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Benard-dev

12 karma · joined October 6, 2026

Building Fetchmark — an offline-first read-later tool with AI summarization and Markdown export.
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Benard-dev··on Why AI Can't Replace Engineering Teams
Ai can't replace any engineering team but when one senior engineer uses AI to perform tasks, the two can replace several mid engineers.
Benard-dev··on Facebook now charging to post more than 2 links a month
I didn't know this and kept sharing links on my new page and it was banned from posting.I tried to look for support but just received responses from bots all the time and no human review until I gave up. I ended up starting another page.
Benard-dev··on More engineers should consider working in sales
As an engineer turned solo founder, I had to learn this the hard way. I used to think sales was only convincing people to buy your product, only to find out that it is actually listening and helping them to decide if your product solves their problem.
Benard-dev··on Show HN: Chitra Studio – Your AI Media Workstation for Macs
How are you handling local vs cloud processing for the media generation?

Congratulations on shipping.

Benard-dev··on Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains
I meant for people with multiple domains.
Benard-dev··on Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains
Does this mean we should not always entrust our domains with only one registrar?
Benard-dev··on "What if you were told you couldn't hand-write code anymore?"
This would increase debugging issues. Written codes can be easily reviewed incase of a bug,while AI codes can simply be reviewed by AI itself.
Benard-dev··on Show HN: Sygal – Convert PDFs, scans and web pages to Markdown, locally
I am also building an app that converts web pages to Markdown. How do you handle messy scans and tables?
Benard-dev··on Google is silently linking your phone number across all signed-in accounts
Waiting for you
Benard-dev··on Google is silently linking your phone number across all signed-in accounts
In Uganda carrying two phones is completely normal. Many people have one for work and one for personal use, or simply because they can afford a second phone. Police wouldn't think twice about it.
Benard-dev··on Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly
This is good, I didn't know 3DS could handle PS2 emulation.

What's the performance like on heavier titles?

Benard-dev··on Show HN: BetterWispr – Free, open-source dictation for Mac
How are you handling local transcription? We opted for an offline-first for FetchMark archiver for same privacy reason and it doubled our retention.

Congrats on shipping!

Benard-dev··on Apple/macOS removed from official Unix registry
Thanks for explaining.

That grep/sed difference on mac caused me issues so many times, always thought it was just Apple doing their own thing. I didn't realize it was a spec thing.

Benard-dev··on Apple/macOS removed from official Unix registry
I didn't realize macOS was actually certified UNIX since 2007, thought it was just marketing.

Is this Apple just not wanting to pay for the certification anymore or does it actually change anything for us devs?

Benard-dev··on Temporal Continuity API
What's the continuity guarantee here? Is it replay-based like Temporal.io or more like a state snapshot service?
Benard-dev··on AI scrapers are hiding behind referrer spam
Easy to miss if you only look at analytics UI. You can only see it when you compare server logs against GA.
Benard-dev··on Show HN: LaunchPact – Trade traffic with founders. Only real clicks count
Interesting idea it is. How are you verifying real clicks from someone just opening the tab for 2 seconds ?
Benard-dev··on Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI
This is not surprising. Every big lab blocks competitor tools for internal use; it is a data governance thing, not a quality statement.
Benard-dev··on ClipPair – A shared clipboard for Windows and macOS
This is Nice! Curious how you are handling the security model for this? Shared clipboard is scary from a secrets perspective.
Benard-dev··on Vikranthguptha bookmarks: – page: 1 – yabs.io
It is a nice setup especially the public bookmarks idea