Hacker News: benatkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=benatkinHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:44:45 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by benatkin in "Type Server Protocol"]]>Indeed, this seemed not to happen to the same degree: https://ghuntley.com/fracture/

vscode forks were shown to be viable.

]]>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 07:01:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50255491benatkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50255491https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50255491<![CDATA[New comment by benatkin in "No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector"]]>Do you think those offering professional translation service were obsessed with AI? Or chess players? The rest of the world doesn't get to decide...

]]>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 20:46:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50225070benatkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50225070https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50225070<![CDATA[New comment by benatkin in "Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month"]]>I was editing when your reply came out. Nope. Luckily it's a family of technologies.

]]>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:11:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50169527benatkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50169527https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50169527<![CDATA[New comment by benatkin in "Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month"]]>Thanks for mentioning that. It reinforces my desire to avoid zstd because of its connection to Facebook.

]]>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:10:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50169497benatkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50169497https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50169497<![CDATA[New comment by benatkin in "Neckbeard – A DevOps/platform/SRE plugin for your agent"]]>The guy in the image doesn't look very euphoric, not even in a subtle way. Sorry, not the neckbeard plugin I was looking for. Mine must be influenced by aalewis.

]]>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 21:18:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50095470benatkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50095470https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50095470<![CDATA[New comment by benatkin in "GLM-Legal"]]>In the same sense as infinite jest.

]]>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:30:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060718benatkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060718https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060718<![CDATA[New comment by benatkin in "Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B"]]>They weren't running on OpenAI, so nope.

]]>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:39:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50025646benatkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50025646https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50025646<![CDATA[New comment by benatkin in "What should we tell our students?"]]>Confusing since it's on a terrytao's wordpress.com blog. I wonder if he's aware of the drama at Automattic.

]]>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 03:36:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50015690benatkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50015690https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50015690<![CDATA[New comment by benatkin in "Yes, and"]]>It will be faster to understand it, which will make it less valuable. I think I could point something like this to a curious AI software builder without a CS degree and tell them to have AI explain it and they could make up a significant chunk of what they're missing by not having a CS degree. https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html

]]>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:14:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50014258benatkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50014258https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50014258<![CDATA[New comment by benatkin in "Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx"]]>You replace it with your domain.

]]>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 23:12:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49958922benatkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49958922https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49958922<![CDATA[New comment by benatkin in "Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code"]]>These example prompts seem soulless. Should I feed this document to another LLM that's OK with me being informal so I can have it give me prompts that Claude will find acceptable without contorting myself to talk like this?

]]>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:16:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49949213benatkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49949213https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49949213<![CDATA[New comment by benatkin in "Apple Pass Designer"]]>OK, NFTs are like loyalty cards too then. Because these digital wallets don't need to be like physical cards. That's just an artificial design constraint.

]]>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:58:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49940404benatkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49940404https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49940404<![CDATA[New comment by benatkin in "Apple Pass Designer"]]>I mean this design aspect. To me it felt like it was a bit over the top, and I could imagine them to start making limited run series of them. Looking at it again, it says that there are templates, so maybe this art was made by designers, rather than AI images generated on the fly, but I imagined that they were the latter.

]]>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 20:35:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49938290benatkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49938290https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49938290<![CDATA[New comment by benatkin in "Apple Pass Designer"]]>These are reminiscent of NFTs, they are things you can collect, mass generated.

]]>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:28:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937522benatkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937522https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937522<![CDATA[New comment by benatkin in "Two-tier encryption in the UK"]]>I doubt that with the speed of thought dramatically increasing due to AI, that the door will stay closed just because it's being closed now. That decision will be revisited.

]]>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:46:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49834274benatkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49834274https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49834274<![CDATA[New comment by benatkin in "Meta VR Glasses"]]>There isn't a very direct comparison of Oculus products to game consoles like PlayStation, Nintendo, XBox, or those in the distant past. It is interesting, and they have a lot of the same market forces at play, but I don't think they behave by the same rules.

]]>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 02:41:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49825555benatkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49825555https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49825555<![CDATA[New comment by benatkin in "Meta VR Glasses"]]>CV1 was as a Facebook subsidiary. Acquired 2014-07-21, CV1 announced January 2016 and released March 2016. https://techcrunch.com/2014/07/21/facebooks-acquisition-of-o... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oculus_Rift_CV1

]]>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 02:22:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49825439benatkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49825439https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49825439<![CDATA[New comment by benatkin in "Meta VR Glasses"]]>It wasn't though, a full price would have been more, to cover not just components and assembly but the cost of R&D.

]]>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 02:16:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49825389benatkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49825389https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49825389<![CDATA[New comment by benatkin in "Meta VR Glasses"]]>Not really. Pre-release baked into the name.

]]>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 01:25:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49825034benatkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49825034https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49825034<![CDATA[New comment by benatkin in "Meta VR Glasses"]]>Neither qualifies.

]]>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 01:06:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49824900benatkinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49824900https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49824900