Hacker News: benjaminjt

New comment by benjaminjt in "Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes"

benjaminjt — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 10:14:46 +0000

Agree. Even just “secret” would be fine for the private key. Maybe pair it with “identity” or “id”.

New comment by benjaminjt in "Being fat is a trap"

benjaminjt — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 14:16:36 +0000

Yeah, I think accountability is a straw man.

If you make it cheaper, easier and more socially acceptable for a group of people to eat low quality processed foods, even a portion of the time (as is the case where I live), that group of people will be more likely to eat processed foods.

It’s not impossible to follow the advice in the in the article, it’s just harder than it should be for some groups of people. Unfairly so, I think.

New comment by benjaminjt in "‘Extraordinary’ hacking powers pass Australian Parliament"

benjaminjt — Thu, 26 Aug 2021 11:38:49 +0000

I wrote to my local federal "representative", just as I did with the Assistance and Access Act. I convinced others to contact theirs too. But even if we convince one politician that they should vote no, I strongly suspect they would vote with their party anyway. It just doesn't feel like representative democracy any more.

New comment by benjaminjt in "Complete protection by single dose skin patch delivered SARS-CoV-2 spike vaccine"

benjaminjt — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 04:26:54 +0000

The University of Queensland website has a nice summary [0] if you're in a hurry:

> The University of Texas Hexapro vaccine candidate – delivered via the UQ-developed and Vaxxas-commercialised high-density microarray patch (HD-MAP) – provided protection against COVID-19 disease with a single, pain-free ‘click’ from a pocket-sized applicator.

[0] https://stories.uq.edu.au/news/2021/needle-free-covid-19-vac...

Entropy as a Service

benjaminjt — Sun, 19 Jan 2020 14:04:07 +0000

Article URL: https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/Entropy-as-a-Service

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22091468

Points: 4

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New comment by benjaminjt in "Build Yourself a Redux"

benjaminjt — Sat, 06 May 2017 08:51:21 +0000

Neither React nor Redux really prescribe an architecture so building an app with these libraries requires some extra thought over just using a framework. An approach I often see is to use Redux as a single state container in a monolithic flux architecture (which seems to be referred to as "Redux") but this has advantages and disadvantages, and is certainly not the only way to use these libraries.

If you're going to go down the flux path, I would suggest you map out the minimal state which can completely represent your user interface (store structure), then list all the state mutations (actions) which you expect to affect this state. That might help you build up clear picture for how to develop your CRM app.

It's good to keep in mind that at the end of the day React and Redux are just tools, and it is up to you how to use them.

New comment by benjaminjt in "Taxi Medallion Prices Are Plummeting, Endangering Loans"

benjaminjt — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 03:15:52 +0000

Wasn't the system that you seem to be condemning at least in part exploiting taxi drivers? Why wouldn't that earn them your sympathy?

New comment by benjaminjt in "Deepstream.io – Open Realtime Server"

benjaminjt — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 13:15:05 +0000

I know the question wasn't directed to me, but the animation on the 'Cluster Messaging'[1] page really helped me understand.

[1] https://deepstream.io/tutorials/core/cluster-messaging/

New comment by benjaminjt in "Deepstream.io – Open Realtime Server"

benjaminjt — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 13:09:01 +0000

This is a really good point actually. I particularly liked the overview of other realtime libraries[1] for the honesty factor, and it really helped me understand how it relates to more familiar frameworks too.

[1] https://deepstream.io/blog/realtime-framework-overview/

New comment by benjaminjt in "Australian Census 2016: Error messages abound"

benjaminjt — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 11:15:43 +0000

Confirmation from the ABS after denying any issues for over an hour: https://twitter.com/ABSCensus/status/762961251764805633

New comment by benjaminjt in "Show HN: Flexbox Defense – learn CSS flexbox by playing a tower defense game"

benjaminjt — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 03:32:29 +0000

Good point actually; you could extend this with a number of properties to make an awesome learn-while-you-play td game for CSS more generally... keep us posted ;)

New comment by benjaminjt in "How do Promises Work?"

benjaminjt — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 22:19:49 +0000

Nice summary! I wish I had this when I started getting into Promises a couple of months ago.

For a really interesting look ahead to how Promises (and more!) might address sync/async symmetry in ES6/7, check this out: https://youtu.be/DqMFX91ToLw