Hacker News: thibran

New comment by thibran in "Claude Opus 5.5"

thibran — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:36:57 +0000

Anthropic models are ridiculously expensive. I've stopped using any of their models months ago.

New comment by thibran in "GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven"

thibran — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:35:27 +0000

I love VIM-like TUIs, but the discoverability of of them is absolutely awful.

New comment by thibran in "GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven"

thibran — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:10:03 +0000

This does not work great. What if you have a grid of 30 item, do you press 20 times tab to focus finally the item you want to interact with?

Keyboard design is much more, its also about how and where to place items, how things should move... it's a whole world. In the mouse world we have "discovered" those things and now we "just copy" other designs that we know work fine.

New comment by thibran in "GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven"

thibran — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:55:29 +0000

That's not what I mean. The site you linked is about how to make a mouse-first website more keyboard friendly, but what I would like to exist is a mature keyboard-first guide.

I mean something like this (my wip keyboard-first file manager): https://ibb.co/G3WBW5C1

The hard part is, there seems to exist no UI & UX design language I can follow to create a nice keyboard-first app, so I have to think through everything (which is fun but tiring).

New comment by thibran in "GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven"

thibran — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:29:02 +0000

The problem with keyboard navigation is that there seems to be no mature GUI keyboard-first UX concept. "Mouse things" are the way they are, because they fit the mouse-way. We need the same for the keyboard-way. Until then, there seems to be no design concept that can just be copied.

New comment by thibran in "Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export"

thibran — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 19:54:59 +0000

Not showing the model cost in the Cursor UI is the biggest failure of Cursor.

New comment by thibran in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

thibran — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:58:10 +0000

Instead of needing a familiar metaphor to understand a new system (reasoning by analogy), they grasp the core conceptual mechanics directly.

It’s not that the 2/3 can't think abstractly, it’s just that they use analogies as a temporary processing step to get there, while the 1/3 starts there.

New comment by thibran in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

thibran — Sun, 31 May 2026 08:20:41 +0000

You described reasoning by analogy, which two thirds of the population does.

New comment by thibran in "Claude Opus 4.8"

thibran — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:30:13 +0000

Nice, now make it 20x cheaper.

New comment by thibran in "Grok 4.3"

thibran — Fri, 01 May 2026 13:56:36 +0000

So you are repeating narratives without checking them?

New comment by thibran in "Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session"

thibran — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:26:32 +0000

For me there is no point in using Claude Opus 4.7, it's too expensive since it does not do 100% of the job. Since AI can anyway only do 90% of most tasks, I can use another model and do the remaining 15-30% myself.

New comment by thibran in "We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2"

thibran — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:34:14 +0000

When taking a bird eyes view on CSS it will be hard to oversee that CSS is a mixture of different concepts that evolved over time with a lot of inconsistentsies. It is possible to make it work, but it's not pretty.

Same for HTML. If the web would be reimagined today, there is a very low chance that we would create HTML as is.

New comment by thibran in "We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2"

thibran — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:31:40 +0000

Isn't the main problem that the building blocks the modern web is based on are not a good fit for what we do with it?

CSS is a total mess. HTML is a mess. JS is okay, but is not a high quality language.

We would save so much time and money if we would have a modern base to build on. Sadly this will probably never happen, because company interests will try to corrupt the process and therefore destroy it.

New comment by thibran in "Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)"

thibran — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:25:43 +0000

I use the Terminal all the time and write my own CLI tools, but I'm feeling more and more the limits of the current system. With the years I have used almost all available shells (EShell was even my default for some time). Right now my favorite shell is Nushell, but still, it feels dated compare to what is possible on modern computers.

> Make a better system, and we'll consider using it. It's on my TODO list, but it will break with all conventions and tools (no TTY). My idea is to bring the chain-things-together idea to the 21st century using a keyboard first GUI.

New comment by thibran in "Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)"

thibran — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:41:32 +0000

Its almost ironical that we still use the Terminal - and many use it like in the eighties using Bash - and seem to have forgotten that we should invent a better terminal & shell than doing all the workarounds to handle the quirks of the current systems.

New comment by thibran in "Bombadil: Property-based testing for web UIs"

thibran — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:16:17 +0000

Escaping problems or wrong handling of non-visible characters.

New comment by thibran in "Bombadil: Property-based testing for web UIs"

thibran — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:43:47 +0000

PBT allows us to test more combinations without writing hundreds of tests. Yes, it's about user flow inside a single module of our gigantic application.

New comment by thibran in "Bombadil: Property-based testing for web UIs"

thibran — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:41:02 +0000

I use quicktheories (Java) and generate a determistic random test scenario, then I generate input values and run the tests. This way I can create tests that should fail or succeed, but differ in the steps executed and in the order with "random input".

New comment by thibran in "Bombadil: Property-based testing for web UIs"

thibran — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:12:12 +0000

I'm doing propety-based test since years for frontend stuff. The hardest part is, that there is so much between the test inputs and the application under test, that I find 50% of the time problems with the frontend test frameworks/libs and not in our code.

New comment by thibran in "Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland"

thibran — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:18:32 +0000

You forget that you got a say for that money in a lot of parts of the world, which is one of the primary reasons the US is so wealthy.

Europe took the deal that the US "handels the war stuff in the world" for some influence.

If we handle the "war stuff", the US influence will be gone in Europe.