Hacker News: devrob

New comment by devrob in "Incident with Github.com [resolved]"

devrob — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:16:45 +0000

Ah yes, sloponomics.

New comment by devrob in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"

devrob — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:06:23 +0000

I used to have a rolling product satire I called "Claude Handshake" which basically explained how cold-email is dead today as people feed email contents into Claude and Claude responds with a draft, that usually comes from another person doing the same thing.

The idea was to just avoid sending email altogether and just simulate the interaction entirely using Claude.

The Beauty of Ugly Movement: grief, the body, dancing with what won't leave us [video]

devrob — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:13:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwXQNHzibw4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49332377

Points: 2

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Dress Rehearsal for Life; ambition, self-myth and a cheque as heavy as the world [video]

devrob — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 22:01:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo2_zhS1uYY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314710

Points: 3

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To 'Say Everything' (On Creatives and the Creative Process) [video]

devrob — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:48:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoL1S45YSpU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299446

Points: 2

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Dr. Wolfgang Palaver: Mimetic Theory, Rene Girard, Violence and the Sacred [video]

devrob — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:15:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPh0YWdFAJA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49248338

Points: 2

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A Subtle Web of Meaning

devrob — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:12:42 +0000

Article URL: https://robertxworld.com/a-subtle-web-of-meaning/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49198688

Points: 1

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Notice The "I" Pay Attention to The "Me" [video]

devrob — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:47:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JziA5VdsxaA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49182093

Points: 3

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Sidemen Is a Good Place to Do Nothing

devrob — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:04:46 +0000

Article URL: https://robertxworld.com/sidemen-is-a-good-place-to-do-nothing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166896

Points: 2

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A Culture That Could Only Count

devrob — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:02:29 +0000

Article URL: https://robertxworld.com/the-culture-that-could-only-count/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49122048

Points: 1

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Ain't No Economy Like the Attention Economy: On Leaving (But Not Leaving) [video]

devrob — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:10:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6L5qWmiVq0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49071646

Points: 1

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New comment by devrob in "Googlebook"

devrob — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:30:13 +0000

missed opportunity to do book.google :(

New comment by devrob in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

devrob — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:13:54 +0000

The other day I got into some pretty weird territory with Claude, trying to map out what an immortal ASCII cat would look like. Basically an autonomous Tamagotchi.

The idea was to create a quine that runs forever on something like Akash network with its own crypto treasury to support and pay it's bills and try to replicate. It would then talk to an LLM for support and actions on what to do to stay alive.

It got pretty out there. Stored some of the ideas here.

https://github.com/aquaflamingo/catfi

New comment by devrob in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"

devrob — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 20:53:29 +0000

I'm trying to build a simple, local, and semantic code + context search for coding agents like Claude Code.

I noticed that when trying to work with Claude Code I burned my token allocation really quickly and with parallel agents, no better. But when I looked at the other repos things felt really complex, for me at least.

I call it "contextd" and imagine it kind of like a context daemon you can always query in your repository for implementation plans, specs or code, etc. I always liked that git lived in your repo in the .git file, so I wanted this to work like that too but without 3rd party hosted databases or multi-repo pollution.

It's written in python at the moment, uses some local models and lanceDB but I might have it re-written in rust for speed :)

https://github.com/aquaflamingo/ctxd

The Republic of Rose Island

devrob — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 05:51:51 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Rose_Island

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46270907

Points: 3

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New comment by devrob in "Who killed the rave?"

devrob — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 18:01:54 +0000

The freedom and optimism is always rooted to the communal and ritual release in dance, the freedom to be as you are, or dance as you are. This gets harder and harder when there is fear of "documentation', if one can't "dance right" or "doesn't fit in".

Don't beat yourself up too hard though, you can always pickup a DJ controller and start again :)

And too: the scene has radically shifted, so being a promoter is a large part of the work. It's kind of like eSports in a way.

New comment by devrob in "Who killed the rave?"

devrob — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 17:58:35 +0000

Oof - beautiful writing.

That sounds like it was out of Last Night A DJ Saved My Life [1]!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Night_a_DJ_Saved_My_Life_...

New comment by devrob in "Who killed the rave?"

devrob — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 17:55:40 +0000

Indeed, I've written about this a little bit [1], they are growing in popularity due to a number of factors, one of which being, living in the moment. DVS1 has spoken with great eloquence on this subject as well [2]. These policies are the norm in Berlin places like Tresor. The industry culture has been really saturated by social media, live sets and destination sets [3], so many events are differentiating themselves by taking an different approach. It was a cool strategy when it started with Be At TV (RIP), (old) Boiler Room & (maybe) BBC R1 but it's lost its novelty at times I feel.

[1] https://www.instagram.com/p/DDkjBJhP1Sh/?utm_source=ig_web_c... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISoPHerYsn4&t=1181s [3] Think Cerce, Boilerroom

New comment by devrob in "Who killed the rave?"

devrob — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 21:54:53 +0000

I think there's a lot of nuance here. I teach DJing (house/techno mostly) and there's never been more interest in electronic music & DJing. Folks who thought I was a bit out there in high school for liking electronic & dance music, have recently all now become more interested in DJing and raving. The DJ today is continuing to grow into the modern rock-star (albeit, in terms of real $ of music money, it's no where close).

Moreover, as several commenters have pointed out there has been a big growth in festivals and awareness. Lots of people talk to me about "house music" now, whereas before it was a relatively "underground" thing.

Now, I think there's a question about whether the scale of such events have maintained the same cultural ethos as the early rave days, and that, though I'm not old enough to have participated, is likely a categorical no. There's a greater focus on 'documenting' experiences at these events rather than living it. Here's a clip of an rising group called Kienemusik [tik tok link](https://www.tiktok.com/@as.anca/video/7359750430345186593?q=...), where you can see there's more video taping than dancing. I would venture to say, we are so filled with wonder sometimes that we forget that part of experiencing awe is letting go of ego and just experiencing.

Show HN: Sync with Terry Your New Satirical AI Product Manager

devrob — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 22:15:25 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/aquaflamingo/syncwithterry

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42322639

Points: 3

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