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Re:Not everything should cost a token: the case for deterministic AI on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @04:14AM (#48814961)
> Has everyone really become so stupid now?

I wouldn't mistake stupidity for ignorance. A lot of "tech-sensitive", yet non-technical people are using agents/vibe coding these days. Their level of understanding is very basic ("JSON is structured data", "I need to reformat this to fit my need"), but they wouldn't get that the best way of doing things does not necessitate burning tokens.

Re:Not everything should cost a token: the case for deterministic AI on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @03:45AM (#48814789)
I believe many non-technical people are spinning up AI agents nowadays without having a basic understanding of what happens behind the scenes, and usually, with no interest in learning. They prompt, watch the agent work and see the magic, without questioning the structure even a little.

I don't think we should blame them, as they are non-technical, but either educate them or put guardrails at the system prompt level.

Re:"Made in EU" – Building a Startup on European Infrastructure on Friday February 20, 2026 @04:19AM (#47085600)
My European stack: - OVH for object storage, domain names and simple Wordpress websites - Scalingo/3DS Outscale for PaaS (looking for alternatives here!) - Mailjet used to be EU but they've been acquired by Mailgun - don't know if that's an issue. Brevo is okay as an email service provider but they could be way better.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2026) on Monday February 09, 2026 @10:33AM (#46946333)
I am working on a document collection app called Superdocu (https://www.superdocu.com), currently adding automated validation features for specific document types.
Re:Major roll out of LaSuite Meet in the French administration on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @05:48PM (#46788252)
Good to see Frenchies/Europeans innovate for more sovereignty
Re:Purrtran – ᓚᘏᗢ – A Programming Language for Cat People on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @01:31PM (#46292351)
Very impurrtant work
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025) on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @08:18AM (#46288155)
https://www.superdocu.com

Trying to make document collection a breeze for the last 5 years. Still not quite there, although we're making progress.

Re:Show HN: I made a site that easily lets you generate AI images usin... on Thursday September 22, 2022 @06:12AM (#32936883)
Neat. You might want to either filter words or blur NSFW pictures that were generated :P
Re:Show HN: Chrome/Firefox add-on that finds cheap flights from your h... on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @04:44AM (#22233873)
I wanted to spend less time looking for my next trip and decided to create myself a Chrome Extension that shows me cheap flights at random dates from the nearest airport.

Finally decided to submit it on both Chrome and Firefox [1] extension stores. The app is made with Vanilla JS and jQuery and is currently translated into English and French.

I used Skyscanner's API for the flights, Google's Geocoding API to get the location, Lufthansa's API to get the nearest airport IATA code and Unsplash for the background pictures.

I'm pretty sure there is much to improve, so looking for feedback!

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/your-next-tri...

Re:Show HN: Everlook – Find and list remote job opportunities on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @04:34AM (#22233806)
Site is minimalist, which is something I like. I wish the search would accept synonyms for technologies/languages, like "js" or "node.js" would be accepted for respectively Javascript and Node.
Re:Ask HN: What are some bad engineering decisions that screwed startups? on Monday July 29, 2019 @12:26PM (#20556298)
Thanks a bunch!
Re:Ask HN: What are some bad engineering decisions that screwed startups? on Monday July 29, 2019 @08:57AM (#20554098)
Thanks. Do you know more about the actual flaws of the architecture in the early days?

As I recall, they used to be hosted on Akamai and in colocation centres, but I don't know much about the rest.

Re:Ask HN: What are some bad engineering decisions that screwed startups? on Monday July 29, 2019 @08:55AM (#20554085)
Didn't know about Friendster's backstory, thanks. Did JSP make the site so slow it made people flee to Myspace?

Ask HN: What are some bad engineering decisions that screwed startups?

Posted by marwann on Monday July 29, 2019 @07:20AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm looking for startups that failed because of a big engineering mistake, be it technical or in the management side, and I can't think of many famous examples.I'm thinking about some reasons: - Being dependant on external services/code, eg. when an author removed some modules on NPM that caused thousands of websites to break - Bad hiring decisions in tech teams - Trying to patch bad code...

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Re:Ask HN: Excluding WordPress, what is your favorite for blogs or sma... on Monday January 02, 2017 @06:37AM (#13300567)
I used to work a lot with Wordpress in the past, but as projects tend to be more and more specific, I found Middleman[1] more flexible and for structured content (eg. directories) or for generating pages automatically, using a YAML structure is very convenient.

For my online shop, I use Shopify[2] as it is a side project and I did not want to spend a lot of time writing / setting it up. Shopify proves very convenient and includes a blog if needed.

[1] Middleman - https://middlemanapp.com

[2] Shopify - https://www.shopify.com

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