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JanSt··on Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice
No, if you don't handle this correctly you become personally liable
JanSt··on Claude Fable 5
Yeah it just uncovered quite a few flaws it than refused to fix :-(
JanSt··on Claude Fable 5
I just asked Fable to do a task that has nothing to do with cybersecurity or is dangerous at all but the defense kicked in and it switched to Opus... :(
JanSt··on Gemini 3.5 Flash
Those are (mostly) new, faster TPU
JanSt··on Ask HN: What happens after the AI bubble bursts?
Google search is also free to use
JanSt··on GPT-5.2
I don't feel the S-curve at all yet. Still an exponential for me
JanSt··on GPT-5.2
The benchmarks are very impressive. Codex and Opus 4.5 are really good coders already and they keep getting better.

No wall yet and I think we might have crossed the threshold of models being as good or better than most engineers already.

GDPval will be an interesting benchmark and I'll happily use the new model to test spreadsheet (and other office work) capabilities. If they can going like this just a little bit further, much of the office workers will stop being useful.... I don't know yet how to feel about this.

Great for humanity probably but but for the individuals?

JanSt··on Developers are choosing older AI models
Thanks, didn't know that but aligns with my experience
JanSt··on Developers are choosing older AI models
I have canceled my Claude Max subscription because Sonnet 4.5 is just too unreliable. For the rest of the month I'm using Opus 4.1 which is much better but seems to have much lower usage limits than before Sonnet 4.5 was released. When I hit 4.1 Opus limits I'm using Codex. I will probably go through with the Codex pro subscription.
JanSt··on Composer: Building a fast frontier model with RL
I think Opus 4.1 is still much better than Sonnet 4.5
JanSt··on Tell HN: Supabase database restore from backup corrupting projects
I'm only hosting a newly started side project there, but it does have paying users so I'm really unhappy at the moment.
JanSt··on Tell HN: Supabase database restore from backup corrupting projects
This is a worst case scenario. Even worse is the no-communication and not turning off the restore function. This is having serious economic impact
JanSt··on What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?
My current top 3 apple software flaws:

1) battery warning above tabs in browser with no x to close it

2) WebKit bugs that make inputs and visual diverge so you have to click under the input to hit it

3) flickering email app when it’s opened

JanSt··on Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
They also managed to introduce regressions into WebKit so that the visual and touch positions of fixed input elements diverge. Really makes you question what’s going on at Apple.
JanSt··on "Just Fucking Ship It" (Or: On Vibecoding)
Pushing out an exact way to extract that data without giving the creator time to fix it may even be worse than using such code in production. The data may than be in the hands of malicious people who wouldn’t have found it otherwise
JanSt··on "Just Fucking Ship It" (Or: On Vibecoding)
Doesn’t supabase provide security warnings on its dashboard?
JanSt··on Apple App Store guidelines remove ban on encouraging external payments in US
Probably true. The EU needs to enact daily fines for non-compliance, going back to the day the legislation came into power.
JanSt··on Apple App Store guidelines remove ban on encouraging external payments in US
Only in the US feels like shooting themselves in the foot again. The EU is already cracking down on them for their malicious compliance with the DMA, and it’s only a matter of time before similar pressure builds
JanSt··on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
China can be pretty sure that the US will not act if they attack Taiwan. Trump and Vance are weak. All talk, no walk.
JanSt··on EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games
// Lets discuss how Windows is a flaming pile of poo. I'm now casting the header

     // directly into the structure, because its the one I want, and this is just how
   
  // its done. I hate Windows. - jkmcd
   
  DEV_BROADCAST_VOLUME *vol = (DEV_BROADCAST_VOLUME*) (hdr);

     // @todo - Yikes. This could cause us all kinds of pain. I don't really want 
     // to even think about the stink this could cause us.

     TheFileSystem->unloadMusicFilesFromCD(vol->dbcv_unitmask);
   
  return TRUE;
JanSt··on Germany's Water Consumption Down 17% Following Nuclear Reactor Shutdowns
And an additional (!) 6-7.5 cent per KWh is payed by the "Klima und Transformationsfonds" to the producers of renewable energy.
JanSt··on Germany's Water Consumption Down 17% Following Nuclear Reactor Shutdowns
Renewables are very cheap if you only consider LCOE and not the systemic costs - which is what people like Zoadian love to do. Just ignore all those grid and backup costs. The grid fees alone have been increased substantially and Germany pays out an additional 7 cent per KWh through a fund that is not shown in the electricity bills anymore.
JanSt··on Germany's Water Consumption Down 17% Following Nuclear Reactor Shutdowns
France hasn't payed subsidies since 1981. EDF has payed a dividend nearly each year since then. EDF made $11bn profit last year and $10bn the year before. France energy prices have been reduced this year. Germany pays much higher prices.
JanSt··on Premature Graying of Hair: Review with Updates
+1
JanSt··on DigitalOcean Is Down
The maintenance is coming up in a few hours. DO was down for a few minutes, including spaces, app platform etc.
JanSt··on Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) v4.0 is out [pdf]
If you really want someone interested in software development to run away, hand them books like this one.
JanSt··on Drasi: Microsoft's open source data processing platform for event-driven systems
I too have great memories of cypher. Such an elegant way to write queries.
JanSt··on Launch HN: Quetzal (YC S24) – Stripe for Internationalization
Very nice. Is vue supported?
JanSt··on TSMC execs allegedly dismissed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as 'podcasting bro'
I’m getting pretty rich programming not using AI. This is an answer to me being a bad coder. My income has nothing to do with AI apart from maybe 1% me being more productive since Claude 3.5 dropped. Be assured I’m not going to destroy the planet.
JanSt··on TSMC execs allegedly dismissed OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as 'podcasting bro'
I‘m not making money because of AI, I make a lot of money because I‘m a good programmer. My current income has little to do with ai (99% build before GPT). So relax please.
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