Hacker News: BenGosub

New comment by BenGosub in "After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell"

BenGosub — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:54:16 +0000

Surprising decision in a time when writing code is cheap and so many projects migrate to Rust.

New comment by BenGosub in "Israel Destroys Villages in Lebanon"

BenGosub — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:52:52 +0000

It's terrorism

New comment by BenGosub in "If DSPy is so great, why isn't anyone using it?"

BenGosub — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:56:38 +0000

About one and a half years ago I was an early adopter of DSPy and I had better results (compared to LlamaIndex) with structuring unstructured data just by putting it in DSPy models, before any optimization step whatsoever.

Also, IMO DSPy didn't take off because it requires preparing train and test datasets and that takes time and effort. Now with Gepa I expect things are getting very interesting, the optimizations can come just from descriptions.

IMO LangGraph is currently used a lot as an agent and RAG framework, DSPy doesn't have the same use case, even though there's overlap. And I think the montly numbers doesn't do justice, because what I see now is a lot of companies doing things wrongly.

New comment by BenGosub in "Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia"

BenGosub — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:42:38 +0000

There have been hundreds of thousands of Palestinians brutally murdered by Israel, yet the US has not intervened in Israel yet.

New comment by BenGosub in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

BenGosub — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:02:25 +0000

I agree that Opencodr is using a lot of RAM, but regarding the features, I am ak only using the built in features and I wouldn't say they are too many, they are just enough for a complete workflow. If you need more you can install plugins, which I haven't done yet and it's my daily driver for four months.

New comment by BenGosub in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

BenGosub — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 09:28:04 +0000

I don't understand, why is it hard to track or find such a large ship?

New comment by BenGosub in "The bespoke software revolution? I'm not buying it"

BenGosub — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 09:26:29 +0000

I have non-coder friends who are vibe coding apps. The process isn't smooth, vut they are definitely excited for the new abilities they get from the models. Maybe they are a minority, but they definitely exist.

New comment by BenGosub in "U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. DOJ Scrapped It"

BenGosub — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 12:33:19 +0000

They don't even try to cover it anymore.

New comment by BenGosub in "Binance fired employees who found $1.7B in crypto was sent to Iran"

BenGosub — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:11:09 +0000

Is Iran supposed supposed to be banned on Binance?

New comment by BenGosub in "Cloudflare acquires Astro"

BenGosub — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:17:33 +0000

All wrongs in Gatsby have been gotten right in Astro. What will happen next remains to be seen, but currently Astro is amazing for a few specific cases it covers. The performance, developer experience and documentation are all great.

New comment by BenGosub in "Cloudflare acquires Astro"

BenGosub — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:15:31 +0000

amazing performance.

New comment by BenGosub in "Provenance Is the New Version Control"

BenGosub — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:49:56 +0000

Basically he's describing DSPy[1]

1. https://dspy.ai/

New comment by BenGosub in "Unauthenticated remote code execution in OpenCode"

BenGosub — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 22:59:36 +0000

It feels that today security is secondary to growth. As long as your growing, a few incidents here and there aren't going to make a difference.

New comment by BenGosub in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

BenGosub — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:36:51 +0000

I have a feeling that usually when someone complains about freedom of speech, they are actually complaining about something else.

New comment by BenGosub in "Countdown until the AI bubble bursts"

BenGosub — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:35:47 +0000

the LLM doesn't have the concept of time and it doesn't incorporate new data, unless it's put into the context, so I don't see the point of this suggestion.

New comment by BenGosub in "Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig"

BenGosub — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 07:54:06 +0000

Reading about the the complexity of Rust makes me appreciate more OCaml. OCaml also has a Hindley Milner type system and provides similar runtime guarantees, but it is simpler to write and it has a very, very fast compiler. Also, the generated code is reasonably fast.

New comment by BenGosub in "Programming peaked"

BenGosub — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 13:11:50 +0000

Javascript wins by keeping the costs down. Companies today want to do more with less, which is how it should be and you are still free to choose from a myriad of technologies. When you pair this setup with LLMs, it's actually the best it has ever been IMO.

New comment by BenGosub in "The only winning move is not to play"

BenGosub — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 08:00:25 +0000

In theory yes, but in practice I wouldn't say that for example the way Facebook and Instagram developed is an example of superiority in social media design that has won. Honestly, technology can make life worst and we should find against that.

Also, things like visual arts and music can be watered down by devaluating the real stuff and equaling it with AI generated stuff.

Arguably, we used to be better at making physical stuff, we used to make beautiful amps, synths and drum machines, which to this day are highly valued only has software equivalents today.

New comment by BenGosub in "Python Data Science Handbook"

BenGosub — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 14:12:55 +0000

He's a great writer and I miss his blog. He had an awesome post on pivot table that I think is now a part of this book.

New comment by BenGosub in "It’s been a very hard year"

BenGosub — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:31:47 +0000

It's also important that most of AI content created is slop. On this website most people stand against AI generated writing slop. Also, trust me, you don't want a world where most music is AI generated, it's going to drive you crazy. So, it's not like photography and painting it is like comparing good and shitty quality content.