — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 21:01:15 +0000

Can second this, I'm not usually into plays but Arcadia is brilliant.

New comment by himlion in "Ryanair Condemns Hungarian Govt’s Idiotic ‘Excess Profits’ Tax"

himlion — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 16:17:40 +0000

Most timely is partly because they inflate the regular time. a 1:10 ryanair flight would be 0:55 on a normal carrier.

New comment by himlion in "Germany paying $5.5B for Intel fab"

himlion — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 17:48:25 +0000

ASML is prohibited from shipping its newest machines to China by the Dutch government, because of heavy US pressure. I'm sure China would love ASML to be fully based there.

New comment by himlion in "9-Euro-Ticket"

himlion — Fri, 20 May 2022 14:02:11 +0000

Correct, that wouldn't violate it. For German citizens only would.

New comment by himlion in "9-Euro-Ticket"

himlion — Fri, 20 May 2022 12:25:14 +0000

Yes, it would be a violation of EU law to restrict it.

New comment by himlion in "Tech bubbles are bursting all over the place"

himlion — Fri, 13 May 2022 19:46:12 +0000

That sounds interesting. Can you link to any reference on this? I tried googling but didn't turn up much.