Hacker News: benjaminbenben

New comment by benjaminbenben in "The Prompt API"

benjaminbenben — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:42:57 +0000

We use this for summarising our hack day write ups: https://remotehack.space/previous-hacks/

It's a tiny script that looks up the rss feed and uses the content to generate summaries; quite a nice fit with our static site. Sometime I'd like to extend it to ask different questions about the content.

New comment by benjaminbenben in "Copilot committed my repo secrets into AGENTS.md"

benjaminbenben — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 23:25:04 +0000

Yep. When the credentials were used earlier on in the session they'd been scrubbed from the logs - so there's some checking, but not on the code that's committed.

New comment by benjaminbenben in "Copilot committed my repo secrets into AGENTS.md"

benjaminbenben — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 23:22:33 +0000

I was manually reviewing when I saw it. Was looking through the PR more out of interest than worried that there'd be a problem tbh.

Copilot committed my repo secrets into AGENTS.md

benjaminbenben — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 10:59:08 +0000

Article URL: https://bsky.app/profile/benfoxall.bsky.social/post/3mdcumabg6s2c

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46764160

Points: 12

# Comments: 6

Offline QR Codes

benjaminbenben — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 13:49:28 +0000

Article URL: https://benjaminbenben.com/2025/08/19/offline-qr-codes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44951514

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by benjaminbenben in "Tiny Code Reader: a $7 QR code sensor"

benjaminbenben — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 17:40:45 +0000

If you pair this with a eink display you could send messages back and forth with another device https://remotehack.space/QR-TX/

Show HN: Video Space, pose-aligned video playback

benjaminbenben — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:00:44 +0000

I’ve been playing with an idea for rendering video in the 3d space that it was captured. It’s an idea that I’ve been thinking about for a while, and it’s been fun to finally get it working.

There’s more info in the post. Tldr, I used COLMAP to extract camera poses from video frames, then three.js to align and render the video textures.

I'm happy with how the content is loaded, it uses a video element so the browser will be able to start loading frames before any of the component code is initialised.

Check it out and let me know what you think, or if there’s any good ideas of videos I should try.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44594159

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by benjaminbenben in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

benjaminbenben — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 21:56:21 +0000

I've been working on https://stacks.camera - it's an idea about overlaying the previous picture when you're taking a photo so you can create a timelapse or animation.

For example, you can scroll through 60 pictures from my window https://stacks.camera/u/ben/89n1HJNT

Most of the challenges are around handling images & rendering, but I've also been playing with Passkey-only authentication which I'm finding really interesting.

Replay Hacker News over time, Git-scraped every 20 min

benjaminbenben — Fri, 03 May 2024 13:29:16 +0000

Article URL: https://benjaminbenben.com/scrape/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40247451

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

I'm on a train, and there's free WiFi

benjaminbenben — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 22:28:14 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/benjaminbenben/status/1622686227722866696

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34685403

Points: 46

# Comments: 1

New comment by benjaminbenben in "Remote Hack – A monthly online hackday"

benjaminbenben — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 19:43:35 +0000

We've been running this since March last year.

It started as a "traditional hack day" with themes, teams etc, but we've morphed it into a more casual get together with random people working on fun stuff. We'd love to get more people involved!

Remote Hack – A monthly online hackday

benjaminbenben — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 19:37:08 +0000

Article URL: https://remotehack.space/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25932840

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

I built a tiny collaborative code editor

benjaminbenben — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 11:59:09 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/benjaminbenben/status/1323212703540936704

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24967123

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Hiding page source in chrome/ff

benjaminbenben — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 09:38:03 +0000

Article URL: https://benjaminbenben.com/hide-source/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14146554

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Hexspector – in-browser hex viewer

benjaminbenben — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 16:19:58 +0000

Article URL: https://benjaminbenben.com/hexspector/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13436930

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Dithering with canvas

benjaminbenben — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 10:54:51 +0000

Article URL: http://benjaminbenben.com/dither/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12862830

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Cardboard hacks throughout October

benjaminbenben — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 13:54:57 +0000

Article URL: http://cardboctober.xyz

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12627425

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by benjaminbenben in "CoJS – Broadcast/follow JavaScript editor"

benjaminbenben — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 12:18:57 +0000

I've been working on this over the last couple of weeks. The idea is that you can can start a session (click the number at the bottom and choose "independent"). Then other devices can subscribe to it (by entering the id as 'other').

I've built it for: * demos during talks * workshop/hack sessions

…seems to work okay so far, but I'd love to know what people think.

CoJS – Broadcast/follow JavaScript editor

benjaminbenben — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 12:15:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cojs.co/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12274962

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

Cursory hack – Fake address bar interaction

benjaminbenben — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 09:22:27 +0000

Article URL: https://jameshfisher.github.io/cursory-hack/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12260444

Points: 107

# Comments: 40