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me_bx commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)    · Posted by u/david927
animeshjain · a month ago
curious about not vibe coded, is it because you wanted to learn? or some thing else as well?
me_bx · a month ago
Maybe they care about it being robust in the long run, maintainable, secure and/or not too bloated.
me_bx commented on France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.   twitter.com/lellouchenico... · Posted by u/bwb
xiphias2 · 2 months ago
There's only one thing they need to replace if they want to show independence: ChatGPT. They had their chance with Mistral and failed spectacularly with just creating anti-AI regulations.

As a European I'm happy to use their product (and pay for it), I just ask one tiny little thing from them: build a better model with lower latency.

me_bx · 2 months ago
> They had their chance with Mistral and failed spectacularly with just creating anti-AI regulations.

What failed with Mistral?

Which anti-AI regulations are we talking about, and don't these apply to any solution distributed in the European Union, hence also to American ones?

me_bx commented on The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup   twitter.com/bcherny/statu... · Posted by u/KothuRoti
TheRoque · 2 months ago
Gemini CLI is decent.
me_bx · 2 months ago
Is it?

Yesterday, gemini told me to run this:

    echo 'export ANDROID_HOME=/opt/my-user/android-sdk' > ~/.bashrc
Which would have effectively overriden my whole bashrc config if I had blindly copy-pasted it.

A few minutes later, asking it to create a .gitignore file for the current project - right after generating a private key, it failed to include the private key file to the .gitignore.

I don't see yet how these tools can be labeled as 'major productivity boosters' if you loose basic security and privacy with them...

me_bx commented on Show HN: Turn raw HTML into production-ready images for free   html2png.dev... · Posted by u/alvinunreal
the_arun · 3 months ago
Curious - How did you find the image is not optimized? Is there a tool to find it?
me_bx · 3 months ago
I ran the command 'optipng' on the generated image, which recompresses the image optimally, keeping quality and decreasing file size.
me_bx commented on Show HN: Turn raw HTML into production-ready images for free   html2png.dev... · Posted by u/alvinunreal
me_bx · 3 months ago
Congrats on launching, beautiful design.

I'm not sure of what "production ready" is supposed to mean here, but the demo image is not optimized, `optipng` command decreases its size by 53.21%.

me_bx commented on Show HN: Fanfa – Interactive and animated Mermaid diagrams   fanfa.dev/... · Posted by u/bairess
me_bx · 3 months ago
Congrats on launching.

It might be worth considering a feature to time/schedule each flow's animation, rather than having them run in an infinite loop, all at the same time.

UX feedback:

* The animation and the whole interface are sluggish on firefox/linux. There's about 1 sec delay after each action (like clicking on an option). * The site's CSS does not load on an old version of Chrome - v90 - (and the chart and animation don't either).

me_bx commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
pankajtanwar · 5 months ago
I’m building a small side project called https://www.localgeoguessr.com/ — a fun geography game that tests how well you know your local area. It’s still in a very early stage, not polished yet, but it’s somewhat playable.

The idea is to eventually add more categories like “restaurants,” “theaters,” “roads,” etc., so you can play based on local themes.

I’d love to hear your thoughts - any feedback on what you’d like to see, what feels off, or any issues you run into would be super helpful.

me_bx · 5 months ago
Nice idea.

Bug: I tried in my area in the Canary Islands and all the places were off, sometimes in the middle of nowhere or even in the sea.

Also, in small villages, we don't necessarily have a town hall, a library, etc (within selected radius), but the game asked to pin these.

me_bx commented on Is Data Modeling Dead?   confessionsofadataguy.com... · Posted by u/speckx
tietjens · 6 months ago
I’m not sure I follow, though I like the tone. What has data modeling been replaced by?
me_bx · 6 months ago
Not OP, but in a similar boat. My 2 cents:

Well thought, sophisticated ways of modeling data for analytics purposes -using established approaches - are being replaced by just pulling data from the data sources - with barely any change in the source structure - into cloud data platforms.

In the past we used to model layers in a data-warehousing infrastructure each with a purpose and a data modelling methodology. For instance, an operational data store (ODS) layer, integrating data from all the sources, with a normalized data structure. Then a set of datamarts, each of them containing a subset of the ODS content, in a denormalized format, focused each on a specific functional domain.

We had rules, methods to structure data in order to get performant reporting, and a customer orientation.

Coming from this world, it seems like data governance principles are gone, and it feels like some organisations use the modern data stack same way as each analyst would be doing their own Excel files in their own corner, without any safeguards.

u/me_bx

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