Hacker News: bobsmooth

New comment by bobsmooth in "Android apps running native on macOS"

bobsmooth — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:24:43 +0000

Can MicroG be ported?

New comment by bobsmooth in "I built a programming language that LLMs can't use"

bobsmooth — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 02:56:09 +0000

It would need to use a lot of slurs. Really bad slurs.

New comment by bobsmooth in "I designed a nose guard for my dog and gave it away. Now 500 dogs wear one"

bobsmooth — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:26:24 +0000

Yeah, it's every paragraph.

New comment by bobsmooth in "Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men"

bobsmooth — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:25:37 +0000

To anyone with a degree not in software, you can pivot to a hands-on job. I'm a technician for factory equipment. AI is not replacing me for a long time.

New comment by bobsmooth in "Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026"

bobsmooth — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 20:43:21 +0000

Same. I have to restart FF once it reaches the 10GB mark.

New comment by bobsmooth in "Reverse-engineering a $35 backup camera display (AMT630A)"

bobsmooth — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:37:30 +0000

Classic bit of reverse engineering. I love how detailed your readme is.

New comment by bobsmooth in "PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock"

bobsmooth — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 20:12:54 +0000

What exactly are the downsides?

New comment by bobsmooth in "PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock"

bobsmooth — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 20:12:09 +0000

Then dont use Vanced

New comment by bobsmooth in "PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock"

bobsmooth — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 18:02:23 +0000

Because the algo, despite everyone's objections, is pretty good at recommending videos.

New comment by bobsmooth in "Salesforce Global Outage"

bobsmooth — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:43:14 +0000

Sure, but it's already integrated in the Field Service app we already use.

New comment by bobsmooth in "Salesforce Global Outage"

bobsmooth — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:31:22 +0000

My boss recently added a custom integration to allow us to log hours on jobs. It includes GPS coordinates so we have proof of our whereabouts.

New comment by bobsmooth in "People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination"

bobsmooth — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:03:47 +0000

No, we really do. Do you ever get a song stuck in your head?

New comment by bobsmooth in "Splash-free urinals (2025)"

bobsmooth — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:36:53 +0000

Water and chemicals spent on cleaning. Less splash means less cleaning.

New comment by bobsmooth in "I Feel about AI"

bobsmooth — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 16:50:04 +0000

Here's a great short story about how it could go either way

https://web.archive.org/web/20100211181147/https://marshallb...

New comment by bobsmooth in "The OG Creator of Task Manager on Windows Built a New Task Manager"

bobsmooth — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 19:57:09 +0000

Too colorful for you?

New comment by bobsmooth in "Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck"

bobsmooth — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:00:37 +0000

The chart literally says it accounts for inflation

New comment by bobsmooth in "Just because a game is on disc doesn't mean it will work in the future"

bobsmooth — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 01:23:37 +0000

The lite is hackable with enough effort. You could probably sideload updates and such.

New comment by bobsmooth in "A Trampoline"

bobsmooth — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 05:46:30 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractive_nuisance_doctrine

New comment by bobsmooth in "Google shuts down Nobel Prize winning AlphaFold"

bobsmooth — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:40:03 +0000

That has nothing to do with the fact that the article is inaccurate.

New comment by bobsmooth in "Instead of banning AI, I made a classroom contract with my students"

bobsmooth — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 20:43:26 +0000

Fentanyl is used in hospitals for pain management, so yes.