Hacker News: rossriley

New comment by rossriley in "Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence"

rossriley — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 05:05:20 +0000

Automattic are the biggest sponsors of the PHP foundation so they do give back there.

New comment by rossriley in "The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]"

rossriley — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:01:32 +0000

The busiest flight corridor in the world is Singapore to Kuala Lumpur which is only 45 minutes.

New comment by rossriley in "Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory"

rossriley — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 03:35:24 +0000

It sounds kind of crazy now but we genuinely used to buy computer magazines that had basic code printed in them, to try the game you would type the basic into a file, save and then run it.

New comment by rossriley in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

rossriley — Wed, 06 May 2026 05:58:00 +0000

Kenny Dalglish for Liverpool too, winning the double whilst a player-manager.

New comment by rossriley in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

rossriley — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 04:15:23 +0000

Nice, mine is 5082

New comment by rossriley in "UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16"

rossriley — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 02:35:51 +0000

I'd have thought an OAuth flow to a government run ID system, to create an account you first must verify your age by redirecting to the ID provider logging in via FaceID/Fingerprint to verify it's you and then you are redirected back to the original site with a verification code.

Admittedly on paper that means the Gov system would know which sites you were approved for, not logging that would require legislation to not store these logs.

Z-Image Turbo Released – 6B Parameter Text to Image Model

rossriley — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 05:16:25 +0000

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image-Turbo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46065926

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by rossriley in "Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world"

rossriley — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 05:16:21 +0000

A local beer in a bar will normally be around 60k IDR so $3-4, wine is more expensive generally in SEA you'll normally pay around 90-100k IDR per glass.

New comment by rossriley in "Gem.coop"

rossriley — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 08:33:44 +0000

The population of London at the last census was still 60% British born. The difference between 2000 is that the figure was 60% white British.

He's not saying London doesn't have enough British people, he's saying it doesn't have enough white people in it.

That and saying it was heartwarming to see a Tommy Robinson march who represents the most extreme fringe of British right wing politics.

New comment by rossriley in "Patagonian Welsh"

rossriley — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 04:09:22 +0000

If anyone is interested Gruf Rhys (from Super Furry Animals) made a film, Separado!, where he tried to track down his Welsh family that migrated to Patagonia.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1505405/

New comment by rossriley in "Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024)"

rossriley — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 06:14:40 +0000

I believe the Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand ones are linked too, I noticed last time I went over to Malaysia that they could accept the Singapore PayNow payments too.

New comment by rossriley in "Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature"

rossriley — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 04:55:33 +0000

PHP RFC for version 8.5 too: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pipe-operator-v3

New comment by rossriley in "How the U.K. broke its own economy"

rossriley — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 07:11:09 +0000

UK has 10% of the entire world's digital exports: https://www.voronoiapp.com/technology/The-Worlds-Largest-Dig...

New comment by rossriley in "Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s? (2009)"

rossriley — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 02:51:22 +0000

I think Singapore has a pretty good experience worked out now, the immigration is automated just with an iris scan.

Additionally moving security to the gate rather than having a single security point for all flights also makes the wait here shorter and more importantly predictable.

If I'm just taking a cabin bag I always arrive 35-40 minutes before a flight and have had no trouble with time, normally enough time to grab a coffee too before boarding.

New comment by rossriley in "U.S. appeals court strikes down FCC's net neutrality rules"

rossriley — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 07:21:58 +0000

Out of interest, from a US point of view since I'm not there, is this going to end up as a relatively damp squib in the very near future now we have access to 5G and all the competition there.

Last year I was able to abandon completely my broadband provider and now have two sims, one for a home router and one for a mobile router with pretty much unlimited data.

There is so much competition in the 5G mobile space that the ability of these older closed market providers over cable/fiber is surely going to be a thing of the past very soon and thus the need to enforce legal neutrality will fade?

New comment by rossriley in "Meta Movie Gen"

rossriley — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 05:32:04 +0000

This is awesome, thanks for the link.

New comment by rossriley in "Tell HN: Merry Christmas"

rossriley — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 17:53:05 +0000

variables and constants too

New comment by rossriley in "Rethinking the Luddites"

rossriley — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 20:45:34 +0000

People bring the value that they generate for an economy. Once they can be replaced with AI/Robots then that labour can be reallocated further up the value chain which in turn makes our economies and culture richer and more productive.

Imagine if we were all working 18 hour subsistence farming jobs now just to survive, it's ridiculous to argue that eschewing automation for anything is detrimental, it only serves to enhance society and make it more productive.

New comment by rossriley in "Sub.Rehab – See where Reddit communities have relocated"

rossriley — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 16:43:07 +0000

Let's put this in context, Reddit has somewhere in the region of 1.2 Billion users a month and supposedly earn somewhere in the region of $350Million a year in advertising revenue. This is a very good business and something that could easily be profitable.

The issue is they took in VC investment at a $10Billion+ valuation and for that $350M is not enough they need to probably triple it to get somewhere close to that valuation.

So let's not confuse on paper profitability with desired profitability at current VC valuation.

New comment by rossriley in "Louis Rossmann calls community to leave Reddit"

rossriley — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 11:06:47 +0000

mainly we're moving to the fediverse sites, for most people it's one of Lemmy, Kbin or beehaw and a lot of communities have grown to be really substantial over the last few days.