Hacker News: bendews

New comment by bendews in "Asus Bike Booster"

bendews — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 08:41:32 +0000

I have a heap of ebikes, all 250w and 25km/h limited. A Bosch performance line motor on a MTB going up a steep hill is effortless compared to a budget shimano motor where it can barely make it up no matter how much effort you put in to pedalling. Torque makes a big difference.

New comment by bendews in "RSI Simulator"

bendews — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:13:38 +0000

Interesting that revenue only exceeded costs once AGI was invented

New comment by bendews in "Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly"

bendews — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 03:36:39 +0000

I take photos underwater (<2m) with my iphones all the time, all the way back to the iphone 6, never had any issues.

New comment by bendews in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

bendews — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 04:42:10 +0000

That's the conundrum isn't it? Anyone that posts their datasets would be immediately sued/blocked/boycotted to oblivion due to the obvious and blatant data theft, not to mention IP and copyright issues.

New comment by bendews in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

bendews — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:18:25 +0000

By my calculations 100k could get you 18 5090's + compute to host them, or 18 96gb Mac mini's. You can get a lot of context window and users out of that setup.

New comment by bendews in "Claude Code runs Git reset –hard origin/main against project repo every 10 mins"

bendews — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:14:44 +0000

This HN account is also by the same user as github, this submission may be AI created. I wonder if they've let **claw run loose over their whole online presence and this is the result.

New comment by bendews in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

bendews — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 08:22:12 +0000

If any single country tried to create a whole production chain to single-handedly manufacture modern computer equipment it would be on the order of decades to see any result. Doing it on the moon is just not realistic this century, maybe the next one. Although i don't think the economics would ever work out.

New comment by bendews in "Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?"

bendews — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 10:55:50 +0000

Is this along the lines of rewind.ai, MSCopilot, screenpipe, or something else entirely?

Show HN: apw – A CLI for Apple Passwords

bendews — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 08:23:28 +0000

Hey HN,

I built apw as a simple CLI tool to manage Apple passwords, aiming to move away from third-party solutions. I have been hesitant to release it since Apple’s major updates to password management this year left me unsure if it would still be relevant or functional.

However, after using it consistently on macOS 15, I can confidently say it still works great! While Apple's Passwords.app has made significant strides, I find apw much more convenient for integrating with other tools like Raycast.

Would love your feedback!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41739100

Points: 2

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New comment by bendews in "Cyber Scarecrow"

bendews — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 09:36:03 +0000

Hmm my Namecheap domains keep the location details even with WHOIS privacy enabled. To be fair they are 7+ years old so maybe something has changed in that time?

New comment by bendews in "Cyber Scarecrow"

bendews — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 08:54:07 +0000

Lol, this website is registered to someone in Iceland, despite the assurance that it is a "security researcher living in the UK". I'm sure the results from this experiment will make a cool blog post about pwning tech savvy folks.

New comment by bendews in "An analysis of the Rabbit R1 APK"

bendews — Fri, 03 May 2024 10:10:44 +0000

my M1 Macbook air can run LLM's pretty well.. worse specs than the latest iPad Pro (and iPhone pro wouldn't be too far behind).

New comment by bendews in "Why did we wait so long for the bicycle? (2019)"

bendews — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 06:33:17 +0000

That photo you have provided is from a temple in Indonesia, and the Indian temple story you have summarised is regarded to be false, the carving in question was likely added during renovation during British rule.

New comment by bendews in "Facebook just started requiring EU users to choose: privacy or €9.99/month"

bendews — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 10:45:50 +0000

unless the account isn't important - don't. By the time you have a setup that isn't at the mercy of ISP outages, blackouts, misconfigurations etc. you have invested a load of time and money for not much gain.

New comment by bendews in "Show HN: Mathesar – open-source collaborative UI for Postgres databases"

bendews — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 00:41:13 +0000

Nothing constructive to say other than this is amazing. A very common idea but rarely done this well, great job!

New comment by bendews in "Australians scour desert for dangerous radioactive capsule smaller than a penny"

bendews — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 02:44:49 +0000

NYT does not have any reach in Australia, and especially so with the population that lives around where the capsule was misplaced.

New comment by bendews in "Jailbroken iOS can't run macOS apps – I spent a week to find out why (2021)"

bendews — Sun, 08 Jan 2023 10:59:29 +0000

The developer has to enable running on Mac, but for those that have they run really well. Most feel perfectly native even though they were designed for iPad.

New comment by bendews in "Why do new cars look like wet putty?"

bendews — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 00:20:04 +0000

> Wraps can be a cheaper option, but they also have a very different look than automotive paint.

The only people that notice the different look are those who "know", wraps serve the purpose for 95% of people at a fraction of the cost.

New comment by bendews in "Smartphones wiped out 97% of the compact camera market"

bendews — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 12:12:02 +0000

Even the iPhone 14 Pro with its very much upgraded camera can only *just* start to be within the same league as a standalone camera when it comes to dynamic range. Noise performance, detail resolution etc. are all still woefully inadequate. In any instance, a phone camera can take amazing shots (especially when in great light) but a very long way from being equal. Everybody has a different threshold for "good enough" however and they have met yours.

New comment by bendews in "Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10B this year"

bendews — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 02:00:47 +0000

Amazon (the marketplace) invests it's revenue aggressively, although this serves as a loss on paper there is still a benefit to generating that revenue in the first place as it serves as investment dollars for other parts of the business