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sylvinus

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Founder/Co-founder/CTO: Pricing Assistant, dotConferences, Jamendo, TEDxParis, Joshfire

Angel investor in 120+ companies and 10+ funds.

Now working with the French government: https://sylvainzimmer.com/blog/2025/01/public-sector/

All my projects: http://sylvinus.org/

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github.com 4mo ago

Agent VM – Lima VMs for local agents and more

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github.com 5mo ago

Show HN: A single command to run Claude Code inside Lima VMs

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defold.com 2y ago

Defold: Lua game engine for web and mobile

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orm.drizzle.team 3y ago

Drizzle ORM Pricing

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engineering.contentsquare.com 4y ago

Learning Optimal Time Ranges for Splitting a Lookup Query

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engineering.contentsquare.com 5y ago

Ten Flink Gotchas we wish we had known

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engineering.contentsquare.com 5y ago

We improved our Akka Stream application throughput by 6x

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engineering.contentsquare.com 5y ago

Handling Black Friday at Scale

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www.welcometothejungle.co 7y ago

Games for Developers

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www.dotconferences.com 8y ago

Building the Most Annoying Website [video]

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about.commonsearch.org 9y ago

Common Search publishes host-level WebGraph and PageRank datasets

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github.com 10y ago

GitHub has 880,114 open pull requests

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www.thedotpost.com 10y ago

Henrik Joreteg: Pocket-Sized JavaScript [video]

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www.thedotpost.com 10y ago

Peter Bourgon at dotGo 2015: A case for microservices in Go [video]

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www.thedotpost.com 10y ago

Conceptualizing Large Software Systems [video]

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www.thedotpost.com 10y ago

Rob Pike: Simplicity Is Complicated [video]

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sylvainzimmer.com 10y ago

Encounters of the random kind

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sylvainzimmer.com 10y ago

Announcing the dotConferences Hosts program

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www.dotgo.eu 11y ago

DotGo 2015: The European Go Conference (Nov 9, Paris)

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www.thedotpost.com 11y ago

Introducing Disque [video]

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www.thedotpost.com 11y ago

Your infrastructure is not a unique snowflake, and that's ok [video]

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www.thedotpost.com 11y ago

Consistency and Candy Crush: Don't give up on serializability just yet [video]

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www.thedotpost.com 11y ago

Time series data: the worst and best use case in distributed databases [video]

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www.thedotpost.com 11y ago

Jepsen IV: Hope Springs Eternal [video]

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www.thedotpost.com 11y ago

Swift: The excitement of the blank page

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www.thedotpost.com 11y ago

Angus Croll – A Book Nerd's Guide to JavaScript

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hn.algolia.com 11y ago

Hacker News for [domain]

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dotgo.sourcegraph.com 11y ago

Brad Fitzpatrick on the future of Go

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www.dotjs.eu 11y ago

The dotJS Prize: $10,000 for the most innovative JavaScript projects

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en.wikipedia.org 11y ago

TV pickup

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Forking the Web 2 months ago

Why not try to define a strict subset of the current specs, that would target ease of implementation & graceful degradation? I'd rather have many different clients compatible with a "web-lite" spec that is enough to navigate on 95% of websites, which would have an incentive to officially support that subset if it becomes popular enough.

Thanks for the write up. Always interesting to see how very senior developers interact with AI these days.

@antirez: Introducing a regex feature that late into the project for a seemingly unrelated feature feels a bit weird? Can you explain more your rationale on that? thanks!

I'm using this as my main way to run Claude & others, it's just a shell wrapper but it provides a lot of niceties and a pretty good developer experience in a single command line. Curious to have feedbacks on it!

Love Oxide and what they're building, but I'm not sure raising even more VC money is the way to build a generational company. Quite the opposite? With money you don't need, you're trading faster growth for more dependencies on third parties that will seek a ROI eventually?

AFAIK, there are lots of contributions from developers in the French government to the Grist open source repository. We also deploy it, we have instances running in various government agencies.

For Docs, we bootstrapped the repository ourselves on top of Django, Next.js, BlockNote.js, Y.js and many others. We welcome contributions!

There's a kind of survivorship bias here! I'm sure that if Altinity (or others) weren't forced to do RFCs on GitHub like the one mentioned in this article that get low/no attention from the core team, they would be in the top committers :)

I'm surprised by all the negativity here. Usually HN commenters are good at understanding exponential growth. Maybe it's easier when talking about Active Users?

Climeworks (and others) are just a couple orders of magnitude away from having real impact, with a clear roadmap lying ahead. Let's support them, along with all other potential solutions? We're going to need more than one.

Congrats for the project! Love the simple UI and extensions support.

Don't you fear being held back by WebKit, which is notoriously slow to implement new web platform features? Can you give some insights on how you chose the engine?

Thanks!

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This thread is highly misleading. The BioNTech filing is about a risk of perception because of classification as gene therapy, not an actual risk of permanently altering the DNA.