Hacker News: pbreithttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pbreitHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:33:13 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by pbreit in "OpenRouter is joining Stripe"]]>Copying others better and faster. I would say this is right up their alley.

]]>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:43:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49392952pbreithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49392952https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49392952<![CDATA[New comment by pbreit in "OpenRouter is joining Stripe"]]>Even a business spend provider: https://router.com

]]>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:41:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49392933pbreithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49392933https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49392933<![CDATA[New comment by pbreit in "OpenRouter is joining Stripe"]]>The other thing is, aren't the models mostly indistinguishable at this point?

]]>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:40:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49392927pbreithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49392927https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49392927<![CDATA[New comment by pbreit in "Claudette: Make Claude stop talking like a BuzzFeed article"]]>Shouldn't this all be easily doable via (auto-)prompting? Surely I don't need to "install" anything?

]]>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:40:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49392918pbreithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49392918https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49392918<![CDATA[New comment by pbreit in "OpenRouter is joining Stripe"]]>This seems like something xAi could reproduce in a weekend

]]>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 05:46:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49370810pbreithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49370810https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49370810<![CDATA[New comment by pbreit in "Being ambitious and being a dad"]]>Just remember, for 99.9% of us, work accomplishments are meaningless.

]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:29:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49366092pbreithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49366092https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49366092<![CDATA[New comment by pbreit in "PostgreSQL for Everything"]]>I dunno. I think the main takeaway here is that you can do 80-95% of your stuff in Postgres and eschew all the unnecessary, unproven stores.

]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:20:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49364417pbreithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49364417https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49364417<![CDATA[New comment by pbreit in "We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility"]]>Agree. Couldn't care less. There are some neat aspects to "rare books" but overall quite insignificant.

]]>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:36:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337272pbreithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337272https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49337272<![CDATA[New comment by pbreit in "Firefox 153.0 Beta"]]>Has Firefox not had containers until now????

]]>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:58:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48980667pbreithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48980667https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48980667<![CDATA[New comment by pbreit in "Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies"]]>That's ridiculous. All he espouses is that all of this stuff is going to happen and so you might was well do it right (with Palantir).

]]>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:52:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48767220pbreithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48767220https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48767220<![CDATA[New comment by pbreit in "Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies"]]>This seems ridiculously short-sighted and backwards.

]]>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:49:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48767188pbreithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48767188https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48767188<![CDATA[New comment by pbreit in "Launch HN: Drafted (YC P26) – Models for residential architecture"]]>Bidet?

]]>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:27:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48545900pbreithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48545900https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48545900<![CDATA[New comment by pbreit in "Launch HN: Drafted (YC P26) – Models for residential architecture"]]>I try to avoid hating but that's pretty rough.

]]>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:26:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48545886pbreithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48545886https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48545886<![CDATA[New comment by pbreit in "Launch HN: Drafted (YC P26) – Models for residential architecture"]]>How much structural and geotechnical detail does an ADU need?

]]>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:22:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48545843pbreithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48545843https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48545843<![CDATA[New comment by pbreit in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"]]>Since it's entirely possible (extremely likely?) the "problem" would never materialize, this is quite reasonable.

]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:16:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48500198pbreithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48500198https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48500198<![CDATA[New comment by pbreit in "Spanish traders set the standard for GnuCash database design"]]>Storing money as an integer is OK but I've never liked APIs that required financial amounts to be integers. Amounts always eventually need to be displayed to a human as a decimal.

]]>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:41:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48450625pbreithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48450625https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48450625<![CDATA[New comment by pbreit in "Why Britain's fintech stars faded"]]>Easy: non-competitive equity compensation.

]]>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:38:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48360853pbreithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48360853https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48360853<![CDATA[New comment by pbreit in "Heat pump sales rise across Europe"]]>“ A total of around 575,000 residential heat pump units were sold across 11 European countries from January to March 2026, up from 494,000 in the same period in 2025”

Not a big increase on a relatively small base. What is the takeaway here?

]]>Mon, 04 May 2026 22:49:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015983pbreithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015983https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48015983<![CDATA[New comment by pbreit in "Talking to strangers at the gym"]]>I don't go to the gym much but that is one place where I would be VERY careful trying to strike up a confirmation and heaven forbid tapping someone on the shoulder.

]]>Mon, 04 May 2026 20:21:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48014436pbreithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48014436https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48014436<![CDATA[New comment by pbreit in "Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge"]]>All my co-workers say Claude blows away Gemini. Is it really that good? How can I do Kimi?

]]>Sun, 03 May 2026 05:06:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47993526pbreithttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47993526https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47993526