Hacker News: thibran

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.

New comment by thibran in "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"

thibran — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 06:59:54 +0000

Maybe increase the living conditions for people under 60?

All this talk is just about the symptoms, but the cause is that young people are born into a deeply unfair world where losing is by design (so that the baby boomers can continue to profit).

If someone in their 20 can start a family without being financially broken, things will improve.

New comment by thibran in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

thibran — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:56:25 +0000

Mozilla wasted probably hundreds of million dollars trying all those "features", but all we want is a stable browser.

New comment by thibran in "What OpenAI did when ChatGPT users lost touch with reality"

thibran — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 12:01:36 +0000

I get your point and think in a similar way. The difference between AI and the coconuts is -> there is no way deaths by coconuts increase by 10000000x, but for AI it's possible.

The reasons we have not - and probably will not - remove obvious bad causes is, that a small group of people has huge monetary incentives to keep the status quo.

It would be so easy to e.g. reduce the amount of sugar (without banning it), or to have a preventive instead of a reactive healthcare system.

New comment by thibran in "Show HN: Why write code if the LLM can just do the thing? (web app experiment)"

thibran — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 20:26:39 +0000

Wouldn't be the trick to let AI code the app on first requests and then let it run the code instead of have it always generate everything? This should combine the best of both worlds.

New comment by thibran in "Jujutsu at Google [video]"

thibran — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 13:53:25 +0000

auto rebase, simple undo (jj undo), no staging area, easy splitting and merging

New comment by thibran in "Jujutsu at Google [video]"

thibran — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 21:18:33 +0000

jj is so good, finally a tool to replace Git.

SVN -> Git -> jj

New comment by thibran in "Scripts I wrote that I use all the time"

thibran — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:39:48 +0000

30% of the productivity hacks can be archived in vanilla Nushell.

New comment by thibran in "Zoxide: A Better CD Command"

thibran — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 11:59:49 +0000

zoxoide, rg, fd, jj and Nushell are my command line favorites.