<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: roryisok</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=roryisok</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:16:06 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=roryisok" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by roryisok in "Modos Developer Kit Now Live on Crowd Supply"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>what's exciting about this is that it's got an FPGA with micro-HDMI and usb-c so you should be able to use it as an e-paper monitor out of the box</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 19:19:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44790248</link><dc:creator>roryisok</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44790248</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44790248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by roryisok in "Show HN: Boarda – Focused Offline Kanban Board"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>downloaded this, enjoying it so far. thanks!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2023 23:42:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38788263</link><dc:creator>roryisok</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38788263</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38788263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by roryisok in "CUBOTino: A small, simple, 3D printed, inexpensive Rubik's Cube solver robot"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"inexpensive". I love that. Like we're all searching for rubik's cube solver robots for our loved ones for christmas but they're all just too damn pricey!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2023 22:04:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38338766</link><dc:creator>roryisok</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38338766</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38338766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by roryisok in "Show HN: GPT-4V audit for your landing page"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I tried to use this and it showed me an apache2 landing page instead of my app website, which led me to realise my app site had been down for at least a day because apache had actually crashed due to nginx using port 80 (I don't even use nginx so not sure what the heck happened)<p>Anyway, not the success story I'd hoped to post here, but it definitely solved at least one problem I didn't know I had.<p>I'm now going to add uptime monitoring</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2023 13:44:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38218690</link><dc:creator>roryisok</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38218690</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38218690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by roryisok in "Daniel Ek: I couldn't launch Spotify today because Apple is a barrier"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>please stop submitting dailymail links. dailymail is fear-mongering hate-speech dressed up as journalism.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2023 19:51:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38004456</link><dc:creator>roryisok</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38004456</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38004456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by roryisok in "41% of French pop in favour of limiting everyone to 4 flights for entire life"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One practical way you could attempt to do this would be to massively tax airline tickets, ideally by distance flown, and then allow people to claim 4 untaxed tickets.<p>You could also maybe allow people to sell their tickets if they never intend to use them, which would create a new financial incentive for people to <i>never</i> get on a plane.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2023 21:43:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37710443</link><dc:creator>roryisok</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37710443</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37710443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by roryisok in "People who can't give up paper"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> real paper made from trees is still considered crucial to countless businesses and government systems globally, despite the environmental impact of producing it. For decades, computers, smartphones and tablets have provided an alternative.<p>Is the impact of printing a paper navigational chart really higher than replacing that chart with an electronic device?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2023 22:09:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37666433</link><dc:creator>roryisok</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37666433</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37666433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by roryisok in "ARM wrestles assembly language guru's domains away, citing trademark issues"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> ARM wrestles<p>nice pun</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Sep 2023 22:20:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37356744</link><dc:creator>roryisok</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37356744</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37356744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask HN: Looking for an Engaging Science Book]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I want to learn more about the natural sciences, and I'm looking for a great book that'll give me the basics and keep me interested. I have a terrible attention span for reading so I want something designed to keep an idiot like me engaged.<p>Does anyone have any recommendations?</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37127331">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37127331</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 6</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2023 21:59:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37127331</link><dc:creator>roryisok</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37127331</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37127331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by roryisok in "LEGO Building Instructions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>yep you're right, I was wrong, it only goes back to late 90s</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2023 22:52:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36649578</link><dc:creator>roryisok</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36649578</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36649578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by roryisok in "LEGO Building Instructions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Lego themselves have an archived copy of every instruction set going back to the 80s, available here - <a href="https://www.lego.com/en-us/service/buildinginstructions" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.lego.com/en-us/service/buildinginstructions</a><p>But for whatever reason, the scans are poor quality and very dark, and it can be hard to make out what piece is which. These ones look much better</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2023 19:10:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36621233</link><dc:creator>roryisok</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36621233</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36621233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by roryisok in "LEGO Building Instructions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Growing up, myself and my siblings built sets when we first got them as gifts, but after that they went in the pile. We would build whatever was in our imagination, from the multicolored heap.