Hacker News: Bengalilol

New comment by Bengalilol in "DaVinci Resolve – Photo"

Bengalilol — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:45:53 +0000

I thought it was 3D.

A further bit of a tangent, but anyway: what really strikes me is the choice of such an image to represent whatever they're trying to convey. It feels bland, and there's a kind of underlying sadness to it... the books, the small sculpture, the shelf, the desk... it all drags me down.

I'm pretty sure the "fakeness" is intentional. The image seems designed to appeal to a specific target audience (when I look at their 'AI erase/replace tool' example I get a clear idea).

New comment by Bengalilol in "Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?"

Bengalilol — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:54:29 +0000

I concur

New comment by Bengalilol in "Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps"

Bengalilol — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:42:34 +0000

This is not an article, but a link to Apple Plans/Maps where you can observe all locations have been removed. As for now, it is hard to conclude anything but this looks like a bug (I know I am being optimistic).

New comment by Bengalilol in "The cult of vibe coding is insane"

Bengalilol — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:32:25 +0000

Makes me stare at mid nineties After Effects’ core rendering engine

New comment by Bengalilol in "OkCupid gave 3M dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says"

Bengalilol — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:41:36 +0000

> But even if they had no “commercial agreement,” Zeiler [Clarifai CEO] told the Times that his company gained access to user photos because some of OkCupid’s founders invested in Clarifai.

And

> In September 2014, the CEO of Clarifai, Inc. e-mailed one of OkCupid’s founders requesting that Humor Rainbow give Clarifai, Inc. (i.e., the Data Recipient) access to large datasets of OkCupid photos. Despite not having any business relationship with Humor Rainbow, the Data Recipient sought Humor Rainbow’s assistance because each of OkCupid’s founders, including Humor Rainbow’s President and Match Group, LLC’s CEO, were financially invested in the Data Recipient.

New comment by Bengalilol in "Make macOS consistently bad unironically"

Bengalilol — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:06:24 +0000

You can hold the 'option' key while dragging a window in order to set it in mosaic mode (you may need to activate the mode in Settings > Finder and Dock > Windows)

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Bengalilol — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:50:10 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_Popular_Delusions_and_the_Madness_of_Crowds

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47510659

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by Bengalilol in "Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised"

Bengalilol — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:32:50 +0000

Probably on the side of your project, but did you try SmolBSD? <https://smolbsd.org> It's a meta-OS for microVMs that boots in 10–15 ms.

It can be dedicated to a single service (or a full OS), runs a real BSD kernel, and provides strong isolation.

Overall, it fits into the "VM is the new container" vision.

Disclaimer: I'm following iMil through his twitch streams (the developer of smolBSD and a contributor to NetBSD) and I truly love what he his doing. I haven't actually used smolBSD in production myself since I don't have a need for it (but I participated in his live streams by installing and running his previews), and my answer might be somewhat off-topic.

More here <https://hn.algolia.com/?q=smolbsd>

New comment by Bengalilol in "Qite.js – Frontend framework for people who hate React and love HTML"

Bengalilol — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:55:45 +0000

I must have overlooked the site, but are there any working examples?

New comment by Bengalilol in "Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2"

Bengalilol — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:02:41 +0000

What about DDoSing and its consequences? For that matter, it looks like a very bad move. Not exactly a very "grown-up" or responsible approach.

New comment by Bengalilol in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"

Bengalilol — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:37:10 +0000

Yet with RSS you can read between 300 and 1800 articles, depending on the feed type.

New comment by Bengalilol in "OpenAI Has New Focus (On the IPO)"

Bengalilol — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:47:05 +0000

Those "Prompt-YES-baity" last sentences are somehow counterproductive.

New comment by Bengalilol in "Rob Pike's 5 Rules of Programming"

Bengalilol — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:38:49 +0000

Every empirical programmer will, at some point, end up yelling it out loud (too).

New comment by Bengalilol in "Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)"

Bengalilol — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:35:43 +0000

> you can kinda tell where you should optimize ahead of time

Rules are "kinda" made to be broken. Be free.

I've been sticking to these rules (and will keep sticking to them) for as long as I can program (I've been doing it for the last 30 years).

IMHO, you can feel that a bottleneck is likely to occur, but you definitely can't tell where, when, or how it will actually happen.

New comment by Bengalilol in "Let your Coding Agent debug the browser session with Chrome DevTools MCP"

Bengalilol — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:48:45 +0000

The other reply to this 'bot' looks like another default thing: <https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=David-Brug-Ai>

New comment by Bengalilol in "Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam"

Bengalilol — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 23:57:57 +0000

Surprisingly, this is an interesting outcome. Atari could have been worse (better too).

New comment by Bengalilol in "An old photo of a large BBS (2022)"

Bengalilol — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:12:18 +0000

Apogee was somehow part of the party < https://x.com/ScottApogee/status/1593729387106512896>

New comment by Bengalilol in "An old photo of a large BBS (2022)"

Bengalilol — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:11:22 +0000

You need 500 karma for this

Extensible macOS system telemetry generator

Bengalilol — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:22:29 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/0xv1n/macnoise

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47246468

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Bengalilol in "Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension"

Bengalilol — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:36:33 +0000

Nothing new here, but the article is so well written and clear in how it presents the effects that it is a must-read.

One could argue with its stance, but I took it as a given (the equation for cognitive debt touches on science).

It feels entirely logical to view LLMs/coding agents as an almost final step in the short-term focus the overall system has been thriving on.