Hacker News: rfarley04

A doomed marriage and a bad ad for Corvus Systems' drives

rfarley04 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:32:34 +0000

Article URL: https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive/corvus-systems-omninet/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48570325

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rfarley04 in "Report on an Unidentified Space Station – J.G. Ballard (1982)"

rfarley04 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:42:35 +0000

Tower of Babel by Ted Chiang is another comparison worth mentioning

New comment by rfarley04 in "It is time to build a new internet"

rfarley04 — Fri, 22 May 2026 02:40:25 +0000

The human.json protocol is worth checking out as a proxy for the whole "more human internet" conversation. Not perfect but interesting!

https://codeberg.org/robida/human.json

Gateway 2000's infuriating descent from awesome to bad ads in the 90s (Part I)

rfarley04 — Tue, 19 May 2026 11:38:37 +0000

Article URL: https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive/gateway-2000-part-1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192023

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by rfarley04 in "Magic by return of post: How mail order delivered the occult"

rfarley04 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:09:30 +0000

Ha, I was just researching early email newsletter history and came across High Weirdness By Mail - A Directory of The Fringe: Mad Prophets, Crackpots, Kooks & True Visionaries. It's literally just subscription addresses and paragraph summaries like

> "A neo-pagan publication aimed mainly at neophytes, shamans, medicine men. And women...Drawing on numerous traditions, it provides almost a survey course in such diverse topics as astrology, runecasting, elemental (magic) the I Ching, > and Chinese medicine, 75¢ each, $8/year."

https://archive.org/details/highweirdnessbym0000stan

Web Stalker – an artist-made browser that ignored images and formatting (1998)

rfarley04 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:10:51 +0000

Article URL: https://anthology.rhizome.org/the-web-stalker

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867916

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by rfarley04 in "Google says 75% of it's new code is AI written"

rfarley04 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:11:35 +0000

I saw this post at the exact same time I ran across this elsewhere: https://www.phonearena.com/news/pixel-6-7-8-9-10-battery-dra...

There's no way to definitively say they're cause and effect but also....

New comment by rfarley04 in "The future of discovery: Keeping it fair for creators and partners"

rfarley04 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:43:11 +0000

"These rules could force YouTube to give special treatment to a small group of organisations hand-picked by a government."

YouTube already skews results based on their own priorities and preferences (which is often for very good reasons[1]). Hilariously hypocritical that they're whining about a "for me but not for you" problem here.

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

New comment by rfarley04 in "Archive of Byte magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975"

rfarley04 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:51:01 +0000

vintageapple.org also has a really great collection of scans fwiw

Zoom teams up with World to verify humans in meetings

rfarley04 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:25:15 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/17/zoom-teams-up-with-world-to-verify-humans-in-meeting/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47812046

Points: 1

# Comments: 3

Franklin's bad ads for Apple II clones and the beloved impersonator they depict

rfarley04 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:33:08 +0000

Article URL: https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive/franklin-ace-1000/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47722629

Points: 126

# Comments: 93

New comment by rfarley04 in "Goodbye to Sora"

rfarley04 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 01:28:16 +0000

It's just the social app being killed off, no? Wouldn't this line up with rumors that they'll soon let you create videos inside of chatgpt itself? I wish the actual video model would die but I assume this news is not that.

Meta up 3% in premarket as it plans mass layoff amidst increased AI spending

rfarley04 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:13:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/16/meta-ai-costs-mass-layoffs-20percent-up-premarket.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397511

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

In 1985 Maxell built a bunch of life-size robots for its bad floppy ad

rfarley04 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:16:31 +0000

Article URL: https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive/maxell-life-size-robots/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47247644

Points: 142

# Comments: 23

A handful of wholesomely bad ads for 90s SPARC clones

rfarley04 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 09:21:44 +0000

Article URL: https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive/integrix/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46910731

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rfarley04 in "The hottest job in tech: Writing words"

rfarley04 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 03:27:07 +0000

Hilarious that anyone would think the most literally average output of a thing would be capable of selling said thing. Of course it'll take more salespeople to sell a very mid product (not a comment on AI/LLMs in general, just their editorial applications)

The hottest job in tech: Writing words

rfarley04 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 03:24:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/hottest-job-in-tech-writing-words-ai-hiring-2026-2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46881071

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by rfarley04 in "Ask HN: Does a good "read it later" app exist?"

rfarley04 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 02:58:54 +0000

I moved to a self-hosted Wallabag (https://wallabag.org/) after Pocket shut down. Not the sexiest but does everything I need it to. It has Chrome/Firefox extensions for saving open tabs.

New comment by rfarley04 in "We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles (2002)"

rfarley04 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 05:22:45 +0000

Never get tired of seeing this resurface every once and a while. There needs to be a /greatest for posts like these (while still allowing people to repost them every so often)

New comment by rfarley04 in "Show HN posts p/month more than doubled in the last year"

rfarley04 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:03:33 +0000

I have a little bit of data on that from my post last summer. It's pretty easy to query the data: ryanfarley.co/ai-show-hn-data/