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glohbalrob··on OpenRouter Is Joining Stripe
thats what billions does
glohbalrob··on Rocketlab acquires Iridium
You are the equivalent person talking about apartment, app store, or website junk 10-20 years ago. and so, you going to invest or complain?
glohbalrob··on Om Malik has died
The guy was legit awesome and so kind. I have similar experience
glohbalrob··on Show HN: TurboQuant-WASM – Google's vector quantization in the browser
Very cool. I added the new multi embedding 2 model to my site the other week from google

I guess need to dig into this and see if it’s faster and has more use cases! Thanks for publishing your work

glohbalrob··on Show HN: Text-to-video model from scratch (2 brothers, 2 years, 2B params)
Nice work. Are you guys on X?
glohbalrob··on Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits
Media is rich but not in proportion of the thousands of new creators doing very well. An extreme example is playboy vs only fans creators
glohbalrob··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
This looks great man. I will save and check for later.
glohbalrob··on Making 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Pro GA, and introducing Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
Also me. Still pay for OpenAI, I use gpt4 for excel work and is super fast and able to do more excel related work like combine files that come up often for projects I work on.
glohbalrob··on Ask HN: How much better are AI IDEs vs. copy pasting into chat apps?
Just curious, why change the temp to 0
glohbalrob··on Show HN: I build a Fantasy NHL app in 3 days with Claude AI
nice man. setup a domain, post on X, chat with the NHL community.
glohbalrob··on Kmart lied to me, so I hacked their lamp
Agreed. Its a great way to communicate, and shows the person speaking has thought out the process.
glohbalrob··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
Cool man
glohbalrob··on Show HN: I built a IMDB for all kinds of micro-creators
Cool design, needs some refinement. Keep at it.
glohbalrob··on DJI announces an electric mountain bike drive system
There are carbon fiber E-bikes, perhaps it’s “few” but there are people paying to have a more light bike since the extra weight up and down hill isn’t as fun
glohbalrob··on Google and AT&T invest in Starlink rival for satellite-to-smartphone service
They are using AWS for the cheap part, the content and rights is far more expensive. You think it costs 50M to stream a 2 hour show for millions of people, or the production of said show/movie?
glohbalrob··on Infowars and Goop sell the same exact pseudoscientific "wellness" products
Mushrooms and various roots are all great for us.
glohbalrob··on FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s
is this international, or just domestic flights?

im on a Mexico City to Vegas flight next week

glohbalrob··on Show HN: I scraped 25M Shopify products to build a search engine
wow! Nice work. I've been trying to build an index of shopify stores. Did you search for all domains pointing to shopify's name servers?
glohbalrob··on Remembering Bob Lee
this is kinda story of life too, huh. I try to be open. We are all mostly great people on this planet. Too bad about his passing.
glohbalrob··on Remembering Bob Lee
Too bad. Rest in peace. Hope family is okay.
glohbalrob··on The Battle of GameStop
yes this is 100% accurate. All these dummies laughing at ARK/Cathie Wood while she talked about Tesla/AMD/Biotech innovation years ago. WSB is far more educated compared to MSNBC/Jim Cramer crowd.
glohbalrob··on The Battle of GameStop
People and the media is not stating the simple fact that they short interest has been over 100% since June. I bought a bunch and told all my friends/family about it and everything laughed at me. Now those people asking me what they think about it.

Likely they started short positions around $10 in 2019, had a nice profitable trade, started to bleed out then doubled down and increased position as it picked up momentum. Now they are far over their head and from the looks of things, stock is going to $200.

Lots of people made tons of money shorting tesla. Until they didnt and stock kept doubling.

glohbalrob··on The Battle of GameStop
same can be said about just about anything, no? running marathons, startups, cooking a great dish... No one on WSB is saying its for everyone, thats why they talk trash about themselves.
glohbalrob··on Tell HN: Rackspace apparently lost some storage volumes
Similar. used to be happy RS customer 6 years ago, then everything just got more complicated and less stable. Now they are public should have the cash to avoid any major issues like this. Just no reason to use them with G Cloud, AWS, Digital Ocean (happy customer with them too plus AWS).
glohbalrob··on Launch HN: Global Belly (YC W20) – Helping influencers launch their own products
I have helped Thrive Market, Shopbop and Skillshare with managing outreach with influencers and programs, would love to chat. rob@glohbal.com

Few suggestions, yes there will be strong initial push from influencer. Then need help in continuing to drive traffic after the initial boost.

I think most of the media narrative is too negative on influencers with few bad apples. 90% + of them have dedicated audience, close relationships, honest and overall pretty smart.

One example publisher is Kelly in the City. I know she drives sales from past projects I've done with her. https://www.instagram.com/kellyinthecity/

Plus shes using her platform to share the importance of staying at home right now with stories of nurses/DRs in the hospitals right now.