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New comment by benhurmarcel in "Mistral raises €3B"

benhurmarcel — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 09:46:43 +0000

That's pretty high for engineering in France though. Most engineers by far are way below that there, this is top management level.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Ask HN: Advice on Migrating from 1Password?"

benhurmarcel — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:02:25 +0000

But you still need to store the login and version number for each domain in a database. And provide the secret key. At this point you might as well store the encrypted password along with the rest.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Tim Cook Sold Out Steve Jobs (2025)"

benhurmarcel — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:07:47 +0000

There are ads in the Apps Store, and in Maps. Also ads for iCloud subscriptions in the settings if you don't use it.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Woman stranded in Spain after UK's eVisa system mistakes her for twin sister"

benhurmarcel — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:59:29 +0000

There is no requirement about that here. Anyway I only provide a printed copy, which the employee visually compares to the person.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Woman stranded in Spain after UK's eVisa system mistakes her for twin sister"

benhurmarcel — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:45:46 +0000

I just did an ID picture for a 1 month old. I just did it flat on a bed and used a Nano Banana model to clean it up to match requirements.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?"

benhurmarcel — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:27:54 +0000

You underestimate the amount of detailed tedious work that is done in those fields. It’s far from being all about architectural blueprints.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Cloudflare's new AI traffic options for customers"

benhurmarcel — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 14:20:07 +0000

I’ve been blocked by Turnstile without possibility of challenge, no way to access nor know why. And it was with standard iOS and Windows machines and no VPN or anything. It happens.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Back to Kagi"

benhurmarcel — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:52:47 +0000

I do the same thing, I only use Kagi when the result I want isn’t obvious, so the cheap plan is plenty. It’s easy to do with the browser’s shortcuts.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Airbus Takes Flight from AWS"

benhurmarcel — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:15:27 +0000

Well I don’t miss the days of sending Word and Excel files as attachments back and forth to collaborate

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Airbus Takes Flight from AWS"

benhurmarcel — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:12:41 +0000

Because you could get a bug fixed in Outlook before?

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Global Warming at 3 °C by 2050? What's Behind the New German Climate Warning"

benhurmarcel — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:50:42 +0000

No, it’s 18°F. This is a temperature difference, not an absolute temperature, the conversion isn’t the same.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn"

benhurmarcel — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:20:15 +0000

By email this is true but you can’t do that as well by chat or texts. You only get one thread per contact.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "CarPlay Is Additive"

benhurmarcel — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:54:01 +0000

When I plan to use a rental car I usually pack a phone holder that fits on air vents. You never know if you’ll be able to connect your phone to the car so that’s a small backup.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

benhurmarcel — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:21:19 +0000

It has its quirks. For example it can’t attach an image without inlining it. Or if the sender has several email addresses saved it can’t show which one sent you a particular email. And it can’t show you which of your email addresses received a given email.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

benhurmarcel — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:41:54 +0000

Because you don't trust Google either, so you're out of realistic options

New comment by benhurmarcel in "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"

benhurmarcel — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:32:49 +0000

> If there's a conflict on the server and your change cannot be applied, your change is rolled back on your client

Do you lose your data then? Or are you thrown back into the form after it closed?

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)"

benhurmarcel — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:01:18 +0000

Only if you actually try to achieve them

New comment by benhurmarcel in "It's Not Just X. It's Y"

benhurmarcel — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:04:56 +0000

Exactly, without talking about automated checkers or publishing policies, if a text gives readers the impression is was LLM-generated it will affect how they judge it.

Recently a contractor presented a small internal tool they made for a very specific task. The UI text gave a direct impression to be entirely LLM-generated with no human edition. It makes the entire tool look vibe-coded, affecting how we judge it. Now I question whether they even reviewed the functionality correctness, which I wouldn't doubt if the UI didn't look generated.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"

benhurmarcel — Sun, 31 May 2026 20:04:32 +0000

I got locked out of some websites by Cloudflare Turnstile on some very standard configurations, like an iPhone on Safari, or a Windows 11 desktop with Firefox or Edge, neither with a VPN on. I never found out why.

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

benhurmarcel — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:23:17 +0000

Now add up the engineer’s salary and you’ll find that software seats already cost more than those R&D ones.