Hacker News: benguild

New comment by benguild in "Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents"

benguild — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:13:16 +0000

Apple Container is an interesting work in progress: https://github.com/apple/container

New comment by benguild in "Fable is not a useful model"

benguild — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:30:11 +0000

It seems like Opus is a lot slower than Fable, or it’s throttled

New comment by benguild in "Resetting Xbox"

benguild — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:40:27 +0000

The hardware side doesn’t make sense as much anymore. I mean if we have these massive cloud datacenters for AI and people can’t even have disc copies then why

New comment by benguild in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

benguild — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:58:05 +0000

This sucks. It’s better to have physical copies for retro gaming down the road

New comment by benguild in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

benguild — Mon, 11 May 2026 10:58:28 +0000

“The only people I've heard saying that generated code is fine are those who don't read it.” Are you sure these people aren’t busy working rather than chatting? (haha)

But in all seriousness it depends on what you’re doing with it. Writing a quick tool using an LLM is much easier than context changing to write it yourself. If you need the tool, that’s very valuable.

New comment by benguild in "Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others"

benguild — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:16:24 +0000

The fact that they’d exclude “.git” and other things without being transparent about it is scandalous

Cydintosh Turns Your Cheap Yellow Display into a Macintosh Plus

benguild — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:28:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hackster.io/news/cydintosh-turns-your-cheap-yellow-display-into-a-macintosh-plus-and-connects-it-to-home-assistant-f18c65fb215f

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47751009

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by benguild in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

benguild — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 05:31:22 +0000

“Great, now let’s see California…” - Patrick Bateman

New comment by benguild in "Bucketsquatting is finally dead"

benguild — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 06:25:09 +0000

If you try to create a new iOS/macOS software project and sign it with a "com.apple." prefix in the bundle ID, Apple's system blocks it… for example.

It's pretty clear this type of ID'ing is an issue in general, unfortunately. Companies often protect themselves as a band-aid but not others in the same situations since the problems aren't frequent enough to warrant a design change. So, when it does become a problem, it could end up being a deep one.

New comment by benguild in "Second Win11 emergency out of band update to address disastrous Patch Tuesday"

benguild — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 05:36:52 +0000

are they vibe coding?

New comment by benguild in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

benguild — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 07:17:31 +0000

https://benguild.com

New comment by benguild in "The fuck off contact page"

benguild — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 12:12:13 +0000

This website is a great example of when I’d want to use reader mode in my browser and it also breaks that

New comment by benguild in "Seed. LINE's Custom Typeface"

benguild — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 11:23:54 +0000

is this necessary?

New comment by benguild in "Apple Removes Tea Dating Apps over Privacy Violations and User Complaints"

benguild — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 07:19:17 +0000

prev: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44732995

> Ask HN: Why is "Tea" still on the App Store after so many data breaches?

> Furthermore, it’s being promoted in the “Top Charts” while the “App Privacy” card says they only collect email addresses.

Apple Removes Tea Dating Apps over Privacy Violations and User Complaints

benguild — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 07:18:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/22/apple-removes-tea-dating-apps/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45679125

Points: 25

# Comments: 2

New comment by benguild in "Fartscroll-Lid: An app that plays fart sounds when opening or closing a MacBook"

benguild — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 02:43:51 +0000

Been waiting for this

Ask HN: Why is "Tea" still on the App Store after so many data breaches?

benguild — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 11:47:02 +0000

Furthermore, it’s being promoted in the “Top Charts” while the “App Privacy” card says they only collect email addresses.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44732995

Points: 100

# Comments: 70

An AI-Powered Spell Checker for the TI-84

benguild — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 00:45:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hackster.io/news/an-ai-powered-spell-checker-for-the-ti-84-ddc3f5d8706b

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44599989

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by benguild in "NINA: Rebuilding the original AIM, AOL Desktop, Yahoo and ICQ platforms"

benguild — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 10:10:04 +0000

the sad thing about this is what made it magical before was the people that were on there, and it’s impossible to get that back now!

New comment by benguild in "AI is turning Apple into a "loser""

benguild — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 13:30:33 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44519452 I just posted that the Foundation Models aren’t really delivering much confidence