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mattio

40 karma · joined September 11, 2017

Interested in science (fiction), full stack dev, eating plant based food, recently started to play MTG. Amsterdam based. Building www.fitbyhermes.com
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mattio··on If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good (2010)
You can buy the version without the bright light, but the marketing people made it 10 dollars more expensive x-) /s
mattio··on GPT-5.2-Codex
Completely agreed. Used claude and codex both on highest tier next to each other for a month. On complex tasks where Claude would get stuck and not be able to fix it at all, codex would fix the issue in one go. Codex is amazing.

I did found some slip ups in 5.2 where I did a refactor of a client header where I removed two header properties, but 5.2 forgot to remove those from the toArray method of the class. Was using 5.2 on medium (default).

mattio··on Being poor vs. being broke
I was just lucky that I started programming when I was about 32, and when I started freelancing (35) money started flowing. But tbh I am still managing the holes my upbringing left me (financial habits, attachment issues, focus and productivity). I know I’m responsible for my action, but it does not make it easier.

It kind of feels it’s never enough. So it does not feel I am helped in the sense that I left my problems behind me. Just traded some problems for better (but also bigger) ones.

mattio··on Being poor vs. being broke
I grew up poor as dirt. My mom has four kids with three dads. Eventually we were a family of six. I think we had about 100 euros a month for food, clothing and recreation. My mom and stepdad did not work one day in their lives (welfare in NL).

Right now I’m still recovering. It’s my fifth year making over 150K and I have zero to show for it because I did a poor job managing my finances. To help me (in general, but also productivity wise) I have a coach and coincidentally today exerpeinced a breakthrough. I am still afraid of being poor. Of being made fun of. And not being enough.

I’m operating out of a ‘it’s not enough’ mentality, because I don’t feel enough. It feels like a life sentence, but some hope shimmers at the end of the tunnel.

What it’s like being poor: even buying a simple football in a supermarket felt leagues out of reach. Being sent back home because a teacher told me my clothes did not cut it. And my parents just sent me back. I never thought there was a path for me to become a doctor. Or any other noble job. Growing up or being poor is not being able to see a way out. Recognising opportunity.

Forgive me my language. Super tired and on my phone.

mattio··on OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss
Currently their moat is history. Why I keep coming back to ChatGPT is it ‘remembers’ our previous chats, so I don’t have to explain things over and over again. And this history builds up over time.
mattio··on VPN firm says it didn't know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them
The company must remain profitable, otherwise it will bankrupt, right. I wonder what a better path forward was. Perhaps their T&C allow to lower through put of the LT-subscriptions and offer an upgrade to breakeven on LT-subs.
mattio··on VanMoof encryption key exporter
I am not sure why everyone thinks they are expensive. Just the bike is about 2000 euro.

There are eBikes costing 4000 euro.

My van moof was about 2800 because I bought the 2 packages taking care of theft and repairs. Because of their image I never have to lock the bike besides their amazing kick lock bike, so getting on and off the bike with locking and unlocking it is a matter of seconds.

This is not expensive at all.

*their image amongst bicycle thief’s makes the bike unattractive. They hunt down stolen bikes if you bought their theft service. If they can’t find it you get a new one.

mattio··on Sea water to drink water at the push of a button
Sea water to drink water at the push of a button! Is this technology finally ready to be commercialized?
mattio··on Maccy is an open source lightweight and searchable clipboard manager for macOS
I tried paste, but it is too much in your face for my taste.

Would love something like the clipboard manager from the JetBrain suite as a global clipboard manager.

Will give Alfred a try, thanks!

mattio··on Rf: an experimental refactoring tool for Go
Thanks for the insight.
mattio··on Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?
I am also trying to tackle this problem in a side project! Dm me if you want to compare notes. <3
mattio··on Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?
Trying to find a backend (php) freelance project since March after having worked 5 years in a startup/scaleup. Its the hardest problem I faced in ages. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
mattio··on Show HN: Online Town – A better way to gather online
I am working on the exact same thing since a week now. =D
mattio··on Show HN: Online Town – A better way to gather online
I am building this too atm, but a slightly different implementation (python backend en typescript frontend). I started saturday; I've had the idea longer, but that it's more like a feature than a product kept me from building it. Nice work, keep it up!
mattio··on Quarantine will normalize WFH and recession will denormalize full-time jobs
Brighton, UT has some night time skiing (I think until 9 pm).
mattio··on Show HN: A new innovative Browser extension to expand your vocabulary
Doesn't seem like an ad to me.
mattio··on Practical Examples in Data Oriented Design
Thank you for your explanation!
mattio··on 1000fps image projection on deforming non-rigid surface
This is awesome!
mattio··on I completed Ultimate Go, took good notes and commented directly on source code
Do you also facilitate trainings in Europe? (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
mattio··on FBI tells lawmakers it can't access Dayton gunman's phone
So gun owners feel punished when their guns are taken away, and they feel this punishment is more severe than all the lives that are taken away because of mass shootings? And all the families that are ripped apart? If my 'right' harms so many people, I would not even want that 'right' in the first place. Guns perhaps made sense in an era where you had to protect yourself agains outlaws. Now we have governments to take take care of your daily security. Now the freely available guns don't make any sense at all.
mattio··on FBI tells lawmakers it can't access Dayton gunman's phone
If there was such a thing like gun control they wouldn't need to access his phone. Just restrict access to guns.
mattio··on Google CTF 2019
I feel you.
mattio··on How the Varroa Mite’s True Diet Was Discovered
Oustanding work!
mattio··on Show HN: YouRepl – Watch video-tutorials and write code at the same time
This reminds me of this video player for screencasts and code tutorials I want to build where you could see someone code, and you could copy the code straight from the video/cast.

So basically a google doc where the caster is typing code and you are able to pause and speed up.

How difficult would it be to build that? :thinking:

mattio··on Google Container for Firefox – Prevent Google from tracking you around the web
Too bad I don't use firefox xD
mattio··on Romania orders investigative journalists to disclose sources under GDPR
If a government is doing this, it doesn't belong in the EU at all.

edit: the 'subjects' of the government however do need them in the EU, so hopefully the EU can protect those citizens against their own government?

mattio··on Status.github.com: “We're failing over a data storage system”
They started to replay all webhook events yesterday evening, triggering all kinds of events in our systems, as deployments and the like :-(
mattio··on Lifeguard Drone Rescues Swimmer in Spain
Well, if the person's life was hanging by a thread, you would want to get the person out of the water asap, right? A 200-300m swim back while pulling someone will take a while. If the drone is there already why not let the lifeguard hook the person to the drone and let it fly back.
mattio··on GitHub is down
The Netherlands too.
mattio··on “I'm basically giving myself a permanent vacation from being BDFL”
Enjoy your well deserved holiday! Send us a postcard ;-)
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