Hacker News: robin_reala

Productivity Effects Across Generations of AI Coding Tools [pdf]

robin_reala — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:37:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w35275/w35275.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48444057

Points: 2

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An easter egg in the new Lego Batman

robin_reala — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:22:37 +0000

Article URL: https://social.panic.com/@cabel/116710623616975906

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48443476

Points: 3

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New comment by robin_reala in "Public Domain Image Archive"

robin_reala — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 05:55:28 +0000

To be specific, this is US public domain only (which is globally non-standard).

Guardian 100 best novels (stats and errors)

robin_reala — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:18:30 +0000

Article URL: https://mpaldridge.github.io/blog/guardian-novels.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48426419

Points: 3

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New comment by robin_reala in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

robin_reala — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:48:48 +0000

https://mastodon.social/@taym95/116697302689826448

As a Servo maintainer, I'd like to remind people that @ServoDev continues to welcome contributions from everyone. We actively mentor newcomers, help people learn Rust and browser engine development, and review community PRs.

International Space Station astronauts under evacuation orders

robin_reala — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:06:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/05/international-space-station-astronauts-under-evacuation-orders

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48412764

Points: 14

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AI's PR Problem

robin_reala — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:11:01 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.dshr.org/2026/05/ais-pr-problem.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48400696

Points: 5

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The EU Open Source Strategy

robin_reala — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:53:27 +0000

Article URL: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/open-source-strategy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48384942

Points: 7

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W3C Leadership Transition

robin_reala — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:32:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.w3.org/press-releases/2026/w3c-leadership-transition/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48310452

Points: 19

# Comments: 2

Searching for Birds

robin_reala — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:32:53 +0000

Article URL: https://SearchingForBirds.VisualCinnamon.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48309505

Points: 33

# Comments: 3

New comment by robin_reala in "Commission fines Temu €200M for breaching the Digital Services Act"

robin_reala — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:28:21 +0000

I visited Temu from Sweden and clicked on the terms of use, this is the first line:

1.1 These Terms are between you and Whaleco Technology Limited, an Irish company.

New comment by robin_reala in "Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests"

robin_reala — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:37:15 +0000

GitHub used to be like that before they rebuilt everything in React.

New comment by robin_reala in "Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests"

robin_reala — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:35:49 +0000

Good that the Billing functionality is still at 3 nines at least.

New comment by robin_reala in "Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens"

robin_reala — Mon, 25 May 2026 13:57:39 +0000

I also produced We for Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/yevgeny-zamyatin/we/gregor...

New comment by robin_reala in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

robin_reala — Mon, 25 May 2026 13:33:15 +0000

Second filter from the left on the results page is the location / language filter.

New comment by robin_reala in "Bug 1950764: Work Around Crash on Intel Raptor Lake CPU"

robin_reala — Mon, 25 May 2026 04:42:04 +0000

Also worth reading this thread on the subject: https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/116630047156991279

Regarding the Raptor Lake bug I received a couple of messages from confused users that had read articles on Tomshardware and Neowin. They asked about erratas and microcode updates which puzzled me, because that was part of my early investigation into the bug and we know that the failure is not caused by a known errata and microcode updates cannot fix broken CPUs. So why did they ask? As it turns out it was slop. Both articles are 100% slop full of confusing and inaccurate claims.

New comment by robin_reala in "Usborne 1980s Computer Books"

robin_reala — Sun, 24 May 2026 17:37:53 +0000

Wrong vowel, this is Usborne.

New comment by robin_reala in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"

robin_reala — Sat, 23 May 2026 13:56:18 +0000

And to be honest, that position is totally reasonable, and the good thing is that you have the option of Gutenberg, Faded Page, and a bunch of other archival sites, also for free, if you don’t want that.

But nearly all print publishers also do what SE does. Why do you think they do, when it costs additional money and time to do that? A reasonable answer is that some, or a majority of, people prefer it.

New comment by robin_reala in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"

robin_reala — Sat, 23 May 2026 06:02:44 +0000

On the “every one” example, that’s a definite mistake that shouldn’t have made its way in to the book in the first place. The production process has a specific step for “every one” (https://standardebooks.org/contribute/producing-an-ebook-ste...) that guides producers through making the correct choices when modern usage has two different possible choices. It shouldn’t have happened, but it’s a mistake that was fixed at least.

New comment by robin_reala in "Cool new stuff coming in ARIA 1.3"

robin_reala — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:02:27 +0000

As per usual when mentioning ARIA it’s necessary to point that “no ARIA is better than bad ARIA”: https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/practices/read-me-first/