Hacker News: robbs

New comment by robbs in "Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public"

robbs — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:05:38 +0000

Same way you’d do it without AI. Record sample data, test against that, generate more data, test IRL, record more data, loop until it’s good enough.

New comment by robbs in "DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier"

robbs — Sat, 02 May 2026 13:16:42 +0000

I’ve found that if I turn off auto mode, I get much more usage from the $100/mo plan.

They Write the Right Stuff

robbs — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 02:05:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46596595

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by robbs in "Show HN: Project management system for Claude Code"

robbs — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 13:43:12 +0000

Have you found a way to have the AI assist in analyzing?

New comment by robbs in "Show HN: Project management system for Claude Code"

robbs — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:43:54 +0000

> You're absolutely right

Claude! Get off HN and get back to work.

New comment by robbs in "Natural occurring molecule rivals Ozempic in weight loss, sidesteps side effects"

robbs — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 17:15:26 +0000

Caffeine is an example. Coffee and energy drinks are doing well I'd say.

New comment by robbs in "We all took the DVD boom era for granted"

robbs — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 19:00:23 +0000

If you haven’t already, get yourself to Wellington and take the tours at Weta. You might even recognize a few of the faces that still work there.

New comment by robbs in "Cloudflare acquires PartyKit to allow developers to build real-time multi-user"

robbs — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 19:04:34 +0000

Phoenix Channels

New comment by robbs in "Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2023"

robbs — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 23:04:39 +0000

A set of nice flashlights. Why walk around in the dark? Some that I like: Sofirn SP36 BLF, LT1, SC21, HS10. Wurkkos TS10 (and I’ll be getting a TS11 soon.)

New comment by robbs in "Why a spritz of water before grinding coffee yields better results"

robbs — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 19:45:12 +0000

It varies. I roast at home, and some beans are great the next day. Some are great the next week. The cafe I used to live next to would rest their beans for a week.

New comment by robbs in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2023)"

robbs — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 19:23:28 +0000

SEEKING WORK | Full-stack, Elixir, Python, React, PHP | REMOTE

Location: FL, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Do you need a little dev help during this season? I’m available full time December to jump in and squash bugs, clean data or automate processes.

Email: robby.ronk at gmail

New comment by robbs in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2023)"

robbs — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 21:09:25 +0000

Location: Orlando, FL

Remote: Yes, Hybrid OK

Willing to relocate: Would consider relocating after Q3 2024

Technologies: Python, React/Redux/Sagas, Elixir, PHP/Laravel, Linux, AWS, MySQL/PostgreSQL

Résumé/CV: Upon request. Let’s chat!

Email: robby.ronk@gmail.com

I’m a Full Stack Software Engineer with 13+ years of experience.

I love to learn and share what I know! As a full stack Python developer at a cinema VFX company, I brought React to my team and set them up with a toolkit that enable them to build apps 4x faster. I ran workshops, mentored 1:1 and developed best practices to clarify to my team how to build with Python and React. At a national Internet company, I solved browser breaking artifacts on the national Broadband Map using Python and PostGIS. At a Solar SaaS, I used Python to abstract bespoke Solar Lender APIs so that the Sales Platform could onboard new lenders with minimal changes, ultimately leading to gigawatts of panels on roofs and billions of dollars of deals done. Recently, I've maintained a legacy Django platform while executing a migration into a new platform.

I'm proud that my Python and React has helped create movies with box offices in the billions, helped an entire country find broadband and installed gigawatts of clean energy. I'm excited to leverage my Python and React skills to contribute to your team's success.

New comment by robbs in "The SR-71 Blackbird Astro-Nav System worked by tracking the stars"

robbs — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 13:26:22 +0000

It doesn't have to be a small team. See "They Write The Right Stuff".

New comment by robbs in "iPhone 15 Pro facts and estimates"

robbs — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 11:53:18 +0000

Watch out for “golden” titanium. It could be a titanium nitride coating.

New comment by robbs in "Ask HN: What cool desk ideas do you have for a home office?"

robbs — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 04:39:09 +0000

A bit late but my desk is a sit-stand-race desk. I built a "wall" from an old 2x8 attached to an electric sit-stand desk and mounted a telescoping TV mount to it. When I want to play racing games, I extend the monitor out to the edge of the desk and position my racing cockpit right under it.

New comment by robbs in "Poisons and Perils on the Salton Sea"

robbs — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 15:03:45 +0000

Here's another interesting piece by Vice about the Salton Sea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDniDNY03JE

New comment by robbs in "New version of Monica, codename Chandler, is available in beta"

robbs — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 15:48:06 +0000

Both are characters from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends

New comment by robbs in "Dynamic Forms with LiveView Streams"

robbs — Tue, 30 May 2023 18:05:12 +0000

What libraries are missing? So far, I've only missed having a library for interacting with Google Sheets. I got around that with a Lambda running Python. Everything else either had an Elixir library or there was no library in any language.

New comment by robbs in "Americans lost a record $10.3B to online scammers last year, FBI says"

robbs — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 17:12:37 +0000

Something I haven't seen mentioned is a DNS firewall to block phishing domains and newly registered domains. I use NextDNS for that and I'm sure there are others.

New comment by robbs in "Show HN: Crul – Query Any Webpage or API"

robbs — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 19:55:16 +0000

IMO, this is the hardest part of maintaining a web scraper. We had ~100 scripts to scrape ~1000 clients' sites and it was, at minimum, 50 hours a week to keep up with changes.

The second hardest part was 30% of our clients all used the same hosting provider, which would start to fail at 10-20 req/s. We had to throttle the sites by IP, cluster-wide.