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New comment by tartieret in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

tartieret — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:58:04 +0000

have you considered Capacitor? it works pretty well for cross platform web development

New comment by tartieret in "Training our own AI models"

tartieret — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:55:32 +0000

There is definitely some confusion on the EU part. I am a European citizen, but some of my activity data on some of the sites I host is logged in US Posthog, which means Posthog is subject to the GDPR, even if the data is US hosted!

New comment by tartieret in "Training our own AI models"

tartieret — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:28:19 +0000

this is what triggered my post. The announcement pretends that it's not bug deal because of "anonymization" but that's easier said than done. You can send custom events and logs that contain confidential information even if it doesn't contain personal identifiers

New comment by tartieret in "PostHog will train AI models with your data (opted-in by default)"

tartieret — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:59:43 +0000

I fixed the title, sorry for the typo!

New comment by tartieret in "Training our own AI models"

tartieret — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:08:42 +0000

I initially used Posthog as an alternative to Google Analytics with more privacy. Now they want to use the data for a business purpose. Working hard towards enshitification?

Training our own AI models

tartieret — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:08:42 +0000

Article URL: https://posthog.com/blog/training-ai-models

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296359

Points: 216

# Comments: 143

New comment by tartieret in "Should I run plain Docker Compose in production in 2026?"

tartieret — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:17:53 +0000

why not swarm? it's basically the same yml file except that you can do zero downtime deployment, simply with docker stack deploy -c stack.yml (swarm will outline the image, warm up the container and switch traffic automatically). roll backs are also included for free. it's part of docker so no additional dependency

New comment by tartieret in "When does MCP make sense vs CLI?"

tartieret — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 03:30:49 +0000

It seems that the author thinks that AI use is limited to developers, I don't understand how short slighted is the debate between CLI and MCP. Sure, CLI are more convenient, but currently most AI users consume LLM through online tools like ChatGPT

A basic example: a company using ChatGPT or Claude, and wanting to connect their business tools (ex: marketing, sales, project management...). in that case MCP is perfect from an enterprise point of view, and the integration can be managed at the company level.

Ask HN: Senior Developer Playbook

tartieret — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 23:57:52 +0000

Article URL: https://thomastartiere.com/a-senior-developer-playbook

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46561093

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by tartieret in "Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation"

tartieret — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 07:34:49 +0000

MCP includes a standard for some more advanced capabilities like: - tool discovery: for instance you can "push" an update from the server to the client, while with OpenAPI you have to wait for the client to refetch the schema - background tasks: you can have a job endpoint in your API to submit tasks and check their status, but standardization on the way to do that brings additional possibilities on the client side (imagine showing a standard progresss bar no matter which tool is being used) - streaming / incremental results / cancellation - ...

All of this is http based and could be implemented on a bespoke API but the challenge is cross-API standardization so that agents can be trained on representative data. The value of MCP is that it creates a common behavioral contract, not just a transport or schema.

New comment by tartieret in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

tartieret — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:38:42 +0000

I was a little puzzled as we got notified our apps were down, and then I tried to login in the Azure portal with no success. But the Azure status page reported no incident, so I posted here and quickly confirmed that others were impacted! They did a pretty bad job with their status page as the front door service was shown green all along

New comment by tartieret in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

tartieret — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:31:09 +0000

it took a good half hour after we detected the problem to see a notification on the Azure status page. Thanks to those who responded to my question as it validated the issue was global and we contacted our users t right away

New comment by tartieret in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

tartieret — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:31:22 +0000

Microsoft posted an update on X: https://x.com/AzureSupport/status/1983569891379835372?ref_sr...

"We’re investigating an issue impacting Azure Front Door services. Customers may experience intermittent request failures or latency. Updates will be provided shortly."

Tell HN: Azure outage

tartieret — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:01:18 +0000

Azure is down for us, we can't even access the azure portal. Are other experiencing this? Our services are located in Canada/Central and US-East 2

https://downdetector.ca/status/windows-azure/

https://azure.status.microsoft/en-gb/status

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45748661

Points: 885

# Comments: 806

New comment by tartieret in "Vibe engineering"

tartieret — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 03:41:31 +0000

I agree with your analogy with pair programming. Except that now your co-developer types way faster!

New comment by tartieret in "Vibe engineering"

tartieret — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 03:38:22 +0000

The business cost with PRs isn't the first review but another developer, it's the number of iterations on a pull request due to defects and change requests. The way I am trying to promote the use of LLMs with more junior developers in my team (I am the CTO) is to use AI-assisted tools (we used Windsurf and recently switched to Github Copilot) for a first pass, e.g asking the agent for a review and catching potential defect before involving the human reviewer.

This doesn't mean the human reviewer will need to spend less time reviewing, but potentially this PR will be merged faster with on average a lower number of iterations and improved code quality.

I do have in my team some senior developers that are excellent, and it's very very rare I catch an issue in their PRs (maybe 1 out of 50). But I also have greener developers for who the ratio is way higher (like 8 or 9 out of 10) and this means repeated context switching for the reviewers.

New comment by tartieret in "Vibe engineering"

tartieret — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 03:29:33 +0000

As a CTO of a small company, spending a lot of time reviewing other developers' PRs, I completely agree. I recently enabled Github Copilot Agent and use it a lot for dealing with smaller and lower priority tasks in an async workflow (e.g. while I am doing other things). A lot of developers are not very good writers, and reviewing PRs from Copilot, with access to the full "thinking process" and being able to request changes in a few comments is sometimes more pleasant and effective

New comment by tartieret in "ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation"

tartieret — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 16:34:39 +0000

I absolutely love your summary

New comment by tartieret in "An update to our pricing"

tartieret — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 03:05:03 +0000

we have standardized on windsurf in my company. Cursor was part of the review but Windsurf has better support for dev containers and development on WSL, which most of our developers use. So beyond the actual AI part, there are some surprisingly rough edges with Cursor (using it with WSL is super hacky)

Ask HN: Protecting confidential information while travelling to the US

tartieret — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 19:33:36 +0000

I am the CTO of a small Canadian company, we build energy management and process optimization platforms for industrial clients. Many of our clients are large US companies, and some of our employees travel to clients' sites for implementation or consulting work. As a result, they have to cross the border with their company phone and laptop.

In recent news, a French researcher traveling to a conference in Texas had his laptop seized by the US authorities, for reasons that are not well explained. It seems that the number of similar cases has increased at the US border.

If a company laptop was ceased by the US customs, this will objectively represent a security breach and threaten the confidentiality of our clients' data. Consultants have to have a local copy of some dataset (like production data, energy related info... ) from facilities to perform analysis on their computer.

I am considering issuing a warning to all our employees about this, but I am wondering if some of you have recommendations regarding this: - technical measures to limit our exposure. We use encrypted disks, can the border officer force you to provide the password / encryption key? - legal measures to protect the confidentiality of data from US-based companies. Can the federal government seized confidential data from US-based companies just because it crosses the border?

Thanks for your help!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43497225

Points: 12

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