Hacker News: robertcope

New comment by robertcope in "Ask HN: Remember Fidonet?"

robertcope — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:53:12 +0000

I was more active on WWIVnet, but I definitely remember Fidonet! Good times.

New comment by robertcope in "LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first"

robertcope — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 04:01:15 +0000

Same, I used Sonnet 4.6 with the prompt, "Write a simple program that displays a fleur-de-lis. Python is a good language for this." Took five or six minutes, but it wrong a nice Python TK app that did exactly what it was supposed to.

New comment by robertcope in "Robert Duvall has died"

robertcope — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 19:24:02 +0000

Agreed, absolutely fantastic movie.

New comment by robertcope in "Ask HN: Is Connecting via SSH Risky?"

robertcope — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 04:57:47 +0000

How else would you do it?

New comment by robertcope in "Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?"

robertcope — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 18:06:58 +0000

My wife was complaining this morning that her "promotions" were not getting sorted correctly. She will be happy to know it is an actual issue.

New comment by robertcope in "Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust"

robertcope — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:42:03 +0000

Then I log in to Linode or whatever and open a hole up in the firewall. That's easy. But Cloudflare rarely goes down, not really something I worry about.

New comment by robertcope in "Show HN: OpenWorkers – Self-hosted Cloudflare workers in Rust"

robertcope — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 20:07:39 +0000

Security. I host personal sites on Linodes and other external servers. There are no inbound ports open to the world. Everything is accessed via Cloudflare Tunnels and locked down via their Zero Trust services. I find this useful and good, as I don't really want to have to develop my personal services to the point where I'd consider them hardened for public internet access.

New comment by robertcope in "The Economy's Safety Net Is Finally Gone"

robertcope — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 01:29:11 +0000

I feel like every week there's a new doomsday article about coming recession, and yet one has not appeared. Of course, if you print it weekly, people start to believe it and eventually you'll be right for one reason or another.

New comment by robertcope in "System Pro – AI powered search grounded in peer-reviewed scientific knowledge"

robertcope — Thu, 04 May 2023 13:57:58 +0000

This very much sounds like something my wife and I have talked about. But I can't get it to load.

New comment by robertcope in "Dwelling – A social network for your house"

robertcope — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 02:45:31 +0000

What if my home hasn't been upgraded to have an AI yet? Can it still join?

New comment by robertcope in "Ask HN: Do you work less than 40 hours?"

robertcope — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 01:51:16 +0000

You do all that on 6-8 hours of work a week?

New comment by robertcope in "De-cloud and de-k8s – bringing our apps back home"

robertcope — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 23:14:15 +0000

Something I feel like these conversations seem to miss is that it is not binary; you don't have to host hardware on-prem if you don't want to be in AWS. There are other clouds. There are Sungards of the world were you can pay for racks of managed hardware. There are a lot of options between buying and managing your own hardware and AWS.

New comment by robertcope in "Ask HN: Replacing AWS S3+CloudFront with Cloudflare R2?"

robertcope — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 21:34:27 +0000

Seems like the way to know for sure is to test it. Wouldn't seem like it'd be hard to do that, especially if you have access to Catchpoint or something similar.

New comment by robertcope in "GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices"

robertcope — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 01:04:03 +0000

I 100% think this is the long term play. Once we figure out how to really have "remote only" companies, the "remote" part won't be "remote in the USA" but "remote in some cheap part of the world". We tried this with outsourcing but it failed because we didn't have the "remote" part down... now we do...

New comment by robertcope in "Epson quitting laser printers doesn’t address its bigger sustainability issue"

robertcope — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:13:29 +0000

Why are we still printing things?

New comment by robertcope in "Amazon Pip Horror Story"

robertcope — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 12:25:59 +0000

"I was asleep. The expectation that I would see it, much less respond to it, is crazy."

New comment by robertcope in "New record levels of private aviation flights"

robertcope — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 18:38:07 +0000

Ding ding... schools here are filled with kids wearing masks. One can argue it is not useful, but that is not the point at all. The point is, they wear them without complaint, every day. Hell, my kid has her mask on before we walk out the door. I tell her she doesn't need it, but it's just easier for her to put it on and forget about it than remember to put it on when we get where we're going. She's a picky kid with sensory issues, so...

New comment by robertcope in "New York Public Library ends all late fees"

robertcope — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 11:35:23 +0000

Hey, that's me. I returned a few books a day late due to flooding and racked up an $0.80 charge. I can't pay it online because the minimum allowed online is a dollar. I'd pay the dollar if it allowed me, but it doesn't. I don't care enough to figure out how else to pay the fine, so I just don't go to the library anymore.

New comment by robertcope in "Why should Cloudflare (be able to) block any request containing “boot.ini”?"

robertcope — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 10:37:05 +0000

Cloudflare doesn't make any attempt to hide the fact it's serving requests; the "server" header says "cloudflare".

The firewall logs show you exactly what rule triggers this behavior: ===== Ruleset ID: 48ba18287c544bd7bdbe842a294f1ae2 Ruleset Name: Bot Fight Mode for Definite Bots Rule ID: 874a3e315c344b1281ad4f00046aab6f =====

Users are generally free to disable rulees, the WAF, etc.

New comment by robertcope in "Apple forced an employee to handover “pics of my boobs”"

robertcope — Fri, 20 Aug 2021 02:50:26 +0000

Don't use work equipment for personal activities?