<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: robobro</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=robobro</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:09:43 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=robobro" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robobro in "Terence McKenna's Mega Bad Trip (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's an XKCD for that! <a href="https://xkcd.com/774/" rel="nofollow">https://xkcd.com/774/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 02:01:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48973611</link><dc:creator>robobro</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48973611</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48973611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robobro in "DEA to Temporarily Schedule 7-Oh and Related Substances to Protect Public Safety"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Or, heaven forbid, a kid could spill a pinch of bread yeast into a bottle of fruit juice, wait a week or so, put it in the freezer overnight, and get some alcohol stronger than wine! No internet required!<p>In practice I think most young people who want to drink will just get it from a "cool older brother" or steal it, whether from parents or corner stores. At least that is what I saw in semi-rural America.<p>People will do what they want to do, with or without vending machines and online ordering.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:06:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48924823</link><dc:creator>robobro</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48924823</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48924823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robobro in "Should DayQuil Be Legal?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Dextromethorphan is definitely not a placebo. Take enough and you'll go to space and meet God. Smaller doses produce euphoria and dissociation, which, even if they don't make the cough go away, makes it easier to tolerate a cold -- same reason antitussives have historically contained alcohol, cannabis extract (which may incidentally work as bronchodilator but was not the reason I imagine it was in antitussives)<p>Funny amphetamine used to be an over the counter cold medicine, which the article doesn't mention despite talking about the meth precursor?<p>Fine article but these two details stuck out to me while reading it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:12:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48806679</link><dc:creator>robobro</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48806679</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48806679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robobro in "Dirty Little Zine – a tool for making an 8 page printable Zine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This may help: <a href="https://momijizukamori.github.io/bookbinder-js/" rel="nofollow">https://momijizukamori.github.io/bookbinder-js/</a><p>I use it for making books but it may be a better option than some of the other projects linked here depending on what exactly you are trying to do.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:13:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48665054</link><dc:creator>robobro</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48665054</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48665054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robobro in "Help I accidentally a wigglegram"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Scroll down.... <a href="https://github.com/JCLemme/wiggle-wiggle" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/JCLemme/wiggle-wiggle</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:16:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48633825</link><dc:creator>robobro</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48633825</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48633825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robobro in "Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I live in Indonesia. We have the highest per-capita rate of bike ownership in the world.<p>I have seen what happens to motorcycle riders when there are accidents and I have seen what happens to car drivers when there are accidents. I won't get into the gory details but I avoid using bikes as much as possible.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:11:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48439109</link><dc:creator>robobro</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48439109</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48439109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robobro in "Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Saliva divinorum is inherently dysphoric due to its agonism of the kappa opiod receptor. For a different cheap legal drug that affects serotonin and the NMDA receptors like ibogaine does, there's always off label use of dextromethorphan (cough medicine)!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 14:34:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48169293</link><dc:creator>robobro</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48169293</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48169293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robobro in "Pen pal programs endure in a digital age"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've made many good, long-term friends through penpal sites, including my wife as well!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 07:11:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48046375</link><dc:creator>robobro</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48046375</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48046375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robobro in "Can AI Exit Vim?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>remove the trailing slash</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:39:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47563550</link><dc:creator>robobro</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47563550</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47563550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robobro in "1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Does it really matter if it sounds silly?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:07:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46874666</link><dc:creator>robobro</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46874666</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46874666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robobro in "Tell HN: Merry Christmas"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
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]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2025 10:01:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46383413</link><dc:creator>robobro</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46383413</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46383413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robobro in "Show HN: Play abstract strategy board games online with friends or against bots"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is your site down? I'm unable to load it now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:15:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45749928</link><dc:creator>robobro</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45749928</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45749928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robobro in "Show HN: Play abstract strategy board games online with friends or against bots"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Reminds me of boardspace, though the UI is much cleaner.<p>You should try to add the Gipf games at some point, they are very wonderful!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 16:16:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45683639</link><dc:creator>robobro</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45683639</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45683639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robobro in "Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>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.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 16:50:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45066458</link><dc:creator>robobro</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45066458</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45066458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robobro in "Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>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</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 15:56:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45065736</link><dc:creator>robobro</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45065736</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45065736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robobro in "Show HN: I built this to talk Danish to my girlfriend – works with any language"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Doesn't seem to work for Bahasa Indonesia, #10 most spoken language in the world[1]. What a shame!<p>[1] - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_num...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2025 18:32:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44574384</link><dc:creator>robobro</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44574384</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44574384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robobro in "Burning a Magnesium NeXT Cube (1993)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>TL;DR: Guy wants to burn a computer. He burns two computers.<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nitroba/albums/72157594435480450" rel="nofollow">https://www.flickr.com/photos/nitroba/albums/721575944354804...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 14:50:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44560946</link><dc:creator>robobro</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44560946</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44560946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robobro in "Orwell Diaries 1938-1942"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>the nazis where?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 19:15:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44524496</link><dc:creator>robobro</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44524496</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44524496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robobro in "Orwell Diaries 1938-1942"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>what is the difference between socialism and communism</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 19:08:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44524405</link><dc:creator>robobro</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44524405</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44524405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by robobro in "Ask HN: Does anyone know of a general news site akin to Hacker News?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Racism = right wing? You mean alt-right?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2025 06:04:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44214886</link><dc:creator>robobro</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44214886</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44214886</guid></item></channel></rss>