Hacker News: mattio

New comment by mattio in "GPT-5.2-Codex"

mattio — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:57:11 +0000

Completely agreed. Used claude and codex both on highest tier next to each other for a month. On complex tasks where Claude would get stuck and not be able to fix it at all, codex would fix the issue in one go. Codex is amazing.

I did found some slip ups in 5.2 where I did a refactor of a client header where I removed two header properties, but 5.2 forgot to remove those from the toArray method of the class. Was using 5.2 on medium (default).

New comment by mattio in "Being poor vs. being broke"

mattio — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:03:34 +0000

I was just lucky that I started programming when I was about 32, and when I started freelancing (35) money started flowing. But tbh I am still managing the holes my upbringing left me (financial habits, attachment issues, focus and productivity). I know I’m responsible for my action, but it does not make it easier.

It kind of feels it’s never enough. So it does not feel I am helped in the sense that I left my problems behind me. Just traded some problems for better (but also bigger) ones.

New comment by mattio in "Being poor vs. being broke"

mattio — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 20:03:15 +0000

I grew up poor as dirt. My mom has four kids with three dads. Eventually we were a family of six. I think we had about 100 euros a month for food, clothing and recreation. My mom and stepdad did not work one day in their lives (welfare in NL).

Right now I’m still recovering. It’s my fifth year making over 150K and I have zero to show for it because I did a poor job managing my finances. To help me (in general, but also productivity wise) I have a coach and coincidentally today exerpeinced a breakthrough. I am still afraid of being poor. Of being made fun of. And not being enough.

I’m operating out of a ‘it’s not enough’ mentality, because I don’t feel enough. It feels like a life sentence, but some hope shimmers at the end of the tunnel.

What it’s like being poor: even buying a simple football in a supermarket felt leagues out of reach. Being sent back home because a teacher told me my clothes did not cut it. And my parents just sent me back. I never thought there was a path for me to become a doctor. Or any other noble job. Growing up or being poor is not being able to see a way out. Recognising opportunity.

Forgive me my language. Super tired and on my phone.

New comment by mattio in "OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss"

mattio — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 06:58:09 +0000

Currently their moat is history. Why I keep coming back to ChatGPT is it ‘remembers’ our previous chats, so I don’t have to explain things over and over again. And this history builds up over time.

New comment by mattio in "VPN firm says it didn't know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them"

mattio — Wed, 14 May 2025 08:10:13 +0000

The company must remain profitable, otherwise it will bankrupt, right. I wonder what a better path forward was. Perhaps their T&C allow to lower through put of the LT-subscriptions and offer an upgrade to breakeven on LT-subs.

New comment by mattio in "VanMoof encryption key exporter"

mattio — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 07:29:27 +0000

I am not sure why everyone thinks they are expensive. Just the bike is about 2000 euro.

There are eBikes costing 4000 euro.

My van moof was about 2800 because I bought the 2 packages taking care of theft and repairs. Because of their image I never have to lock the bike besides their amazing kick lock bike, so getting on and off the bike with locking and unlocking it is a matter of seconds.

This is not expensive at all.

*their image amongst bicycle thief’s makes the bike unattractive. They hunt down stolen bikes if you bought their theft service. If they can’t find it you get a new one.

Bioengineered Cornea Restored Sight

mattio — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 09:36:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/08/11/1057576/bioengineered-cornea-restored-sight/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32457862

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mattio in "Sea water to drink water at the push of a button"

mattio — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 06:38:58 +0000

Sea water to drink water at the push of a button! Is this technology finally ready to be commercialized?

Sea water to drink water at the push of a button

mattio — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 06:38:58 +0000

Article URL: https://greekreporter.com/2022/07/28/mit-scientists-turn-seawater-to-drinking-water-with-the-push-of-a-button/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32382912

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by mattio in "Maccy is an open source lightweight and searchable clipboard manager for macOS"

mattio — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 21:42:38 +0000

I tried paste, but it is too much in your face for my taste.

Would love something like the clipboard manager from the JetBrain suite as a global clipboard manager.

Will give Alfred a try, thanks!

New comment by mattio in "Rf: an experimental refactoring tool for Go"

mattio — Tue, 25 May 2021 07:19:36 +0000

Thanks for the insight.

Bring spotlight/alfred functionality to your laravel /livewire app

mattio — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 15:18:03 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/philo01/status/1380135839263559680

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26925484

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mattio in "Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?"

mattio — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 08:53:44 +0000

I am also trying to tackle this problem in a side project! Dm me if you want to compare notes. <3

New comment by mattio in "Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?"

mattio — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 08:39:50 +0000

Trying to find a backend (php) freelance project since March after having worked 5 years in a startup/scaleup. Its the hardest problem I faced in ages. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

New comment by mattio in "Show HN: Online Town – A better way to gather online"

mattio — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 11:55:38 +0000

I am working on the exact same thing since a week now. =D

New comment by mattio in "Show HN: Online Town – A better way to gather online"

mattio — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 09:18:51 +0000

I am building this too atm, but a slightly different implementation (python backend en typescript frontend). I started saturday; I've had the idea longer, but that it's more like a feature than a product kept me from building it. Nice work, keep it up!

New comment by mattio in "Quarantine will normalize WFH and recession will denormalize full-time jobs"

mattio — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 09:48:51 +0000

Brighton, UT has some night time skiing (I think until 9 pm).

New comment by mattio in "Show HN: A new innovative Browser extension to expand your vocabulary"

mattio — Sat, 01 Feb 2020 16:47:56 +0000

Doesn't seem like an ad to me.

New comment by mattio in "Practical Examples in Data Oriented Design"

mattio — Sun, 01 Dec 2019 10:30:54 +0000

Thank you for your explanation!

New comment by mattio in "1000fps image projection on deforming non-rigid surface"

mattio — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 16:29:22 +0000

This is awesome!