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robbiet480

13,018 karma · joined March 24, 2011

@Robbie, Cofounder BloomJoy (now known as Fondo) (YC W18)

34, hacker, entrepreneur, developer, sysadmin

NYC

Email: hn at robbiet dot us

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robbiet480··on RealPage rent-pricing case wraps with nearly $360M to renters
I leased at two RealPage properties for a combined 151 months. Both of them were confirmed to be colluding with one another and they were both confirmed as “high software collusion” by an expert. I calculated that the max payout I could get is ~$83,000 for the estimated amount I was overcharged rent for those ~12 years.

Can’t wait to get like $300 out of this. /s

robbiet480··on Big Tech ruined the cloud, so we're renaming ours
The Verge also has an interview with Paulus about this https://www.theverge.com/tech/1003936/home-assistant-says-bi...
robbiet480··on The iPhone 4 'Antennagate' Press Conference Q&A – Finally
Weirdly, I and at least a few others based on the YouTube comments, saw the presentation pop up in our YouTube suggestions in the last few days and at least I watched the presentation a few days ago. Wonder if there’s any connection between its recent resurgence and this Q&A getting uploaded now.

Also gotta wonder (as John does) where this came from. I assume Apple’s archival library, but who got it out of there and why now.

robbiet480··on Bookshelf – Self-hosted eBook library that runs on object storage
Yes they have, but they didn't have the ability to align a book _on device_ like Apogee does. It just listens for a few seconds of audio to find where you are in the book and then aligns automatically going forward without having to pre-process.
robbiet480··on Bookshelf – Self-hosted eBook library that runs on object storage
I haven't spent much time with calibre-web in a long time but can confidently say BookOrbit blows it out of the water in terms of functionality. I love that I can have one app that handles books and audiobooks. The ecosystem of apps that work with it is growing quick too, Apogee for iOS being a standout for me. They recently added readaloud support (like Amazon Whispersync or Storyteller) natively in the app, which I've never seen done before.

I have no relation to BookOrbit except I'm a very happy user.

robbiet480··on Bookshelf – Self-hosted eBook library that runs on object storage
For someone looking for a bit more than this, I recently got Bookorbit running and its quite powerful for being so young. https://bookorbit.app/
robbiet480··on typ.ing
This makes me wonder: what's your daily driver keyboard? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402769
robbiet480··on Ask HN: What's your daily driver keyboard?
My current daily driver is a Logitech MX Keys. I don't love it honestly but it's not bad.
robbiet480··on Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA
Did you look at LiteLLM at all? It seems fine but Bifrost looks interesting too.
robbiet480··on FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers
I've always wanted something like Storyteller for non-Amazon devices. Thanks!
robbiet480··on Ramp AI Router
Ramp (the startup neobank that has eaten Brex's lunch as of the last year or two) is getting into the AI routing game to compete with OpenRouter and LiteLLM it seems.

They recently rolled out some quite good cross provider AI spend management tools. The router is surprising but also makes sense for them I think.

robbiet480··on Flipper One – we need your help
I just want them to finally ship Busy Bar https://busy.app/
robbiet480··on GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories
Thanks for making me aware of zizmor, just ran and fixed all issues on our core repos.
robbiet480··on AudioNoise
> Also note that the python visualizer tool has been basically written by vibe-coding. I know more about analog filters -- and that's not saying much -- than I do about python. It started out as my typical "google and do the monkey-see-monkey-do" kind of programming, but then I cut out the middle-man -- me -- and just used Google Antigravity to do the audio sample visualizer.

Linus Torvalds is now vibe-coding

robbiet480··on Reddit Has Become the Internet's Strip Mall
Discord isn’t an alternative as it’s not publicly searchable
robbiet480··on Disney Imagineering Debuts Next-Generation Robotic Character, Olaf
Jenny Nicholsen is as excellent as Kevin Perjurer’s Defunctland. I highly recommend both.
robbiet480··on Syncthing-Android have had a change of owner/maintainer
I love using Syncthing for syncing all my ROMs and saves across my handhelds (RG35XXSP running muOS, AYN Thor running Android), my NAS and MacBook. I'm trying to figure out what my concern level should be with a change in ownership of syncthing-fork for Android though. I guess let's see what happens?
robbiet480··on Meta acquires AI-wearables startup Limitless
Full disclosure: The submitter of this post, PStamatiou, is a former co-founder of Limitless fka Rewind. He left a year or so ago.
robbiet480··on John Giannandrea to retire from Apple
I'm really surprised this got any fanfare at all from Apple. Kind of confirms a single person as the reason for their continual AI misses which feels weird for them.
robbiet480··on Helping Valve to power up Steam devices
GTA V is running at high preset locked 60fps via GameHub on the Ayn Thor which has a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMIPlwoAt58#t=14m41s
robbiet480··on Steam Frame
Trying to decide if Steam Frame is going to be better than Apple Vision Pro + ALVR + lighthouses... AVP has higher resolution and OLED displays with higher PPD but obviously weighs a lot more.
robbiet480··on Users Stuck in YubiKey Re-Enrollment Loop on X (Twitter)
Also happening here across two accounts.
robbiet480··on My Cord-Cutting Adventure (2020)
Personally I like Channels DVR which is a single go binary that can run anywhere and they have excellent client apps for every platform. There's even an API and a Home Assistant integration. https://getchannels.com/dvr-server/
robbiet480··on SoftBank Group to Acquire Ampere Computing for 6.5B
Apple has a BMC on the Mac mini, Mac Studio and Mac Pro. It's called Lights Out Management (LOM). https://support.apple.com/guide/deployment/lights-out-manage...
robbiet480··on Unleashed Recompiled: PC port of the Xbox 360 version of Sonic Unleashed
It's already available on macOS too, runs pretty well https://github.com/squidbus/UnleashedRecomp/actions/runs/136...
robbiet480··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)
Campus.edu | Senior Full Stack Developer (Go, React, Postgres, Redis, GKE) | Hybrid (Tribeca New York US Tuesday-Thursday, remote Monday & Friday) | Full-time

Campus is a technology-driven company dedicated to accelerating the talent of tomorrow. We empower students to find their purpose, help them build a plan and support them as they achieve their goals through affordable, world-class education provided by professors from prestigious institutions such as Princeton, NYU, UCLA, and Spelman. By making education more accessible and customized to each individual's needs, we can achieve our mission of accelerating the talent of tomorrow, one student at a time.

We’re looking for a talented Senior Full Stack Software Engineer with React and Go (or equivalent) experience to join our team and scale with us.

No education experience is required.

Salary: $165,000-$195,000 + generous equity

https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/campusedu/jobs/4496291007

robbiet480··on Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]
I believe you meant Huntsville, Alabama?
robbiet480··on 1 bug, $50k in bounties, a Zendesk backdoor
Those with Apple Business or School Manager can now claim domain names which blocks sign ups under claimed domain names.
robbiet480··on Disney's robots use rockets to stick the landing
Great to see Grant Imahara in here unexpectedly. The former Mythbusters co-host died suddenly a few years ago from a brain aneurysm.
robbiet480··on The Matrix
It premiered 25 years ago today
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