Hacker News: bengt

New comment by bengt in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

bengt — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:52:39 +0000

The location is the crux of the "lawful" part of the search.

New comment by bengt in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

bengt — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:49:16 +0000

He had an e-reader and phone. My solution would be set the phone's duress pin to the e-reader's actual pin then consent to the e-reader search providing its pin and see what happens.

The actual solution is cloud backup + re-image after the border.

New comment by bengt in "Git worktrees are not an isolation boundary for coding agents"

bengt — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:29:32 +0000

.worktreeinclude is probably part of the solution.

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/worktrees#copy-gitignored-fi...

New comment by bengt in "Killed by Apple"

bengt — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:28:22 +0000

I'd consider the functionality Aperture held to have been killed. I used it for years after 2015 due to a lack of a functional replacement that wasn't a subscription.

It still find myself missing what seems to be basic capabilities while using Photos.

New comment by bengt in "Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)"

bengt — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 04:40:37 +0000

I empathize with you in that once you publish a timeline people's expectations can be come unfair; so where is it‽ :)

New comment by bengt in "Let your Coding Agent debug the browser session with Chrome DevTools MCP"

bengt — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:12:14 +0000

Sounds awesome. I've been using mitmproxy's --mode local to intercept with a separate skill to read flow files dumped from it, but interactive is even better.

New comment by bengt in "Hacking Moltbook"

bengt — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:17:09 +0000

Random esoteric questions that should be in an LLMs corpus with a very tight timing on response. Could still use an "enslaved LLM" to answer them.

New comment by bengt in "Google's $1,800 foldable phone is first smartphone to explode in durability test"

bengt — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 15:42:41 +0000

Stuff like this is the reason why airlines say if your full phone falls into your seat to call flight attendant and to not un-recline it.

New comment by bengt in "Ask HN: I just abandoned my PyCharm subscription, what should I use now?"

bengt — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 01:22:54 +0000

Yeah, even to just know what's up it's probably important to try.

If switching between multiple editors you should look to include a .editorconfig file in your project to have 1 place to configure things.[1]

The following are the extensions I've found to use in VSCode / Cursor (these can be saved to / recommended to a project by being listed in the `.vscode/extensions.json` file).

* [2] Ruff

* [3] BasedPyright

* [4] Todo Tree

* [5] Rainbow CSV

* [6] Mermaid Chart (I’ve found Claude to be good at generating these)

* [7] Live Share

* [8] Even Better TOML

* [9] Error Lens

New comment by bengt in "Ask HN: I just abandoned my PyCharm subscription, what should I use now?"

bengt — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 13:22:09 +0000

My hunch is VSCode or more likely Cursor. I’ve spent some time this summer trying to get IDE independent tooling running and have settled on Ruff + basedpyright. Also switched over to using UV. You may want to look into Astral’s TY or facebook’s rust based Pyrefly if keen to alpha / beta test.

I found getting VSCode properly set up and figuring out what extensions were needed a real pain in the ass and have never found something as good as Pycharm’s Git integration.