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New comment by theobr in "Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]"

theobr — Wed, 20 May 2026 09:01:51 +0000

I got details I shouldn't have. I can confidently say this one's 100% on Google, and I will be disappointed if Railway is unable to share more. There is literally nothing they could have done to prevent this aside from avoiding GCP entirely.

New comment by theobr in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

theobr — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:40:37 +0000

This changed my life

T3 Code – a new OSS agentic coding app that wraps Codex

theobr — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 02:02:20 +0000

Article URL: https://t3.codes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47283655

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by theobr in "Show HN: A Claude Code plugin that catch destructive Git and filesystem commands"

theobr — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 21:30:51 +0000

I can't believe you're accusing someone of plagiarism because they had a similar idea that "claude code would be safer if it couldn't do destructive git calls". They also added much more protection, implemented it as a plugin, wrote thorough docs and have shipped many updates since.

You wrote a markdown file. Shut up.

My analysis: https://x.com/theo/status/2006474140082122755

New comment by theobr in "React Still Feels Insane and No One Is Talking About It"

theobr — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 01:51:22 +0000

This article makes ME feel like I'm going insane. Have you even read the React docs?

The article you linked about "patterns" in React is explicitly referencing patterns that are 7+ years out of date. Hooks were built to REPLACE those patterns, and they did a phenomenal job.

90% of this article is immediately invalidated by introducing a simple, 20loc "useQuery" hook (or, god forbid, looking at ANY of the libraries that provide similar. Shoutout React Query)

I really wish we could get more valid critique of React from people who actually understand the framework, instead of this drivel from devs who spend more time complaining in blog posts than reading the docs.

New comment by theobr in "FFmpeg merges WebRTC support"

theobr — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 18:00:48 +0000

Absolutely huge

New comment by theobr in "Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace"

theobr — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 10:02:51 +0000

My haters live in a different dimension of hair splitting, it's honestly kind of unreal

New comment by theobr in "Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace"

theobr — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 10:02:15 +0000

They don't need it. They offered to "notify me before any action is taken" and I politely declined - explicitly telling them to IMMEDIATELY take it down if they find anything at all

New comment by theobr in "Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace"

theobr — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 09:23:31 +0000

Hey y'all, I made the most prominent fork of this extension "Material Theme (But I Won't Sue You)"

The maintainer went off the deep end last year. He pulled the (originally apache 2) source offline, then started threatening to sue people for hosting alternative versions, including them in other IDEs, etc. Genuine lunatic.

Out of an abundance of precaution, I've taken the following action on my fork:

1. I have the VS Code team auditing it as we speak, and I've given them full permission to immediately pull it from the marketplace & force uninstall it from users if they find ANYTHING malicious.

2. I have audited the code base thoroughly (nothing seemed malicious)

3. I have removed ALL code related to changelogs, analytics, Open Collective and html rendering.

The only thing that seemed slightly concerning was the html + sanity loader for changelogs, so I gutted it entirely. Two PRs removed almost all the deps and over 7,000loc (mostly package-lock)

Repo is here if anyone else would like to audit https://github.com/t3dotgg/vsc-material-but-i-wont-sue-you

New comment by theobr in "Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace"

theobr — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 09:11:44 +0000

hi, maintainer of the fork here

just did a pass and removed everything that was not necessary - it's even less code now lmao

    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Language                     files          blank        comment           code
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    TypeScript                      23             50            169           1307
    Markdown                         6            129              0            224
    YAML                             2              8              6             52
    INI                              1              1              0              7
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    SUM:                            32            188            175           1590
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

New comment by theobr in "Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace"

theobr — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 08:54:54 +0000

The only potential risk was the use of sanity to render a changelog. I didn't want to risk it, so I gutted that and a ton of other stuff. Just published a new, stripped down version.

https://github.com/t3dotgg/vsc-material-but-i-wont-sue-you/p...

New comment by theobr in "Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace"

theobr — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 08:37:09 +0000

Hi, owner of the fork here.

I did a thorough combing of the code base when I forked. Just did another audit and still not seeing anything suspicious. Gutting all of the opencollective and changelog code to be 1000% sure.

New comment by theobr in "Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace"

theobr — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 08:07:21 +0000

Oh hey, that's me! Not surprised this guy went kind of insane tbh

New comment by theobr in "T3 Chat – The Fastest AI Chatbot"

theobr — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 11:35:06 +0000

We do - we're using a really powerful hosted cluster at Azure (they have an exclusive licensing deal with OpenAI).

Excluding the client performance wins, we're up to 2x faster than ChatGPT.com using the same model https://x.com/ryandavogel/status/1878647963507163431

New comment by theobr in "[dead]"

theobr — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 00:08:02 +0000

This is a weird thing to post on HN

New comment by theobr in "Affinity's Adobe-rivaling creative suite is now free for six months"

theobr — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 20:11:20 +0000

I've been using Affinity's suite exclusively for about 4 years now and I haven't looked back once. Briefly tried Photoshop again for the generative AI stuff and it was slow, unreliable and crashed multiple times.

HIGHLY recommend giving Affinity a shot, I've edited thousands of images with Photo and I can't imagine using anything else now.

New comment by theobr in "The number of CS grads who don't even know basic Git commands is astounding"

theobr — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 17:47:13 +0000

If a mechanic didn’t know how to use a hammer, I’d fault the mechanic for sure.

New comment by theobr in "Htmx is a great front-end library, but its x account is full of memes"

theobr — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 23:26:27 +0000

Anyone who makes business decisions around what tech to use based on the creator posting memes is 100% NGMI.

Honestly I love how many of y'all self own with this. Keep using old, worse technologies. Us startups will take every advantage we can get :)

New comment by theobr in "Show HN: Startup funding simulator"

theobr — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 23:06:56 +0000

This is really dope and I've wanted something like it for at least 3 years now. Great work!

NPM is down due to Cloudflare Workers outage

theobr — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 20:15:35 +0000

npm installs are failing for many due to cloudflare outage. No report on npm side yet

UPDATE: npm status has been updated to reflect issues https://status.npmjs.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38075125

Points: 30

# Comments: 4