Hacker News: bobbiechen

New comment by bobbiechen in "Blogging can just be stating the obvious"

bobbiechen — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:08:42 +0000

That makes a lot of sense! I recently interviewed several great creators on this exact topic and they all echoed similar ideas - although it's easy to fear that someone else has done it better, oftentimes they really haven't, and they'll never have your own unique perspective.

One challenge is that it takes repetitions to get good enough that you can even bring your ideas to life, and many people don't push through this (Ira Glass "taste gap").

Full interviews here: https://digitalseams.com/blog/making-things-interview-series

Legibility of Effort

bobbiechen — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 03:19:22 +0000

Article URL: https://eieio.games/blog/legibility-of-effort/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48654687

Points: 3

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New comment by bobbiechen in "Ask HN: New clean macOS install. Must-have apps? Best browser?"

bobbiechen — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:11:02 +0000

Magnet app (for window splitting) is usually one of my first installs. I think I paid like $7 for it years ago and it's well worth it.

Seth Larson on Making Things

bobbiechen — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 16:34:12 +0000

Article URL: https://digitalseams.com/blog/seth-larson-on-making-things

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48620287

Points: 2

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Morry Kolman on making things: "Keep it stupid"

bobbiechen — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:46:21 +0000

Article URL: https://digitalseams.com/blog/morry-kolman-on-making-things

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48599223

Points: 2

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Uniba Embodied Virtuality

bobbiechen — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:35:46 +0000

Article URL: https://uniba.jp/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48593047

Points: 1

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Nolen Royalty (One Million Chessboards) on Making Things

bobbiechen — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:40:09 +0000

Article URL: https://digitalseams.com/blog/nolen-royalty-on-making-things

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48587094

Points: 2

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SF MUNI Worm: the worm becomes the map

bobbiechen — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:46:15 +0000

Article URL: https://muniworm.probablyalex.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48572105

Points: 2

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Amit Patel (Red Blob Games) on Making Things

bobbiechen — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:07:29 +0000

Article URL: https://digitalseams.com/blog/amit-patel-on-making-things

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48570780

Points: 2

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Making things: interview series on creativity

bobbiechen — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:26:25 +0000

Article URL: https://digitalseams.com/blog/making-things-interview-series

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48558716

Points: 1

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New comment by bobbiechen in "Bots flooded my anti-bot startup with 55,000 fake signups"

bobbiechen — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:19:45 +0000

A good reminder that signup is a surprisingly rich target.

>Every row has the same name: " Dene Hemen! 5K Lira Bonusunu Yakala" — Turkish for "Try it now! Grab the 5,000 Lira bonus." Casino spam.

>Each registration fired a verification email. 55K signups = 55K attempted sends to fake addresses — the kind of bounce storm that gets a sending domain blacklisted.

I'd be surprised if the email addresses were entirely fake - it doesn't make sense to advertise to just the website developer. It seems more likely that this spammer is targeting real email addresses from some dump (QQ is especially prone to this, since you can target random QQ ID numbers and get a lot higher of a hit rate).

N-Tier Services and Systems Complexity

bobbiechen — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:03:41 +0000

Article URL: https://yegge.ai/listings/services-and-complexity

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527893

Points: 2

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Good Careers at Bad Companies

bobbiechen — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:58:28 +0000

Article URL: https://sharedphysics.com/good-careers-at-bad-companies/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48509923

Points: 4

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New comment by bobbiechen in "Test-case reducers are underappreciated debugging tools"

bobbiechen — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:28:22 +0000

Nice share. Increasingly I am thinking about ways to improve verification ("interestingness tests"), ever since reading https://www.jasonwei.net/blog/asymmetry-of-verification-and-...

CrankGPT is an offline and off-the-grid AI box

bobbiechen — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:54:53 +0000

Article URL: https://squeezlabs.github.io/handcrank/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48463753

Points: 2

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New comment by bobbiechen in "Launch HN: Intuned (YC S22) – Build and run reliable browser automations as code"

bobbiechen — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:05:40 +0000

Hey Omar, do you have any plan to add support for Web Bot Auth? https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/webbotauth/about/

While I understand that not every business wants automation on their site, I know some businesses are totally open to it. But from a technical perspective, it's very difficult to allow well-behaved browser automation while still blocking abusive bots. Web Bot Auth gives website owners / security vendors a lightweight way to allow providers like Intuned.

(I work on the Web Bot Auth implementation for Stytch, now a part of Twilio: https://stytch.com/blog/stytch-supports-web-bot-auth/ )

Stop the Apple Music app from launching

bobbiechen — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:01:43 +0000

Article URL: https://lowtechguys.com/musicdecoy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48447935

Points: 669

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Interfaces for Representing Uncertainty (2025)

bobbiechen — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:58:32 +0000

Article URL: https://digitalseams.com/blog/interfaces-for-representing-uncertainty

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48393139

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by bobbiechen in "Ask HN: Are Tech Meetups Dead?"

bobbiechen — Thu, 28 May 2026 05:05:34 +0000

I help run a tech/AI meetup in San Francisco - during the initial post-Covid period we often hit capacity limits since there wasn't much else going on.

But since late 2024 into 2025, meetups are extremely back in fashion here. Every day of the calendar has multiple meetups and it's impossible to avoid conflicts, so attendance rate can vary wildly.

New comment by bobbiechen in "The Ballad of TIGIT"

bobbiechen — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:37:49 +0000

It's just like a parallel of tech venture capital, where missing the next big thing is far more costly than making a wrong bet. No wonder we see herding in tech investments as well.