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Pierre-Yves Baccou
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pyb··on Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU
The thing is, perhaps they'd be more successful in exporting other things if they were part of the EU.
pyb··on Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)
Because OP's email is in their bio, for one.
pyb··on Ask HN: HN frontpage feels boring now?
Fully agreed. It's also that the interesting stuff quickly falls off the front page, and you have to go to https://news.ycombinator.com/active to find it.
pyb··on Under-16s to be banned from social media, Starmer announces
"Social media" is such a wide and vague term. We're basically banning people from talking to each other.
pyb··on UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s
If Reddit is "social media", so is HN.
pyb··on Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass
To me, Google switched the "Evil bit" around the time of the Dragonfly debacle (2018)

If OP is only seeing the problems now, they must have been selectively blind.

pyb··on How we made hit video game Prince of Persia
Gobsmacked to learn that this was originally developed on the Apple II. I always thought of PoP as a 16-bit type of game.
pyb··on Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection
and Disney
pyb··on David Attenborough's 100th Birthday
I don't think full context should be provided at all times in casual internet conversations.

However, in your defense, "Richmond" is one of the most overloaded geographical names, second only to "Kingston".

pyb··on Ghostty is leaving GitHub
Oh you're right, I misread. They're actually blaming their customer's vibe coding on their problems. I which case I call BS
pyb··on Ghostty is leaving GitHub
They are mostly blaming their shift to vibe coding for their problems. https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-on-...
pyb··on CadQuery is an open-source Python library for building 3D CAD models
Is this the OpenClaw effect?
pyb··on The Vercel plugin on Claude Code wants to read your prompts
Why are you still assuming good intentions of Vercel? This was them less yhan a month ago : https://vercel.com/changelog/updates-to-terms-of-service-mar...
pyb··on A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification
Those worries are ruled out... for now. Laws can be amended.
pyb··on Meta Deployed AI and It Is Killing Our Agency
Same here, I've not been able to open an account, it's a bit frustrating.
pyb··on Ask HN: Why is everyone here so AI-hyped?
It's the 2026 version of this https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
pyb··on Another GitHub outage in the same day
Reminded of Dan Luu's post on the Normalization of Deviance (2015, https://danluu.com/wat/)

"There's the company with a reputation for having great engineering practices that had 2 9s of reliability last time I checked..."

Now it's 2026, and customers are grudgingly accepting zero 9's of reliability.

pyb··on Discord Alternatives, Ranked
How could Signal be considered privacy-conscious ? The first thing they do is ask for your phone number.
pyb··on British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years
Interesting to see the deep-dive on "younger car drivers", but not a pip about the old-age drivers. Yet we see from chart 1 that their casualty rate is far worse!
pyb··on FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap
Not for me.
pyb··on Sam Altman’s DRAM Deal
If it's confirmed that Altman's played the Koreans against each other, it's going to cause a furore in Korea.
pyb··on Airbus A320 – intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical for flight
I get the feeling that they are doing this partly for marketing purposes.
pyb··on Airbus A320 – intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical for flight
The aerospace industry has had countermeasures in place against bit-flips for a long time, oftentimes thanks to redudancy

Airbus/Thales's fix in this case appears to add more error checking, and to restart the misbehaving component. https://bea.aero/fileadmin/user_upload/BEA2024-0404-BEA2025-...

("une supervision interne du composant à l’origine de la défaillance ; - un mécanisme de redémarrage automatique de ce composant dès lors que la défaillance est détectée)

pyb··on Compare Single Board Computers
This. Your SBC's ecosystem/support is 10x more important than its specs.
pyb··on There is a huge pool of exceptional junior engineers
Anectodally, I've seen that some newly graduated engineers prefer to forgo the job search altogether, rather than lower their comp demands to get a foot in the door.
pyb··on There is a huge pool of exceptional junior engineers
Not mentioned in the article : interns/juniors are too expensive these days ; seniors offer better value per dollar of comp.
pyb··on Tell HN: My advice after I applied to 450 positions before getting hired
What's your location?
pyb··on 4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC
The paradox of politics : are hated whilst actually doing what the majority wants.

As we saw in the case of the Winter fuel Payments : if a policy is unpopular with voters, it is abandoned. The Online Safety Act is popular, so it will stay.

pyb··on Ask HN: How do you get your devs to understand your customers?
A company invented the role of "forward deployed engineer" to solve this problem.
pyb··on Ask HN: How do you tune your personality to get better at interviews?
There are 300 random candidates but probably only 3 viable candidates.
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