Hacker News: rfarley04

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: 90

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/

New comment by rfarley04 in "India confirmed 5 cases of Nipah virus (mortality rate of up to 75%, no cure)"

rfarley04 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 09:50:51 +0000

If my problem with a post is its alarmism I probably shouldn't respond with hyperbole eh

New comment by rfarley04 in "India confirmed 5 cases of Nipah virus (mortality rate of up to 75%, no cure)"

rfarley04 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 05:58:06 +0000

As long as you don't swap bodily fluids with someone who's infected you're almost certainly not at risk

New comment by rfarley04 in "The percentage of Show HN posts is increasing, but their scores are decreasing"

rfarley04 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:54:37 +0000

That's fair actually. I wrote this comment a little off the cuff and rereading the article (it's been a while since I wrote it!) it's more like a strong plurality, so overwhelming was a bit much

New comment by rfarley04 in "The percentage of Show HN posts is increasing, but their scores are decreasing"

rfarley04 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 12:12:51 +0000

They're also overwhelming AI related posts: https://ryanfarley.co/ai-show-hn-data/

New comment by rfarley04 in "Kraków, Poland in top 5 worst air quality worldwide"

rfarley04 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 09:45:29 +0000

I've been here since 2015 with the pm2.5 getting noticably worse from 2017 onwards. Hard to tie it to any degradation in health. I have air purifiers at home and wear N95 whenever I go out and it's bad. I know there were a few big studies around the prevalence of cancer rates that correlated with the pollution getting worse in China. But I'm not nearly qualified enough to comment on or vet those

New comment by rfarley04 in "Kraków, Poland in top 5 worst air quality worldwide"

rfarley04 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 09:26:46 +0000

I live in Bangkok and we also get inversions during the "cold" (for Thailand haha) season, the same time that farms slash and burn, making this the worst time of year for our air quality as well.

It's much better this year but incredibly hard to police since officials often don't have jurisdiction where the pm2.5 originated, before getting trapped in the inversion

New comment by rfarley04 in "Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids"

rfarley04 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 00:10:11 +0000

It's just an id. But the audio is stored on the yoto itself for offline play.

And second the blank/customizable cards, that's what 80% of our cards are and my daughter loves helping track down and extract content. Biggest hits for her have been Roald Dahl and random science stuff.

New comment by rfarley04 in "Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids"

rfarley04 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:07:16 +0000

My daughter has a yoto and it has been absolutely invaluable for self directed learning and entertainment (with boundaries). But idk floppy disk seems way cooler to me!

Malaysia and Indonesia Block Elon Musk's Grok

rfarley04 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 04:45:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/12/malaysia-indonesia-block-elon-musks-grok-obscene-non-consensual-content.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46584204

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

New comment by rfarley04 in "Agents Are Now Table Stakes"

rfarley04 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 03:31:29 +0000

No, they're not. https://calnewport.com/why-didnt-ai-join-the-workforce-in-20...