Hacker News: DrBenCarsonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DrBenCarsonHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 24 Aug 2026 03:47:45 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by DrBenCarson in "Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative"]]>Ask sama

]]>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:28:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49352962DrBenCarsonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49352962https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49352962<![CDATA[New comment by DrBenCarson in "Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative"]]>Come on, man. Not allowing products to generate CP is too high of a bar?

By your logic cops should be focused on the junkies, forget about the cartel

]]>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:36:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49350430DrBenCarsonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49350430https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49350430<![CDATA[New comment by DrBenCarson in "Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative"]]>https://sourcehut.org/

https://codeberg.org/

]]>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:32:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49350347DrBenCarsonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49350347https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49350347<![CDATA[New comment by DrBenCarson in "Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative"]]>If you're willing to trust them with all your source code...kudos, I really wish I had your level of trust and delusion

]]>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:29:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49349224DrBenCarsonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49349224https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49349224<![CDATA[New comment by DrBenCarson in "DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 Publish"]]>Same trick that had 737s falling out the sky (obviously different risk level involved in each )

]]>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:54:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49280540DrBenCarsonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49280540https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49280540<![CDATA[New comment by DrBenCarson in "Qwen3.8-2.4T"]]>There’s an alternate universe in which OpenAI stays open, licenses according to revenue, Chinese models don’t gain traction in the US because domestic models take all the capacity…whatever, $1T IPO beats the right answer ever time

]]>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:48:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49280087DrBenCarsonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49280087https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49280087<![CDATA[New comment by DrBenCarson in "Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta warn against overregulating open-weight models"]]>Excellent, that’s what people have been doing for 40 years. Surely that means the models have 0 hope of finding successful attack vectors

]]>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 02:19:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49043897DrBenCarsonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49043897https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49043897<![CDATA[New comment by DrBenCarson in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"]]>Remember when OpenAI were wise enough to know OpenAI should be…open?

Greed will cost America the entire AI market at this rate

]]>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:00:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49025669DrBenCarsonhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49025669https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49025669<![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