Hacker News: bobek

New comment by bobek in "Self-updating screenshots"

bobek — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 04:29:21 +0000

Plus we had a visual diff on the top of that as a part of the CI pipeline. It prevented a bunch of mishaps ;)

New comment by bobek in "I turned my Kindle into my own personal newspaper"

bobek — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 13:57:07 +0000

I went the complete opposite and print one A4 every morning [0], so I don't have to touch any device.

[0]: https://github.com/bobek/rannich-5minut-denikn

New comment by bobek in "Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse"

bobek — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:59:16 +0000

Made me smile. Thank you!

New comment by bobek in "Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules"

bobek — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 20:52:00 +0000

And you are absolutely correct. I've seen the DT page thanks to the linked HN submission (actually comment [1]. And incorrectly associated the DT article incorrectly today. Thank you.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47200131

New comment by bobek in "Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules"

bobek — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:41:35 +0000

Wow. This page is actually a product of LLM [0]. So they can produce useful stuff after all :)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47195123

New comment by bobek in "TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe"

bobek — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:09:42 +0000

It is not only recommender though. These guys [1] seem to be able to react pretty quickly and not to create addicts on the way ;(

[1] https://recombee.com

New comment by bobek in "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"

bobek — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 08:58:19 +0000

Welcome ;) Linux is my desktop last 20+ years.

New comment by bobek in "The best things and stuff of 2025"

bobek — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 12:49:39 +0000

Interesting, my favorite one on Android - HiPER Calc - does it correctly and returns 1.

New comment by bobek in "Feedback doesn't scale"

bobek — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 09:53:05 +0000

The biggest (engineering) team I've built and led was 150 people, so I cannot speak for 200. I don't feel that the solution of keeping the understanding of what is happening was about a formal structure like an "employee steering committee".

Rather than trusting the same principles used for scaling the doing side of the business. Things like empowering people to make decisions [1] or being clear about what/how/why you make certain types of decisions [2]. Working on staying aligned with your closest team, which then spent energy on staying aligned with their teams, etc. Sample randomly from the whole org, but mostly at your pace.

The biggest mistake I've made was that I've pulled myself (for legitimate reasons, it seemed) from having a true conversation with every single hire before they've gotten an offer, when we were around 70. 30 minutes is typically enough, but I feel you need a singular person as a gatekeeper for the final values-fit check. Partially thinking that 70 is already good enough, but later I've come across people talking about, like, 500 people before pulling out [3] :)

[1]: https://www.bobek.cz/decisions/ [2]: https://www.bobek.cz/work-principles/ [3]: https://mastersofscale.com/reed-hastings-culture-shock/

New comment by bobek in "Attention is a luxury good"

bobek — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 18:39:38 +0000

Adam Grant had recently Daniel Immerwahr on attention span and how it really has not shortened despite popular beliefs.

In the age of social media and short-form content, many people insist that our attention spans are getting shorter. But historian Daniel Immerwahr reminds us that people have cried wolf for centuries about technology hijacking our attention. In this episode, Adam and Daniel dive into evidence that what’s changing is not our attention spans, but the objects of our focus. They also discuss moral panics of the past, compare the cognitive benefits of video games and the opera, and debate whether or not Marvel movies are a waste of time.

https://podcastaddict.com/worklife-with-adam-grant/episode/2...

New comment by bobek in "If you're remote, ramble"

bobek — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 10:44:22 +0000

Mildly related are written standups [1] when treated as journal/logbook.

[1] https://www.bobek.cz/the-power-of-written-standup/

New comment by bobek in "Rotring 600 Ballpoint Pen"

bobek — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 06:19:30 +0000

Love Pentel Graphear 1000, have multiple distributed throughout the house/workshop and backpacks :)

The other I really like is UNI Kuru Toga, the plastic one (shrug). The twist mechanism actually works; it is slightly wider thus more comfortable (for me) for longer writing sessions.

New comment by bobek in "Jeff Bezos doesn't believe in PowerPoint, and his employees agree"

bobek — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 11:20:17 +0000

The site appears to be down. HM hug of death, maybe?

Writing isn't just communication—it's a thinking tool that forces clarity and precision. Yet I still get pushback when advocating for written narratives over slide decks in technical decision-making. Writing is frequently considered "extra work" :(

I was even so frustrated that I've put together https://www.bobek.cz/written-narratives/

New comment by bobek in "Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts"

bobek — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 05:44:25 +0000

It is not particularly hard either. Checkout restic server.

https://github.com/restic/rest-server/

New comment by bobek in "Show HN: I made an online Unicode Cuneiform digital clock"

bobek — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 18:07:53 +0000

I always liked the esthetics of Wharton studio clocks. There is an OSS implementation at https://github.com/bobek/sdg_wharton_miniclock

Telegram Messenger's Ties to Russia's FSB Revealed in New Report

bobek — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 07:04:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newsweek.com/telegram-messenger-russia-fsb-ties-report-2083491

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44296408

Points: 4

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New comment by bobek in "Meta found 'covertly tracking' Android users through Instagram and Facebook"

bobek — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 17:27:29 +0000

Well, it is the same as all those examples of people "just doing their jobs" in concentration camps. Being compliant, focused on execution of their ~orders~ process. Interestingly, many people are being pre-emptively harsher, than required/requested. Checkout "Those Who Said No" (DOI 10.2307/1429971).

New comment by bobek in "Merlin Bird ID"

bobek — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 09:35:02 +0000

Go for it. Running it for quite some time at home. Very easy to deploy, regular updates.

New comment by bobek in "Bank transactions cleared by FTP-ing files"

bobek — Tue, 27 May 2025 07:22:04 +0000

Once, I got pulled into a fintech company who done synchronization of remote psql databases by dump to csv -> send over ftp or email -> verify in Excel -> import back to centralized psql. No wonders, they have been missing some transactions...

New comment by bobek in "When a team is too big"

bobek — Thu, 22 May 2025 09:40:42 +0000

I would recommend a slightly different approach to written/async standup. Issue I have with stand-ups is the ad hoc nature of proving a report, instead of making it a collaboration space

https://www.bobek.cz/the-power-of-written-standup/