<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: bengotow</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bengotow</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:08:37 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bengotow" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bengotow in "Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just want to drive by and mention - a friend told me to play DDLC and I was highly skeptical given the anime pin-up girl art style. I eventually gave in and gave it a shot.<p>It's an amazing "playable story" unlike anything I have ever played. Super creative and well worth the couple hours it takes to play. I think it could use a few trigger warnings and it should be rated PG-13 / R, but there's stuff on Netflix 10x more disturbing so I don't quite grok the Google push back on this one.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:37:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47744198</link><dc:creator>bengotow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47744198</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47744198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bengotow in "Why am I no longer qualified to be a Brex customer?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's unfortunate... I feel like every startup I know of just recently switched to Brex. I wonder how many are being kicked off the service.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2022 00:44:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31772774</link><dc:creator>bengotow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31772774</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31772774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bengotow in "An updated daily front page of The New York Times as artwork on your wall"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ahh this is super cool! Looking at the Visionect product line and their website isn’t entirely clear - do you need to pay a subscription fee for the cloud service that manages the device settings? This would be a great piece of office art but will be a much harder sell if there’s a paid cloud component...<p>EDIT: Answered my own question. The cloud software is included and you can run it yourself, they just optionally allow you to use their hosted version: <a href="https://docs.visionect.com/VisionectSoftwareSuite/Installation.html" rel="nofollow">https://docs.visionect.com/VisionectSoftwareSuite/Installati...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2020 23:17:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25064181</link><dc:creator>bengotow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25064181</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25064181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bengotow in "The Fall of Silicon Valley"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Great read, but remember this is the guy that also recently authored "Why I'm voting for Kanye West".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2020 04:03:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24915057</link><dc:creator>bengotow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24915057</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24915057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bengotow in "Modeling a Wealth Tax"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wow, this ignores both the "floor" below which you would not be subject to the wealth tax (in the US, most recently by Elizabeth Warren, this has been discussed as $50M+), and ALSO fails to take into account that you would be growing your principal at ~3-8% a year through investment, etc.<p>Sure, I guess with no floor on the tax and with your money just literally sitting in a pile, the government would eventually take a lot of it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2020 13:35:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24198334</link><dc:creator>bengotow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24198334</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24198334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bengotow in "What’s Flying Above Us?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oh jeez this is cool. The least we can do is get this guy a working Macbook Pro to continue his work. Donated!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2020 18:14:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24190045</link><dc:creator>bengotow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24190045</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24190045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bengotow in "US post office carriers "forced to work fewer hours," leaving "buckets of mail""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hmm, it does make sense, but I think delaying carriers from starting their routes probably put backpressure on the upstream team to complete their work on time. Really hard to say if this is good or bad without more knowledge of the internal incentive structures that keep the system running smoothly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2020 16:48:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24188992</link><dc:creator>bengotow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24188992</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24188992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bengotow in "Twitter Takedown Targets QAnon Accounts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think that this is a really meaningful step. The ability to find community around a conspiracy theory or a wildly unacceptable belief on a mainstream site reinforces that it is valid. If high schoolers discovering QAnon for the first time have to log into a dumpy looking twitter clone, they'll know that they have turned off the highway onto a sketchy back road of the internet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2020 13:49:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23916925</link><dc:creator>bengotow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23916925</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23916925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bengotow in "Searchable PPP Loan Data"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is great! I wish it was searchable by bank though. I heard that a local bank was making some interesting choices about who they helped through the PPP program and I'd love to pull up all the results by Lender.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2020 17:18:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23761491</link><dc:creator>bengotow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23761491</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23761491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bengotow in "Disclosure: Another macOS privacy protections bypass"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wait, so you can just duplicate an app that has more privileges than your app, modify it, and run it to exploit it's access?<p>This is a pretty glaring security issue actually - after reading this, it seems like Apple's choice to track app permissions / security exceptions by the app's bundle ID and not its file path was a pretty big mistake.<p>I wonder if this is a case of iOS security engineers working on macOS, forgetting that app bundle IDs aren't enforced by a central install flow on the platform?</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.sequoiacap.com/remote-jobs">https://www.sequoiacap.com/remote-jobs</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23250161">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23250161</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2020 18:33:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.sequoiacap.com/remote-jobs</link><dc:creator>bengotow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23250161</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23250161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bengotow in "The draft Bill for upcoming $2.x trillion stimulus package [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Buried in here there is a nice bit about expanding access to Vote-By-Mail, so that's nice. I know the democratic party has been pushing for this to be mandatory and un-burdened by extra rules for a while:<p>"""
