Hacker News: r0bbbo

New comment by r0bbbo in "Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case"

r0bbbo — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:29:03 +0000

I assume they mean a similar experience to browsing /r/popular on Reddit. You're getting a feed that isn't tailored to your browsing history, likes or preferences. It's less addicting and the company doesn't need to know anything about you to provide the experience.

New comment by r0bbbo in "Hosting a website on a disposable vape"

r0bbbo — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 16:27:41 +0000

Has anyone done the joke about "next big cloud platform" yet?

New comment by r0bbbo in "Title drops in movies"

r0bbbo — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 09:26:30 +0000

Found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DMndH8QiI4

The closing music choices are excellent.

New comment by r0bbbo in "Title drops in movies"

r0bbbo — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 09:16:27 +0000

There was an Instagram account or YouTube channel that used to make funny videos of the films ending with the credits rolling at the exact point the title of the film was said—anyone have any recollection of that?

New comment by r0bbbo in "Window Maker: X11 window manager with the look and feel of the NeXTSTEP UI"

r0bbbo — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 11:25:30 +0000

Who does this appeal to and why? I use Rectangle on OSX to give me the layout options I need which basically amounts to switching between full screen and two apps split vertically, then I use the in-built OSX shortcuts for moving apps between screens.

What kind of workflows suit something as advanced as Window Maker? Where does the line sit between this and something like Gnome? I'm struggling to get my head around the nuances.

New comment by r0bbbo in "Inside the Super Nintendo cartridges"

r0bbbo — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 15:53:59 +0000

Something I've never been able to wrap my head around is how ROMs are dumped for emulators from cartridges? Dumping instructions and assets makes total sense to me, and packaging that up in a data file that can be interpreted by an emulator too, but how does an emulator model the hardware of every 'expansion' chip in a cartridge? How is that dumped from an original cartridge?

New comment by r0bbbo in "Building a USB SNES Controller"

r0bbbo — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 15:54:46 +0000

Are there any implications of the polling rate not quite aligning as the original controller would've?

New comment by r0bbbo in "The Piccadilly line’s new air conditioned trains"

r0bbbo — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 17:17:17 +0000

No. And a quick search finds possibly one mention of it from 9 years ago on Reddit. It's not widely used.

New comment by r0bbbo in "The Piccadilly line’s new air conditioned trains"

r0bbbo — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 13:53:15 +0000

I lived in Hounslow for thirty years and got the Piccadilly Line daily. I never once heard it referred to as The Tandoor.

New comment by r0bbbo in "Moq: Warnings with Latest Version from SponsorLink"

r0bbbo — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 09:31:20 +0000

Right, and that's expected of the model that the author originally bought into. The problem isn't with the users, the problem is with the author's false expectations of the model.

New comment by r0bbbo in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

r0bbbo — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 09:03:16 +0000

My personal blog: https://robbell.io

I've had a few posts that have really taken off over the years, although I moved domain some time ago and lost a lot of traffic!

New comment by r0bbbo in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

r0bbbo — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 10:04:58 +0000

https://robbell.io

New comment by r0bbbo in "Github.com is down"

r0bbbo — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 18:30:59 +0000

Looks like it's back down.

New comment by r0bbbo in "Reddit makes it impossible to delete PII, refuses to do it itself violating GDPR [video]"

r0bbbo — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 12:52:57 +0000

I experienced this myself. I overwrote then deleted all of my Reddit comments during the blackout using PowerDeleteSuite. A week later they were all back. Some people have speculated that because of the large outage Reddit had during the blackout they may have performed a data restore.

I've since run PowerDeleteSuite again and most of my comments have remained deleted. A couple from several years ago have just popped back into existence in the last few days though.

New comment by r0bbbo in "Biggest Y Combinator failed startups"

r0bbbo — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 13:47:46 +0000

What is P/M fit?

New comment by r0bbbo in "Cities: Skylines II [video]"

r0bbbo — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 14:51:35 +0000

Bicycles exist in the current game—they were brought in as part of a free update. Roads with dedicated cycle lanes were introduced with an official add-on, but by default pedestrians and bikes will share sidewalks. I imagine the new game will roll a lot of their official add-ons into the base game. I also heard that they hired some of the community mod creators which is exciting news.

New comment by r0bbbo in "Reddit.com appears to be having an outage"

r0bbbo — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 14:41:04 +0000

Lots of speculation on Twitter about this—a failed attempt to re-open all closed subreddits and instate their own moderators. I can't imagine it'd be that, although I do enjoy the conspiracy, and more likely they were using the window of reduced traffic to make some larger changes and they went awry

New comment by r0bbbo in "Apollo Back end just made public"

r0bbbo — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 14:01:14 +0000

I've seen an increasing amount of support for 'nuking' your personal reddit history—posts and comments—in protest of the upcoming changes, taking back what Reddit are profiting from. I'm hugely in favour of it, anyone else considering it?

Adopting InnerSource at ASOS

r0bbbo — Thu, 22 Apr 2021 16:19:10 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/asos-techblog/adopting-innersource-at-asos-5618435c8d7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26904534

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by r0bbbo in "Nintendo 64 Architecture – A Practical Analysis"

r0bbbo — Mon, 18 May 2020 17:25:43 +0000

For someone just starting to learn about computer architecture at a low level (rather embarrassing for someone who's been in the industry for over a decade), this is a really interesting read, and it's helping concepts like pipelining and caching to gel.