Hacker News: leros

New comment by leros in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

leros — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:13:29 +0000

Laws like this are a good idea but its too burdensome for small companies so it cripples innovations and small businesses. Only applying it to larger companies let's it apply to only the companies who have the largest impact and also can afford compliance, while not stifling small businesses. Not perfect but I think it's a decent tradeoff.

New comment by leros in "Ask HN: Do teams really need to use GitHub?"

leros — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:45:08 +0000

Companies like to reduce risk and unknowns. Paying $500/mo for Git that is run by somebody else is predictable. Having your self hosted Git potentially go down and block releases, block hot fixes, block that big marketing launch, etc is not a risk you want looming over your head because it's not predictable.

New comment by leros in "Ask HN: No Path from Techie to Management?"

leros — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:45:45 +0000

Advancing through technical ranks does not qualify one for management. It qualifies them for more technical stuff.

Are you taking leadership responsibilities? Leading your team, mentoring others, representing your team in broader meetings with other teams, helping with planning, etc. Doing that stuff probably means you stop doing technical stuff.

New comment by leros in "Hacking with Claude on a $27 smart watch"

leros — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:40:23 +0000

All my slightly-technical friends refer to AI coding as Claude

New comment by leros in "OpenRouter is joining Stripe"

leros — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:11:35 +0000

Apparently. The price does seem high, but the value of a company is based on it's finances. You could argue companies like Google are just middlemen too.

New comment by leros in "OpenRouter is joining Stripe"

leros — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:59:19 +0000

Their business models are actually kind of similar. Stripe is just passing money between financial institutions and taking a small cut. OpenRouter is basically the same thing. They might have shared ability on how to run an effective pass through business.

New comment by leros in "OpenRouter is joining Stripe"

leros — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:57:41 +0000

10% would be more typical. Perhaps the math is that OpenRouter inside Stripe makes it twice as valuable. You often see acquisitions priced on the value of the company post-acquisition.

New comment by leros in "Ask HN: Countries with greatest temperature increases have benefited from them?"

leros — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:25:08 +0000

Countries like Canada and Russia will gain from global warming. Sea shipping lanes previously frozen over half the year will be available year round. Areas previously too cold to farm will now be warm enough to farm. So they'll be gaining agricultural land while existing countries lose agricultural land.

New comment by leros in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

leros — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:34:11 +0000

I honestly haven't really noticed a difference in ads after switching to the Lite version. It seems to work well enough.

New comment by leros in "Ask HN: Anyone have solution to Opus verbosity in Claude Code?"

leros — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:01:08 +0000

I've noticed Opus 5 repeatedly ignored my Claude.md in several ways. Particularly when it comes to verbosity of comments in code.

New comment by leros in "Fastmail offers EU data region"

leros — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:00:24 +0000

It sounded like a temporary situation until they get a second EU datacenter.

New comment by leros in "Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating"

leros — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:58:51 +0000

This is how we used to grade labs when I was a TA in college. Students worked in groups of two and showed up with a working project to get graded. Afterwards, we'd ask the two students questions and it was extremely obvious if one or both of them didn't work on it.

New comment by leros in "A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website"

leros — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 01:13:31 +0000

You are quite incorrect. I make a living off a website and 99.9% of my traffic is from bots. Literally hundreds of millions of requests from bots. The cost of bots is worth the cost of not harming legit users.

New comment by leros in "A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website"

leros — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:11:16 +0000

I suppose it would depend, yeah. I find having paying customers being blocked to be completely unacceptable. Not only is a bad customer experience, but they tend to be very vocal about it. Posting online, leaving bad reviews, etc.

New comment by leros in "A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website"

leros — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:52:54 +0000

There are false positives. Every time I've used a tool like this, I get reports from my users about it blocking their access. It's especially bad for users who use privacy oriented browsers like Brave or use VPNs.

For a personal site where you don't care about 0.1% of your users getting blocked, it's probably fine. For a business, blocking some of your paying customers isn't acceptable.

New comment by leros in "A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website"

leros — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:56:22 +0000

Yeah this is one of those things that hurts some real users and AI scrapers have figured out how to bypass. Not worth it IMO.

New comment by leros in "Drone carrying explosive device causes disruption at major German airport"

leros — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:14:51 +0000

I was wondering when something like this would happen. It's been relatively simple to do for a while now.

New comment by leros in "Tell HN: Amazonbot aggressively scraping my website and ignoring robots.txt"

leros — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:41:41 +0000

It's not abnormal for people to disrespect robots.txt

Meta not only ignored my robots.txt but they hit me with 1k requests per second sometimes.

BingBot is doing something weird. Based on the logs I see, it feels like their crawler is trying to reverse engineer my public facing APIs and scrape those directly.

New comment by leros in "Ask HN: Anyone still do work on Intel Macs?"

leros — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 15:23:01 +0000

I've got my old Intel MacBook in my workshop. It works great for Fusion 360 which is fairly intense. I don't code on it anymore though.

Having run massive code bases on average laptops before, I think you'd be fine. It might just take longer to index and compile.

New comment by leros in "Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search"

leros — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:07:00 +0000

No idea. When I was looking it up, I did see that advanced searching has to be enabled in Algolia for it to work.