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Hi, I am Martin, but I go by Visgean on the internet. I am a freelance software engineer based in London. Over the last 13 years I have helped governments, large corporations, energy companies and doctors with my code.

Feel free to contact me (matrix, Discord, email) regarding job offers or just to have a chat. https://visgean.me/, email visgean@gmail.com

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_visgean··on Rust off Rails: The opinionated web stack for the AI era
well not everything, but one would expect some effort to have a good web from ... a web framework?
_visgean··on Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area
not really, the 3pct was just what they scanned with lidars so far.
_visgean··on Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time
i am pretty sure its not energy that domaines the move. eg skoda is now way more profitable than rest of VW. The cost of employment is way higher in DE..
_visgean··on Rune 1.1: adds Python, an Emacs editor, a symbol index and is now free
I tried it and its definetely not mature enough for me. Too cumbersome to use. But the project speaks to me.
_visgean··on Many "serious" mathematicians are aghast
he is a professor at quebec. I am pretty sure he knows serious mathematians that he perhaps does not want to name directly.
_visgean··on Interrail: 6,379Km and 13 Countries over 7 weeks
its still in progress https://www.railbaltica.org/progress-today/
_visgean··on YC CEO says he ships 37K LoC AI code per day. A developer looked under the hood
Yes but for that you need to focus on the quality. There are probably horrible issues on backend as well.
_visgean··on Long Island's decommissioned nuclear power plant
this gets repeated over and over again but its false:

> Nuclear power plants are routinely used in load following mode on a large scale in France, although "it is generally accepted that this is not an ideal economic situation for nuclear stations".[42] Unit A at the now decommissioned German Biblis Nuclear Power Plant was designed to modulate its output 15% per minute between 40% and 100% of its nominal power.

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_plant#Flexibilit...

_visgean··on Is sunscreen the new margarine? (2019)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S135382922... this is better source on the underlying study
_visgean··on Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates
not really. Most of the technology is not black box but something of a grey box. You usually choose to treat it as a black box because you want to focus on your problems/your customers but you can always focus on underlying technologies and improve them. Eg postgresql for me is a black box but if I really wanted or had need I could investigate how it works.
_visgean··on TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe
Or maybe the americans will pay for the VPN to get normal non-addictive version of tiktok.
_visgean··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
Waypoint AI | Senior Backend, Fullstack, Frontend | Prague + REMOTE (CZ) | Full-time | Equity

We're building Chip — an AI support engineer that autonomously triages, routes, and resolves complex technical support cases. Think: a teammate that reads every Jira ticket, every Intercom thread, and every runbook, then actually acts on them.

Czech-American B2B startup, raised $3.1M. Already in production with Volvo, ClickHouse, and others.

We're a small eng team where early architectural decisions still matter. We use AI daily as a collaborator (Claude Code) — not as a gimmick, but because it genuinely makes us faster. We value craft, ownership, and shipping in small slices.

Stack: Django + Django Ninja, Postgres, Dramatiq (background jobs), React/Next.js/TypeScript/Tailwind.

Hiring for three roles:

Senior Backend Engineer (AI Systems) — Own APIs, data pipelines, and durable workflows. LLM product experience (evals, cost/latency, vector search) is a plus. https://mywaypoint.ai/open-positions/senior-backend-engineer...

Fullstack Engineer — Backend-heavy with enough frontend to be dangerous. End-to-end ownership from schema to UI. https://mywaypoint.ai/open-positions/fullstack-engineer

Frontend Developer — Build interfaces that make complex AI feel simple. React/Next.js/TS/Tailwind. Product-minded, not just pixel-pushing. https://mywaypoint.ai/open-positions/frontend-developer

Office in Prague 7 (Holešovice), remote-friendly. Competitive CZ-market comp + meaningful equity.

To apply: joinus@mywaypoint.ai — include a project you shipped end-to-end and how you use AI tooling in your workflow. Mention HN.

_visgean··on Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI
The email that made him angry reminds me of this youtube classic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uraG-z0grkc
_visgean··on Fun with uv and PEP 723
I honestly don't like that this is expressed as a comment but I guess it makes the implementation easy and backwards compatible...
_visgean··on Obscure islands I find interesting
There is a good scifi "Jumping Off the Planet" by David gerrold about space elevators if you have not read it yet.
_visgean··on TikTok goes dark in the US
Those words have different meaning:

1. Libgen domains are "seized" - only the domains got seized, the website is still operational.

2. tiktok "goes dark", yes because it was an action of tiktok to go dark with the hope that they will be operational next week. Nobody banned them and even Biden said he would not enforce it so they could have simply do nothing and wait for the next week.

3. "censor" porn or news outlets, I think thats common usage.

_visgean··on TikTok goes dark in the US
The comment said payment, that does not neccesarily mean money. There are things that tiktok can do for him and the money is least of it.
_visgean··on TCL's bet on screens that look like paper
I dont think this is e-ink and that the point of this article.
_visgean··on Will even the most advanced subs have nowhere to hide?
OK but if you actually read the article you will see that this is mostly about australian position, not US.
_visgean··on Launch HN: Azalea Robotics (YC S24) – Baggage-handling robots for airports
Have you considered using handles on the luggage? Seems like with some sort of hook you would have better hold on the luggage, but i guess it would be challenging to identify and approach each handle.
_visgean··on My Brand New Digitizing Workflow Using a 25 Year Old Film Scanner
Some fujifilm cameras support it seedms: https://fujifilm-dsc.com/en/manual/x-h2_connection/overview_.... Overall this seems better suited for tethered shooting with direct usb-c transfer.
_visgean··on Apple acquires Pixelmator
i tried them with fuji 50mb raw files, it was super slow compared to capture one
_visgean··on Overengineering a way to know if people are in my university's CS lab
In edinburgh we had this: https://devpost.com/software/the-marauder-s-app which showed who was using which computer based on logins.
_visgean··on Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant shift from road to rail
Lol, that depends heavily what you consider staff. E.g. look at freight, if you move cargo by trucks you need 1 staff member (sometimes called drivers) per truck. Train on the other hand needs only 2 people per hundreds of meters of train...

Even worse for individual car transport. You need one staff (driver) per vehicle...

_visgean··on The Society in Dedham for Apprehending Horse Thieves
> similarly outlived their usefulness.

from the wiki article it does not sound like they have ever been useful.

_visgean··on California bans sell-by dates
But thats the point, none of these actually mean that you cant eat it after te cutoff date.
_visgean··on A DIY photographer built his own full-frame camera and open-sourced the project
you can get Fuji GFX with detachabke eye finder.
_visgean··on A DIY photographer built his own full-frame camera and open-sourced the project
I think the issue would be the missing datasheet. But I was thinking the same, old cameras seems to be the easiest source of a good sensor.
_visgean··on Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apostrophe' gets approval
I think the conclusion is wrong; that sounds much more like dutch.
_visgean··on Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]
Well they should have given it to the guy who discovered the famous equation e=mc2 + ai..

https://www.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics/comments/13tbfqm/w...

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