Hacker News: roycebranning

New comment by roycebranning in "Show HN: The Answering Machine – A screenless AI phone for kids with questions"

roycebranning — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:18:11 +0000

*67 meets 411

New comment by roycebranning in "Show HN: iOS Screen Time from a REST API"

roycebranning — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 20:33:02 +0000

oh nice - i use the Clearspace step to scroll or pushup to scroll challenges for this: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clearspace-reduce-screen-time/...

New comment by roycebranning in "Show HN: iOS Screen Time from a REST API"

roycebranning — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 18:54:20 +0000

someone lmk me when they've built the "venmo my friend when I go over 7 hrs in a day" service...i'll sign up immediately

New comment by roycebranning in "xAI to pay telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app"

roycebranning — Thu, 29 May 2025 00:25:27 +0000

if users specifically wanted Grok, yes. if they generally want AI, no.

Show HN: App that makes you do pushups every time you unlock your phone

roycebranning — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 17:36:51 +0000

Article URL: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clearspace-reduce-screen-time/id1572515807

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42257915

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Will we be addicted to our phones forever? An optimistic outlook

roycebranning — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 23:30:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.getclearspace.com/blog/post/optimistic-future-digital-wellbeing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38828417

Points: 43

# Comments: 74

New comment by roycebranning in "[dead]"

roycebranning — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 19:39:06 +0000

"The Unabomber is right that technology is a holistic, self-perpetuating machine. He is wrong to bomb it for many reasons, not the least is that the machine of civilization offers us more actual freedoms than the alternative. There is a cost to run this machine, a cost we are only beginning to reckon with, but so far the gains from this ever enlarging technium outweigh the alternative of no machine at all."

I think Kelly agrees with this point. Kaczynski being "right" is really scoped to the argument that technology is a self-perpetuating machine that is not entirely within human control to direct.

New comment by roycebranning in "[dead]"

roycebranning — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 19:26:43 +0000

Read this chapter in 'What Technology Wants'. The technium operating as a living organism takes a new form in the context of LLMs - especially when considering these technologies are emulating source content created by humans. If generated information breaks conventions of quality checking (like SEO ranking and upvotes) it would appear that the technium is biased towards a different kind of validation mechanism - or perhaps none at all.

New comment by roycebranning in "Grumpy Locals Are Sabotaging Cruise and Waymo Robotaxis with Traffic Cones"

roycebranning — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 19:18:56 +0000

I've seen people run into the streets in front of cruises just to mess with them.

Robots Will Make Us Better Humans

roycebranning — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 19:33:31 +0000

Article URL: https://kk.org/thetechnium/robots-will-make-us-better-humans/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36497581

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by roycebranning in "macOS command-line tools you might not know about"

roycebranning — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 19:18:03 +0000

i'm most surprised that they got this one by HN community

New comment by roycebranning in "There's still no silver bullet"

roycebranning — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 19:16:39 +0000

"Good tools are hard to find, hard to evaluate, hard to learn. We have constraints, we have biases, we have shortcomings. But that’s all part of the work."

Before I worked at a startup I was obsessed with learning the latest and greatest tool. Then I learned that the best thing to get the job done is usually the thing you already know. Now I'm back to indexing heavily on researching the right tool for the job. I feel this is the cycle that we are destined to repeat again and again.

Clearspace (YC W23) Ran a “No-Phone Social” for SF TechWeek

roycebranning — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 19:16:48 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.getclearspace.com/we-hosted-a-no-phone-social-for-sf-techweek-heres-how-it-worked-2721c75eac5e

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36169525

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

New comment by roycebranning in "Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news"

roycebranning — Thu, 11 May 2023 23:14:46 +0000

this is like honest trailers for the news

New comment by roycebranning in "Launch HN: Clearspace (YC W23) – Cut back on screen time"

roycebranning — Wed, 10 May 2023 17:52:57 +0000

Any crazy stories from this?

New comment by roycebranning in "Show HN: Mirrorful – A developer-first way to implement designs faster"

roycebranning — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 21:21:05 +0000

+1 for native platforms!