<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: robertritz</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=robertritz</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:58:10 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=robertritz" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertritz in "Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm shocked universities don't host their own LMS? At least large universities have the IT departments to do this. They host compute clusters, so they can certainly host an LMS.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 01:48:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057520</link><dc:creator>robertritz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057520</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertritz in "Mike: open-source legal AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So open up your new product to every random agent and griefer on the internet? Why would you do that?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:15:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959261</link><dc:creator>robertritz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959261</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertritz in "Mike: open-source legal AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>United States v. Heppner mentioned a public chatbot service. If a law firm (or specialized provider) offered a chatbot using their own servers and hosted the traces and other data on the law firms own servers it would almost certainly be protected. But another case would need to happen to determine that.<p>But that only applies for clients using the chatbot. If a lawyer is using the LLM it is definitely protected. No different if a lawyer searches something on Google or Lexis Nexis. The search itself is protected. I guess you could debate metadata but the content surely is protected.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:10:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959222</link><dc:creator>robertritz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959222</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertritz in "Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To add to this Youtube afaik uses multiple models to sprinkle in new content alongside your usual recommendation just for this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 02:55:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45843114</link><dc:creator>robertritz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45843114</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45843114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertritz in "Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>He literally did a prisoner's dilemma on them. Love it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 01:30:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45741552</link><dc:creator>robertritz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45741552</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45741552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertritz in "Show HN: MARS – Personal AI robot for builders (< $2k)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Actually the reason is that with the Unitree products if you want the Python SDK the price jumps to $5,000 for the same hardware. At least it was the last time I checked earlier this year.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 01:22:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45511009</link><dc:creator>robertritz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45511009</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45511009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertritz in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A newsletter based platform that gives daily news briefings on countries using the local language news. Called Lexica News it’s working pretty well so far. Users are mostly international business execs, diplomats, etc.<p><a href="https://lexica.news" rel="nofollow">https://lexica.news</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:18:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45425791</link><dc:creator>robertritz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45425791</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45425791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertritz in "Coursera’s Preview Mode"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>MOOCs have always given value to a certain group (about 3% of people who are motivated to self learn) and are basically useless for everyone else. Which is why they are primarily virtue signaling devices to fluff your LinkedIn.<p>When I started learning to code for data science I appreciated the lectures and examples. Once you reach a certain technical level these MOOCs aren't really helpful though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 03:59:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44820437</link><dc:creator>robertritz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44820437</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44820437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertritz in "Show HN: I've been building an ERP for manufacturing for the last 3 years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This I think will be the future. The ERP I made for my company is hopelessly tied to our process, and it saves time and reduces mental overhead for everyone.<p>It evolves as we do with me making feature updates and bug fixes every few weeks. Of course this is unusual in that I’m a very technical owner, but I feel this is the right way.<p>As software becomes easier to make custom software will reduce in price as well. Software gives my company an edge and I’ll take every advantage I can get.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2025 01:01:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44806478</link><dc:creator>robertritz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44806478</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44806478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertritz in "Show HN: I've been building an ERP for manufacturing for the last 3 years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m the owner of a smallish furniture manufacturer. About 15 employees. I built out the order management system myself because nothing really fit our process.<p>After looking at the site I can’t really say I know how this software could help us. I’ll look at it later on my desktop but first I think some better demo videos or gifs on the landing page would be nice.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2025 01:34:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44793390</link><dc:creator>robertritz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44793390</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44793390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertritz in "Show HN: I built a website to summarize Tech Twitter each day"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I like the idea, but it's really just three summaries each day, which I can get from Google News. Would be nice to have links to the tweets at the very least.<p>Also the top three stories are most likely what your audience already knows. What people are craving, at least what I'm craving, is something that <i>isn't</i> on my feed everywhere else.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2025 03:13:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44486417</link><dc:creator>robertritz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44486417</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44486417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertritz in "I don't think AGI is right around the corner"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Off grid power, air gapped compute, growing food, etc. Basically what Zuck is doing minus the SEALs and bunkers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2025 03:10:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44486389</link><dc:creator>robertritz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44486389</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44486389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertritz in "I don't think AGI is right around the corner"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Considering the amount of digitalization in society, more government regulations, etc. I think basic literacy alone does not guarantee you can participate in society effectively.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2025 03:00:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44486340</link><dc:creator>robertritz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44486340</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44486340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertritz in "Any [60] language. Any voice. Instantly"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Any language...<p>Proceeds to not work with several low resource languages I tried.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 07:33:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44462072</link><dc:creator>robertritz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44462072</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44462072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertritz in "Flounder Mode – Kevin Kelly on a different way to do great work"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hired help. Does wonders for stress.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 07:30:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44462048</link><dc:creator>robertritz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44462048</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44462048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertritz in "Flounder Mode – Kevin Kelly on a different way to do great work"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As someone who isn't particularly religious, but grew up in a religious household, and as someone married to a very religious person (different religions), I believe it's all about outlook.<p>Religion tends to give you several quite positive beliefs about the world that aren't entirely logical. Things like karma, the golden rule, belief in a plan, etc.<p>Generally speaking I also believe that religious people are more willing to trust and forgive. These are all pretty positive things.<p>And finally I believe religious people have a higher sense of duty to others, but the better term is probably responsibilism.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 07:29:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44462045</link><dc:creator>robertritz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44462045</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44462045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertritz in "Flounder Mode – Kevin Kelly on a different way to do great work"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Meh I took a serious left turn after college and my first few jobs. Much happier now.<p>Work on Capitol Hill for less than a year then tech outsourcing then consulting. Realized it was boring, useless, and mind numbing and moved across the world. Now have multiple businesses, more than 30 employees across those business, and I get to have fun. It's stressful sometimes but I think we've kicked the stress finally (at 37). Now it's just fun and we get to see what we can pull off when we want to.<p>Most people simply quit or aren't willing to do the uncomfortable things. It's uncomfortable to be unbothered. But I certainly didn't follow my interests. I used my interests to get better at what was in front of us. Gotta pay the bills and give people what they want, I just put my own spin on it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 07:17:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44461969</link><dc:creator>robertritz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44461969</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44461969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertritz in "It doesn't cost much to improve someone's life"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This recent article[1] from the economist shows how much of the aid spending around the world just replaces government spending and never creates a system where those countries can stand on their own.<p>Not always the case but definitely for a lot of aid spending. Where I'm located (Mongolia) aid spending just gives the government an excuse to free up the budget for handouts to get them elected. It's pretty useless.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/03/06/the-demise-of-foreign-aid-offers-an-opportunity" rel="nofollow">https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/03/06/the-demise-of-f...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2025 09:40:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43371311</link><dc:creator>robertritz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43371311</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43371311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertritz in "Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This exactly. Losing a few things pales in comparison to less mental overhead in every single task I do.<p>All I do now is keep a notebook with a rolling to do list where I make a new page every day and write what I have to do. Meeting notes also go there if they don't belong in some project files.<p>The only thing I wish I could do is keep notes from books somehow in an easily referenceable format. Kindle sucks, Obsidian is 180 from TikTok but still brain rot.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Feb 2025 09:20:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43147990</link><dc:creator>robertritz</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43147990</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43147990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robertritz in "I'll think twice before using GitHub Actions again"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's simple. Don't believe that the company purchased by Microsoft wants anything other than for you to use more compute.</p>
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