Hacker News: frevib

New comment by frevib in "Show HN: K10s – A Clickable Kubernetes TUI (Go, Bubble Tea)"

frevib — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:08:04 +0000

It’s not your fault. The problem is now that my mother in law can vibe code a complete operating system, I cannot distinguish quality from shit any more. And the last few OSS projects that I tried that had the Claude icon where shit and breaking in many ways.

New comment by frevib in "Show HN: K10s – A Clickable Kubernetes TUI (Go, Bubble Tea)"

frevib — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:00:42 +0000

My Pavlov reaction when I see the Claude icon next to the committer is: not touching this. Is trust in OSS now completely gone?

New comment by frevib in "PS5 Jailbreaks Are Escalating at an Unprecedented Pace"

frevib — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:59:10 +0000

One hack in Anthropic is all it takes. They already have all the source code of each company in the world.

New comment by frevib in "One Month Without AI"

frevib — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:32:32 +0000

> It started reminding me of the strategy where Google lowered the quality of the search results, forcing users to search several times, and see several times as many ads. And if that worked for Google, how is it not going to work for AI? Specially in the uncertain financial times the AI companies are going through, do you really think they would not do it? Come on. They will do this and more.

We’re using an online, undeterministic, black-box middleman to generate our code. It’s 100% Trust me bro. No proof, no scrutiny, no guarantees.

New comment by frevib in "Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare"

frevib — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:36:06 +0000

https://bunny.net/

New comment by frevib in "Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare"

frevib — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 09:58:22 +0000

We use them en they have improved a lot in the last year. For edge services they have all the important thing like ddos protection and edge scripting. There is no replacement for Cloudflare Tunnel, but frp [1] is a good alternative.

We don’t miss Cloudflare one bit.

[1] https://github.com/fatedier/frp

New comment by frevib in "OpenLogi"

frevib — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:17:56 +0000

> AI is empowering us to replace crappy vendor software with something better

Really hope this to be true, but I think companies will go for crappy vendor software than one-man, unvetted, vibe coded software.

New comment by frevib in "OpenLogi"

frevib — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 07:12:24 +0000

Great effort, thanks for that.

But do we still trust the open source software that is created now everything is vibe coded?

Recently there was a thread about Chatto [1], a Slack replacement completely vibe coded by one person. It works and looks nice. But looking at the code, I wouldn’t trust any of my personal information to it. It’s just tousands of lines of skills and vague instructions. It seems that trust in OSS is eroding and big SaaS might win here because they have the reputation.

[1] https://github.com/chattocorp/chatto

New comment by frevib in "California's new tire efficiency rules could save drivers $1B a year"

frevib — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:34:30 +0000

There are trade-offs, but there huge differences in quality between say a Michelin or Pirelli and a cheap Chinese brand.

New comment by frevib in "AI Coding Without the Vibes"

frevib — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 18:02:41 +0000

> Whst is this bit of code doing?

This only applies to bad code. A formal programmic language beats an informal language anytime. Why on earth would you translate an unambiguous formal language to English?

> Is there a risk of data leaking here?

> Are permissions enforced downstream of this function?

If you trust AI to give you that answer, you are going to run into serious issues.

New comment by frevib in "Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale"

frevib — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:36:45 +0000

Currently the bad quality of architecture and holistic view of models is probably explained by the fact that the models just cannot do it. Free markets and China will make sure of that, kind of. In reality Claude and Codex are better and provide much better tooling, so not much competition from free markets and self-hosted models from China, I think.

Then when competition really settles to monoploy or duopoly, like it always does in bigtech, it is really difficult to prove Anthropic and OpenAI enshittify their models. Same with Opus 4.6, that suddenly was worse when 4.7 came out.

New comment by frevib in "Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale"

frevib — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:33:53 +0000

> I don't think this clear lack of ability is some conspiracy.

Maybe currently not. But we will never be able to know, as models are undeterministic and benchmarks are kind of scams. When you cannot prove that something gets worse, rest assured companies will to it.

New comment by frevib in "Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale"

frevib — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:40:19 +0000

No surprise, LLM companies optimize for waste. More tokens, and more prompts means more revenue. Reminds of Google’s Prabhakar Raghavan story: deliberately making search worse [1]

[1]: https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/24/naming-names/#prabhakar-r...

New comment by frevib in "Organic Maps"

frevib — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:42:58 +0000

Any recommendations for an OSS maps app that provides tracks like Strava,l and Komoot?

New comment by frevib in "What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)"

frevib — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 19:19:10 +0000

You shouldn’t use ORM entities as domain models. The domain should not depend on anything from the integration layer (db entities, REST request/ response, etc).

Ideally models are generated from SQL schemas, which you map to domain models.

New comment by frevib in "We’re making Bunny DNS free"

frevib — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:02:33 +0000

Scaleway and OVH. Upcloud close second.

New comment by frevib in "Claude Fable 5"

frevib — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:20:17 +0000

At this point Anthropic is a pure marketing and PR company. Super catchy names like Opus, Mythos and Fable trying to get you to think that these software products are actually super-human life changing experiences. Boris Cherny coming to HN “Hi! it’s Boris from the Claude Code team” to get real tech people’s goodwill.

From Opus 4.6 there are no noticeable improvements for me in code generation. It works very well, till 90% completion, if you guide it correctly. And you need a little luck. For serious production code I need to understand what I’m doing so it helps a bit, sometimes.

New comment by frevib in "Italy's Bending Spoons, owner of AOL and Vimeo, files for Nasdaq IPO"

frevib — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:35:37 +0000

This guy dubbed it “get Komooted”, as they pulled the same trick for used-to-be-great cycling app Komoot: https://bikepacking.com/plog/when-we-get-komooted/

The app quality almost immediately went down the drain after the acquisition by Bending Spoons.

New comment by frevib in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

frevib — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:38:39 +0000

“the reality of AI right now is that it only works for coding.”

Kind of…

New comment by frevib in "The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon"

frevib — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:06:16 +0000

I think saying no is more important now with AI, as features can be built so quickly now. But there are a lot more costs after the feature has been built. Mostly with AI the code isn’t understood that well, wich incurs a cognitive debt. Then there are extra maintentance and documentation costs. And the costs of carrying around features that add no value.

I can imagine that if you’re a startup and want to try new features quickly, it makes sense to say yes more. But the senior mentioned in the article will also be able to understand that.