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bengaleon Successful companies go blind

A company at a certain point moves from “make it work” to “don’t break it”. Both have good reasons to be honest but “don’t break it” has far more restrictions.

bengaleon Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July

I hate sparklers so much. Watchings kids wave those things about makes me feel so sick.

bengaleon Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July

When I was in North Carolina on a trip the chap I was visiting said I'd know if I was crossing over to South Carolina when I saw all the fireworks shops as it was illegal to sell them in NC but not SC. Funny to see.

(No idea what the actual rules are, just repeating what he told me)

bengaleon CursorBench 3.1

It’s starting to feel like people need to say what language/stack and problem space they’re working in. It would be interesting to see why we’re seeing such wild variance.

bengaleon Kids bypass age verification with fake moustaches

There are some funny videos of people in pubs in the UK discussing how bad the incoming drink drive rules were, it's a similar deal I think. No one likes being restricted from something they've been allowed to do.

bengaleon Tiled Words 6 Month Update

I told my friend that in my mind I add five minutes every time she does it, but 30 seconds is probably more fair.

Perhaps not being able to use them for the first few minutes, but I guess it's not ideal to make it more annoying for people not playing by our shame rules!

bengaleon Tiled Words 6 Month Update

We have a little group chat going where we compete each day to be the fastest to complete these. We could do with some sort of time penalty for reveals or something because right now we just enforce that with pure shame!

Really enjoyable game.

bengaleon Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex

I know some people have ideological things going on that make them choose different networks, but they have more than half a billion active users so it's not exactly a ghost town.

bengaleon Cursor 3

Composer 2 is great tbh. It makes my over runs of the ultra plan much less painful.

bengaleon The Claude Code Leak

Another swing and a miss from the AI police.

bengaleon Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise LiteLLM

All these commenters just yell AI about every post and comment on here now. They have a worse hit rate than a blind marksman.

bengaleon My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix

> I’ll remember this experience and choose to buy a more repairable laptop like a ThinkPad or a Framework laptop.

> Here’s hoping governments regulate laptop manufacturers to actually make repairable machines in the future.

So there is already a solution on the market but for some reason the immediate desire is for the government to get involved and start regulating laptop keyboards?

bengaleon Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit

It’s interesting to see twists on the old anti-piracy arguments recycled for anti-ai.

bengaleon Make macOS consistently bad unironically

That's not a thread you want to pull on, it applied to the majority of the comments on the internet.

bengaleon Make macOS consistently bad unironically

I think for a lot of us mac users we never get contact with another OS so it can seem like the world is ending. Reality is the Tahoe is terrible compared to older versions, but still incredible compared to others. IMHO as ever.

bengaleon Make macOS consistently bad unironically

Yeah this is my actual issue with Tahoe. It blows my mind people keep bringing up the corners when WindowServer is complete trash now.

bengaleon Apple Just Lost Me

I feel like comprehension is lacking here.

1. The original comment was about Apple using their power to influence UK law.

2. That is bad, don't do that Apple.

3. If they want to do other things not legislated against they are free to do so.

bengaleon Apple Just Lost Me

They can do whatever they want on their devices that is permissible in whatever jurisdiction they're selling into, but they don't get to choose to follow our laws. If we want those changed we'll do it at the ballot box.

bengaleon Apple Just Lost Me

I think this law is the wrong way about doing what they're trying to do, but I also don't want US corps deciding what is and isn't permissible in our country.

bengaleon Apple Just Lost Me

Indeed. For many of us it's a feature, not a bug.

bengaleon Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?

Spot on take. The people I’ve noticed that say things like “it’s not useful” are the ones who are doing so little they can’t see the value.

This isn’t to say there’s not hype. Just that if you’re not seeing big productivity gains you need to make sure you really are an outlier and not just surplus to requirements.

bengaleon GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability

Two?

bengaleon Bored of eating your own dogfood? Try smelling your own farts

Do dogs like champagne?

bengaleon Warranty Void If Regenerated

From my growing tedious experience communicating online, most of you lot detect 14/10 of the LLM-isms you think you find.

bengaleon Harold and George Destroy the World

This take is extremely arrogant. You can make the argument that shuffling the deck like this will lead to unexpected outcomes but claiming one way or the other to know the outcome is just silly.

If anyone feels sure they know what the next several years has in store regarding Iran they are just demonstrating their own ignorance. I’d expect more people here to be cognisant of the Dunning Kruger effect.

bengaleon Launch HN: Spine Swarm (YC S23) – AI agents that collaborate on a visual canvas

You often don’t want people like that on day 1 anyway.

bengaleon Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked

The tender process is what they are optimised for. They are professional project bidders with a bit of outsourced software development bolted on the back.

bengaleon Vite 8.0 Is Out

Seems to be around 1 million. It's chunky and it's probably not well optimised for the build to be honest, but it was only starting to creep up the priority list as it crossed the 10m mark.

This is also the length on our CI which is running on some POS build machine. Locally it's far faster, but with Vite 8 its crazy fast.

bengaleon Vite 8.0 Is Out

We saw 12m -> 2m on one of our biggest projects. Incredible really.