Hacker News: thibaut_barrere

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail"

thibaut_barrere — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:29:21 +0000

I made a preliminary attempt as well and had the same experience. I hope to renew with a better success.

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "5th Heat Dome Expands Across Europe: 40°C+ Target Western and Central Europe"

thibaut_barrere — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:52:11 +0000

Just in France, cost of this year heat waves has been estimated between 10 and 15 billion euros (figure shared by a ministre today).

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available"

thibaut_barrere — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:56:37 +0000

Even before, Turbo Pascal was fairly appreciated in some circles (e.g. demomaking), quite productive and nice to use!

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls"

thibaut_barrere — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:28:11 +0000

Related: https://saracroche.org/

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health"

thibaut_barrere — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 08:09:57 +0000

Some people tend to forget that you got to start somewhere, and a lot of huge undertakings started this way. Such as Linux ;-

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

thibaut_barrere — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:27:15 +0000

It turns out public money is more expensive these days. Debt is a more mainstreamly exposed problem.

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "Solid Queue 1.6.0 now supports fiber workers"

thibaut_barrere — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 15:45:21 +0000

Same path & agreed. The amount of things you do not have to care about with BEAM/Elixir compared to Rails is really interesting.

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "JEP 401: Value Objects (Preview) merged to OpenJDK master"

thibaut_barrere — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:05:02 +0000

Yes, massive respect for that type of perseverance on long term, important changes.

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website"

thibaut_barrere — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:40:44 +0000

It is one of these instances where « let the market decide » is not necessarily the best option on the long run.

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website"

thibaut_barrere — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:38:11 +0000

Afaik the system is being consolidated

https://epicompany.eu/media-insights/ideal-to-phase-into-wer...

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New comment by thibaut_barrere in "EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application"

thibaut_barrere — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:33:48 +0000

Artificial scarcity + the urge to impose fashion cycles, sadly

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "Minikotlin"

thibaut_barrere — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:19:16 +0000

It feels like we have reached the Turbo Pascal era, but only compiled to the browser.

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "PlayStation can delete all your digital games after 3 years of inactivity (EU)"

thibaut_barrere — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:26:00 +0000

And sometimes, like in Sharepoint, the process could not be completed.

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor"

thibaut_barrere — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 05:25:38 +0000

That backdoor is so up front about it. We might as well call it a frontdoor.

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple"

thibaut_barrere — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:26:21 +0000

Unless regulations explicitely incorporate how to handle incumbents & newcomers. One instance of that is MMTIS (multi modal passenger information), which explicitly states innovation and new players as a goal. There are other similar examples.

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?"

thibaut_barrere — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:24:58 +0000

At the anecdata level, you are right. At the global level, let’s say it is a bit different.

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer"

thibaut_barrere — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:18:12 +0000

There’s a strong narrative that it’s unreasonable to stay in the EU (“too regulated”, etc.) if you want to hack on real stuff. Yet plenty of us do — Bellard being exhibit A.

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "Phoenix LiveView 1.2"

thibaut_barrere — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:49:59 +0000

LLM use is very solid here. I have been shipping some fairly cool stuff for different clients, just like if I was managing a team of 3 or 4 people.

The stable nature of the language, and the static/immutable nature of constructs, presumably really helps moving safely here.

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

thibaut_barrere — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:50:30 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by thibaut_barrere in "As EV batteries improve, ChargePoint debuts 600 kW fast charger"

thibaut_barrere — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:48:55 +0000

BYD has cars supporting this afaik. And working in the electrical charging point data sector at the moment, we see that fast charge is a breaking point to make people decide the switch is worth it.