Hacker News: Bengalilol

New comment by Bengalilol in "A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome"

Bengalilol — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:21:42 +0000

A simple video showcasing one fruit picture opened in Preview with the fly going for it would have been nice.

New comment by Bengalilol in "Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code"

Bengalilol — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:40:53 +0000

AKA preventing cognitive debt

New comment by Bengalilol in "Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network"

Bengalilol — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:46:27 +0000

Yes, it spawned on HN a few months ago. The thing is it doesn't display the city transport (the official SBB map does).

New comment by Bengalilol in "Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network"

Bengalilol — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:00:22 +0000

You are right, the devs says that the vehicle positions are estimated from the official timetable and real-time GTFS-RT delay information, rather than from publicly available GPS coordinates.

<https://opentransportdata.swiss/en/cookbook/realtime-predict...>

btw while looking for th GTFS-RT info, I found this site, which is less minimal but has a 3D cockpit beta functionality...

<https://transitflow.ch/>

New comment by Bengalilol in "Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network"

Bengalilol — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 11:46:19 +0000

Switzerland's real-time map of trains and public transport (zoom in on a city to view its public transport in real time). You can find boats too.

And if you check on/off the other options, you get way more informations.

https://maps.trafimage.ch/ch.sbb.netzkarte?lang=en&baselayer...

New comment by Bengalilol in "Right to Local Intelligence"

Bengalilol — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:23:28 +0000

As a future scenario where models become so efficient that _any_ model installed on _any_ computer could be considered "a national security risk"?

IDK, I don't live in the US, and I have no idea which "possible law" this website is referring to. In any case, it could be seen as a proactive effort to keep the gates open.

As a side note, I think this is a discussion every open-source supporter should have by actively considering the risks and what actions to take if such a hypothetical law were ever to pass.

New comment by Bengalilol in "Why I Stopped Arguing with People"

Bengalilol — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:10:54 +0000

"I don't really like arguing because everyone wants to convince the other person, and in the end, everyone leaves thinking they have convinced the other person, and no one has changed an inch."

Jean-Luc Godard, 28th May, 1982

New comment by Bengalilol in "Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days"

Bengalilol — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:52:37 +0000

Litotes maybe?

New comment by Bengalilol in "Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days"

Bengalilol — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 18:52:18 +0000

This was sarcasm, meaning exactly what you wrote.

New comment by Bengalilol in "Tulip mania: when a single flower was worth more than a house (2025)"

Bengalilol — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:43:48 +0000

For a wider context, if needed: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusion...>

New comment by Bengalilol in "Ruby vs. Java vs. TypeScript: my experience on building a Cowork DOCX plugin"

Bengalilol — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:04:49 +0000

I think this project could be a perfect (I may be biased and didn't dig) candidate for Haxe to JS dev : no framework (except a small node server?), strict typing, minimal dependencies (jszip and maybe fast-xml-parser). What could go wrong?

New comment by Bengalilol in "All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes"

Bengalilol — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:53:41 +0000

Great initiative ! So simple and yet it works (from those recipes listed I know, they are all working nicely).

New comment by Bengalilol in "All of human cooking compressed into 2 megabytes"

Bengalilol — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:50:32 +0000

+1.

On a side note (and maybe off topic), I am thinking about food pairing which is based on the idea that two ingredients sharing volatile aroma compounds or certain molecular families may have a potential sensory compatibility (broccolis and strawberries for example). I'd love to test those ingredients and find some unknown food pairings. But .. time is what it is (for now).

New comment by Bengalilol in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

Bengalilol — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:04:03 +0000

And then we were sending those "let me google it for you". I just wanted to find the site again and, surprise it has the GPT part now ^^ but on the joke side.

https://letmegpt.com

New comment by Bengalilol in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"

Bengalilol — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:51:31 +0000

While Andy Yen supports specific Trump-aligned initiatives for precise goals, such as breaking up Big Tech monopolies (which, btw, Trump won't), this does not mean he will replicate the erratic nature and global loss of trust associated with Trump and his administration.

The Cloud Act is real and transcends any single company. This global erosion of trust highlights deeper concerns: specifically, that US practices have always been coercive. Now, the world is learning and taking action.

New comment by Bengalilol in "Apple, Intel have reached preliminary chip-making deal"

Bengalilol — Fri, 08 May 2026 19:40:07 +0000

Pardon my lack of faith but ... this article is clueless. No information whatsoever. Except:

> The Journal report said the U.S. government, which became Intel's largest shareholder last year under a deal with its CEO Lip-Bu Tan, played a major role in bringing Apple to the negotiating table.

... smells what it smells.

New comment by Bengalilol in "Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library"

Bengalilol — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:10:29 +0000

Good old « release first, fix later »

New comment by Bengalilol in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

Bengalilol — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:18:35 +0000

Why "hard to bypass" would be a sufficient thing? It depends on the technology used to connect the two phones. Bypassing this process can range from "easy" to "quite complicated", but it remains possible. Once the security is compromised, the entire network loses its core value since a single interaction is enough to establish a permanent connection.

New comment by Bengalilol in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

Bengalilol — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:32:04 +0000

> Meanwhile my religious-FAANG friend has 4 kids, lives in a community where everyone knows each other, lives much closer to family (intentional choice) and just overall sees his life, both the ups and the downs, as part of something purposeful and meaningful.

I am a full atheist, living in Switzerland. The community is strong, the neighborhood too and the city is a charm (Geneva). 3 kids, coding and spending my time contemplating humans at their best: having fun and getting on a higher ground. I don't have an answer regarding the bigger picture but I will surely think about it and get back to you.

EDIT As I wrote in another comment: confronting the truth (whatever the spirituality behind) in itself doesn't make someone unhappy, it's the sense of losing one's footing that does. In many ways, America was built along those lines.

New comment by Bengalilol in "OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS"

Bengalilol — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:28:41 +0000

Must be some ironic comment that I didn't get, but a simple script (curl calling steam API and sending a notification if the price is set) + cron handle the job perfectly.

EDIT: Giving the keys to an agent for such a trivial work is ... I got your sarcasm I think ^^.