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New comment by prettygood in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

prettygood — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 04:42:09 +0000

Setting a standard in Europe? What’s France doing then?

New comment by prettygood in "Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows"

prettygood — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:02:11 +0000

This isn’t a bad thing? Kids nowadays have the attention span of puppies. It’s been shown extensively that doomscrolling, switching context every 30s isn’t good for the brain.

New comment by prettygood in "The Agentic AI Handbook: Production-Ready Patterns"

prettygood — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 13:58:23 +0000

No, that was an exaggeration. The prompt was decent. I explained the point of the repository, that I wanted full coverage with tests, that it could keep going until it worked. Maybe that was still not enough. With how others talk about it, I must be missing something.

New comment by prettygood in "The Agentic AI Handbook: Production-Ready Patterns"

prettygood — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:08:23 +0000

I'm so happy someone else says this, because I'm doing exactly the same. I tried to use agent mode in vs code and the output was still bad. You read simple things like: "We use it to write tests". I gave it a very simple repository, said to write tests, and the result wasn't usable at all. Really wonder if I'm doing it wrong.

New comment by prettygood in "Denmark's struggle to break up with Silicon Valley"

prettygood — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:46:16 +0000

As a freelancer you can easily still earn 6 figures

New comment by prettygood in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

prettygood — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:52:54 +0000

Damn, that’s a pretty disappointing statement. Some parts are correct but then he goes completely overboard. After everything that has been happening the past year with the new administration it’s hard to keep supporting this as a European.

Will move our startup from Cloudflare.

New comment by prettygood in "Italian Competition Authority Fines Apple $115M for Abusing Dominant Position"

prettygood — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:49:22 +0000

They can always chose not to sell their products and services in the EU if they don't want to comply with the laws here.

New comment by prettygood in "Override: inside the revolution rewiring American power"

prettygood — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 08:47:09 +0000

I found it quite badly written, and have no clue what they actually did and what the impact was. We exposed money flows, and now potholes are being filled. What?

Maybe I read it to quickly, but what they are doing is quite complex. The medium he's using to explain it might not be the best one for his skillset.

New comment by prettygood in "DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf]"

prettygood — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 17:56:35 +0000

Isn’t it that the current market price of NVDA was based on the amount of chips they need to sell? Because to train and run models you need so many GPU’s. Now that deepseek is showing you need less GPU’s to train and run it, the value of NVDA lowers since they won’t sell as much.

New comment by prettygood in "Stripe Data vs. Open‐Source Alternatives: A MRR Example"

prettygood — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 13:54:43 +0000

We had the same issue, but it was over by 10-20% in our case. Discussed this with them multiple times, and the last response I got was:

"I've checked in with our engineering teams, and we unfortunately don't yet have a fix or timeline to share here, though we have made additional progress on scoping a path forward. It's extremely complex on our end, as existing data models don't have the required information in place to make the change here, and we'd need to scope how to add that and backfill data (which we're approaching, but again, no timeline to share as of now)."

Obviously I don't know anything about them internally, but if I can export the data as a CSV-file, and then calculate the MRR myself in GSheets, then what data needs to be backfilled? The data is already available to properly calculate it.

New comment by prettygood in "Ask HN: My Cofounder was diagnosed with cancer, what should I do?"

prettygood — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 09:48:41 +0000

As others have said, you'll need to talk to him. And focus on what does he want, and what does he think is fair. He can't expect to keep his share of the company, while also bailing on you, but most people don't think like this anyway. If your working relation was good, and he wants the company to succeed, he won't play hardball. Which means that you also don't need to get into the conversation with your guard up. Just talk to him, and be a decent human being.

New comment by prettygood in "Sony debuts first PS5 controller for disabled gamers"

prettygood — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 22:54:12 +0000

I agree that saying “Microsoft did it already” is a silly response to something that is just a positive to gaming. But your example of Nintendo doesn’t really mean anything when Nintendo didn’t put a lot of effort in supporting disabled people the last generations.

I applaud Nintendo for doing this for the NES, but where are they today?

New comment by prettygood in "Sony debuts first PS5 controller for disabled gamers"

prettygood — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 22:47:05 +0000

Everything Microsoft did with Xbox long before Sony?

If we focus purely on the console gaming market, Microsoft did a lot for disabled people. Multiple different controllers and systems were released this generation.

New comment by prettygood in "Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?"

prettygood — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 21:30:43 +0000

That’s a pretty naive way to look at it. A lot of patented products have a positive impact on the world, should all of these be shared?

What if a small player tries to break into a market with a nee solution? They should give away their IP to the big player purely because it has a positive impact on the world?

Just because their product is more safe doesn’t mean they automatically have to share this with everyone. They put time and a lot of effort into this, and that should be rewarded. The world rewards people with money. Sure some people might be happy with knowing they saved more lives, but eventually most people just want to be rewarded.

New comment by prettygood in "Waiting for Postgres 16: Cumulative I/O statistics with pg_stat_io"

prettygood — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 02:23:05 +0000

Same goes for GCP. Normally they release it before Christmas but version 15 still hasn’t been released.

New comment by prettygood in "I’m consuming 5500 hours of Joe Rogan with the help of AI"

prettygood — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 15:38:44 +0000

Great, I'll add it to our list and try it out in the future.

New comment by prettygood in "I’m consuming 5500 hours of Joe Rogan with the help of AI"

prettygood — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 15:19:43 +0000

Cool project! I can't verify your results, because I don't listen to Joe Rogan, but your setup seems sound.

I never heard of Steamship before. You used it to analyse audio, and create summaries, is that it's sole purpose? We just started research on text classification in case of extremely small datasets, and was wondering if I should add it to the list.

New comment by prettygood in "Show HN: I made a puzzle game in HTML5"

prettygood — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 14:51:01 +0000

2. Shift + arrow keys

New comment by prettygood in "Finland or Sweden joining NATO would spark Russian response, Russia warns"

prettygood — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 19:22:50 +0000

This is a very delicate situation that can't be resolved by just sending troops and fighting. Neither the US nor Europe wants to have another world war. Definitely not now nuclear weapons are much more powerful.

New comment by prettygood in "Nuclear Power in France"

prettygood — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 16:37:11 +0000

You're judging to quickly without looking at all parameters.

The cost of nuclear power has only been rising and the price per kWh is much higher compared to wind or solar.

Building cost and time has never been correctly estimated for new plants. Just ask France, UK and Finland. Which resulted in going way over budget.

All of this while prices for solar and wind are lowering... Obviously you can't rely solely on wind and solar but at the moment it would make more sense to invest in those solutions compared to nuclear, for some countries.