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Re:Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI on Thursday August 20, 2026 @05:36PM (#49380601)
I think its an interesting approach, much more than most other new agent harnesses at least.

I guess you still need the chat to discuss with the AI? For example, ask it to compare solution A and B, or to explain how to do X. A bit like you can use plan mode today. Then given the result, you can write the hz file (or even have an agent write it).

But I wonder how it works on a more complicated project than fizzbuzz. Can I suggest you use Huzzah to develop itself, and then share the hz file(s)? That will show both how it works on a more complicated project, and something that is developing over time.

Re:Alibaba/Open-Code-Review on Friday June 05, 2026 @03:17AM (#48409116)
Just a small note, the font on your site is very annoying to read, the characters are not aligned horizontally (Windows w Chrome). Looks to be a scaling issue, if I zoom to 200% it shows fine.
Re:Packages release more often than ever. Or do they? on Sunday May 03, 2026 @05:08AM (#47994998)
The other day my colleague noted that it feels like our Renovate bot triggers much more often in the repos he manages than before. That got me inspired to take a closer look, and get some data from the major package repositories. Turns out that it wasn't easy to find some "AI" effect. I'm quite surprised, AI is supposed to make us all more productive, and it certainly feels like we are!
Regardless if the exponential trend the author writes about is correct or not, I do think the cost of AI is reversing the trend for coding. For quite some time the tools we used have become cheaper and cheaper and more avaliable than before. Nowadays compilers, IDEs and other tools are increasingly open source or at least free or very cheap. But with AI its no longer the case.

I wrote more about this in a blog, at https://www.viblo.se/posts/ai-hobbycoding/

Re:AI Made Hobby Coding Expensive Again on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @04:20PM (#46711715)
A good question! Both I would say. There's a reason people pirated Photoshop.

Not everyone will want to automate the coding of course. But if I'm dreaming of becoming a game dev and like writing games in the evenings after class, I for sure want the best tools I can find. If I'm working as a shop assistant, but are intertested in coding and dream of a dev job, then it will help if I can use the same tools as professionals use. If I want to contribute to open source, but all easy beginner tasks are automated away, or are 10x as difficult without an AI, then maybe I will give up. If my friend writes a Minecraft mod supported by AI, but I can't, then I might never become interested in coding in the first place.

And so on, there are many ways this can play out.

Re:Cloudflare API Down on Friday November 03, 2023 @11:14AM (#38130017)
They charge for bandwidth if you use enough of it on the enterprise tier.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2023) on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @04:00PM (#38104104)
MAJORITY | Stockholm Sweden | ONSITE Full Time | Backend C#/.NET developer

Hi Everyone!

MAJORITY is a fintech focused on digital financial services for immigrants in the US. We provide things like a Visa debit card, money transfers, mobile top-ups and much more! And compared to many others we allow users without Social Security to use our banking services.

In contrast to many other companies we do our product development from our office in Stockholm, Sweden (we use a hybrid model, meaning if you are not already in Stockholm you would need to relocate.

We have a Microsoft stack, with C#/.Net6 hosted in AKS in Azure, with Azure SQL Server. Its microservices but very consistently built with common libraries for most non-businesslogic like logging, controllers, messaging etc.

Personally I think it would be great to find someone with deep SQL Server experience (or other SQL DBs), since we are a bit thin in this department. But generally any experienced .Net developers are very welcome!

See https://www.majority.com/en/company/career

There are a couple of different ways the union might "fight" (not sure of the english term). They can block things physically, like standing around the shop to prevent people in/out. They can also expand the strike outside Teslas shops, for example to transportation companies supplying parts to Tesla etc.

Given how core this question is to the Swedish Unions and Sweden in general, I expect it would be very easy to get support for many wide-reaching actions both from other unions and from the public. (For example, there's no minimum salary in Sweden, instead the companies & unions are supposed to handle it)

Here's a reasonable description (google translated) about what might happen: https://www-svensktnaringsliv-se.translate.goog/sakomraden/a...

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021) on Thursday April 01, 2021 @01:46PM (#26663780)
Bannerflow | Stockholm Sweden | ONSITE Full Time | https://career.bannerflow.com/

Hi Everyone! At Bannerflow we help designers and companies across the globe create first-class digital advertising that makes an impact - at scale.

Our platform is 100% cloud-based, hosted in Azure, and containerized with Docker. We build our frontend with Typescript and Angular, and our backend with .NET Core/C#, use MongoDB and Azure SQL as databases and deploy and release without downtime using automated CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps.

We have won several national and international prizes in recent years, repeatedly recognized as one of Europe's fastest-growing companies.

We have multiple open positions, especially for Frontend and Backend developers, see them all here https://career.bannerflow.com/

(Currently we work mostly remote, but when Covid is passed we will go back to mostly onsite. Therefor candidates must be eligible to work in Sweden full time without restriction.)

If you dont want to apply directly, feel free to mail me instead: [email protected]

Re:New In Postgres 12: Generated Columns on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @11:59AM (#21137871)
You might want to take a look at starcounter. https://starcounter.io/ I haven't used it myself, but saw a demo in their office a couple of years ago.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017) on Wednesday November 01, 2017 @06:40PM (#15606141)
Bannerflow (www.bannerflow.com) | Stockholm, Sweden| Full Time | ONSITE

Hi HN! I work in the tech team of Bannerflow. We are one of the first HTML5 ad production platforms for ads that run across all devices and screens. Today we have over 500 customers in more than 50 different countries and Bannerflow banner ads now reach almost 200 million views per day.

Main technologies we use: Microsoft Azure (mainly Webapps, EventHubs, StreamAnalytics, ADLA/USQL), C#/.NET and .Net Core, MongoDB, Druid, Spark / Hadoop. Typescript, Javscript, Angular.

We are mainly looking for backend developers and data engineers. Checkout more details here and apply here (please mentioned you saw us on HN):

https://emp.jobylon.com/jobs/4808-bannerflow-back-end-develo...

https://emp.jobylon.com/jobs/11370-bannerflow-data-engineer/

(you can also contact me directly, check my profile)

Re:How Checkers Was Solved on Thursday July 20, 2017 @03:30AM (#14810638)
If you like this story I suggest you take a look at the book "One Jump Ahead" by Schaeffer for a lot more in depth view!
Could someone explain the differences between Azure Data Lake and Azure Blob Storage?
It seems like your data is outdated. According to Statcounter win 7 have 47.5% of the total windows market, you have to go back almost one year for a point when 7 had more than 50%. Netmarketshare says win 7 have 47.2% of the total market.
Re:China's Subprime Crisis Is Here on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @08:54AM (#11117821)
China have aggressively lowered the requirements the last years. At the moment it should be 20% for first and 30% for 2nd home. Still some way to go for US levels ofc.

www.mingtiandi.com/real-estate/china-real-estate-research-policy/china-lowered-downpayments-but-will-it-help-sell-homes-in-the-hinterland/

Im from Europe and work for in Beijing for a Chinese startup. I do get a bit worried when reading this (and similar articles).
Re:Three biggest Internet companies in each country on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @06:41AM (#8003856)
For sweden I wonder why not Betsson is included? Its market cap is almost double that of Klarna, the current 3rd company? PaddyPower (another online betting company) is included for Ireland.

It might be more missing, but this was easy to spot since Im both swedish and very familiar with Betsson.

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