Hacker News: gobins

New comment by gobins in "A Man Who Reads Books for a Living"

gobins — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:10:45 +0000

Haha, [leaves rustling] I will ask her.

New comment by gobins in "A Man Who Reads Books for a Living"

gobins — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:16:10 +0000

On a similar note, I have friends who watches TV Series and Movies before they come out to create/review the subtitles. Sounds like fun job but gets boring really fast.

Blue Origin New Glenn rocket explodes on launch pad during engine-firing test

gobins — Fri, 29 May 2026 04:05:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-29/blue-origin-rocket-explodes-during-test-jeff-bezos/106737482

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48318900

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by gobins in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)"

gobins — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:56:29 +0000

Interesting project, good luck.

New comment by gobins in "FCC updates covered list to include foreign-made consumer routers"

gobins — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:36:23 +0000

Are you saying that other manufacturers don't do this?

New comment by gobins in "Pakistan's Markets Face Selloff from Surging Oil, Conflict"

gobins — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:51:44 +0000

https://archive.md/WW39J

New comment by gobins in "Ultra-Processed Foods and Human Health"

gobins — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 23:23:29 +0000

Malodextrin is used in energy gels. There was a article about ultra athletes having higher incidence of colorectal cancer. Hopefully more research comes out.

New comment by gobins in "The growing problem with China's unreliable numbers"

gobins — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:36:38 +0000

https://archive.is/QbGJ2

New comment by gobins in "My dad could still be alive, but he's not"

gobins — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 03:25:40 +0000

Wow melbourne is getting that bad! Does your org have a name?

New comment by gobins in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)"

gobins — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 01:45:54 +0000

Working on going sub 20 min 5K. It's hard but I am enjoying the challenge.

New comment by gobins in "Why do we need workflow softwares like Salesforce?"

gobins — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 06:15:19 +0000

Most companies want to see outcomes quickly. They will always go for tried and tested solutions. Why would they risk building something on their own? There will be a threshold where companies are too small and the software is too expensive to buy, so they will go for something small that they build themselves. At scale, it will get harder and harder to maintain the solution themselves and they'd rather spend time focussing on their core business than to maintaining their in-house software.

New comment by gobins in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2025)"

gobins — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 04:55:12 +0000

I was surprised to see Seven hills as well lol.

New comment by gobins in "Ask HN: Has anyone moved away from Mac?"

gobins — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 03:08:54 +0000

My mac of 13 years is running fine..except I am unable to update the OS because Apple has set limitations on the upgrading OS with old hardware. I will probably end up buying a new mac until I can see a good Linux ecosystem.

A friend who is also in the same situation is however going to Surface Pros. He swears its on par with Mac on hardware.

New comment by gobins in "Turn your camera roll into Studio Ghibli artwork"

gobins — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 01:37:47 +0000

Isn't this the same as that filter on tiktok?

New comment by gobins in "IAC confirms existence of a Super-earth in the habitable zone of a Sun-like Star"

gobins — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 23:15:11 +0000

Is there a way to estimate gravity on remote planets? Wouldn't the mass of this body, which is six times larger than Earth rule out the habitability?

New comment by gobins in "AI Guesses Your Accent"

gobins — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 22:20:06 +0000

Interesting that it actually guessed as the neighbouring country. I live close to the border but have never interacted with the people across. Wonder if there might be similarities in tone and inflection.

New comment by gobins in "Intel layoffs underway as chipmaker aims to cut 15,000 jobs"

gobins — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 04:29:06 +0000

Arhive page without paywall: http://archive.today/2024.10.15-194956/https://www.oregonliv...

Ask HN: Is there a real life VR simulator setup for driving?

gobins — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 00:56:36 +0000

I(Australian) am a bit anxious about driving in the city in US. Was thinking if I can do some practice using a basic VR setup like those racing simulation. Anyone has experience setting something up like this?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41941324

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by gobins in "World-first therapy using donor cells sends autoimmune diseases into remission"

gobins — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 01:52:44 +0000

Link is not working. Correct Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03209-4

New comment by gobins in "How to manage oncall as an engineering manager?"

gobins — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 01:47:58 +0000

A few things that worked for us:

1. The roster is set weekly. You need at least 4-5 engineers so that you get rostered not more than once per month. Anything more than that and you will get your engineers burned out.

2. There is always a primary and secondary. Secondary gets called up in cases when primary cannot be reached.

3. You are expected to triage the issues that comes during your on-call roster but not expected to work on long term fixes. that is something you have to bring to the team discussion and allocate. No one wants to do too much off maintenance work.

4. Your top priorities to work on should be issues that come up repeatedly and burn your productivity. This could take upto a year. Once things settle down, your engineers should be free enough to work in things that they are interested in.

5. For any cross team collaboration that takes more than a day, the manager should be the point of contact so that your engineers don't get shoulder tapped and get pulled away from things that they are working on.

Hope this helps.