<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: robinwassen</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=robinwassen</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 16:44:46 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=robinwassen" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robinwassen in "Cars collect a startling amount of data about you"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For that they would need to market it as a rolling spyware</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 05:02:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48319247</link><dc:creator>robinwassen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48319247</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48319247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robinwassen in "Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have tested this and they are very capable, replacing the modern windows calc (38mb mem) with an identical app (ux, looks, features, accessibility, localization) ended up with an app using 2MB memory.<p>You just need to point it in the right direction (c/rust/go etc) and be harsh with the requirements, especially memory usage.<p>If I was Microsoft I would use AI for this rather than badly embedding AI everywhere, a lot of power users would be overwhelmed by a win 11 update where OS apps/features dropped mem usage by 90%+</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 07:17:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47244226</link><dc:creator>robinwassen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47244226</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47244226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robinwassen in "Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They kind do if you prompt them, I had mine reimplement the Windows calc (almost fully feature complete) in rust running with 2mb RAM instead of 40mb or whatever the win 11 version uses as a POC.<p>A handwritten c implementation would most likely be better, but there is so much to gain from just slaughtering the abstraction bloat it does not really matter.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 01:34:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47175153</link><dc:creator>robinwassen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47175153</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47175153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robinwassen in "Ford CEO says he has 5k open mechanic jobs with 6-figure salaries"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Last maintenance I did on my Volvo was to replace the battery which should be quick for a non-mechanic as myself.<p>I spent more time building a make shift tool to detach/attach the battery than I did actual work. This due to them placing a bolt really bad so you can't access it with a normal wrench.<p>Not offering a paid upgrade to a 4G modem for the app features when they kill the 3G network in Sweden is also a bummer (they do in the US though, guess they are afraid of law suits).<p>I like the car in general, but they do some bad decisions that make me look at other brands when considering a new car.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 22:36:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45921592</link><dc:creator>robinwassen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45921592</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45921592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robinwassen in "Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can schedule the takeout to Drive, then use a tool such as rclone (amazing tool) to pull it down.<p>It should not add any costs except the storage for the takeout zip on drive.<p>Look at supported providers in rclone and you might find easy solutions for some hard sync problems: <a href="https://rclone.org/#providers" rel="nofollow">https://rclone.org/#providers</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 20:37:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45508520</link><dc:creator>robinwassen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45508520</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45508520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robinwassen in "The Pain That Is GitHub Actions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Did a similar thing when we needed to do complex operations towards aws.<p>Instead of wrapping the aws cli command I wrote small Go applications using the boto3 library.<p>Removed the headaches when passing in complex params, parsing output and and also made the logic portable as we need to do the builds on different platforms (Windows, Linux and macOS).</p>
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<p>I agree that this is spot on.<p>The last part missing is "build a flawed product and bake it into the contract so you charge high consultant costs to the customer to fix it" which is where the cash cow is for many enterprise / B2G products.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Jun 2024 06:54:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40765284</link><dc:creator>robinwassen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40765284</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40765284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robinwassen in "AI Toolkit: Give a brain to your game's NPCs, a header-only C++ library"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would like to say thank you for posting this, I am currently building a similar toolkit in Lua and will most likely restart and just port your code instead :)<p>It is extremely clean and concise.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2024 19:59:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38931183</link><dc:creator>robinwassen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38931183</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38931183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robinwassen in "Heat pumps, more than you wanted to know (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am thinking of the more basic air/air units rather than this air/water.<p>One well placed air/air can reduce the need for direct electricity heating a lot, even though some might be needed to assist in a bedroom or so.<p>My parents installed a air/air unit in the middle of the house (180kvm) for $2.5k this summer and it keeps the whole house heated except one bedroom that needs some assistance from a radiator.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2024 11:51:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38925042</link><dc:creator>robinwassen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38925042</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38925042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robinwassen in "Heat pumps, more than you wanted to know (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I do not understand why heat pumps are so expensive in the article.<p>In Sweden the hardware cost around $1k - $2.5k and installation $500 - $1000. It's not a complicated task.<p>Geothermal heating on the other hand cost around $15k - $20k.