Hacker News: notRobot

New comment by notRobot in "GitHub is the wrong shape for this new world"

notRobot — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:53:03 +0000

I am genuinely curious:

> I often drive 4-8 agents at a time, many in the cloud or on different machines,

To do what? How many hours a day do they run? I find it hard to come up with use cases for agents to be doing so much work, but that might just be me.

New comment by notRobot in "GitHub is the wrong shape for this new world"

notRobot — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:32:47 +0000

I am genuinely curious:

> I often drive 4-8 agents at a time, many in the cloud or on different machines,

To do what? How many hours a day do they run? I find it hard to come up with use cases for agents to be doing so much work constantly, but that might just be me.

New comment by notRobot in "AI's top startups are barely publishing their research"

notRobot — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:27:20 +0000

And crucially, you should want to others to build upon it, like you build upon so many that came before you.

New comment by notRobot in "Donate to GrapheneOS"

notRobot — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:45:51 +0000

> Motorola razr has crease issues that they seem to want to ignore

Details please?

SQLite: The Advantages of Flexible Typing

notRobot — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:24:30 +0000

Article URL: https://sqlite.org/flextypegood.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48928992

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

Data Showing Palantir's Positive Impact on NHS Riddled with Errors

notRobot — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 03:18:24 +0000

Article URL: https://novaramedia.com/2026/07/13/data-showing-palantirs-positive-impact-on-nhs-riddled-with-errors/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48915842

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by notRobot in "Prefer strict tables in SQLite"

notRobot — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:55:28 +0000

SQLite docs: The Advantages Of Flexible Typing: https://sqlite.org/flextypegood.html

Stride Game Engine

notRobot — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 07:38:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.stride3d.net/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48842232

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by notRobot in "Jim's TrueType QR Code Font"

notRobot — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:23:32 +0000

This is SO COOL. Works perfectly in FF for me, if it can be made to work in safari then this might be one of the easiest ways to generate and display QR codes on the front-end.

Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses

notRobot — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:26:35 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/i/status/2071277885646868536

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48719027

Points: 357

# Comments: 147

New comment by notRobot in "The open source DOCX editor submitted to HN a few weeks ago has been deleted"

notRobot — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:22:43 +0000

@mhurhangee also appears to have a mirror of the missing github repo here: https://github.com/mhurhangee/docx-editor

Police officer investigated over AI-generated evidence

notRobot — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:27:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/12/police-officer-under-criminal-investigation-over-alleged-use-of-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48643362

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by notRobot in "Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at lower cost"

notRobot — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:41:29 +0000

Not exactly what you asked for, but this page lists their impact: https://www.cureswithinreach.org/about-us-repurposing-resear...

New comment by notRobot in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

notRobot — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:40:08 +0000

Yes, you can have sandboxed Google apps: https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-google-play

Unpatched Firefox focus universal XSS 0day poc released

notRobot — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:36:22 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/i/status/2064119366669435379

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48457371

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

AI slop has infiltrated the homes of the elderly

notRobot — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 03:57:14 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/TrueOffMyChest/comments/1ty2veb/ai_slop_has_infiltrated_the_homes_of_the_elderly/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48421241

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Gitea is 10 years old, but official repo is still hosted on GitHub

notRobot — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:21:02 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378047

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Decache – you might have the internet's lost media in your PC's cache folders

notRobot — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:35:07 +0000

Article URL: https://sindexmon.github.io/decache/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48353689

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by notRobot in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

notRobot — Sat, 30 May 2026 23:02:52 +0000

I agree that a consistent QA mindset is rare, but I'm not sure even if present if it's enough to replace an SDE.

I very recently looked at the codebase of a vibe-coded app made by someone with domain expertise but no software dev experience.

It was very clear to me that he had described it from his POV to an AI, and the AI had implemented features in a manner that technically worked, but made future maintenance or expansion extremely tricky, which is why he was now looking for a dev.

For example, in his data schema, for every item on a menu, instead of simply having an array property like so for ingredients:

    items["latte"]["ingredients"] = ["water", "milk", "sugar", ...]

He had individual flags for every item for every possible ingredient it could have or not have:

    items["latte"]["has_milk"] = true
    items["latte"]["has_nutmeg"] = false
    items["latte"]["has_cinnamon"] = false
    items["latte"]["has_sugar"] = true
    ...

This technically worked and passed tests from his POV at an MVP level. But added a lot of complications when actually trying to build more features or when a new menu item had ingredients the founder hadn't thought to include in the schema beforehand.

I totally get how he ended up where he did though. While describing it to the AI, he probably said something like "store info on each menu item's ingredients, they might have milk or coffee or sugar", and the AI created individual flags for them and he didn't think to question it, because he didn't know what's "right" or "wrong", but then as he kept building the AI stuck with keeping individual flags instead of swapping it out with an array mechanism, and he couldn't have known the correct way to implement it.

Only a dev with experience would know how to describe the system to an AI model to get an output that works well, and how to assess the quality of its output beyond what can be assessed through the basic UI. This wasn't a QA failure, it was a design failure.

Paint.NET developer gets "paint.net" domain from scammers after 22 years

notRobot — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:53:10 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/i/status/2060397901650825238

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48328331

Points: 35

# Comments: 7