Hacker News: rbbydotdev

New comment by rbbydotdev in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

rbbydotdev — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:45:21 +0000

> Strong Federal privacy laws would make posts like this unnecessary, that’s the world I’d rather live in.

Amen.

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

rbbydotdev — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:52:21 +0000

Opal: Browser first feature-rich markdown editor, workspace and publisher

- https://opaledx.com - https://github.com/rbbydotdev/opal

No logins or sign-ups, totally free, MIT Open Source

Integrates with git and github, publishes to aws, github, netlify, vercel, cloudflare, great drag and drop image integration

New comment by rbbydotdev in "GitHub Is Sinking"

rbbydotdev — Sun, 10 May 2026 17:12:36 +0000

I wasn't expecting to see the outages being nearly the same even before the 2023 ai inflection point

New comment by rbbydotdev in "Zed Editor Theme-Builder"

rbbydotdev — Sun, 10 May 2026 12:00:16 +0000

Cool to see all the progress with Zed, but it feels a bit too tied to user accounts. Prominent 'Sign In' buttons and ads like 'Try our new agentic...' They do have to make money and that's fine - but too often incentives start out this way and begin to corrupt the application...

Whats next, ads inside file searches? (ubuntu blundered this way and soured the community) - "LQQKING for something? try new ai search by blah blah corp!"

So it's hard to 'invest' my time tweaking my editor and theme only to have it start to betray me in the future. VSCode has already gone down this path - signing commit messages with 'copilot'

New comment by rbbydotdev in "The Disappearance of the Public Bench"

rbbydotdev — Sat, 09 May 2026 15:19:52 +0000

I recently took a trip to Salamanca Spain, the sight of a regular bench, in the city center, without hostile anti sleeping measures. It was funny, something so plain could so be jarring to see. Could very well have been an elephant on the via.

New comment by rbbydotdev in "I want to live like Costco people"

rbbydotdev — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:03:59 +0000

when you consider the setup and infrastructure going to and fro the mega warehouse of dry and perishable goods, also considering the required equipment, (a sedan, or large car) - It begins to become apparent the genesis of costco largely rises out of Americas car culture and suburbia.

Alternatively elsewhere, small shops, many locally owned, butchers, vendors convenience stores replace the existence of 'costco'

In these facts, I dont know if its necessarily a bad thing, but there is something empty, soulless and anti social about it.

Maybe a few grape tomatoes for thought between the world salad of this article, "cognitive pattern. It is a jarring thoughtscape, remarkably compelling and nondiscursive and utterly hard to shake." - That is what the author too is getting at?

New comment by rbbydotdev in "From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth"

rbbydotdev — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:52:28 +0000

Do you think the complexity of auth in the browser, is because browsers don't do enough?

New comment by rbbydotdev in "From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth"

rbbydotdev — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:45:24 +0000

Tom's articles are always a good read.

Anyone remember Auth0 and passportjs?

The churn of auth services is never ending, but I suppose so are the standards.

New comment by rbbydotdev in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

rbbydotdev — Sat, 02 May 2026 21:34:56 +0000

So GitHub reached its tipping point, I guess vscode will follow

New comment by rbbydotdev in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

rbbydotdev — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 10:35:59 +0000

Needn’t worry, such incompetencies are rooted out by the 8th or 9th round of interviews.

New comment by rbbydotdev in "Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns"

rbbydotdev — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:22:29 +0000

time to add plugins to hn, automated measure of ai comments and submissions to be the first ;)

New comment by rbbydotdev in "MerJS: A Zig-native web framework that ships without Node"

rbbydotdev — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:07:01 +0000

big fan of this project, been following on x. heads up, there's some escaping issue on the website, for instance " \u{00d7} 2 \u{2014}"

New comment by rbbydotdev in "Cal.com is going closed source"

rbbydotdev — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:18:18 +0000

I honestly was surprised with the response I got, for what was basically a Sunday hack project: https://github.com/rbbydotdev/someday

I think people really like how it's free (runs on google app scripts) and open source.

I've personally moved onto google's free gmail calendar scheduling tool, which strangely took pretty long to come to market. Calendly stretches back to ... 2013?

Scheduling, oddly feels a little niche (maybe less so today?), when it shouldn't be. Maybe there some more opportunity there.

New comment by rbbydotdev in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

rbbydotdev — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:23:23 +0000

> ...he briefly attended a pro-Palestinian protest. In April 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent Google an administrative subpoena requesting his data.

incredible.

New comment by rbbydotdev in "AI ruling prompts warnings from US lawyers: Your chats could be used against you"

rbbydotdev — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:56:51 +0000

… and this is not okay right?

New comment by rbbydotdev in "I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program"

rbbydotdev — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:50:56 +0000

it would be nice if flock did not and could not exist

New comment by rbbydotdev in "Ransomware Is Growing Three Times Faster Than the Spending Meant to Stop It"

rbbydotdev — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:50:46 +0000

I wonder what kinds of market hypotheses you could derive from the game theory here

New comment by rbbydotdev in "Lisette a little language inspired by Rust that compiles to Go"

rbbydotdev — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:00:55 +0000

Looks beautiful! Any plans to make it self compile?

New comment by rbbydotdev in "Cursor 3"

rbbydotdev — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:40:26 +0000

I don't agree with this direction. There is entirely too much cognitive load in the interface. The challenge now is how to distill the massive output and information of agent work - this is just surfacing it all to you

New comment by rbbydotdev in "Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac"

rbbydotdev — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:33:03 +0000

Would really love to see a web api standard for on device llms. This could get us closer. Some in-browser language model usage could be very powerful. In the interim maybe a little protocol spec + a discovery protocol used with browser plugins, web apps could detect and interface with on-device llms making it universally available.