Hacker News: trashcan2137

New comment by trashcan2137 in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

trashcan2137 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:10:14 +0000

The report itself is unreadable AI garbage. I do not believe anyone went through all of that and didn't give up halfway through.

New comment by trashcan2137 in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

trashcan2137 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:05:51 +0000

  and the EOS is "". "<|channel>thought\n" is also used for the thinking trace!

Can someone explain this to me? Why is this faux-XML important here?

New comment by trashcan2137 in "EU startups fail because their press refuses to hype them up"

trashcan2137 — Wed, 21 May 2025 12:44:53 +0000

> In US, you can start a LLC, get a bank account, a tax ID, all within a few days. The process is completely online. Taxes? A single form for the whole year when you’re starting out. Hiring and laying off employees is relatively easy. How many European countries can claim the same?

In Poland, for example it's remarkably similar. I had an LLC, bank account and EU VAT ID without leaving my home.

Hiring gets a little bit more tricky because we like having accessible health care and don't like throwing people under the bus so you have a notice time of anywhere from 2 weeks to 3 months depending how long that particular person has been your employee.

Taxes? You pay once/month but even then you most likely have an accountant handling that for you.