rfarley04's submissions

1.		Meta up 3% in premarket as it plans mass layoff amidst increased AI spending (cnbc.com)
		7 points by rfarley04 10 days ago \| past \| 1 comment
2.		In 1985 Maxell built a bunch of life-size robots for its bad floppy ad (buttondown.com/suchbadtechads)
		142 points by rfarley04 21 days ago \| past \| 23 comments
3.		A handful of wholesomely bad ads for 90s SPARC clones (buttondown.com/suchbadtechads)
		2 points by rfarley04 48 days ago \| past
4.		The hottest job in tech: Writing words (businessinsider.com)
		4 points by rfarley04 50 days ago \| past \| 1 comment
5.		Malaysia and Indonesia Block Elon Musk's Grok (cnbc.com)
		10 points by rfarley04 73 days ago \| past
6.		Some not-so-bad ads from 80s computer magazines: Christmas edition (buttondown.com/suchbadtechads)
		2 points by rfarley04 3 months ago \| past \| 1 comment
7.		The Fantasy Life of Coder Boys (2003) (wired.com)
		2 points by rfarley04 3 months ago \| past
8.		The strangest Excel functions you'll never use (makeuseof.com)
		4 points by rfarley04 3 months ago \| past \| 1 comment
9.		USR's campaigns for the Password Modem were historically bad ads (buttondown.com/suchbadtechads)
		1 point by rfarley04 4 months ago \| past
10.		Everyone enjoys fewer lunch options (or, why I love pairwise comparisons) (woolean.com)
		1 point by rfarley04 4 months ago \| past
11.		There aren't a lot of Pearson correlations on HN's front page (pithandpip.com)
		4 points by rfarley04 4 months ago \| past
12.		V for Vendetta Will Return to Cinemas for Its 20th Anniversary in 2026 (ign.com)
		6 points by rfarley04 4 months ago \| past \| 1 comment
13.		The Last Messiah by Peter Wessel-Zapffe [pdf] (openairphilosophy.org)
		2 points by rfarley04 4 months ago \| past
14.		A (1995) company that made nothing but bad ads (buttondown.com/suchbadtechads)
		4 points by rfarley04 5 months ago \| past
15.		3D Printed "Book" Demonstrates Mechanical Actions (hackaday.com)
		2 points by rfarley04 6 months ago \| past
16.		Show HN: Woolean – Pairwise comparisons without any LLM features (woolean.com)
		3 points by rfarley04 7 months ago \| past
17.		A bad ad for a device that photographed CRTs (buttondown.com/suchbadtechads)
		4 points by rfarley04 8 months ago \| past
18.		Data on AI-related Show HN posts (ryanfarley.co)
		274 points by rfarley04 8 months ago \| past \| 155 comments
19.		The PowerPad tablet was pretty cool! Its ad in PC World 1984 was...not (buttondown.com/suchbadtechads)
		10 points by rfarley04 9 months ago \| past
20.		E-COM: The $40M USPS project to send email on paper (buttondown.com/blog)
		120 points by rfarley04 10 months ago \| past \| 125 comments
21.		Famous Authors on Roller Coasters (2022) (mcsweeneys.net)
		1 point by rfarley04 11 months ago \| past
22.		Microsoft fires engineers who protested during company's 50th anniversary (cnbc.com)
		44 points by rfarley04 11 months ago \| past \| 65 comments
23.		The Andrew Project – Multimedia Messaging Before MIME (wikipedia.org)
		4 points by rfarley04 on March 11, 2025 \| past
24.		Double opt-in emails go back as far as LISTERV in 1993 (buttondown.com/blog)
		1 point by rfarley04 on Jan 28, 2025 \| past
25.		EU regs get Garmin to add encryption to HR strap data (dcrainmaker.com)
		2 points by rfarley04 on Jan 7, 2025 \| past
26.		Ask HN: How many apps would it take to reach 90% of the people in your country?
		2 points by rfarley04 on Jan 2, 2025 \| past \| 11 comments
27.		Properties of Pandigital Numbers (each base digit appearing only once) (wikipedia.org)
		3 points by rfarley04 on Dec 9, 2024 \| past
28.		The time Dick Spam Depew spammed Usenet with his antispam moderation spam (1993) (groups.google.com)
		4 points by rfarley04 on Nov 26, 2024 \| past
29.		Throbac: THrifty Roman numeral BAckwards-looking Computer (mitmuseum.mit.edu)
		23 points by rfarley04 on Nov 1, 2024 \| past \| 9 comments
30.		"There is lingering affection for the challenge of breaking someone's system" (rfc-editor.org)
		2 points by rfarley04 on Sept 12, 2024 \| past
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