Hacker News: benhurmarcel

New comment by benhurmarcel in "DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017"

benhurmarcel — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:57:32 +0000

I'm curious why you use Opus for planning and Sol for reviewing, instead of the same for both? Do you find they are better for those tasks?

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Muse Spark Open"

benhurmarcel — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:07:46 +0000

What you don't one-shot rewrite your entire codebase every time a model comes out?

New comment by benhurmarcel in "An Apology"

benhurmarcel — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 07:07:07 +0000

It's very well documented how to silence an Airtag, it doesn't take a drill.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Ask HN: CAD for wood working with LLM support?"

benhurmarcel — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:34:26 +0000

How do you prompt it? It seems it would be difficult to describe a 3d geometry correctly just with text. Do you provide hand-made sketches?

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Ask HN: CAD for wood working with LLM support?"

benhurmarcel — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:29:28 +0000

Maybe they used the same LLM model

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Show HN: Pulse Local, a Mac budgeting app whose AI models run on your machine"

benhurmarcel — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 08:23:36 +0000

The first thing I look for on that kind of page is a screenshot. Those shouldn't be so far down. Also way before showing your app, you show a massive video of a leaf, that's not what people are looking for.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Thunderbird for iOS"

benhurmarcel — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 07:38:25 +0000

It has a few annoyances. For example it doesn't let you see which email address the sender used, or to which of your email addresses it was sent, instead it only shows the person's name. Also it can't attach pictures without having them inline.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Firefox Enterprise"

benhurmarcel — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:11:59 +0000

Exactly. My company mandates Chrome or Edge with no extensions for work, and the SSO only works with these. I use Firefox in the side for browsing because IT doesn’t control it and I can block ads.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Visa, Mastercard, major banks facing new litigation over 'anticompetitive' fees"

benhurmarcel — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:11:47 +0000

It's getting more common but it's still not practical.

Typically on the web you need to select your bank, get redirected to your bank's website with a pre-filled transfer you validate, approve 2FA on your phone app, and then the purchase gets confirmed only 1 or 2 business days later when the transfer gets received.

I see small businesses just give you their IBAN too, and you need to manually add it and make a transfer. Not seamless at all.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Gemini 4 Argon"

benhurmarcel — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:05:35 +0000

My company is on Enterprise Plus, and we're still on 3.6 flash.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Gemini 4 Argon"

benhurmarcel — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:58:36 +0000

I also only have access to 3.6 flash on both my free personal account, and my professional Enterprise account.

Google just takes months to roll out their models to everyone.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability"

benhurmarcel — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:19:54 +0000

They skimp on plastic buttons, you think they'll include a HUD?

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Dots: Always-on agents"

benhurmarcel — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 09:26:24 +0000

The agent needs you to pay for the subscription

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell"

benhurmarcel — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 21:08:02 +0000

I did some spreadsheets that included matrix math. It would have been convenient to store the whole matrix into a single cell.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Best LLM for every budget, updated daily"

benhurmarcel — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:20:07 +0000

Same thing. I'm sure a subscription would be better value if I had enough usage, but I don't. With Deepseek or similar a few $ is quite a bit of usage already.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service"

benhurmarcel — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 20:01:47 +0000

Sounds like git annex assistant https://git-annex.branchable.com/assistant/

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite"

benhurmarcel — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:47:45 +0000

In a corporate context it's basically impossible for employees to host an app anywhere. So an app that works entirely locally and you can send to colleagues sounds useful.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Chopping up books when they're physically too big"

benhurmarcel — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:47:18 +0000

It doesn't work that much on sites which organize comments in a tree, like HN or Reddit. You can just fold that part of the thread.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking"

benhurmarcel — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:44:01 +0000

Google takes a long time to roll out models in general. Both my personal and work accounts still have only 3.6 Flash, even though 3.8 was released 2 weeks ago and 3.7 more than a month ago.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "New $100K H-1B Visa Fee Pushes Tech Jobs Offshore"

benhurmarcel — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:14:11 +0000

Ranking by salary would basically mean ranking by industry, not just skill