Hacker News: benced

New comment by benced in "I design with Claude more than Figma now"

benced — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 07:12:30 +0000

Anyone with knowledge of Indian regulatory culture would not take this as dispositive.

New comment by benced in "Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen"

benced — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:46:33 +0000

It's pareto better, all else equal (which, fair, it may not be in this case) for a company to serve businesses from $1 and up than to only serve $5M and up.

New comment by benced in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

benced — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:05:51 +0000

The headline is implying that AI mode is super unpopular with the very large number "28" and not the more accurate number of .16.

New comment by benced in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

benced — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:53:40 +0000

... DDG had .7% marketshare (https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share). 28% more visits would take it to .84%. Assuming those all come from Google, that would mean .16% of Google users didn't love AI mode enough to switch.

Classic example of misleading with stats.

New comment by benced in "Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier"

benced — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:33:58 +0000

I meant the structural problem of the EU not having a tech industry (nor any similarly prominent 21st century industry).

Yes, it would be better for America and for the EU if America acted normal but I would not advise anyone to plan hoping on that.

New comment by benced in "Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier"

benced — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:00:42 +0000

It is very true that if your company is a political vehicle, having the powers that be enforce that all companies must be political vehicles is quite good for you. America certainly has its version of this in its defense companies. I would not say those are the American companies that make me most proud to be American though.

New comment by benced in "Stop Advertising in Your Commits"

benced — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:56:05 +0000

I think this is more of a corporate metrics tracking than advertising. Decision makers aren't seeing these ads in commits but they certainly are seeing a report from Anthropic that "75% of your commits last quarter are from Claude code".

New comment by benced in "Ferrari Luce"

benced — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:22:27 +0000

I have a lot of issues with the Ive era and the Mac... but every iPhone he designed was a banger. I think the 12-14 era is the only era of iPhones I thought were bad and that was after him.

I suppose the iPhone 6 was bendable but that was a hardware engineering issue as shown by the same form factor not being bendable for the 6s through 8.

New comment by benced in "Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier"

benced — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:09:51 +0000

The concerning thing for the EU should be that this valuable firm had no European capital trying to buy it. The Dutch have protected their sovereignty today while decreasing the incentive for the next entrepreneur to make something on European shores. Probably the best choice but doesn't change the structural problem.

New comment by benced in "Saying goodbye to asm.js"

benced — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:37:09 +0000

You mean Chrome would have pushed it, Apple would have filibustered it by refusing to comment (via lack of investment in the WebKit team), and then gullible folks on the internet would defer to them.

(I will note that Apple seems to have upped WebKit investment this decade since their regulatory problems started in earnest - so it's possible this would end differently today)

New comment by benced in "Colonization of Venus"

benced — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:30:38 +0000

Your point is taken but we've turned lead into gold: https://home.cern/alice-detects-conversion-lead-gold-lhc/

New comment by benced in "'We mould trees to grow into the shape of chairs'"

benced — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:18:30 +0000

I'm sure he copied it from somewhere but this reminds me of Paolini's elves in Eragon singing (magicking) trees to their desired shape.

New comment by benced in "Googlebook"

benced — Wed, 13 May 2026 01:38:15 +0000

I feel like "find me the shirt from the Instagram post" (which is what's depicted in the ad) is a use case that most people will love.

New comment by benced in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

benced — Tue, 12 May 2026 07:41:59 +0000

The lumping together of Typescript with Python is a mistake. Typescript is much faster (mostly due to engine investment), is much saner, has more expressive types, and generally has better ergonomics for the backend than Python.

New comment by benced in "Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview"

benced — Sat, 09 May 2026 04:27:31 +0000

I did and I read it previously. It has not changed my interpretation that the Zig project would decline issues mostly generated by LLMs due to their stated policy saying so.

If you’re saying their philosophy is compatible with LLM issues, I agree and I think they should change their policy to reflect that.

New comment by benced in "Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview"

benced — Sat, 09 May 2026 01:41:34 +0000

Quoting from https://ziglang.org/code-of-conduct/#strict-no-llm-no-ai-pol...:

> Strict No LLM / No AI Policy

> No LLMs for issues.

> No LLMs for pull requests.

> No LLMs for comments on the bug tracker, including translation. English is encouraged, but not required. You are welcome to post in your native language and rely on others to have their own translation tools of choice to interpret your words.

If they would accept issues filed by AI or written by AI, they should edit their policy to say that.

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

benced — Fri, 08 May 2026 19:55:59 +0000

Next decade seems possibly false - if Intel starts getting deals and commitments now, it takes them about half a decade to build a fab. Agree it seems unlikely though.

New comment by benced in "Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview"

benced — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:34:31 +0000

Yeah but Zig essentially has till Mythos releases (and arguably less time) to fix their policy. OSS that doesn't take LLM security reports at that point is a liability.

New comment by benced in "Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview"

benced — Fri, 08 May 2026 03:49:52 +0000

Reading this article in the context of the Zig folks refusing to even consider LLM-generated bugs certainly shapes my perspective on what technologies will be in my toolchain.

New comment by benced in "Why Almost Everyone Loses–Except a Few Sharks–On Prediction Markets"

benced — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:03:30 +0000

The value generation is for passive observers: it is theoretically more informative to be told that there is a y% chance of x from someone with a financial incentive to be right.

(also, we allow plenty of zero and negative sum interactions in society. I don't know why this is special.)