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New comment by benjaminsky2 in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

benjaminsky2 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:17:50 +0000

Omg, did anyone else have to solve like 15 captchas while trying to signup for alerts? I gave up.

New comment by benjaminsky2 in "Homeschooling hits record numbers"

benjaminsky2 — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 19:10:39 +0000

If you ever end up incarcerated this will be invaluable:)

New comment by benjaminsky2 in "Regarding the Compact"

benjaminsky2 — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 22:42:52 +0000

I read the whole thing. Seems pretty fair to me, including the section prohibiting discrimination against conservative ideas. With all the coverage I expected something crazy.

New comment by benjaminsky2 in "A recent chess controversy"

benjaminsky2 — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 19:48:50 +0000

Vlad the Implier

New comment by benjaminsky2 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

benjaminsky2 — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 20:55:40 +0000

If your project is well organized and individual files are small and the dependency graph isn’t too crazy, Claude code does an amazing job building only the context it needs even as the project grows. You just have to be aggressive about refactoring for maintainability. The bonus here is that it’s easier for humans to work on too.

New comment by benjaminsky2 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

benjaminsky2 — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 14:40:03 +0000

This is awesome! I’m work with a team of analysts and data engineers who own a pretty big snowflake data warehouse. We write a ton of dbt models and have a range of sql skill levels on the team. This would be the perfect way to allow more junior devs to build their skills quickly and support more complex models.

I would recommend you target data warehouses like snowflake and bigquery where the query complexity and thus value prop for a tool like this is potentially much higher.

New comment by benjaminsky2 in "Do you avoid the news? You’re in growing company"

benjaminsky2 — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 04:48:29 +0000

Not to mention that they all use or amplify the exact same talking points at the exact same time.

New comment by benjaminsky2 in "Whom the gods would destroy, they first give real-time analytics (2013)"

benjaminsky2 — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 04:37:46 +0000

I’ve always built analytics daily by default, and certain metrics real-time - via a different system - only when a compelling and permanent use case exists (except operational analytics). I mean something like YouTube view counter/likes or delivering order count/total as a b2b2c so your customers can watch their promotions in real-time. Major bonus, you have the super complicated, hard to maintain, real-time system to point to when someone wants everything real-time but invested the minimum possible.

New comment by benjaminsky2 in "‘I respect myself too much to stay in Canada’: Why new immigrants are leaving"

benjaminsky2 — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 03:00:29 +0000

Maybe the star is a bigger publication than I’m aware of but it seems pretty hilarious for them to have a paywall.

New comment by benjaminsky2 in "The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models Forget"

benjaminsky2 — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 05:15:09 +0000

To extend the lossy compression hypothesis, human generated text is lossy compression of our sensory experience of reality while LLMs are lossy compression of that.

New comment by benjaminsky2 in "Show HN: Non.io, a Reddit-like platform Ive been working on for the last 4 years"

benjaminsky2 — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 23:23:13 +0000

I’m willing to give this a try if you can clean it up a bit. UX is rough on mobile. I also prefer subs to hashtags but whatever, I’m easy. I bailed on Reddit like 2yrs ago and there’s really no alternative that I can find except HN.

New comment by benjaminsky2 in "Google I/O: Big changes coming for SEOs with ubiquitous AI"

benjaminsky2 — Thu, 11 May 2023 12:39:39 +0000

I did that the other day. I cooked a kadai chicken recipe verbatim from ChatGPT. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t amazing either.

New comment by benjaminsky2 in "Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI”"

benjaminsky2 — Thu, 04 May 2023 13:17:49 +0000

> artist whose domain has not yet been disrupted by AI fires artist in favor of AI

New comment by benjaminsky2 in "Protecting himself while actively dooming hundreds of startups to failure"

benjaminsky2 — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 05:36:48 +0000

“Person I don’t like acts in rationally self interested manner, legally outperforming less informed parties in zero sum game”

Should we feel bad when we sell a stock and it goes down?

New comment by benjaminsky2 in "Yellen says government will help SVB depositors but rules out bailout"

benjaminsky2 — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 14:56:20 +0000

Founders aren’t the only ones who can make an 83b election. Regular employees can do so too if they’re allowed early exercise.

New comment by benjaminsky2 in "Room-temperature superconductor discovery meets with resistance"

benjaminsky2 — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 00:33:46 +0000

My thoughts exactly, and you can understand their motivation when they’ve “already received 20m in funding from …”

New comment by benjaminsky2 in "We will not ‘walk out’ of UK, nor comply with any request to bypass encryption"

benjaminsky2 — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 13:08:41 +0000

I got that same “protecting children” BS from Nancy Pelosi when I contacted her about something similar here. Her letter was phrased in a way that felt like I was being accused of trying to support child trafficking. It was actually pretty chilling.

New comment by benjaminsky2 in "Ask HN: Why did medium.com "fail"?"

benjaminsky2 — Sat, 11 Feb 2023 14:27:29 +0000

I love these. Someone posts a scathing critique of a company. Company representative responds with a mea culpa that misses the mark, and includes plans to fix. Top reply nails the actual problem, why the fix won’t work, and gets massive agreement. Company rep doesn’t respond.

You know it hits hard though. Hopefully they take it to heart. I like using medium as an author but HATE the “4 articles remaining” crap. I’ve been planning to move elsewhere but have been lazy. I’ve noticed from my readership numbers that I’m not alone.

New comment by benjaminsky2 in "Show HN: We built a developer-first open-source Zapier alternative"

benjaminsky2 — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 13:41:02 +0000

My experience with Zapier is that you quickly hit a point where you’re building an ultra complex expression or manipulating json in a less than ideal editor. Also your zap is basically the ast of the code you would have written and grows quickly. Code is far more terse.

That said, long running durable workflow tools that are targeted at devs all have challenges. There’s room for a Goldilocks solution. I’d imagine temporal will win though.