Hacker News: maigret

New comment by maigret in "The dead economy theory"

maigret — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:32:02 +0000

If the rate of failure is slightly consistent then more layoffs will lead to more startups, so more will get on top. Many companies business are easier to attack than it looks. Look early 2000, early 2010 have both brought their set of amazing startups. 5 years ago people were most motivated to switch companies for more money.

New comment by maigret in "More than sixty percent of the United States is experiencing drought conditions"

maigret — Fri, 15 May 2026 11:32:40 +0000

In Europe drought is measured from the amount of water at different depths. I would be surprised it’s different in the US.

New comment by maigret in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

maigret — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:58:03 +0000

I know very few average people who would say such a thing though.

New comment by maigret in "Write less code, be more responsible"

maigret — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:23:45 +0000

Not yet, maybe.

New comment by maigret in "Rivian R2: Electric Mid-Size SUV"

maigret — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 16:08:37 +0000

Sorry but 40 tons trucks have been around for decades in Europe and people drove small cars. Its car marketing, group think and FUD.

New comment by maigret in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

maigret — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:54:11 +0000

Actually European integration the last 30 years has been pretty remarkable. In the past, not even electric plugs were compatible. But the EU is not a country. A lot of the inefficiencies are actually features sought by key members to protect their own local incumbents.

New comment by maigret in "The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else"

maigret — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 08:13:19 +0000

LOL are you looking at the news lately. Everything is blatantly in the open now.

New comment by maigret in "The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else"

maigret — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 08:11:03 +0000

I’ve seen many essential people being laid off for stupid reasons, the gp reason above being part of the story for some. Finance runs the world not tech. Tech is only welcome when it helps finance else it is marginalized.

New comment by maigret in "European Alternatives"

maigret — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 22:09:54 +0000

It was a single election in 2016, and a few governors and senators and… oh it’s actually a pattern, a system that people feign to ignore when convenient for them.

New comment by maigret in "European Alternatives"

maigret — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 20:16:56 +0000

The trains that are 10 min late in Germany mostly not exist in many other countries. Sure Switzerland is the best, but Germany is pretty high up. It’s just less good than it used to be. Oh and you can ride almost everywhere for 60 EUR / month.

For healthcare if you get an IT salary you can either move to private insurance, or buy additional insurance, or just pay a consultation yourself for a fee that US people won’t believe.

New comment by maigret in "Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface"

maigret — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 16:39:22 +0000

Plex Monospace is great for coding as well.

New comment by maigret in "Ask HN: How would you set up a child’s first Linux computer?"

maigret — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 11:57:59 +0000

I use LibreOffice for casual home use and can't remember the last time I missed a feature. The graphs are cumbersome to manage I agree.

New comment by maigret in "What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine?"

maigret — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 12:40:27 +0000

Because there are liabilities issues for others. What if your structure falls down on visitors? You cant repair some heath damage or death. Since this kind of problems is easily prevented by professional review, legal constraints make lots of sense.

New comment by maigret in "Claude Skills"

maigret — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 17:39:28 +0000

It’s still opex for finance

New comment by maigret in "Claude Skills"

maigret — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 17:35:45 +0000

Yes and fantastically executed, consistently through all their products and website - desktop, command line, third parties and more.

New comment by maigret in "Testing the Raspberry Pi 500+'s new mechanical keyboard"

maigret — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 08:44:01 +0000

Actually the accident is more that it became so successful for embedded computers in professional environments (factories, logistics etc.). This contributed to the lack of availability around the COVID crisis and opened opportunities for competitors to appear and gain rapid market share.

New comment by maigret in "The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy and four times subprime"

maigret — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 17:32:39 +0000

Has Apple crashed?

New comment by maigret in "I ditched Docker for Podman"

maigret — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 13:56:41 +0000

> How is that different from any piece of software that an employee will want in any sort of enterprise setting?

Open source is different in exactly that, no procurement.

Finance makes procurement annoying so people are not motivated to go through it.

New comment by maigret in "A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code"

maigret — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 13:54:06 +0000

Can you elaborate on “huge”?

New comment by maigret in "AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'"

maigret — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 06:30:03 +0000

At work I need often smaller, short lived scripts to find this or that insight, or to use visualization to render some data and I find LLMs very useful at that.

A non coding topic, but recently I had difficulty articulating a summarized state of a complex project, so I spoke 2 min in the microphone and it gave me a pretty good list of accomplishments, todos and open points.

Some colleagues have found them useful for modernizing dependencies of micro services or to help getting a head start on unit test coverage for web apps. All kinds of grunt work that’s not really complex but just really moves quite some text.

I agree it’s not life changing, but a nice help when needed.