Hacker News: trashcan2137

New comment by trashcan2137 in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"

trashcan2137 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:21:59 +0000

Come to Poland. You can get this done in less than a week

New comment by trashcan2137 in "Foreign business owners are scrambling to raise capital to stay in Japan"

trashcan2137 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:41:09 +0000

The newspaper he apparently worked in stated that he was never part of the reporting teams for organized crime and had written only a very few articles about the yakuza during his time there.

He got called out several times about his stories so I wouldn't be surprised if he's making stuff up again.

New comment by trashcan2137 in "Atlassian defends firing engineer for suggesting CEO is 'rich jerk'"

trashcan2137 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:16:41 +0000

My sides can't handle this much freedom. This can be hardly called an ad hominem.

New comment by trashcan2137 in "Allbirds, Inc. Announces Expansion into AI Compute Infrastructure"

trashcan2137 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:02:15 +0000

Wait, weren't they making sneakers? I'm pretty much sure I have a pair

New comment by trashcan2137 in "Sam Altman's Coworkers Say He Can Barely Code and Misunderstands Basic Concepts"

trashcan2137 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:06:49 +0000

According to a Polish saying: unused organs fade away. Makes me really reconsider if it doesn't extend to morals and skills as well.

New comment by trashcan2137 in "Open Source Security at Astral"

trashcan2137 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:26:21 +0000

Nix, if not used incorrectly (and they really make it hard to use it, both correctly and incorrectly lol), gives you reproducible and verifiable builds.

Unfortunately I have to agree with the sibling comment that it suffers from poor naming and the docs are very hard to grok which makes it harder to get traction.

I really hate the idea of `it's all sales at the end of the day` but if Nix could figure how to "sell" itself to more people then we would probably have less of those problems.

New comment by trashcan2137 in "Open source security at Astral"

trashcan2137 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:38:42 +0000

Lengths people will go to rediscover Nix/Guix is beyond me

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.