Hacker News: Bendy

New comment by Bendy in "Programming Still Sucks"

Bendy — Thu, 07 May 2026 07:10:12 +0000

It is greed; LLMs are progress but their cost, and the lies told about them wildly exceed their utility for most of the tasks that they’re otherwise expected to perform. The claims are fraudulent, fraud is a crime, and crime does not benefit society.

New comment by Bendy in "The largest zip tie is nearly 4 feet long and $75"

Bendy — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 12:54:27 +0000

I read the title as “The largest zip file…”

New comment by Bendy in "France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US"

Bendy — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 12:53:40 +0000

Should’ve called it OuiChat

New comment by Bendy in "Hacker News: Savage Edition"

Bendy — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:07:12 +0000

Love it, all that’s missing is n-gate style summaries of the articles and comments.

New comment by Bendy in "The Dilbert Afterlife"

Bendy — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 13:48:25 +0000

We don’t just use these people we create them. Since ancient Egypt the priest class of every society is employed to apply ritual trauma to psychologically prepare princes for their vocation of restless leadership.

New comment by Bendy in "What is the nicest thing a stranger has ever done for you?"

Bendy — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 08:08:01 +0000

Invited me to his house to cut and shorten some shelves for me, after the hardware store refused because I hadn’t bought them there.

New comment by Bendy in "Microsoft to force install the Microsoft 365 Copilot app in October"

Bendy — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:46:35 +0000

Microsoft and its peers have become like a surface nuclear waste storage facility. The remains of something once useful now become dangerous, radioactive, an ever-growing parasitic burden on society, and yet must be continually supported lest there be grave consequences. Will they manage to reprocess themselves or be buried forever?

New comment by Bendy in "AI might yet follow the path of previous technological revolutions"

Bendy — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 09:52:21 +0000

I’m fed up of hearing that nonsense, no it won’t. Efficiency is a human-defined measure of observed outcomes versus desired outcomes. This is subject to change as much as we are. If we do optimize ourselves to death, it’ll be because it’s what we ultimately want to happen. That may be true for some people but certainly not everyone.

New comment by Bendy in "We Don't Believe in Work-Life Balance"

Bendy — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 15:50:50 +0000

He’s not fooling anyone. In the words of Spiderman, “Look at him! Look at him and laugh!”

New comment by Bendy in "Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists"

Bendy — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 08:45:36 +0000

That didn’t work out for God, we still killed him.

New comment by Bendy in "Sam Altman Slams Meta's AI Talent Poaching: 'Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries'"

Bendy — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 08:04:31 +0000

And I would never work for someone with such a paranoid suspicion of the motives of their employees, who doesn’t want to take any responsibility in their employees’ professional growth, and who doesn’t want to pay them what they’re worth.

New comment by Bendy in "Canonicals Interview Process"

Bendy — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 17:49:09 +0000

So it’s another inhumane interview process from a company led by an apparent psychopath. The author certainly dodged a bullet and graciously wrote this warning. Don’t work for them, they are vampires. Go elsewhere, your life is worth more and you always have a choice.

New comment by Bendy in "Address of Pope Leo XIV to the College of Cardinals"

Bendy — Sun, 11 May 2025 08:08:32 +0000

LLMs certainly think, they’re not conscious however because they don’t enjoy.

New comment by Bendy in "State and time are the same thing"

Bendy — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 20:13:58 +0000

Thanks for sharing that. Einstein and Minkowski knew perfectly well that space and time are inseparable over 100 years ago. >Not sure what religion has to do with it. >absolute time is not falsifiable…you have to believe in it.

Either time is a necessary condition for experience, or it’s a measurable object of experience. It can’t be both. You can’t have time in time. Which one do you believe in?

New comment by Bendy in "State and time are the same thing"

Bendy — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 09:38:44 +0000

Yeah, but so what? Time still has meaning, and is important to us, if only because we know we’re going to die.

Some theologians believe time exists also in Heaven. If that’s so it can’t be like any time we know about.

New comment by Bendy in "Please don't mention AI again"

Bendy — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 09:24:03 +0000

The author’s Australian so I couldn’t help but read it in the voice of Robert Hughes, to narrate this new shock of the new.

“‘This is the real thing, this deserves respect!’. It isn’t and it doesn’t, and no one cares.”

New comment by Bendy in "It’s an age of marvels"

Bendy — Mon, 13 May 2024 13:20:21 +0000

“The future is going to be boring.” - J. G. Ballard

New comment by Bendy in "Client libraries are better when they have no API?"

Bendy — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 08:57:15 +0000

The just swear jar’s overflowing for this article.

It sounds like an API and it looks like an API, but don’t let that fool you…

New comment by Bendy in "Disney, Warner, Comcast, and Paramount are contemplating cuts, possible mergers"

Bendy — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 17:02:48 +0000

Same, and with my toddler we’re back to good old fashioned DVDs. They may be slower, fragile and have a few unskippable parts but at least the ads are predictable, they don’t involve endless scrolling, and they belong to you.

New comment by Bendy in "Amazon to managers: You can now sack employees who won't come 3 times a week"

Bendy — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 20:46:09 +0000

That’s precisely the idea, and they don’t even need to be cheaper. You can’t put a price on controlling other people’s lives, and even if the ship sinks what matters is that the ones in charge did it all their way (or the highway).