Hacker News: bob_theslob646

New comment by bob_theslob646 in "Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's"

bob_theslob646 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 02:44:22 +0000

What happens in the age of self driving cars?

New comment by bob_theslob646 in "I Learned to Read Again"

bob_theslob646 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 21:01:13 +0000

This is a great question. I would love to know the answer to this as well. +1

New comment by bob_theslob646 in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

bob_theslob646 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:41:22 +0000

>In this case, even using the least robust form of MFA that Instagram offers — a one-time code sent via SMS — likely would have blocked the exploit: The hackers who released the video on Telegram said their exploit failed to work against any accounts that had MFA enabled.

Why would they not have this set up?

New comment by bob_theslob646 in "The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics"

bob_theslob646 — Mon, 25 May 2026 09:56:20 +0000

Can you link to this?

New comment by bob_theslob646 in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

bob_theslob646 — Sun, 17 May 2026 22:48:46 +0000

The real question, is how many colleges in the United States actually proctor their in person exams?

New comment by bob_theslob646 in "Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies"

bob_theslob646 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 22:13:54 +0000

My pleasure! How does someone support someone going through cancer? I would especially like to know how to best support someone upon initial diagnosis. It seems like you have an amazing support system and I would like to be that for someone.

New comment by bob_theslob646 in "Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies"

bob_theslob646 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 18:36:25 +0000

Here is a video if you want more detail.

https://forum.openai.com/public/videos/event-replay-from-ter...

"Event Replay: From Terminal to Turnaround: How GitLab’s Co-Founder Leveraged ChatGPT in His Cancer Fight"

New comment by bob_theslob646 in "Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies"

bob_theslob646 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 18:25:19 +0000

It's mentioned in the slide deck on the url linked. I highly recommend clicking through all the slides. It's absolutely one of the most fascinating decks I've come across. His sheer will to want live is impressive and inspiring.

Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies

bob_theslob646 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:39:49 +0000

Article URL: https://sytse.com/cancer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556729

Points: 1404

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New comment by bob_theslob646 in "Warn about PyPy being unmaintained"

bob_theslob646 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 23:15:05 +0000

Thanks for sharing this. I just donated. Been using them for many many years.

New comment by bob_theslob646 in "Obsidian Sync now has a headless client"

bob_theslob646 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 01:52:28 +0000

Have you ever considered using a knowledge graph?

New comment by bob_theslob646 in "The consequences of task switching in supervisory programming"

bob_theslob646 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:33:28 +0000

Apparently it's controversial

https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1g2l3wc/bo...

New comment by bob_theslob646 in "AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it"

bob_theslob646 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:57:09 +0000

>Why we as a society should give a fuck if someone can’t stop prompting?

It is not prompting, it is the constant feeling that you always have to be "on."

New comment by bob_theslob646 in "AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it"

bob_theslob646 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 14:53:36 +0000

Throw in the fact that clawdbot can work 24/7.

It reminds me of why people wanted financial markets to be 24/7.

We as a society should probably take a look at that otherwise it may lead to burnout in a not so small percentage of people

New comment by bob_theslob646 in "The Waymo World Model"

bob_theslob646 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:02:14 +0000

Is that exactly true though? Can you give a reference for that?

New comment by bob_theslob646 in "Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt"

bob_theslob646 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 01:45:40 +0000

Please forgive me for my ignorance, but are there currently any ways of being able to write data down at that speed? I see 2026 PCIe 5.0 NVMe advertising theoretical 14gb/s but not sure how feasible even that is.

New comment by bob_theslob646 in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

bob_theslob646 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 01:52:08 +0000

> I had many friends who worked on Amazon Go, so it's a bit sad to see that work come to an end.

What did they do?

New comment by bob_theslob646 in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

bob_theslob646 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:28:40 +0000

How does bluefin compare to Linux Mint? I ask because I always thought mint was Linux for babies.

New comment by bob_theslob646 in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

bob_theslob646 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 01:02:26 +0000

How does a country effectively enforce this? Below is how they propose doing this. If you don't have any form of verification of your actual age, it's seems like they are just going on what the user says ( self reports). How can a company be found liable if a used lies about their age?

>the days leading to the ban, some teenagers said that they were prompted to verify their ages using a facial analysis feature, but that it gave inaccurate estimates. The law also states that companies cannot ask users to provide government-issued identification as the only way to prove their age because of privacy concerns.

New comment by bob_theslob646 in "Wolfram Compute Services"

bob_theslob646 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 19:15:12 +0000

They do