<p>Now I have my own kids, and they all want to build sets from instructions. The odd time we'll dive into the pile of orphaned bits and build a house or a boat or something, but mostly they want to recreate what they remember. My wife spends hours finding all the pieces of a set and bagging them up for the kids to build later (so she's gonna love this)<p>It's tempting to say "kids nowadays" but I think it's just different personality types. In other media, my kids are far more creative and imaginative than I ever was, but with Lego sets they prefer to recreate the perfect image than make a hodge podge thing that never existed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2023 19:07:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36621191</link><dc:creator>roryisok</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36621191</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36621191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by roryisok in "Ireland will pay you $92,000 to move to remote islands"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I absolutely love Achill, it's stunning out there. I would love to live out there, if I knew I had reliable internet so I could work.<p>However, the €80k the government grant for doing up a derelict house is not going to very far. Ireland has always been one of the most expensive places in Europe, and the cost of living has steadily increased in the last 12 months.<p>In particular, building, renovating or extending homes has become prohibitively expensive because of a combination of labor shortage, rising materials costs and price gouging.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2023 22:52:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36397439</link><dc:creator>roryisok</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36397439</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36397439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by roryisok in "Train Your Own Private ChatGPT Model for the Cost of a Starbucks Coffee"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> for the Cost of a Starbucks Coffee<p>So like $400</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2023 20:40:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36144032</link><dc:creator>roryisok</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36144032</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36144032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by roryisok in "Show HN: I'm working on an open source writing app"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Very nice! I'm also this guy<p>> I'm a writer who sometimes misses the fancy features of a code editor, so I started building<p>I haven't added any external services to mine yet. Interesting to see the things we have in common / difference though. I love the diff! How do you do the git-like history? I can't see any history when I try it out.<p>Also, a word of warning: as a developer-turned-writer, developing your own writing app is probably the single biggest distraction you can create, the greatest form of procrastination. Every time I sit down to write, using my own app, I find things I want to add, or change, or fix, and even when I resist the urge to work on them, I'm still _thinking_ about them when trying to write. I started my writing app journey in 2012, and my writing productivity has suffered ever since. Don't get me wrong - its a very satisfying hobby, but I dont write nearly as much as I could have done if I wasn't bug fixing in my spare time</p>
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<p>Is this any relation to pico8, the fantasy console? If not, can the picosystem run pico8?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2023 08:54:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35598272</link><dc:creator>roryisok</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35598272</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35598272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by roryisok in "Dishwasher Salmon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We used to bake potatoes in piles of grass from when my dad mowed the lawn. wrap your potato in tinfoil twice and bury it at the bottom of a large grass pile in the morning and come back at the end of the day. the grass gets so hot as it starts to breakdown. this is I think due to fermentation inside the grass mound and the insulation of the outer layers.<p>It might have been a day or so after the grass had been cut rather than that day.<p>I don't know how safe or clean it was, or how long it actually took to cook, or whether or not you _should_ do this, but we did, and it worked at least a few times</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Apr 2023 08:41:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35588288</link><dc:creator>roryisok</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35588288</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35588288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by roryisok in "Dishwasher Salmon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ann Reardon is great, she debunks so much stuff. I didn't even realise how many fake cooking videos there were out there until I started watching her channel</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Apr 2023 08:37:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35588266</link><dc:creator>roryisok</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35588266</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35588266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by roryisok in "The average American has the same life expectancy as the worst part of England"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I had to click through to find what the worst part of England was, and ended up on an FT article about Blackpool and the causes of and reasons behind its decline. Very sad but very interesting.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Apr 2023 10:29:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35399067</link><dc:creator>roryisok</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35399067</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35399067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by roryisok in "A New Beginning for LifeHacker"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>omg I remember todo.txt! I've kept that mantra alive with my own todo apps (private use only, I'm not selling myself here). I always build stuff that follows the same philosophy of "store everything in text files".</p>
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