Hacker News: robotnikman

New comment by robotnikman in "Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans"

robotnikman — Thu, 21 May 2026 21:14:40 +0000

It feels like the quality of the Youtube Music app took a dive when they fired the whole team and outsourced development around a year or so ago.

New comment by robotnikman in "Flipper One – we need your help"

robotnikman — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:07:30 +0000

>We say "truly open" because the current state of ARM Linux is depressing. Every vendor bolts on their own custom mess: closed boot blobs, vendor-specific patches, "board support packages" that nobody outside the chip maker can really understand. You can no longer just read the specs and understand how computers work — you can only learn the workarounds for one specific chip with one specific BSP. We're sick of this ourselves, and we don't want to be part of the problem by shipping yet another product that just adds to the mess.

Too true, and one of the reason I like to use x86 for Linux when I can. So glad to see them push for this!

New comment by robotnikman in "Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension"

robotnikman — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:05:57 +0000

I've used DigitalOcean for personal projects for over a decade, no major issues so I definitely recommend!

New comment by robotnikman in "Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension"

robotnikman — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:00:50 +0000

And unfortunately nothing has changed since then regarding this.

New comment by robotnikman in "Smartmedia Card Spec Opened, available free (2000)"

robotnikman — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:27:07 +0000

CompactFlash is still used in professional equipment last I've checked

New comment by robotnikman in "Smartmedia Card Spec Opened, available free (2000)"

robotnikman — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:26:18 +0000

I remember having to deal with them when my parents first got a digital camera when I was a kid, and me being the kid who knew tech they left it to me to figure out how to get the photos off the camera and onto the printer. 128mb of storage, seemed so big at the time. And I remember seeing the price tag for a 1GB memory stick, was a whopping $500 lol

New comment by robotnikman in "GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension"

robotnikman — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:03:47 +0000

Can confirm as someone working in the same field, we have a ton of repos

New comment by robotnikman in "'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens"

robotnikman — Sat, 16 May 2026 20:35:59 +0000

> I feel like Java doesn’t build when I look at it wrong.

Hah, too true! I guess it is boring in the fact that it is not as... move fast and break things... as NPM. But Java build systems are still certainly fun and challenging in their own ways.

New comment by robotnikman in "Waymo updates 3,800 robotaxis after they 'drive into standing water'"

robotnikman — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:31:41 +0000

That gives me a horrifying idea for a short story about a Waymo being hacked to carry out an assassination where it purposely drives off a bridge and into a lake.

New comment by robotnikman in "Judge Bars Kars4Kids from Broadcasting 'Misleading' Ads in California"

robotnikman — Fri, 15 May 2026 20:04:06 +0000

I can still hear the old TV commercial in my head... 1 877 kars4kids...

Why Reddit blocked my daily visit to its mobile website

robotnikman — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:03:30 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/05/why-reddit-blocked-my-daily-visit-to-its-mobile-website/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027730

Points: 17

# Comments: 6

New comment by robotnikman in "AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on"

robotnikman — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:34:29 +0000

I'm surprised they did not build them in a bunker or other hardened location. The region is not exactly known for its political stability.

New comment by robotnikman in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

robotnikman — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:35:32 +0000

Ctrl + H replace openclaw with opensnippysnapper

What is Windows K2? Inside Microsoft's big plan to save Windows 11

robotnikman — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:09:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/what-is-windows-k2-everything-you-need-to-know-saving-windows-11

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47966184

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by robotnikman in "Warp is now open-source"

robotnikman — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:21:27 +0000

It's a reference to an old OS made by IBM which was nicknamed Warp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2

New comment by robotnikman in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Major Upgrades and Linux Front and Center"

robotnikman — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:19:00 +0000

It looks like Intel's new Panther Lake chips are a hit, they have amazing battery life and performance compared to their AMD and ARM equivalents (excluding Apple ofc), and the the integrated graphics is better than AMD, ARM, or Apple.

They do not have integrated memory, but by using LPCAMM2 they get better memory speeds than any laptops using the usual SODIMM memory modules.

It's nice to see Intel on the upswing again, more competition is always a good thing.

New comment by robotnikman in "New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper"

robotnikman — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:54:03 +0000

In my experience, its just best to stick with Thunderbolt when you want to make sure you are getting the best speed for external devices that require it (external SSD's, Graphics Cards, Network adapters)

Much easier and reliable than navigating the confusing sea of USB standards

New comment by robotnikman in "Paraloid B-72"

robotnikman — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:49:20 +0000

This is one of my favorite ones, just because of how crazy of an idea it was, as well as the fact it was deemed possible to build

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_CL-1201

New comment by robotnikman in "The mail sent to a video game publisher"

robotnikman — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 18:52:20 +0000

The one with the fly gave me a good laugh.

New comment by robotnikman in "I Cancelled Claude: Token Issues, Declining Quality, and Poor Support"

robotnikman — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:01:00 +0000

>removing Claude Code from the Pro plan

Wait really? I wanted to give it a try, but for $200 a month no way am I paying that for something I just want to experiment around with