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New comment by l5870uoo9y in "Stripe is friendly to “friendly fraud”"

l5870uoo9y — Wed, 27 May 2026 08:24:10 +0000

I wonder how much revenue Stripe would loose if it cracked down on chargeback fraud and free trial abuse (cards defaulting) and similar? Even just a few percentage out of an annual revenue of $5.1 billion is substantial.

New comment by l5870uoo9y in "Hanoi’s humble beer glass and the memory of a nation"

l5870uoo9y — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:33:40 +0000

> Bia hơi (pronounced “bee-ah hoy” and meaning “fresh beer”) is brewed without preservatives or added carbonation.

Tank beer (tankova) from Urquell is same but it last a week or two in the tank to my knowledge and not just 24 hours as Bia hơi. It is properly the best pilsner in the world.

New comment by l5870uoo9y in "Leaving GitHub for Forgejo"

l5870uoo9y — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:09:52 +0000

> The CTO publicly apologised and said capacity needs to scale 30x to keep up with AI-driven load.

I hope they don't start charging for regular use of GitHub, but when I see how some of the vibe coders make thousands of commits a day, I'm becoming more and more skeptical. Would be a real shame if we can't share and cooperate on code for free.

New comment by l5870uoo9y in "Productivity isn't about going faster"

l5870uoo9y — Tue, 12 May 2026 05:48:19 +0000

> It's about spending your time where it truly matters.

I think the author conflates productivity with meaningfulness.

New comment by l5870uoo9y in "Claude Platform on AWS"

l5870uoo9y — Tue, 12 May 2026 05:25:04 +0000

> Claude on Amazon Bedrock keeps AWS as the data processor and operates within the AWS boundary. This is a good fit for companies that have strict regional data residency requirements or need their data processed exclusively within AWS's infrastructure.

Seems like there are two different options.

New comment by l5870uoo9y in "DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro"

l5870uoo9y — Mon, 04 May 2026 07:25:25 +0000

> DeepSeek V4 Pro scores 96.4% on LiveCodeBench and costs $0.87/M output tokens.

Yes and this is a temporary discount which increases to 3.48 USD on 2026/05/31 15:59 UTC.

Source: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing

New comment by l5870uoo9y in "Pentagon spending on drones jumps from $225M to $55B in one year"

l5870uoo9y — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:43:19 +0000

Took a war to realize this.

New comment by l5870uoo9y in "I don't chain everything in JavaScript anymore"

l5870uoo9y — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:17:30 +0000

Kinda feels like a code smell having to optimize your code this way. Normally, data state would be abstracted away in a data store (e.g., Redux), and then specific sub-selections are pulled out using pure functions, e.g., `getActiveUserNames`, `getActiveUsers`, `getTop5ActiveUsers`.

New comment by l5870uoo9y in "The purist's guide to phở in Hanoi"

l5870uoo9y — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:28:59 +0000

Pho is delicious, but Thai boat noodles soup (guay tiew ruea) is godly; dark, robust, and full of diverse flavors and nuances.

Key Front End Architectural Patterns for Complex Applications

l5870uoo9y — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:07:05 +0000

Article URL: https://sometechblog.com/posts/frontend-architecture-decisions/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47846422

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by l5870uoo9y in "Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors"

l5870uoo9y — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:58:15 +0000

> It could be either a fat-finger mistake when editing the Excel file or deliberate tampering to cover up real data that didn't tell the right story.

I can easily imagine after spending years or decades devoted to discovering a scientific breakthrough that some could be tempted to slightly alter the data. I believe there was some scandal about this a few years back with climate data. Fixing this is however something that AI would do fairly well.

New comment by l5870uoo9y in "Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7"

l5870uoo9y — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 21:50:20 +0000

Could be that Claude has particular controversial opinions on eating disorders.

New comment by l5870uoo9y in "Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?"

l5870uoo9y — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:17:19 +0000

I started freelancing over 10 years ago, and I got my first freelance project through an acquaintance from my former dorm in Copenhagen. After that I got several different freelance jobs through recruiters on LinkedIn. But it was a different time, as the cliché goes. One thing to know about highly paid freelance positions is that they are extremely cyclical. These are positions that mainly exist because the market is booming and screaming for labor, and when that's not the case, companies will much, much prefer to have permanent employees.

In the time before COVID and up until its end, the tech market was booming, but when the economic stimulus ended and interest rates rose, the tech market shrank and the freelance market in Berlin/Germany (and probably Denmark too) has never really recovered. The positions simply aren't there, only very few that many fight over. The great thing about being a freelancer before was that you were almost treated like a rock star, recruiters contacted you all the time, and you could pick and choose.

If you don't have a large network, you can try signing up with different recruiters and see what they have to offer. You might be lucky if you live in regions with less competition and where clients are looking for someone local to work on-site. Getting hired these days also requires that you have (substantial) experience and can show some projects.

(By the way, I’m looking for a permanent position—preferably in Copenhagen—as the bank requires this to approve my loan application. Here is my resume just in case: https://lasse.sometechblog.com/)

New comment by l5870uoo9y in "Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45%"

l5870uoo9y — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:17:46 +0000

My impression the reverse is true when upgrading to GPT-5.4 from GPT-5; it uses fewer tokens(?).

New comment by l5870uoo9y in "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner"

l5870uoo9y — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:08:42 +0000

Most VPS hosting companies have cheap entrance VPS but then steep pricing. 8 vCPUs on DigitalOcean cost 96$ and ~11$ on Hetzner.

New comment by l5870uoo9y in "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner"

l5870uoo9y — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:04:53 +0000

Has Hetzner discontinued their US data center?

New comment by l5870uoo9y in "Claude Opus 4.7"

l5870uoo9y — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:18:51 +0000

In hindsight, it is painfully clear that Antropic’s conservative investment strategy has them struggling with keeping up with demand and caused their profit margin to shrink significantly as last buyer of compute.

New comment by l5870uoo9y in "The secrets of the Shinkansen"

l5870uoo9y — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:51:58 +0000

It’s fascinating to read but I have a hard time imagining a public western railway provider could evolve into a train based mega corporation doing real estate and health services.

New comment by l5870uoo9y in "In Denmark, the spread of solar panels has become a divisive issue"

l5870uoo9y — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:17:51 +0000

The absurdity of the climate debate is that “we” talk almost constantly about two energy sources (wind and solar) that in no way have the potential to provide the stable baseload power required to electrify society. And unless nature has blessed your country with abundant geothermal or hydroelectric power, that leaves you with the following options: oil, coal, or nuclear power.

New comment by l5870uoo9y in "We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2"

l5870uoo9y — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:22:38 +0000

I migrated the landing pages for my app[1] from Nextjs to Astrojs mainly because I was paying Vercel $20 per month for serving static pages(it’s 4 times more than I pay Railway for the Postgres database for the actual app and also 4 times more than I pay Cloudflare for hosting all my apps). I used AI for migrating and it took a few days only as the existing repo was used as “instructions” and it included some upgrades and improvements here and there.

[1]: https://www.sqlai.ai/