Hacker News: robryan

New comment by robryan in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

robryan — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:56:31 +0000

They appear to be lining up a funding round at a $900 billion dollar valuation. Or to be more conservative they already raised at $380 billion. A long way from worthless.

New comment by robryan in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

robryan — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:50:14 +0000

To be fair the commit message `revert proc.exited change in spawn.test.ts` suggests the sleep was there originally.

New comment by robryan in "College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work"

robryan — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 06:24:23 +0000

Would you say the same thing for teaching math or music?

New comment by robryan in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"

robryan — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:21:13 +0000

I had a surprisingly large amount of issues getting it to correctly message me on discord if needed as part of heartbeat. Multiple times it broke and we fixed it. Then it was chewing through way too much usage so I set it to 6 hourly heartbeat and it stopped messaging entirely again, haven't bothered to fix.

It is nice though for debugging home server things when I ask it to.

New comment by robryan in "Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file"

robryan — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 01:26:28 +0000

Nice, too much stability though compare to Lunar Lander.

New comment by robryan in "Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file"

robryan — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 01:24:24 +0000

Yeah, I want to enter weird orbits around the planets.

New comment by robryan in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

robryan — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:58:06 +0000

Yeah and updating profile image, profile description and description for work history. Almost no one that isn't looking around for a job does this.

New comment by robryan in "Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case"

robryan — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:26:21 +0000

Youtube shorts will come back but you can just click the row each time to show less. Otherwise if you really don't want to see them on the desktop at least a browser extension works well.

New comment by robryan in "Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI"

robryan — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:09:51 +0000

Block reportedly handed out a bunch of incentives to the people staying, could be similar to that.

New comment by robryan in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

robryan — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:53:40 +0000

My experience recently was something like 2/3 from referrals (the third I think will eventually get back to me but way too slow), and something like 3/10 from cold applications. Obviously big differences depending on location and experience but I was pleasantly surprised that some of the cold applications went somewhere.

New comment by robryan in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

robryan — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:45:16 +0000

As a candidate I don't mind doing a few highly speculative interviews. After not interviewing for a while it is good practice.

New comment by robryan in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

robryan — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:42:09 +0000

From applying places recently I'd much rather get these fast. One company sent me them, the rest either reached out or I never heard from them.

New comment by robryan in "Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI"

robryan — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:50:37 +0000

The key requirement is memory safety, which would rule out Zig.

New comment by robryan in "Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift adoption"

robryan — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 03:56:27 +0000

Yeah, Serenityos was build everything from scratch for fun. Ladybird is build where an alternative implementation is going to add value. No need to get sidetracked reinventing SSL or ffmpeg.

New comment by robryan in "Gemini 3 Deep Think"

robryan — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:51:36 +0000

Highly valuable right now with how high leverage it can make a good engineer. Who knows for how long.

New comment by robryan in "Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents"

robryan — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 08:18:28 +0000

I think discord became popular in the first place because it was so much better than the alternatives, at least for the gaming/ hanging out with friends use case. Discord was initially competing with a bunch of self hosted stuff, vent/ mumble etc with higher barrier to entry and less features and Skype which was terrible.

New comment by robryan in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

robryan — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 01:11:28 +0000

Not easy though, the US has to basically allow it.

New comment by robryan in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

robryan — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 23:42:13 +0000

Assuming these end up in open source code llms will learn about them that way.

New comment by robryan in "Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features"

robryan — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 08:08:47 +0000

And assuming people want deeper integration is the browser even the right level of abstraction? Arguably it would be better to have something that was operating at the OS level, like siri/gemini assistant style.

New comment by robryan in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

robryan — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:35:39 +0000

To include discord you have to extend it to messaging services. To include Roblox it should be all online games with chat.