Hacker News: robtaylor

New comment by robtaylor in "ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline"

robtaylor — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:44:40 +0000

If you sell out don't expect to control future events.

New comment by robtaylor in "Claude Seems to Be Down"

robtaylor — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:16:58 +0000

Yes same, UK.

Unreliable! :D

New comment by robtaylor in "Ask HN: Should I shutdown my 20 year old SaaS sideline?"

robtaylor — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 12:41:04 +0000

Would you be open to possible sale? (UK based)

Trump says the USA will indefinitely "run the country" of Venezuela

robtaylor — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 17:12:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/venezuela-explosions-caracas-intl-hnk-01-03-26

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46479044

Points: 10

# Comments: 3

New comment by robtaylor in "Stop crawling my HTML – use the API"

robtaylor — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 19:13:59 +0000

A dot mobi in the wild, wild!

WordPress plugin quirk resulted in UK Gov OBR Budget leak [pdf]

robtaylor — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:00:45 +0000

Article URL: https://obr.uk/docs/dlm_uploads/01122025-Investigation-into-November-2025-EFO-publication-error.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46108243

Points: 130

# Comments: 123

New comment by robtaylor in "Red Alert 2 in web browser"

robtaylor — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:47:05 +0000

It used to be great, but the 'community' has some grim individuals sadly.

Wikipedia debates if Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is a Prince or not

robtaylor — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 20:55:16 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Prince_Andrew

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45765226

Points: 7

# Comments: 3

New comment by robtaylor in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"

robtaylor — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 10:24:40 +0000

Love this - did you buy the name or was it free to reg? (nosey!)

New comment by robtaylor in "AI slop is already invading Oregon's local journalism"

robtaylor — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 18:06:40 +0000

To those, like throwaway on this thread, who say " Give it 5 years and this "AI slop" will write better than your best trained journalist. Get over it."

How does AI attend meetings, ask questions of local officials or bodies, provide in-person reports and original fact based copy?

AI can hoover all that up and rewrite and expand, but surely there will be a need to have boots-on-the-ground?

If so, who pays?

I am already seeing AI giants using local media copy in output with $0 paid for the knowledge and information.

USA Election Monitoring Suggestions

robtaylor — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 19:52:28 +0000

How are people monitoring USA election results and updates?

Any good result dashboards, live visualisations, aggregators or the like that people have built or are watching?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42054637

Points: 6

# Comments: 3

New comment by robtaylor in "HN website is/was down. I'm curious why?"

robtaylor — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 10:54:48 +0000

HN is down for me.

New comment by robtaylor in "Ask HN: I've spent $1M+ building a fitness app. Now what?"

robtaylor — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 14:24:03 +0000

"there's a small trickle of users"

"take a holiday break to freshen my perspective"

Due to A do B now, as it will be easier than if you have lots of active users to support and is an opportunity.

The refresh might give you some distance to come to answers/direction etc.

Look after you first :)

Good luck!

How do you get APILayer to stop billing you?

robtaylor — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 11:41:38 +0000

The support is terrible for their MarketStack API product - and several emails have had no joy.

I was about to leave a bad review on https://www.trustpilot.com/review/apilayer.com but seems many people are having similar issues.

Does anyone have any contacts there?

I just want to close the account and stop them billing me.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38127264

Points: 43

# Comments: 38

New comment by robtaylor in "TikTok Shop"

robtaylor — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 13:02:26 +0000

A 22.5meg .png image on that page. How?

New comment by robtaylor in "Google no longer offers new domain registrations"

robtaylor — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 15:08:54 +0000

Just a shout for Porkbun.

Not directly domain related but they replied to me direct on something and great - humans there.

New comment by robtaylor in "Stripe Shutdown Our Nonprofit's Account, Holding $12k in Donations Hostage"

robtaylor — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 19:48:09 +0000

All I can help with is an upvote. Payroll = jobs / lives / mortgages / kids / health etc etc affected. I hope it gets sorted out ASAP.

Stripe and others, up your game.

(c+p my comment from 8mths ago...)

New comment by robtaylor in "An SEO scam: $62k later"

robtaylor — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 08:17:35 +0000

...and have published a 'disheartening' invoice dated 31st Oct 2022 - then work with the company for another ten months. Apparently content to be on the "dirty side of the Internet" and doing something that made them think "Something didn't seem right."

All very odd.

New comment by robtaylor in "An SEO scam: $62k later"

robtaylor — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 08:14:08 +0000

Surely this is some link bait as an SEO play?

A company that says "Tinloof is a technical SEO agency that conducts audits, and implements the necessary optimizations on websites and ecommerces to rank higher on Google and other SERPs" and puts out this content would be shooting itself in the foot reputationally otherwise?

Surely....!?

New comment by robtaylor in "Show HN: I built a 'newspaper' that summarizes current events with GPT"

robtaylor — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 19:21:06 +0000

Do you pay for the news you rewrite?

If not, if this is the future, how is it sustainable? The original sources are required for this to be a thing.