Hacker News: DrBenCarsonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DrBenCarsonHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:52:36 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by DrBenCarson in "Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language"]]>You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain

But yes types are necessary for enterprise adoption. Even more important for agentic adoption.

]]>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:55:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48398704DrBenCarsonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48398704https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48398704<![CDATA[Poetry for Engineers: Cyborg Laboratory by Paul Jones]]>Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/poetry-for-engineers-cyborg-laboratory

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341449

Points: 3

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]]>Sat, 30 May 2026 23:05:57 +0000https://spectrum.ieee.org/poetry-for-engineers-cyborg-laboratoryDrBenCarsonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341449https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341449<![CDATA[New comment by DrBenCarson in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"]]>Most massive studios have their own which they use across a bunch of titles

]]>Fri, 29 May 2026 16:19:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48325308DrBenCarsonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48325308https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48325308<![CDATA[New comment by DrBenCarson in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"]]>Video game development is largely grunt work outside of the engine

]]>Fri, 29 May 2026 16:18:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48325295DrBenCarsonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48325295https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48325295<![CDATA[New comment by DrBenCarson in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"]]>Vast majority of software should not be able to send a push notification. Send an email if you need to alert me.

]]>Thu, 28 May 2026 02:12:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48303527DrBenCarsonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48303527https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48303527<![CDATA[New comment by DrBenCarson in "Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying"]]>Public VPNs only protect you from your ISP

]]>Fri, 15 May 2026 06:41:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48145292DrBenCarsonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48145292https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48145292<![CDATA[New comment by DrBenCarson in "Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory"]]>Sorry, @grok is offline after declaring himself MechaMussolini earlier today

]]>Mon, 11 May 2026 00:10:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089527DrBenCarsonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089527https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089527<![CDATA[New comment by DrBenCarson in "Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory"]]>How are you using that RAM with the GPU?

]]>Mon, 11 May 2026 00:08:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089516DrBenCarsonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089516https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089516<![CDATA[New comment by DrBenCarson in "I am worried about Bun"]]>Disagree, you definitely don’t want to be looking back saying “hm I knew it, I saw the signs, should have trusted myself”

Plus it’s not a huge lift right now

]]>Mon, 04 May 2026 18:10:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012555DrBenCarsonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012555https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012555<![CDATA[New comment by DrBenCarson in "I am worried about Bun"]]>I made this exact same decisions (bun -> pnpm) for similar reasons, mostly bc I didn’t like how haphazardly a core part of the stack was being vibe coded. Too many changes too quickly for something that’s supposed to be stable

]]>Mon, 04 May 2026 18:08:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012536DrBenCarsonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012536https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012536<![CDATA[New comment by DrBenCarson in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"]]>We were supposed to have AGI last summer. Obviously it is so smart that it has decided to pull a veil over our eyes and live amongst us undetected (this is a joke, if you feel your LLM is sentient, talk to a doctor)

]]>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:24:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47923653DrBenCarsonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47923653https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47923653<![CDATA[New comment by DrBenCarson in "Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read"]]>…why?

]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:30:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695118DrBenCarsonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695118https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695118<![CDATA[New comment by DrBenCarson in "Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS"]]>Didn’t they open source Kubernetes (aka probably the biggest OSS project since Linux itself)

]]>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 21:02:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46546424DrBenCarsonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46546424https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46546424<![CDATA[New comment by DrBenCarson in "Charles Proxy"]]>Alltime great software

I’m on proxyman https://proxyman.com/

]]>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 06:58:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46334159DrBenCarsonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46334159https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46334159<![CDATA[New comment by DrBenCarson in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"]]>Yep. Many, many companies are fine saying “we’re going to be no more available than AWS is.”

]]>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 17:32:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45646637DrBenCarsonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45646637https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45646637<![CDATA[New comment by DrBenCarson in "Liquibase continues to advertise itself as "open source" despite license switch"]]>I would imagine Flyway would be the most robust alternative

]]>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 09:23:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45603195DrBenCarsonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45603195https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45603195<![CDATA[New comment by DrBenCarson in "macOS Tahoe Incompatible with Mac Studio M3 Ultra"]]>Did you read the post?

]]>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 22:59:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45282470DrBenCarsonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45282470https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45282470<![CDATA[New comment by DrBenCarson in "VibeVoice: A Frontier Open-Source Text-to-Speech Model"]]>Open source?

]]>Wed, 03 Sep 2025 14:33:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45116308DrBenCarsonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45116308https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45116308<![CDATA[New comment by DrBenCarson in "Expert: LSP for Elixir"]]>“Official” means built by the creators of Elixir itself

Elixir has more contributors than just Jose (though he is the OG / creator / leader)

]]>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:40:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45064003DrBenCarsonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45064003https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45064003<![CDATA[New comment by DrBenCarson in "Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy"]]>You can opt out until September 28th. After that day all Claude usage will be under the new terms and conditions

]]>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 13:36:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45063957DrBenCarsonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45063957https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45063957