{"slug": "tell-hn-not-everyone-has-internet-as-fast-as-yours", "title": "Tell HN: Not everyone has internet as fast as yours", "summary": "A traveler reports that many modern apps are unusable on slow internet connections, contrasting with past practices of testing for such conditions. The author praises OpenAI's Codex for working on slow connections while noting Claude fails to load its interface.", "body_md": "| ||||||||||||||||\n2 points by |\nI'm currently traveling and relying on free wifi hotspots and 3G cellular. It's shocking to me how many apps are completely unusable on slow internet. Back in the day, our test suites always included a \"slow client internet\" test to identify issues where there were too many round trips or unnecessarily large payloads. What happened to that? (ps. Props to OpenAI, Codex still works on slow internet. Claude won't even load its interface)\n| |||||||||||||||\nApplications are open till July 27. |", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tell-hn-not-everyone-has-internet-as-fast-as-yours", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951100", "published_at": "2026-07-17 19:06:57+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-17 19:21:14.195460+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "Codex", "Claude"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tell-hn-not-everyone-has-internet-as-fast-as-yours", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tell-hn-not-everyone-has-internet-as-fast-as-yours.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tell-hn-not-everyone-has-internet-as-fast-as-yours.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/tell-hn-not-everyone-has-internet-as-fast-as-yours.jsonld"}}