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New comment by druskacik in "Europeans should learn to love the air-conditioner"

druskacik — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:57:08 +0000

I live in Prague and seeing the temperatures expected during weekend, I bought at least the portable AC. I'd say 2-4 weeks is quite a long period to justify this purchase.

Yes, historically, the AC didn't make sense in Prague, but there's no going back, the world is just going to get hotter.

Fine-Tuning for Engagement

druskacik — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:24:21 +0000

Article URL: https://robertdruska.com/blog/fine-tuning-for-engagement/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48328736

Points: 2

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New comment by druskacik in "Solar-based sleep patterns compared to modern norms"

druskacik — Fri, 15 May 2026 12:49:00 +0000

Time off of work to get a haircut is insane. Aren't there barbershops open in the evening?

New comment by druskacik in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

druskacik — Thu, 14 May 2026 08:41:41 +0000

Yeah, the focus is mostly on night trains, although some day combinations leak to the data, so it's possible you'll find some combinations for daily trains.

Of course, I'd like to have the daily trains in the data, but that would drastically increase the number of combinations and require some more scaling of the scraping, which I don't want to do at this point. Focusing on night trains only is a nice niche.

I plan to add at least some daily trains between core cities, e.g. the EuroStar London <-> Paris route, which would make multi-leg search to farther cities easier (i.e. combination of night train + daily train).

New comment by druskacik in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

druskacik — Tue, 12 May 2026 07:40:07 +0000

It's definitely similar, but the philosophy seems different. NightRide supports exactly the use case on searching a route on a specific date. I also noticed that if they don't have the price pre-scraped, a scrape is called dynamically on user's request.

My idea is to pre-scrape the prices and answer questions such as: wanna go to Amsterdam for a weekend? -> here are the best dates and prices.

New comment by druskacik in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

druskacik — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:18:44 +0000

Added, but just the Milan - Brusells route from European Sleeper so far.

https://trainbot.eu/?from=milan&to=brussels&type=return

The 20€ Milan - Zurich tickets also don't look bad, but the early-morning departure / evening arrival are probably not that optimal.

https://trainbot.eu/?from=milan&to=zurich&type=return&seat_t...

EDIT: note, this route will be available from September.

New comment by druskacik in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

druskacik — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:04:37 +0000

Currently not possible, but:

- once you fill the "From" field with your start city, the "To" field will include only cities reachable from the "From" city

- at https://trainbot.eu/coverage/ you can search for all routes that go through your city

I plan to add a subpage for every relevant city with recommended routes once I'll have enough data. Something like https://www.seat61.com/ but with actual prices and dates.

New comment by druskacik in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

druskacik — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:19:22 +0000

Hm, thanks for the tip, I didn't know that. I scrape NightJet website, which lists only the 00:36 train. I'll look into it.

New comment by druskacik in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

druskacik — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:08:35 +0000

sorry about that :)

New comment by druskacik in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

druskacik — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:50:03 +0000

I have a working version of Trenitalia scraper (Intercity Notte trains across Italy), I just haven't added the routes to UI before verifying it works reliably. Hopefully I'll add it in the evening.

Also the Milan - Brusells route from European Sleeper, it's scraped but not yet in UI. I'll reply here when it's done.

New comment by druskacik in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

druskacik — Mon, 11 May 2026 09:54:58 +0000

That's the Prague - Zurich NightJet that's hellishly expensive, possibly because the target audience are Swiss people for whom it's not so much :D Also, NightJet does not price very dynamically as opposed to other providers, and their baseline price is always quite high.

But yes, in most cases this journey will be more expensive that an alternative flight, which is a shame. However, there are routes where it's comparable, e.g. the Prague - Amsterdam route.

New comment by druskacik in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

druskacik — Mon, 11 May 2026 09:43:33 +0000

Sure :) Thanks.

New comment by druskacik in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

druskacik — Mon, 11 May 2026 07:58:44 +0000

European night trains search engine. The plan is not to provide the functionality where user searches for a specific route on a specific date and the engine returns prices. The plan is to provide "tips for trips", e.g. I provide a starting city and it will recommend me interesting trip ideas any time in the future. There are many flight apps that provide this functionality, but no train app.

Currently I'm building scrapers for all relevant provider, then I want to connect the data for multi-city trips recommendation. Plus some connection to the day trains so that the trips are built more easily.

Some existing trip recommendations:

Prague <-> Amsterdam https://trainbot.eu/?from=prague&to=amsterdam&type=return

Berlin <-> Paris https://trainbot.eu/?from=berlin&to=paris&type=return

Zurich <-> Budapest https://trainbot.eu/?from=zurich&to=budapest&type=return

New comment by druskacik in "Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX"

druskacik — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:39:53 +0000

For me personally, I have the basic Claude Code subscription that I use to rewind on some evenings or on weekend, to code a bit for 1-2 hours. I have like 3-5 session with it every week.

The 5h windows are frustrating because I can go through them quickly if I have a more complex task. I haven't yet met the weekly limit. I'd say there are many cases similar to mine.

New comment by druskacik in "New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag"

druskacik — Mon, 04 May 2026 07:47:41 +0000

> If the man holding the flag had been wearing a thawb instead of a suit, or if the statue had been of a woman, I think the establishment's response would be quite different.

That's argumentum ad speculum[0]. You can speculate what the response would be if the statue was different in a way you imagine, but the thing is, it's not.

[0]: https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/logicalfallacies/Hypothe...

New comment by druskacik in "New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag"

druskacik — Mon, 04 May 2026 07:35:34 +0000

What truly deep art would you recommend for us laymans who enjoy Banksy's works?

New comment by druskacik in "Show HN: Search cheap night train tickets in Europe"

druskacik — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:16:37 +0000

Although it seems the night train offering in Spain is not great.

New comment by druskacik in "Show HN: Search cheap night train tickets in Europe"

druskacik — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:11:45 +0000

It's a work in progress and southern Europe is not covered well, Spain is not covered at all. I focuses on Eastern and Central Europe because that's where I'm from, I'll try to add Spain next :)

Show HN: Search cheap night train tickets in Europe

druskacik — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:41:24 +0000

There are many website for searching cheap flights, but I don't know any for searching cheap train fares. I decided to build one myself. Three providers are currently covered: European Sleeper, NightJet, RegioJet.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47714849

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

New comment by druskacik in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

druskacik — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:59:34 +0000

Altman is an advocate of Universal Basic Income, as far as I'm aware. That doesn't sound like he's not worried about massive job losses.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sam-altman-universal-basic-inco...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sam-altman-wants-universal-ex...