Hacker News: roflchoppa

New comment by roflchoppa in "Everything we like is a psyop"

roflchoppa — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:39:27 +0000

Reminds me of the documentary, “merchants of cool” https://youtu.be/0tYRoiJvhJ4

Really made me concerned w/ ad tech.

New comment by roflchoppa in "Picking Up a Zillion Pieces of Litter"

roflchoppa — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 02:13:26 +0000

One of these puppies and some plastic bags to get trash when I take walks.

https://www.harborfreight.com/36-in-pickup-and-reach-tool-61...

New comment by roflchoppa in "AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf]"

roflchoppa — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:19:29 +0000

https://objective-see.org/products/lulu.html

New comment by roflchoppa in "A beginner's guide to split keyboards"

roflchoppa — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:21:08 +0000

for me its the outside angle between my wrist and my forearm. When I any of my splits it removes the angle entirely, and the pain for me is gone.

New comment by roflchoppa in "A beginner's guide to split keyboards"

roflchoppa — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:18:15 +0000

I love my uhk, I really wish the 60v2 had bluetooth. I really don't wanna fork over the money for a 80v2. :(

New comment by roflchoppa in "Meta's Zuckerberg faces questioning at youth addiction trial"

roflchoppa — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:20:36 +0000

same here, i type in `news` and end up here dozens of time a day :)

At least we have the knowledge (and introspection) to work towards stopping this behavior.

New comment by roflchoppa in "How I use Obsidian (2023)"

roflchoppa — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 07:53:44 +0000

I ended up copying Steph's layouts, I added some Github actions that pipe out files that have specific tags in them and create blog posts in another repo. It works very well for me.

New comment by roflchoppa in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

roflchoppa — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:08:37 +0000

https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/blob/mai...

a link to the hit-piece.

New comment by roflchoppa in "Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk"

roflchoppa — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:50:54 +0000

Dude the fucking 101S/808S connector is atrocious on so many levels.

New comment by roflchoppa in "GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs"

roflchoppa — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 03:51:35 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFkeOBqfQBw

New comment by roflchoppa in "Is Craigslist the Last Real Place on the Internet?"

roflchoppa — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 06:48:04 +0000

I love craigslist for used car stuff, its a shame that all the sellers are now on FB marketplace. :(

New comment by roflchoppa in "Show HN: uvx ptn, scan a QR, get a terminal in your phone"

roflchoppa — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 19:19:41 +0000

I’ve never noticed wireguard be blocked by something, have you experienced this?

New comment by roflchoppa in "How we automated federal retirements"

roflchoppa — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 18:18:46 +0000

> Unless they’ve been specifically trained with PowerApps, most software developers would find it extremely unintuitive to build with, making it hard to apply classic coding skills or iterate quickly.

Sounds just like Sharepoint.

New comment by roflchoppa in "Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't work in tech?"

roflchoppa — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:34:19 +0000

what you building?

New comment by roflchoppa in "Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop"

roflchoppa — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:45 +0000

oh great exactly what I needed, another project ;) thanks!

New comment by roflchoppa in "Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction"

roflchoppa — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:14:34 +0000

Do HDDs make up that much of the gaming market segment?

New comment by roflchoppa in "Bikeshedding, or why I want to build a laptop"

roflchoppa — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 17:48:52 +0000

I hate that iPad, it’s still on my shelf.

New comment by roflchoppa in "UniFi 5G"

roflchoppa — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:23:37 +0000

2Gbps?! I was testing out tmobile 5G service with their router and it’s only ~330Mbps down ~180Mbps up…

Can it really be that much faster?

New comment by roflchoppa in "Japanese four-cylinder engine is so reliable still in production after 25 years"

roflchoppa — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 17:51:33 +0000

I gotta hit VTEC I need oil :)

New comment by roflchoppa in "Japanese four-cylinder engine is so reliable still in production after 25 years"

roflchoppa — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:20:05 +0000

Did a BAR swap of a k20a2 into a EG civic. It’s such a fun car to drive, street or track.