Hacker News: robby_w_g

New comment by robby_w_g in "Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers"

robby_w_g — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 03:13:52 +0000

Bookmarklets were definitely more powerful than I anticipated, but they’re tricky to version and upgrade. I’ve deployed a bookmarklet for non-technical users to some success, but I’d generally lean towards browser extensions for anything that needs to be maintained and distributed long-term.

New comment by robby_w_g in "FFmpeg 9.0"

robby_w_g — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:46:04 +0000

Contrast with the Dolphin emulator release blogs. I swear I’ve spent more timing reading those releases than actually using the software

New comment by robby_w_g in "Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates"

robby_w_g — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:43:45 +0000

New games run really well on Linux. At this point, I don't even check. If it's an online competitive game, I can't play it. Otherwise, it almost certainly will work on Arch Linux

New comment by robby_w_g in "Madison Square Garden compiled a list of activists against facial recognition"

robby_w_g — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 16:13:10 +0000

I may be out of pocket here, but I think the Hacker News crowd of tech bros who spy on people for a living have a biased opinion on whether spying on people is normal

New comment by robby_w_g in "Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages"

robby_w_g — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:12:02 +0000

I’ve made a point of not installing any AUR packages. It’s really tempting when there’s a package that’s not available via pacman, but at the end of the day I’d rather build from source myself or use a docker image.

New comment by robby_w_g in "Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux"

robby_w_g — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:29:33 +0000

Torment doomers claim that the commodification of humanity’s suffering will usher in a dark age, but quarterly earnings have never been higher. I trust that Death Star Inc has humanity’s best interests at heart.

New comment by robby_w_g in "Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job"

robby_w_g — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:47:57 +0000

It’s both “exactly what the EO says” and “I can’t remember what the EO said”. He’s blatantly lying

New comment by robby_w_g in "Ape Coding [fiction]"

robby_w_g — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:35:25 +0000

> In the future, maybe by Thursday, I can have agents do all of that and relax.

Wall-E seems like it’s getting closer to reality every day

New comment by robby_w_g in "Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers"

robby_w_g — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:51:57 +0000

Does your MBP have 32 GB of ram? I’m waiting on a local model that can run decently on 16 GB

New comment by robby_w_g in "A better streams API is possible for JavaScript"

robby_w_g — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 17:31:14 +0000

> So their proposal is a superior primitive.

This lines up with my thinking. The proposal should give us a building block in the form of the primitive. I would expect the grandparent comment’s API to be provided in a library built on top of a language level primitive.

New comment by robby_w_g in "Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans"

robby_w_g — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:14:36 +0000

That's even more convincing. I wouldn't want to be in the RoboTaxi that's getting hit by a bus

New comment by robby_w_g in "Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars from New York City's Public Hospitals"

robby_w_g — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 20:46:37 +0000

It’s more that many adult citizens (and increasing every year) have grown up with the patriot act and liberties being stripped away in the name of security.

I talked with cousins about it 8 years ago and I got laughed at as a conspiracy nut for saying that our personal data will be used against us if we allow it. People either don’t understand or don’t care because they’ve grown comfortable with it.

New comment by robby_w_g in "Fluorite – A console-grade game engine fully integrated with Flutter"

robby_w_g — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:37:17 +0000

I loved learning Computer Engineering in college because it de-mystified the black box that was the PC I used growing up. I learned how it worked holistically, from physics to logic gates to processing units to kernels/operating systems to networking/applications.

It's sad to think we may be going backwards and introducing more black boxes, our own apps.

New comment by robby_w_g in "The switch to Linux and the beginning of my self-hosting journey"

robby_w_g — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:12:37 +0000

No more updates in the middle of a multi-player game with friends. How will I ever live without Windows?

New comment by robby_w_g in "Why I Joined OpenAI"

robby_w_g — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 03:39:07 +0000

Reminds me of when I was younger and thought of companies like Google and Tesla as a force for good that will create and use technology to make people's lives better. Surely OpenAI and these LLM companies will change the world for the better, right? They wouldn't burn down our planet for short-term monetary gain, right?

I've learned over the years that I was naive and it's a coincidence if the tech giants make people's lives better. That's not their goal.

New comment by robby_w_g in "When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown"

robby_w_g — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 16:11:54 +0000

Maybe the AI hype is a misdirect so we will blame LLMs for future tech failures instead of the engineers who built up these services

New comment by robby_w_g in "Godot 4.6 Release: It's all about your flow"

robby_w_g — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:05:46 +0000

I was able to hack together a toy game with godot-rust several years ago, and it had some rough edges but I was able to integrate Bevy’s ECS with godot’s editor and rendering. I’ve loosely followed its development since then, and the roughest parts seem to have been smoothed out. If it’s important to the dev, they can absolutely use rust

New comment by robby_w_g in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

robby_w_g — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:56:21 +0000

If Microsoft vibe codes a Linux distro and calls it Windows 360 Copilot, I’m on board with the conspiracy theory that the Hadron Collider broke reality

New comment by robby_w_g in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

robby_w_g — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:48 +0000

> Most people aren’t here for political topics.

Or rather, most people aren’t here to have their preconceived notions challenged by reality.

Politics is a nebulous term for topics that affect a large number of the population. Tech intersects with politics all the time and deserves good faith discussion.

New comment by robby_w_g in "Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet"

robby_w_g — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 06:19:39 +0000

Funny enough, this is the game compatibility that convinced me that Linux was worthwhile switching over to.

With Arch Linux + the nvidia-open package, the Linux desktop experience is miles better than when I last tried in 2017 with Ubuntu