Hacker News: benhurmarcel

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Got kicked out of uni and had the cops called for a social media website I made"

benhurmarcel — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:45:55 +0000

Publishing personal data scrapped from internal (private) sources is also a pretty major reason to take it down

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Music for Programming"

benhurmarcel — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:38:26 +0000

I was a bit annoyed when Somafm got blocked on our corporate proxy

New comment by benhurmarcel in "My Google Workspace account suspension"

benhurmarcel — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:59:15 +0000

Spotify did this for years in the beginning too. I remember this was the reason I didn’t use them until they proposed email logins.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

benhurmarcel — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:46:21 +0000

Most probably it can’t connect to the server without running IT-mandated security software that runs only on Windows

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Is it a pint?"

benhurmarcel — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:48:24 +0000

In France it’s 500mL and it’s actually called a pint

New comment by benhurmarcel in "You are not your job"

benhurmarcel — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:15:14 +0000

I don't know if it's so universal. My opinion is rather that most jobs will make your passion become dull.

I knew some airline pilots who loved flying, but didn't feel so much like it after decades.

I got into aerospace engineering because I liked all aspects of it. A couple decades of end-to-end meetings and "TPS reports" later, I'm not as passionate anymore. Some time ago I was excited about solving a practical issue by coding some new tool myself, a year of exchanges with management and IT has made me look forward to move on.

By all measures my company is pretty good in my industry, but the corporate life just has a way of sucking away passion.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

benhurmarcel — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:08:33 +0000

You would probably have sold early for a relatively small amount too.

I bought 10ish BTC at some point for almost nothing, sold them for a low 4-digit amount thinking they were stupid anyway. I still think they were stupid but it turns out they could have paid off my house easily. Oh well.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Push events into a running session with channels"

benhurmarcel — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:01:11 +0000

Honestly Whatsapp is nothing special. It works well, just like many other chat apps nowadays. The interest is that in some large parts of the world, everyone uses it already.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Put the zip code first"

benhurmarcel — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 08:28:15 +0000

I routinely have websites force me to put my street number after the street name, when here it's written before.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

benhurmarcel — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 08:30:34 +0000

A lot of people must schedule their day around school hours. You can't decide those.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

benhurmarcel — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:24:15 +0000

I mainly use it to read HN

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Addressing Antigravity Bans and Reinstating Access"

benhurmarcel — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 19:59:24 +0000

I just went through all accounts in my password manager, logged in and changed my email. It takes a little while but not that much.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away.""

benhurmarcel — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 07:46:01 +0000

Browsers are funded by ads

New comment by benhurmarcel in "How will OpenAI compete?"

benhurmarcel — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:30:25 +0000

> I don't care about the history.

I've actually been using the Gemini app more because it auto-deletes old history. I like using LLMs without thinking this is going to stick around forever.

Models are relatively interchangeable for day-to-day use anyway.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard"

benhurmarcel — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:03:42 +0000

I commute by bicycle so I choose my remote working times to avoid rain. So yes weather affects my day-to-day.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "No Skill. No Taste"

benhurmarcel — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:23:30 +0000

When somebody generates an app but doesn’t share it, does it make a noise?

New comment by benhurmarcel in "15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram"

benhurmarcel — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 10:27:19 +0000

> these people clearly aren't reading anything they're posting

I'm surprised they are able to care so little. Somebody actually published this and didn't care enough to even skim through it.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "You can't trust the internet anymore"

benhurmarcel — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:02:19 +0000

HN with invites is basically https://lobste.rs/

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you"

benhurmarcel — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:43:22 +0000

Right, at the same time the median salary for a full time job in the US is $5280/month, that €4450. In France it's €2183, half as much.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "The switch to Linux and the beginning of my self-hosting journey"

benhurmarcel — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 10:33:54 +0000

Exactly why I moved away from Linux on the desktop. I used for 10 years, dropped it after I got kids. I don't have the time and mental availability anymore to accept a low probablity of having to do PC maintenance any time I use it.