Hacker News: bob_theslob646

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

New comment by bob_theslob646 in "Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker"

bob_theslob646 — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 13:13:59 +0000

>A double-entry bookkeeping computer language that lets you define financial transaction records in a text file, read them in memory, generate a variety of reports from them, and provides a web interface.

Why would someone need this? How do you use this?

New comment by bob_theslob646 in "California DMV approves map increase in Waymo driverless operations"

bob_theslob646 — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:00:47 +0000

How do you get home if you do not have transit? What is the typical cost of a cab then?

New comment by bob_theslob646 in "Maybe you’re not trying"

bob_theslob646 — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 11:31:15 +0000

>I wonder how much psychologically we can be more confident and less anxious when we're doing something for others vs ourselves

Thank you for taking the time to type this up. I would be extremely interested in any sort of research around this and may add( maybe others face the same ) that's incredibly difficult to introspect yourself and solve problems for yourself as easily as you can for others.

New comment by bob_theslob646 in "Reasoning models reason well, until they don't"

bob_theslob646 — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 12:04:35 +0000

Why 40kb?

New comment by bob_theslob646 in "Why I'm teaching kids to hack computers"

bob_theslob646 — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 10:05:25 +0000

>And if you’re dead set against Apple devices, you should check out the web version of Hacktivate – it’s not as powerful or as fun, but it’s entirely web-based and free!)