Hacker News: robobro

New comment by robobro in "Can AI Exit Vim?"

robobro — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:39:18 +0000

remove the trailing slash

New comment by robobro in "1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?"

robobro — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:07:04 +0000

Does it really matter if it sounds silly?

New comment by robobro in "Tell HN: Merry Christmas"

robobro — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 10:01:48 +0000

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New comment by robobro in "Show HN: Play abstract strategy board games online with friends or against bots"

robobro — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Is your site down? I'm unable to load it now.

New comment by robobro in "Show HN: Play abstract strategy board games online with friends or against bots"

robobro — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 16:16:11 +0000

Reminds me of boardspace, though the UI is much cleaner.

You should try to add the Gipf games at some point, they are very wonderful!

New comment by robobro in "Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?"

robobro — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 16:50:28 +0000

I'm in also indonesia and nordvpn is still working fine for me, but you may want to consider trying socks5 via ssh as others are suggesting.

New comment by robobro in "Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?"

robobro — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 15:56:08 +0000

I'm in also indonesia and nordvpn is still working fine for me, but you may want to consider trying socks5 via ssh as others are suggesting

New comment by robobro in "Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language"

robobro — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 18:32:21 +0000

Doesn't seem to work for Bahasa Indonesia, #10 most spoken language in the world[1]. What a shame!

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_num...

New comment by robobro in "Burning a Magnesium NeXT Cube (1993)"

robobro — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 14:50:38 +0000

TL;DR: Guy wants to burn a computer. He burns two computers.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/nitroba/albums/721575944354804...

New comment by robobro in "Orwell Diaries 1938-1942"

robobro — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 19:15:54 +0000

the nazis where?

New comment by robobro in "Orwell Diaries 1938-1942"

robobro — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 19:08:09 +0000

what is the difference between socialism and communism

New comment by robobro in "Ask HN: Does anyone know of a general news site akin to Hacker News?"

robobro — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 06:04:27 +0000

Racism = right wing? You mean alt-right?

New comment by robobro in "Notes on Tunisia"

robobro — Fri, 30 May 2025 13:33:36 +0000

Bali is not a country, but agree! Litter is a big problem throughout Indonesia, even in the more rural areas.

New comment by robobro in "Open Source Society University – Path to a free self-taught education in CS"

robobro — Mon, 26 May 2025 18:19:38 +0000

It's a chat program designed to be anti-user inherently.

And it's spyware.

Discord being full of sex perverts and pedophiles are just reasons to avoid it after the fact that it is a terrible, terrible replacement for IRC channels.

If you are afraid of IRC, playing Matrix should be no problem. But please don't play discord.

New comment by robobro in "E-COM: The $40M USPS project to send email on paper"

robobro — Wed, 14 May 2025 21:23:18 +0000

> The purpose is to limit the ability of people to sneak in paper bathed in fentanyl

Or is it to make even more profit on the backs of prisoners & their families for companies who win juicy contracts from the government? This was being done by private companies before fentanyl.

Look into Jpay - they do a lot of slimy things and make a lot of money doing so. The free market in action I guess.

https://theappeal.org/prison-tablets-ipads-jpay-securus-gtl/

New comment by robobro in "The Emacs Widget Toolkit"

robobro — Tue, 13 May 2025 10:35:07 +0000

Why did you delete the page?

New comment by robobro in "The Emacs Widget Toolkit"

robobro — Tue, 13 May 2025 10:34:51 +0000

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Sorry, this page does not exist.

You can head back to the homepage.

New comment by robobro in "Why should I care? Or why punks are correct and old wise philosophers are wrong"

robobro — Sat, 10 May 2025 09:56:40 +0000

Yeah this page is unreadable. I had to open it in emacs-w3m

Tldr if you're a Christian, you're a punk, and you're wise: and philosophy is a dead end. I don't agree.

New comment by robobro in "Apparently Bluesky has one centralized service, the "relay""

robobro — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 07:58:21 +0000

or activitypub ! Part of w3c, tons of servers and clients, even Meta runs an instance

I don't think it's as easy to run nostr relays as activitypub instances but maybe I am wrong. ActivityPub seems way more active than nostr also. Most of what I see on nostr is either cryptocurrency discussion or the kinds of alt-lite content you would find on Gab or Minds

New comment by robobro in "4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak"

robobro — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 12:45:18 +0000

Yeah and if threads hit a certain reply count, they get bump locked.