Hacker News: robotburrito

New comment by robotburrito in "Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees"

robotburrito — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:47:45 +0000

I find remote work makes it harder to draw boundaries. I don’t really have work hours anymore. Co workers are all over the world. Sub 7am meetings. Post 6pm meetings. I wonder if in the old days pre remote if you could just close that laptop and go home?

New comment by robotburrito in "Pixel Watch 5"

robotburrito — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 01:31:06 +0000

I just use garmin watches to track health stuff. I would literally jump for joy if there were a free alternative software and hardware stack to replace this watch or at the very least a cycling computer.

New comment by robotburrito in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)"

robotburrito — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 03:29:51 +0000

The market is pretty bad, they will get someone who lives in a low cost of living state who will take it.

New comment by robotburrito in "CD sales growth outpaced vinyl in the first half of 2026"

robotburrito — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:53:35 +0000

I recently bought an external cdrom for my laptop. The library here has a wonderful cd collection.

New comment by robotburrito in "Ask HN: Should I do a CS masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon?"

robotburrito — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:46:24 +0000

I’d do whatever is not working at Amazon. At Cambridge you will build yourself as a person and probably make life long friends. By the time you’re done the industry may well be over the AI hype and the job market might make more sense.

In this case you will be well reared to take advantage of it.

New comment by robotburrito in "Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%"

robotburrito — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 16:34:59 +0000

The shareholders must be furious about this. Why not lay off 30% of the team and outsource game development and use ai for the art? That seems smarter.

New comment by robotburrito in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

robotburrito — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:26:23 +0000

Isn’t this fair game? Didn’t these companies basically steal to make these models to begin with?

New comment by robotburrito in "Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying"

robotburrito — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:59:10 +0000

Is it wrong that I assume these VPN services are probably honeypots in some way?

New comment by robotburrito in "Past Ferrari Models, 1947–2023"

robotburrito — Wed, 06 May 2026 02:07:25 +0000

As a php coder I’m more fond of Lamborghini.

New comment by robotburrito in "Irony as Meta staff unhappy about running surveillance software on work PCs"

robotburrito — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:17:22 +0000

Stuff like this is coming for everyone.

New comment by robotburrito in "Palantir Wants to Reinstate the Draft"

robotburrito — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:58:43 +0000

Doesn’t ycombinator and hacker news have links with this company? Makes it hard to maintain the hacker ethos when this entire site seems so closely linked with such forces.

New comment by robotburrito in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

robotburrito — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:35:43 +0000

Porting a giant monolithic JSF app from JSF/Wildfly to two separate apps, a react frontend and a REST Quarkus backend.

First time doing this sort of thing with agents. So far it seems ok?

If it works out it will really help us scale and improve a legacy application that so many depend on at the moment. Wish me luck!

New comment by robotburrito in "Rockstar Games Hacked, Hackers Threaten a Massive Data Leak If Not Paid Ransom"

robotburrito — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:09:35 +0000

Yeah but large tech companies don’t just operate by breaking laws like this.

New comment by robotburrito in "Bernie Sanders: "AI Is a Threat to Everything the American People Hold Dear""

robotburrito — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:32:26 +0000

People who want healthcare and maybe kids who would like school lunch I guess?

New comment by robotburrito in "AI Team OS – Turn Claude Code into a Self-Managing AI Team"

robotburrito — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 18:09:34 +0000

Your know the answer to this question haha.

New comment by robotburrito in "Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access June 15"

robotburrito — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:23:30 +0000

I thought so too about the steam frame. Then I saw the pass through was not good. Pass through for me has made these products so more livable. It was downright shocking how much less isolating it felt to have full color pass through.

New comment by robotburrito in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

robotburrito — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:54:21 +0000

Often I hear. “these are so cool! It’s a shame meta makes them.” All of their pivots will fail because of their track record IMo.

New comment by robotburrito in "A judge gave the FBI permission to attempt to bypass biometrics"

robotburrito — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:13:00 +0000

These phones need a kill expression or finger. If you touch a sensor with your left pinky or wink at the camera it nukes the phone.

New comment by robotburrito in "How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital"

robotburrito — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 19:04:47 +0000

Can a software engineer afford to buy a home on a London salary? Or is it a similar experience to living in the Bay Area?

New comment by robotburrito in "There's only one Woz, but we can all learn from him"

robotburrito — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:46:08 +0000

Created by an llm using a super computer cluster haha.