Hacker News: bobnamob

New comment by bobnamob in "[dead]"

bobnamob — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:39:03 +0000

This looks like a repost of a Guardian exclusive:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/aug/10/indonesia-clic...

New comment by bobnamob in "Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for ~10B"

bobnamob — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:54:58 +0000

Paying dividends to shareholders used to be a thing

Cloudflare Meerkat - Globally distributed consensus

bobnamob — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:18:03 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/meerkat-introduction/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48831565

Points: 256

# Comments: 52

New comment by bobnamob in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

bobnamob — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:00:03 +0000

At the very least _big_ tractor (John Deere) is a net drain on society

New comment by bobnamob in "EY Canada published a cybersecurity report and most citations were hallucinated"

bobnamob — Sat, 30 May 2026 20:36:20 +0000

“Penny wise but pound foolish”?

New comment by bobnamob in "A Gopher Meets a Crab"

bobnamob — Sat, 02 May 2026 10:42:59 +0000

I guess I'm an LLM then. I've been referring to the structure of types as "shape" for more than a decade and so have plenty of others

New comment by bobnamob in "Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city"

bobnamob — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 11:31:48 +0000

There's a reason Where 2 -> Google Maps happened in Sydney. The sheer number of one-way roads combined with the imposition of the harbour and the messy tunnel system make internalising Sydney navigation a life-long endeavour

New comment by bobnamob in "Cloudflare acquires Astro"

bobnamob — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:20:15 +0000

Cloudflare are neck deep in v8 as their js runtime of choice. I doubt they'll be looking for another any time soon

New comment by bobnamob in "Replicate is joining Cloudflare"

bobnamob — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 21:22:14 +0000

The cloud is just someone else’s on-prem

New comment by bobnamob in "Free applicatives, the handle pattern, and remote systems"

bobnamob — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 06:53:24 +0000

They're based in Collingwood, any Australian would tell you that an n year Haskel rewrite is the most normal thing about them

New comment by bobnamob in "Notes on switching to Helix from Vim"

bobnamob — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 09:31:40 +0000

Not op, but in my case a lifetime of colourblindness has desensitised me to colour as an indicator.

I have my editor configured with zero highlighting for keywords and syntactic elements. Admittedly, I have compilation/lint/syntax/type check errors set to invert the erroneous block, black background white text.

Syntax and keyword highlighting is just noise given I’ve been trained by decades of colourblind unfriendly interfaces

New comment by bobnamob in "The Leverage Paradox in AI"

bobnamob — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 19:23:47 +0000

> slop that works

Until that slop that works leads to therac-26 or PostOfficeScandal2 electric boogaloo. Neither of those applications required software superior to their competitors, just working software

The average quality of software can only trend down so far before real world problems start manifesting, even outside of businesses with a hard requirement on "software superiority"

New comment by bobnamob in "Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives"

bobnamob — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 16:11:07 +0000

? https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/

? https://ai.cloudflare.com/

Erin Patterson found guilty of mushroom murders

bobnamob — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 08:51:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-07/erin-patterson-guilty-murder-verdict-death-cap-mushroom-lunch/105458058

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44488145

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by bobnamob in "Engineered Addictions"

bobnamob — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 07:47:05 +0000

But most of its profit from AWS

New comment by bobnamob in "Jepsen: Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL 17.4"

bobnamob — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 08:26:33 +0000

The three layers of middlemanagement between engineers and whichever director owns this particular incarnation of RDS

New comment by bobnamob in "A hackable AI assistant using a single SQLite table and a handful of cron jobs"

bobnamob — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 09:07:11 +0000

A single cloudflare durable object (sqlite db + serverless compute + cron triggers) would be enough to run this project. DOs have been added to CFs free tier recently - you could probably run a couple hundred (maybe thousands) instances of Stevens without paying a cent, aside from Claude costs ofc

New comment by bobnamob in "Ames Shovel and Tool Catalog of Shovels, Spades and Scoops (1926) [pdf]"

bobnamob — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 11:46:41 +0000

Heh

New comment by bobnamob in "SpacetimeDB"

bobnamob — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 08:17:53 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing

Hard real time (or just "real time" in firmware/hardware contexts) is effectively a term of art. One that's been increasingly watered down by the rest of the industry.

Strict definitions matter when system failure == pacemaker missing a beat or train signalling system drives a freight train into the back of 400 passengers.

New comment by bobnamob in "An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force"

bobnamob — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 09:48:14 +0000

Just wait till 'slopper' starts getting classified as a slur