Hacker News: thinkindie

New comment by thinkindie in "The drivers behind software delivery inefficiency"

thinkindie — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:59:17 +0000

We’ve never had a QA because we are on a tight budget but our PM is acting as a gatekeeper before declaring something as done.

However, there were too many cases that things were delivered as “ready” when they were not. PR review was not enough as everyone were checking diffs from GitHub only.

I implemented an intermediate step where the responsible engineer must post a screenshot or a short video of the ticket before passing to the PM and that alone resolved a lot of issues before they materialized on customers screens, just because you must take the extra effort to work on a proof of work.

New comment by thinkindie in "When can a power company take your land for data center infrastructure?"

thinkindie — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:03:46 +0000

I don't think that gaming is the focus of the DC discussed in this article. I don't think gaming will ever require a massive buildup as AI nowadays.

New comment by thinkindie in "The human-in-the-loop is tired"

thinkindie — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:53:15 +0000

It’s not just the destination - there are infinite shades of caring too much about every single line of code (spaces! Tabs! Inline open curly braces! Next line) and caring about the final result without attention to what is running under the hood.

New comment by thinkindie in "The human-in-the-loop is tired"

thinkindie — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:51:37 +0000

I know exactly what he means - and as I said it all depends on personal drivers/motivation etc etc. take doctors: some starts the profession to make money other to care about people. Both categories can live under the same roof in a hospital.

New comment by thinkindie in "Ask HN: Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of 3 billion dollars"

thinkindie — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:48:33 +0000

A friend of mine went through the same - he got an alert for bill over budget, he logged in and boom 107M$.

I was on the phone with him and we checked that he didn’t leak any APIs keys but no traffic at all. I even thought of a breach at a vendor he uses for some s3 stuff before I found this thread on HN.

New comment by thinkindie in "The human-in-the-loop is tired"

thinkindie — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 06:03:11 +0000

I think it all depends on your personal driver: personally I rather see a product I built in whatever way used by ever growing number of people because they find it useful. It means that the time I spent working on that helped other people solving a problem (hopefully).

That’s why a was always keen on cutting some corners when and where necessary in order to think about the user first and the code beauty second.

Of course I appreciate well structured and maintainable code but you can always strike a balance, even with LLMs assisted coding sessions.

New comment by thinkindie in "Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers"

thinkindie — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:48:10 +0000

the same as the American hardware - none.

(although you can say that Europe retained some manufacture capacity)

New comment by thinkindie in "Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers"

thinkindie — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:38:16 +0000

How? If anything it seems like they are accelerating some processes - not least the export control over Fable just few days ago or the erratic behavior with the war with Iran

New comment by thinkindie in "Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers"

thinkindie — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:12:25 +0000

As an European, I really don't get where this strategy wants to take the USA to. It's pretty clear everyone is getting scared about changes like this that happen overnight, without clear reason and completely unpredictable.

Business requires a stable environment, and Trump is making everything in his power to disrupt business stability. Ultimately, I see the rest of the world (especially Europe) relying less and less on US tech. The long term damage is done.

All the US companies that used to think about the entire world (minus China) as their market will figure out that it is much smaller then they used to think.

New comment by thinkindie in "Texas is America Inc's new centre of gravity"

thinkindie — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:10:15 +0000

https://archive.is/2g0QI

New comment by thinkindie in "GoPro warned it may not survive"

thinkindie — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:12:16 +0000

it's not the first nor the last case. Another excellent similar case was Nokia.

New comment by thinkindie in "Italy region: +200% tax on datacenters built in green/agricultural areas"

thinkindie — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:28:27 +0000

Maybe in the US, but farmland is quite scarce in Lombardy.

New comment by thinkindie in "The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month"

thinkindie — Mon, 25 May 2026 20:18:50 +0000

Take Tally (tally.so), the one I took the time to check.

In their footer they say: Made and hosted in the EU which technically it's not wrong, but since they are using Google Cloud and Cloudflare, they are not insulated from the effect of the CLOUD Act.

New comment by thinkindie in "The bootstrapper's EU stack for under €10 per month"

thinkindie — Mon, 25 May 2026 19:36:26 +0000

this website seems a clone of https://european-alternatives.eu/

Either way, one of the most critical parts is that many are still hosting on Google Cloud, AWS or Microsoft, therefore you are not 100% insulated from Cloud Act.

New comment by thinkindie in "How Claude Code works in large codebases"

thinkindie — Fri, 15 May 2026 04:52:06 +0000

I don’t agree with the statement about indexing codebase: it works pretty well for IDEs like PHPstorm or other jetbrains IDEs

New comment by thinkindie in "AI's Economics Don't Make Sense"

thinkindie — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:36:02 +0000

i don't know when it was introduced, but Claude Code has recently added the cost for your session when you run /usage

New comment by thinkindie in "France's Mistral Built a $14B AI Empire by Not Being American"

thinkindie — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:22:08 +0000

I hope Mistral will not fall for the Forbes kiss of death.

New comment by thinkindie in "GPT-5.5"

thinkindie — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:38:41 +0000

This is reminding me when Chrome and Firefox where racing to release a new “major version” (at least from the semver POV) without adding significantly new functionality at a time that browsers were already becoming a commodity. As much as we don’t care anymore for a new chrome or Firefox version so will be the release of a new model version.

New comment by thinkindie in "Figma's woes compound with Claude Design"

thinkindie — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:17:07 +0000

i believe it depends on the design system maturity too.

New comment by thinkindie in "Figma's woes compound with Claude Design"

thinkindie — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:11:42 +0000

my 2 cents - Claude is not going after EVERY single SaaS (or maybe not yet), but after those products that are adopted by individuals that are keen at experimenting new tools (software engineers, designers etc etc).

At the same time I have the feeling Claude Design is more useful to get UI context closer to Code Claude then anything (and eventually some quick prototyping), but I might be wrong.

Either way, I've been trying to upload a 95MB .fig file and I get a generic error message without any information on the issue itself (is the file too big? not the right format? Tell me!)