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Re:More German than many Germans on Monday August 03, 2026 @01:54PM (#49159211)
Your comment relies on a racist double standard. A person should not be judged by their country of origin or held personally responsible for the actions of that country.

> He speaks perfect German, though.

No, Özdemir doesn’t speak perfect German. He speaks German with a heavy Swabian accent, which sounds very rural to the average German.

Re:I'm Coding by Hand on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @03:59AM (#47845875)
I was under the impression that YC startups need to be open source. My bad!
Re:I'm Coding by Hand on Saturday April 18, 2026 @01:37PM (#47817794)
YC startups still have to be open source though, right?
Yes but I think it's generally how non-technical people use it
Re:Hetzner Prices increase 30-40% on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @06:56PM (#47159846)
I think it was me guys I am [sorry](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47085483#47090853)
Re:"Made in EU" – Building a Startup on European Infrastructure on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @06:52PM (#47159805)
3 days after I said that they are affordable they have increased the prices by 38%.

I wil never say anything nice about Hetzner ever again lol

Re:Keep Android Open on Saturday February 21, 2026 @12:03PM (#47102522)
I have literally never thought about it like this, but I think you are right. In my mind mobile phones were always separate from other devices, kinda like consoles.
Can confirm on Hetzner. I'm building a SaaS on it right now and had to request a VPS limit increase. I was so worried and carefully crafted my request message. I was bracing for a multi-day back-and-forth but they just... did it in like 10 minutes lol

> The pricing is almost absurdly good compared to AWS, and the performance is solid. If you've never spun up a Hetzner box, you're overpaying for cloud compute.

Yep!

> +1. I see all these posts about tokens, and I'm like "who's paying by the token?"

When you use the API

Re:Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native on Saturday January 31, 2026 @01:42PM (#46839393)
> China has a huge population that mostly speaks Mandarin.

It's about incentives. The Chinese had to come up with their own solutions because of their firewall.

Maybe it's time for a European firewall?

Re:Data is the only moat on Friday January 16, 2026 @07:09PM (#46653911)
I find the premise that coding is one of the hardest problem for LLMs flawed. Isn't coding the easiest area for AI, with lots of data to train and easily verifiable?
Yes, it is very common to change your useragent for web scraping. Mainly because there are websites which will block you just based on that alone
Re:JSDoc is TypeScript on Monday December 15, 2025 @08:57AM (#46274598)
I’m surprised TypeScript is controversial to some people. Having worked on a large vanilla JavaScript framework, the benefits were pretty clear.
Re:Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @10:24AM (#45967458)
> It also reduces your incentive to change, if “the internet is down” people will put down their device and do something else. Even if your web site is up they’ll assume it isn’t.

I agree. When people talk about the enshittification of the internet, Cloudflare plays a significant role.

Re:Benchmarking Postgres 17 vs. 18 on Friday October 24, 2025 @05:32AM (#45692675)
But now you need someone to deal with the hardware.
Re:How Did Renaissance Fairs Begin? on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @03:31PM (#45442203)
> Also, Wild Turkey(tm) is native to North America. Kentucky, USA, specifically.

How come Turkeys are called Indians (Hindi) in Turkish then?

Re:Claude Code is all you need on Monday August 11, 2025 @03:18PM (#44868312)
> "ai is pretty good at design" its really cool thats its functional but am I going crazy or does all this stuff look really bad?

I agree that it's bad. What I noticed using AI was that it tends to introduce gradients whenever you want to make something look nice. Whenever I see a gradient now I immediately assume that it was designed with AI

Re:Couchers is officially out of beta on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @08:24PM (#44450298)
That's hilarious I am sorry lol
The future looks bleak.
Re:Show HN: Chawan TUI web browser on Saturday June 21, 2025 @04:03PM (#44340351)
This is really impressive! Do you a have roadmap for upcoming or planned features?
> Something like this would be great for Cursor, I never know how many credits I’m up to for the month or how much my Max calls are costing.

I think that's by design

Re:The Child-Like Role of Dogs in Western Societies on Monday June 09, 2025 @11:25AM (#44225459)
> Don't think scare quotes are appropriate here. Pits are problem dogs; they are the violent schizophrenics of the dog world.

I don't think so.

Can you name a couple?
Re:Show HN: I built a modern Goodreads alternative on Sunday March 02, 2025 @10:42AM (#43231538)
> I don't know why these sites don't lean into the social angle and weight reviews by social-graph distance.

Goodreads does that though. Reviews from friends and people you follow are shown first

Re:IBM Completes Acquisition of HashiCorp on Friday February 28, 2025 @02:24AM (#43202717)
The Nomad team is a big reason why I am using it and I am sad to see you go.
Re:Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4B Bid for Control of OpenAI on Monday February 10, 2025 @08:19PM (#43007775)
How is this bad news for OpenAI?
Re:React 19 on Friday December 06, 2024 @02:45AM (#42337399)
> Maybe if you have a small app. React is as bad as going from angular to angular 2

You have no idea what you are talking about.

Re:How I write code using Cursor: A review on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @07:47PM (#41990637)
Oops, yeah you are right
Re:How I write code using Cursor: A review on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @08:06AM (#41983032)
I have tried both cursor and cline (formerly continue dev), and I don't seem to see the incredible performance boost using cursor like a lot of people say

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