If  an  individual  in  a  State  is  eligible  to  cast  a  vote  in  an  election  for  Federal  office,  the  State  may  not  impose  any  additional  conditions  or  requirements  on  the  eligibility  of  the  individual  to  cast  the  vote  in  such  election  by  absentee ballot by mail
"""</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2020 23:50:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22680343</link><dc:creator>bengotow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22680343</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22680343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bengotow in "The draft Bill for upcoming $2.x trillion stimulus package [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wait, are bills always typeset like this? It's no wonder it's 1000 pages, there are only ~150 words per page. This would fit in 300 pages if it was book-set (and that doesn't seem like too much to ask everyone to read before voting.)<p>It's almost like this is designed to be frustrating to read, with narrow lines, split words and extra whitespace. Lovely.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2020 23:41:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22680269</link><dc:creator>bengotow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22680269</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22680269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bengotow in "Disney+ Might Have a Notable Hacker Problem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hmm - is there a good summary of this argument I could read? I torrented many years ago and it always felt like stealing and still does. Seems more or less equivalent to shoplifting to me from a moral standpoint, would be curious to read into this!<p>(I'm assuming this is not the "oh I actually pay and I just want to watch it on an unsupported device" argument)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2019 19:56:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21567565</link><dc:creator>bengotow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21567565</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21567565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bengotow in "Ask HN: How did you build up your personal knowledge base?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I realize this may not be the place for this comment, but a few of these comments got me thinking.<p>Human memory is squishy, and that's great. You retain facts + feelings that help you make future decisions and everything else is integrated into smaller and smaller summaries until it fades away entirely. I spent years clinging to every experience wanting not to forget anything, and being horrified when I couldn't remember. I documented everything. I wanted my memory to work more like infinite dropbox storage and less like a tool, evolved over millions of years, to keep me safe and making good choices.<p>These days, my personal knowledge base is whatever I've bothered to remember. Usually I don't know I've kept something tucked away until I'm in the middle of a conversation and realize it's still there. My memory of events shifts and degrades over time, and I'm fine with that.<p>If you don't use a tool to document every page you visit and every thing you read or learn, that's completely fine too. It all fades away eventually, and if it remains relevant enough you'll hold on to the important bits.<p>The real power-up isn't keeping it all, it's being able to  change and grow, with just enough focus on the past to make good choices.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2019 17:54:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21337074</link><dc:creator>bengotow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21337074</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21337074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bengotow in "Kim Jong Un May Be Hiding a Hog Apocalypse from the World"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>God do they proof read these articles at all? The image right at the top is captioned: "Workers wearing protective sourround pigs at a farm". Misspelled AND missing a noun :-/</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2019 04:58:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21245366</link><dc:creator>bengotow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21245366</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21245366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bengotow in "Personal information and ads on Twitter"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah this is hilarious. I feel like tech companies get away with this because the internet is more "mysterious".<p>This is no different than a chemical plant "accidentally" building a conduit a quarter mile and dumping waste into a river. Of course they know.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2019 21:11:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21197315</link><dc:creator>bengotow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21197315</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21197315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bengotow in "A multithreaded fork of Redis that is faster"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Same! I'd also be curious to hear about production scenarios that would really benefit from Redis going 5x faster. It's pretty darn fast to start with!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2019 17:00:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21183165</link><dc:creator>bengotow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21183165</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21183165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bengotow in "Apple’s New Mac Pro to Be Made in Texas"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This line caught my attention:<p>"The US manufacturing of Mac Pro is made possible following a federal product exclusion Apple is receiving for certain necessary components."<p>Is this sort of a "if you don't make us pay tarrifs on component X, we'll build component Y in the USA?"<p>Also I'm happy to see Apple doing this. Even if it's 50% press fluff, I think it'll make other companies in the industry think harder about their own practices because Apple commands such a great reputation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2019 16:10:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21050229</link><dc:creator>bengotow</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21050229</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21050229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bengotow in "iOS 13’s privacy pop-ups of Facebook data grabs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ahh actually this makes a lot of sense. The thing is, I don't "pair" the scooter I ride - maybe it's Bluetooth LE?<p>Actually, I have an android phone around here somewhere loaded up with a BLE inspector app, gonna see if they actually broadcast bluetooth :-p</p>
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