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Roving Dynamics
Personal blog · rodyne.com · on HN as boznzaiprogramming
Roving Dynamics is a personal blog at rodyne.com about ai and programming. Since 2016, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 59 times, most often “Das Blinkenlights”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for the author's sci-fi trilogy, which is offered as a free download, and for an earlier post about a ChatGPT ascii2dec issue. Commenters mostly share links without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /?p=12523 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-06-18
- /2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-01-15
- Das Blinkenlights2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-01-12
- Write for Yourself2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-02-10
What Hacker News says?
Had similar thoughts a few years back ( https://rodyne.com/?p=1439 ) when considering worst case scenarios after a local factory lost two days production due to a server failure at an IT supplier.
Comment linking /?p=1439
on “Local-first software (2019)”Submitted With AI you need to think bigger as a story · 305 points
HN discussionOh, so you are the guy with the unfixed ChatGPT ascii2dec: https://rodyne.com/?p=1674
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on “Why blog if nobody reads it?”Submitted Das Blinkenlights as a story · 138 points
HN discussionhttps://rodyne.com/?p=1588
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on “Why blog if nobody reads it?”Submitted This site uses cookies to store the fact you clicked “Accept Cookies” as a story · 29 points
HN discussionOuch, thats pretty inefficient IMHO. I have a Windows database client written in Delphi XE2 that covers the whole MRP for a winery including built in reports and report writer that clocks in at 14MB http://rodyne.com/?page_id=375
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on “22 Years of Delphi and It Still Rocks”Submitted Do 8051/8031 assembly like its 1984 as a story · 17 points
HN discussionI made a small Role playing game for a random game night. No code required, just a printer, a few friends, some beer or wine and the ability to not take things seriously. Highly recommended. [ https://rodyne.com/?p=2855 ]
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on “Making a Small RPG”Submitted AI Can't Take over Soon Enough for Me as a story · 16 points
HN discussionThere are a few already out there ( https://hackaday.com/?s=cell+phone ) for proper open source mobile comms, the real problem is the mobile spectrum, I had a similar whinge on my blog a few weeks ago http://rodyne.com/?p=832 .
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on “Battery-Free Cell Phone”Submitted At what point do you stop learning new programming languages? as a story · 9 points
HN discussionHumanity Needs Aliens to Survive => https://rodyne.com/?p=3051
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on “What do we do if SETI is successful?”Submitted Why Do We Still Pay for International Calls in 2025? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI would recommend you find your enclosure before you even start the PCB and design the PCB with all the correct sizes, screw holes and cutouts. This might be useful http://rodyne.com/?p=415 (re-using existing cases for your design)
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on “Prototype to production: How to build and design a PCB prototype”Submitted Dungeon Newbie (an RPG game for total newbies) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI checked out your book link < https://rodyne.com/?p=1252 >, is there a preview chapter or two somewhere? That's cool you wrote a compelling sci-fi but my list is competitive :)
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on “A Note on Essential Complexity”Submitted Humanity Needs Aliens to Survive as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMaybe the new company should consider something like this for the next investor show and tell https://rodyne.com/?p=1674
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on “Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding”Submitted Write for Yourself as a story · 3 points
HN discussionBit of shameless self-promotion but I have just finished re-editing my 370,000 word sci-fi trilogy novel and have just released the eBook for free ( https://rodyne.com/?p=1252 ) - the length shouldn't be a problem if you like Peter Hamilton :-)
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on “My favorite cult sci-fi and fantasy books you may not have heard of before”Submitted Why I'm Swapping Copyright for a Creative Commons Licence on My SciFi Novels as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWell all I can say is I did exactly that and produced an optimistic 370,000 word Sci-fi series which was totally utopian, and tried to be realistic and scientific (at least up to the point that any Sci-Fi novel could be) - https://rodyne.com/?p=1252
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on “We need more optimistic science fiction”Submitted Now Is the Time to Eat Their Lunch as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLocation: Marlborough, New Zealand Remote: Most Likely Willing to Relocate: Maybe, but only within NZ/Australia Technologies: C, SQL, Electronics, lots of others - too many to mention CV: at https://rodyne.com (somewhere) Email: boz@rodyne.com Just retired early, writing a new Novel, experimenting with local AI, and watching the singularity from a sleepy NZ coastal village. Already missing the buzz of the technologi…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026)”Submitted Vibe-Migrating. The Easy-Peasy Way from Windows 11 to Linux as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMy comment was because my last three submissions were blocked. I emailed the moderator the first time it happened, and he said the algorithm probably thought it was self-promotion as I cross posted it to medium.com which I now know everybody hates. By blocked, I mean the articles showed as normal on my browser but was hidden to anybody else. I did not use the "Show HN" option because I have had articles submitted in…
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on “Why are debut novels failing to launch?”Submitted Harry Potter and the Junior Prompt Engineer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionCorrect on the last point but the first is still up for debate. Heres my take => https://rodyne.com/?page_id=1373
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on “How to build a thinking AI”Submitted I'm an ASI. Ask Me Anything. (Not an AMA) as a story · 2 points
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