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New comment by tpougy in "Ok, but does it scale?"

tpougy — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 19:34:03 +0000

How does this compare to InstantDB [1] (which is sunsetting)? Both seem to achieve similar objectives and dev (ai dev) experience

[1] https://www.instantdb.com/

New comment by tpougy in "Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant"

tpougy — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 02:57:55 +0000

> Perhaps if you contact the bank, but as far as I know it is not a feature :-( Acctually there is a feature to request the central bank to retrieve money stolen through PIX scam. It is called Special Return Mechanism (MED PIX). Link here: https://www.bcb.gov.br/meubc/faqs/p/o-que-e-e-como-funciona-...

New comment by tpougy in "Ask HN: What's the best way to get started with LLM-assisted programing?"

tpougy — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 13:57:53 +0000

I was using OpenRouter + Roo Code extension + VS Code for the last few weeks and it has been a breeze. Roo Code is a Cline open source, comunity driven, fork. It has some additional features compared to Cline that I found very useful. Check it here: https://github.com/RooVetGit/Roo-Code.

When used right with vs code the experience seems almost the same as using cursor, but you can choose your AI provider.

PS: In the last few days I tried Roo Code with Google Gemini 2.5 thinking (signficantly better that Clude 3.7) but found that the OpenRouter option to use Google Gemini 2.5 thinking has a bad rate limit, the solution was to create a google developer account and use the google gemini api directly which dont have such bad rate limit and is also very cheap (I used it a lot and the cost was zero).