Hacker News: niklasd

New comment by niklasd in "Nvidia's $750B in Deals Reignite Circular AI Fears"

niklasd — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:02:55 +0000

Not that I have any skills in stock-picking whatsoever, but couldn't the recent lukewarm performance not also be an argument for BRK?

I mean their cash pile is also invested in money markets (so you get that), and the rest of the portfolio consists of quality companies where their (combined) valuation didn't explode in the last 1,5 years. So it's an opportunity to invest into something that might not be overheated.

New comment by niklasd in "Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors"

niklasd — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:44:20 +0000

Unfortunately service reliability of Scaleway was terrible last time we used them.

New comment by niklasd in "GPT-5.5"

niklasd — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:02:18 +0000

What plan do you have? With gpt-5.5 and the business subscription my 5-hour limit was finished after 10 minutes.

New comment by niklasd in "GPT-5.5"

niklasd — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:59:50 +0000

Just burned through my 5 hour window in Codex (Business plan) in 10 minutes with GPT-5.5. Was excited to use it, but I guess I have to wait 5 hours now (it's not yet available in the API, so I can't switch there).

New comment by niklasd in "Pro Max 5x Quota Exhausted in 1.5 Hours Despite Moderate Usage"

niklasd — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:20:57 +0000

We also experienced hitting our Claude limits much earlier than before during the last two weeks. Up to a degree where we were thinking it must be a bug.

New comment by niklasd in "Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file"

niklasd — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:18:24 +0000

Very fun! If you play it on a big monitor, the games slows down for some reason.

New comment by niklasd in "SpaceX files to go public"

niklasd — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:42:39 +0000

I found his take on the space data center a bit negative. No idea if it is feasible right now, but you could have made the same jokes and ridicule about the feasibility of electric cars (batteries too weak!) before Elon build Tesla. And Patrick just lists some reasons why it is currently hard to do. I'm by no means a Elon fan, but if anyone could pull it of it's him, and attempting these hard challenges is a good thing.

New comment by niklasd in "Show HN: P0 – Yes, AI can ship complex features into real codebases"

niklasd — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:04:09 +0000

I tried it out and it worked really well for us – awesome tool! The spec-driven approach is a bit different then the usual back-and-forth with agents, and if you invest properly in writing specs it pays of.

New comment by niklasd in "CTO / cofounder exit deal after 1.5y at 600k revenue without SHA"

niklasd — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 11:56:58 +0000

From an investors point it's very unattractive to invest in a early-stage startup where half of the shares are in the hands of a person not working there anymore.

New comment by niklasd in "Show HN: Documind – Open-source AI tool to turn documents into structured data"

niklasd — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 20:46:57 +0000

We found that for extracting tables, OpenAIs LLMs aren't great. What is working well for us is Docling (https://github.com/DS4SD/docling/)

New comment by niklasd in "Fly Postgres, Managed by Supabase"

niklasd — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 09:13:40 +0000

About the "as complex as you need": RLS can get slow very quickly for aggregate queries, and is hard to debug (since query planner doesn't work smoothly with RLS).

We have a dashboard that displays aggregated stats for our admin users, and we hit serious performance issues with ~600 users with our first implementation. This repo helped us: https://github.com/GaryAustin1/RLS-Performance

New comment by niklasd in "Supabase Auth: SSO, Mobile, and Server-Side Support"

niklasd — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 08:02:26 +0000

Great, thank you for the reply! The simulation a policy sounds exciting. Looking forward to the news.

New comment by niklasd in "Supabase Auth: SSO, Mobile, and Server-Side Support"

niklasd — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 18:10:06 +0000

Some additional feedback: In my opinion testing RLS is a problem.

Additionally, I find it hard to keep a good overview over the rules. E.g., in a multi-tenant application one needs to secure every table with a restrictive rule, and it's easy to make a rule permissive, since that is the default & it's not indicated in the Studio UI.

When generating migrations with 'supabase db diff' views are being recreated without 'WITH (security_invoker)' even though they had security_invoker turned on before, leaving your database exposed. Easy to miss, even when you're aware of that.

RLS is just so full of footguns that I find it hard to justify using it in a production system.

(But otherwise I love Supabase! Great job.)

New comment by niklasd in "Supabase Auth: SSO, Mobile, and Server-Side Support"

niklasd — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 18:00:25 +0000

Great news! Question to the Supabase team: How does Login with Azure (Social login) and SSO (Azure) differ? From my superficial understanding, implementing Login with Azure is enough for logging-in users with Azure AD accounts (and linking their accounts to existing ones).

New comment by niklasd in "Supabase Auth: SSO, Mobile, and Server-Side Support"

niklasd — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 16:39:56 +0000

Would that not be a huge security risk? You could access the SSO credentials of your users that way.

New comment by niklasd in "Ask HN: Concepts that clicked only years after you first encountered them?"

niklasd — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 15:19:09 +0000

I found this explanation very helpful: https://hakibenita.com/python-dependency-injection (if you program in Python)

New comment by niklasd in "Supabase Storage v2: Image Resizing and Smart CDN"

niklasd — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 17:22:34 +0000

Great job! What are the implications on resizing regarding storage egress & download size? Can I expect both to be smaller when resizing an image?

New comment by niklasd in "UK high street banks are quarantining from crypto"

niklasd — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 12:39:26 +0000

Actually, that is perfectly normal in many tax systems, e.g. in Germany. Afaik the tax law doesn't care where the money comes from – it could be from a completely illegal activity, and you still own taxes on gains.

New comment by niklasd in "Ask HN: Are companies becoming increasingly pushy? If so why?"

niklasd — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 20:27:41 +0000

The last point always confuses me. Twitter can show ads to me without me having an account. Instead, they block me from reading on Twitter after a few tweets, thus loosing my eyeballs. Maybe that's compensated by signups, but it certainly didn't work for me.

New comment by niklasd in "AWS and Blockchain"

niklasd — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 17:27:42 +0000

It is somehow telling that you link to a Twitter post instead to a post on clutter.social.