Hacker News: bengale

New comment by bengale in "CursorBench 3.1"

bengale — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:23:54 +0000

It’s starting to feel like people need to say what language/stack and problem space they’re working in. It would be interesting to see why we’re seeing such wild variance.

New comment by bengale in "Kids bypass age verification with fake moustaches"

bengale — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:23:28 +0000

There are some funny videos of people in pubs in the UK discussing how bad the incoming drink drive rules were, it's a similar deal I think. No one likes being restricted from something they've been allowed to do.

New comment by bengale in "Tiled Words 6 Month Update"

bengale — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 10:44:26 +0000

I told my friend that in my mind I add five minutes every time she does it, but 30 seconds is probably more fair.

Perhaps not being able to use them for the first few minutes, but I guess it's not ideal to make it more annoying for people not playing by our shame rules!

New comment by bengale in "Tiled Words 6 Month Update"

bengale — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:37:46 +0000

We have a little group chat going where we compete each day to be the fastest to complete these. We could do with some sort of time penalty for reveals or something because right now we just enforce that with pure shame!

Really enjoyable game.

New comment by bengale in "Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex"

bengale — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:13:41 +0000

I know some people have ideological things going on that make them choose different networks, but they have more than half a billion active users so it's not exactly a ghost town.

New comment by bengale in "Cursor 3"

bengale — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:46:04 +0000

Composer 2 is great tbh. It makes my over runs of the ultra plan much less painful.

New comment by bengale in "The Claude Code Leak"

bengale — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:16:08 +0000

Another swing and a miss from the AI police.

New comment by bengale in "Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise LiteLLM"

bengale — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:57:39 +0000

All these commenters just yell AI about every post and comment on here now. They have a worse hit rate than a blind marksman.

New comment by bengale in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

bengale — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:31:02 +0000

> I’ll remember this experience and choose to buy a more repairable laptop like a ThinkPad or a Framework laptop.

> Here’s hoping governments regulate laptop manufacturers to actually make repairable machines in the future.

So there is already a solution on the market but for some reason the immediate desire is for the government to get involved and start regulating laptop keyboards?

New comment by bengale in "Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit"

bengale — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:38:52 +0000

It’s interesting to see twists on the old anti-piracy arguments recycled for anti-ai.

New comment by bengale in "Make macOS consistently bad unironically"

bengale — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:05:37 +0000

That's not a thread you want to pull on, it applied to the majority of the comments on the internet.

New comment by bengale in "Make macOS consistently bad unironically"

bengale — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:01:36 +0000

I think for a lot of us mac users we never get contact with another OS so it can seem like the world is ending. Reality is the Tahoe is terrible compared to older versions, but still incredible compared to others. IMHO as ever.

New comment by bengale in "Make macOS consistently bad unironically"

bengale — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:58:18 +0000

Yeah this is my actual issue with Tahoe. It blows my mind people keep bringing up the corners when WindowServer is complete trash now.

New comment by bengale in "Apple Just Lost Me"

bengale — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:28:04 +0000

I feel like comprehension is lacking here.

1. The original comment was about Apple using their power to influence UK law.

2. That is bad, don't do that Apple.

3. If they want to do other things not legislated against they are free to do so.

New comment by bengale in "Apple Just Lost Me"

bengale — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:00:05 +0000

They can do whatever they want on their devices that is permissible in whatever jurisdiction they're selling into, but they don't get to choose to follow our laws. If we want those changed we'll do it at the ballot box.

New comment by bengale in "Apple Just Lost Me"

bengale — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:06:54 +0000

I think this law is the wrong way about doing what they're trying to do, but I also don't want US corps deciding what is and isn't permissible in our country.

New comment by bengale in "Apple Just Lost Me"

bengale — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:03:30 +0000

Indeed. For many of us it's a feature, not a bug.

New comment by bengale in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

bengale — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:30:38 +0000

Spot on take. The people I’ve noticed that say things like “it’s not useful” are the ones who are doing so little they can’t see the value.

This isn’t to say there’s not hype. Just that if you’re not seeing big productivity gains you need to make sure you really are an outlier and not just surplus to requirements.

New comment by bengale in "GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability"

bengale — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:12:27 +0000

Two?

New comment by bengale in "Bored of eating your own dogfood? Try smelling your own farts"

bengale — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:48:00 +0000

Do dogs like champagne?