<p>Most people I know have one of these, direct electricity to heat is not really an option.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2024 11:00:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38924666</link><dc:creator>robinwassen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38924666</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38924666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robinwassen in "Bazzite – a SteamOS-like OCI image for desktop, living room, and handheld PCs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not sure if you are to do any super sensitive work on the tablet or not.<p>But a home folder encryption rather than full disk might solve the touch input problem.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2024 15:36:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38832499</link><dc:creator>robinwassen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38832499</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38832499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robinwassen in "Open Air Schools of the 1900s"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Daycares did not close during covid in Sweden.<p>On the topic there are a category of preschools in Sweden called "Ur och skur" which have most education outdoors.<p>Back in the 90s I know some primary schools in Sweden also had education outside, but I think that have changed with schools becoming more competitive lately.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2023 20:31:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37650189</link><dc:creator>robinwassen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37650189</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37650189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robinwassen in "VSCodium – Open-source binaries of VSCode"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The problem is most likely how do you know it's the ms source unmodified?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Sep 2023 17:07:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37382452</link><dc:creator>robinwassen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37382452</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37382452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robinwassen in "Octos – HTML live wallpaper engine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I had an idea for a similar project  (1) a few years back, but abandoned it after reaching the state where I had a node module to attach an Electron window to the wallpaper in Windows.<p>Fun to see a project that has reached further, remember how cool I used to think dashboards/widgets for the PC stats were when I was younger.<p>(1): <a href="https://github.com/robinwassen/electron-wallpaper">https://github.com/robinwassen/electron-wallpaper</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 22 Jul 2023 12:55:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36825826</link><dc:creator>robinwassen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36825826</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36825826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robinwassen in "The Rocky Horror Coffin Clock"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well, there are highs and lows when it comes to being known a century later.<p>From my hometown I think there are two past living things that people are aware of a century later.<p>First is Alfred Nobel of the Nobel Prize, no further explanation needed I guess.<p>The second is a circus horse that I couldn't explain why people care about 100 years later even if I tried.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 May 2023 17:11:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35853465</link><dc:creator>robinwassen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35853465</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35853465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robinwassen in "Public Money, Public Code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Public data is not always that nice.<p>In Sweden most government data is public which includes individuals tax records.<p>That generates things such as news articles "The 50 people in your area that had the highest income last year" with home address and everything and that you can look up income instantly on the web.<p>Some level of privacy for this would be nice to have.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 May 2023 08:15:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35849091</link><dc:creator>robinwassen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35849091</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35849091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robinwassen in "Ask HN: What tech is under the radar with all attention on ChatGPT etc.?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Roblox are doing steady incremental progress to their platform/engine.<p>Epic released Unreal Engine for Fortnite about one month ago.<p>Meta have some interesting stuff in their pipe.<p>I think that especially Roblox will shift how the younger generation view games, with more emphasis on social. It is their MMOs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 May 2023 20:53:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35794045</link><dc:creator>robinwassen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35794045</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35794045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robinwassen in "Laid off by Big Tech, then recruited for contract work – at the same place"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Kind of yes, but the scale of the amounts is a bit different.<p>I quit my $60k CTO job and they paid me $140k to stick around as a contractor. Most<p>$300k is CEO of a large company salary in Sweden. The prime minister earns around $200k.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Apr 2023 18:27:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35592825</link><dc:creator>robinwassen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35592825</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35592825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robinwassen in "Collection of LLM resources that can be used to build products you can “own”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Self-hosted?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Apr 2023 16:16:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35542148</link><dc:creator>robinwassen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35542148</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35542148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robinwassen in "GoDaddy: Hackers stole source code, installed malware in multi-year breach"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can also strongly recommend Gandi. Used them to manage 40+ domains for my old company. Professional and good coverage of the TLDs.<p>Nice is also that you can buy credits - that way I could renew a bunch of domains that expired at different times and filing only invoice to bookkeeping.</p>
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