Hacker News: allanrbo

New comment by allanrbo in "I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop"

allanrbo — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:46:53 +0000

I wish all shops just have a clear email address. Id much prefer emailing over placing a voice call...

New comment by allanrbo in "Show HN: Baltic shadow fleet tracker – live AIS, cable proximity alerts"

allanrbo — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:15:36 +0000

Screenshot or bust

New comment by allanrbo in "gRPC: From service definition to wire format"

allanrbo — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 02:46:04 +0000

For those situations where you need just a little bit of protobuf in your project, and don't want to bother with the whole proto ecosystem of codegen and deps: https://github.com/allanrbo/pb.py

New comment by allanrbo in "Show HN: TinyCity – A tiny city SIM for MicroPython (Thumby micro console)"

allanrbo — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:30:31 +0000

SIM=subscriber identity module. sim=simulator. :-)

New comment by allanrbo in "Garage – An S3 object store so reliable you can run it outside datacenters"

allanrbo — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:49:11 +0000

I use Syncthing a lot. Is Garage only really useful if you specifically want to expose an S3 drop in compatible API, or does it also provide other benefits over syncthing?

New comment by allanrbo in "Show HN: I made a free tool that tells you the hairstyle that suit you the best"

allanrbo — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 07:13:45 +0000

Not free

MiniMeshT: A tiny terminal chat client for Meshtastic. No protobufs, no bloat

allanrbo — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 02:35:33 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/allanrbo/MiniMeshT

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45401291

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

MiniMeshT: A tiny terminal chat client for Meshtastic. No protobufs, no bloat

allanrbo — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 16:52:37 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/allanrbo/MiniMeshT

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45349655

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by allanrbo in "I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster"

allanrbo — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 15:29:20 +0000

No, again, just run VMs on your desktop/laptop. The software doesn't know or care if it's a rack mounted machine.

New comment by allanrbo in "Irssi: IRC client in a Docker image"

allanrbo — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 02:11:08 +0000

This seems absurd. Just apt install irssi. Why Docker for such a simple self contained tiny app?

New comment by allanrbo in "Protobuffers Are Wrong (2018)"

allanrbo — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 16:25:40 +0000

Sometimes you are integrating with system that already use proto though. I recently wrote a tiny, dependency-free, practical protobuf (proto3) encoder/decoder. For those situations where you need just a little bit of protobuf in your project, and don't want to bother with the whole proto ecosystem of codegen and deps: https://github.com/allanrbo/pb.py

New comment by allanrbo in "Pb.py: A tiny, dependency-free, protobuf encoder/decoder"

allanrbo — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 18:00:21 +0000

A tiny, dependency-free, practical protobuf (proto3) encoder/decoder. For those situations where you need just a little bit of protobuf in your project, and don't want to bother with the whole proto ecosystem of codegen and deps.

Pb.py: A tiny, dependency-free, protobuf encoder/decoder

allanrbo — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 18:00:21 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/allanrbo/pb.py

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45055080

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by allanrbo in "Operational Apple-1 Computer for sale [video]"

allanrbo — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 04:13:44 +0000

Handmade by Jobs, not Woz?

New comment by allanrbo in "IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol"

allanrbo — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:41:50 +0000

Yes, Gnome on Ubuntu and Debian has had a built in rdp server for the last several releases: settings -> sharing -> Remote Desktop -> on

New comment by allanrbo in "Ask HN: How do you backup your Android?"

allanrbo — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 04:35:13 +0000

Syncthing

New comment by allanrbo in "A Simple open-source Phone programmable with Arduino"

allanrbo — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 08:11:58 +0000

Would be fun to try to run Meshtastic on it.

New comment by allanrbo in "Correcting the record for Continue and PearAI"

allanrbo — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 20:33:47 +0000

I’m so confused by these guys. Stumbled upon them on YouTube and thought it was satire https://youtu.be/18cHBU05zK0

New comment by allanrbo in "Microprogramming: A New Way to Program"

allanrbo — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 04:46:30 +0000

I think it is indeed a joke on microservices and the other commenters just didn’t get the joke yet :-)

Advanced Voice is rolling out in the ChatGPT app over the course of the week

allanrbo — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 18:13:49 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/1838642444365369814

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41639377

Points: 29

# Comments: 14