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New comment by manueltgomes in "My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini"

manueltgomes — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 08:22:56 +0000

It’s $7900! “Interesting” and “option” are doing a lot of heavy lifting there :).

New comment by manueltgomes in "YC startups are abandoning .com"

manueltgomes — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:39:47 +0000

Bingo. either you bough a .com a while ago or you have to pay a lot.

A while ago we had the .ly domains. Now .ai. Things change depending on "fashion" if you can call it that.

New comment by manueltgomes in "France Bans Unsolicited Telemarketing Calls"

manueltgomes — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:46:31 +0000

I think the biggest issue is fraud. They won't follow any rules. I've been getting a lot of calls of people saying I called them (I didn't). I contacted Vodafone and they said that fraudsters are able to change the ongoing number so if people don't answer and return the call they will go to a "real" person's number. Also technically people are already forbidden to contact you because of GDPR. They need prior permission to do it and they go ahead and contact you anyway. Good initiative and if they "crack the code" amazing, because more of Europe will follow

New comment by manueltgomes in "Ask HN: Sub 5 person team – Claude team plan?"

manueltgomes — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:41:23 +0000

The team plans I think are worth it if you want central billing and SSO for example. Also I don't know if you can share projects between people and if it's only teams it could be a plus to share "knowledge" between team members. I don't know if any of these are a must for you but could be a consideration of price vs productivity between team members..

New comment by manueltgomes in "The "I don't know, Claude wrote this" pandemic"

manueltgomes — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:30:15 +0000

AI can be great for people who learned how to develop before the tools, but for the people that are leaving university now it will be tricky. Take away Claude and they are lost.

New comment by manueltgomes in "Show HN: Not Another AI Platform"

manueltgomes — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:24:21 +0000

You posted this 4 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48672308

Good job on the project at 15 years old :)

New comment by manueltgomes in "US Supreme Court Just Blew Up EU-US Data Transfers"

manueltgomes — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:19:43 +0000

Switching to EU companies is often the solution, but also we're in a tricky position in Europe since alternatives exist but can't compete with US. So finding European alternatives is possible but hard. Also EU is doing its job enforcing privacy and anti-competition laws but then American companies just say "feature not available in EU" (like Apple is doing more and more for example), making things even harder to switch. Like nick mentioned, even EU official sites use CloudFront so it's a tricky process.

New comment by manueltgomes in "LangPulse – Which languages are gaining traction?"

manueltgomes — Thu, 14 May 2026 08:31:55 +0000

Not surprised about Python, since it became the go-to language for 'everything AI' related even before the huge boom. If you ask to write a simple script in Claude Code, it will, in my experience, write it in Python. OpenAI buying Astral and Anthropic buying Bun shows that the top 2 lines will grow even more, in my opinion. Public repositories are skewed highly by vibe coding and automatic code generation, again in my opinion, so it also depends on what the clients think about their 'default' language to generate code.

New comment by manueltgomes in "Ask HN: I've been using AI for 3 years,I've lost the ability to think for myself"

manueltgomes — Thu, 14 May 2026 08:23:12 +0000

Bingo! Not using it is foolish! It's incredible and saves so much time, if used properly.

New comment by manueltgomes in "Ask HN: I've been using AI for 3 years,I've lost the ability to think for myself"

manueltgomes — Thu, 14 May 2026 08:22:32 +0000

I still remember that impulse, before AI, of googling everything before thinking a bit. AI as a technology is incredibly new and we're still figuring out how to use it, but things will stabilize. 'googling' everything also didn't take away our ability to think, so as long as you're aware, you can do something about it.

New comment by manueltgomes in "People Would Rather Have Nuclear Power Plants in Their Area Than AI Data Centers"

manueltgomes — Thu, 14 May 2026 08:16:10 +0000

> A Gallup survey released Wednesday shows 71% of Americans are somewhat or strongly opposed to the building of AI data centers in their area, mostly out of concern for their environmental impact.

I know that nuclear power plants are getting safer and safer. but saying that this is the main concern..

> 5 million gallons. That’s how much water large data centers can consume per day, equivalent to the water use of a town with a population of 10,000 to 50,000.

Quick search online tells me that a nuclear power plant uses as much as 35–65 million gallons...

All of this apart from the actual danger of having a NUCLEAR power plant near home.. The accidents in the past were rare but the ones that existed we still mention them by name with the impact well know.

New comment by manueltgomes in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"

manueltgomes — Thu, 14 May 2026 08:10:07 +0000

How's the Object Storage support? did you have any issues? Hetzner looks more stable now but I had a lot of issues with S3 compatible storage a while ago... Almost made me change everything. If you're willing or able to share of course..

New comment by manueltgomes in "delta time"

manueltgomes — Thu, 14 May 2026 08:02:02 +0000

Like I said "user error" :). you're right thanks!

New comment by manueltgomes in "delta time"

manueltgomes — Thu, 14 May 2026 07:49:43 +0000

Design is amazing. Well done. I inserted my birthday and got "Enter a real Gregorian date.". Only then I understood I needed to insert "mm dd yyyy". User error for sure :) but this date format really annoys me

New comment by manueltgomes in "LLMs are breaking 20 year old system design"

manueltgomes — Thu, 14 May 2026 07:43:05 +0000

> Long running work: an agent doing a 10 minute task isn’t a ‘request’, it’s a long-running async process.

Correct, but we solved this a long time ago when we started sending files to servers to be converted, for example. We either got a 'job_id' or a call to a webhook when the job was finished."

New comment by manueltgomes in "HantaWatch Real time hantavirus outbreak tracker"

manueltgomes — Sun, 10 May 2026 15:12:36 +0000

Helpful site but clicked “manage options” for the cookies and got “ 920 partners included”. I’m wondering not all of them “legitimate interest”

New comment by manueltgomes in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

manueltgomes — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 06:22:18 +0000

Indeed. I'm wondering if Apple's "miss the train" with AI ended up being a blessing for them. Not only in the Google deal but also there's a lot of people doing interesting stuff locally..