Hacker News: bennett_dev

Compressing a flag to 11 bits

bennett_dev — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 15:57:43 +0000

Article URL: https://read.vantezzen.io/miniflags

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49673689

Points: 179

# Comments: 72

New comment by bennett_dev in "Understanding the recent DDoS attack against Read the Docs"

bennett_dev — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:00:22 +0000

Interesting that the Under Attack Mode wasn’t used at all here. I understand not wanting to break APIs but I feel temporarily challenging non-API usage could have at least helped without impacting users too much?

Decoding Google's Gclid

bennett_dev — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:33:21 +0000

Article URL: https://read.vantezzen.io/gclid

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49535988

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by bennett_dev in "Voyager 1 FDS Computer Emulator"

bennett_dev — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:38:25 +0000

Next add realistic signal delay so you have to wait a day to get the result

Show HN: State of the Feed – TikTok usage analyzed

bennett_dev — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:27:24 +0000

Hey HN, I'm the creator of "Wrapped for TikTok" - like Spotify Wrapped but for TikTok.

Users can upload their TikTok data export to get a summary of their time on the platform, and can optionally donate their data to be used by academic research. We now have almost 17k users who donated their data. With "State of the Feed" I wanted to make some of the research happening behind the scenes more visible.

The current research focussed on comparing 2024 to 2026 data, which showed some interesting downward-trends: time per video decreased, overall time on TikTok increased, bedtime went later.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49113768

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Show HN: How Loud Is My Hotel?

bennett_dev — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:32:56 +0000

Hey HN, I build "How Loud Is My Hotel?" as a simple way to check for possible loud noise near a hotel (or any other address) before booking it.

I've had some negative experiences in the past so this automatically checks for things like nearby Clubs, Police Stations with sirens, big roads, railroads etc. and gives you a "noise score" based on them.

It's free, works worldwide and needs no account. It estimates outside noise risk rather than measuring decibels, so building insulation and temporary noise aren’t included.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48657762

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

Ableton Extensions SDK

bennett_dev — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:39:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ableton.com/en/live/extensions/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48389681

Points: 173

# Comments: 97

Building a read-only P2P SQLite Database in the browser

bennett_dev — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:12:03 +0000

Article URL: https://read.vantezzen.io/swarm-sqlite

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48280139

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

What Matters in Practical Learned Image Compression

bennett_dev — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:41:36 +0000

Article URL: https://apple.github.io/ml-pico/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134031

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by bennett_dev in "This Month in Ladybird – April 2026"

bennett_dev — Sun, 03 May 2026 08:31:02 +0000

AFAIK Ladybird is separated from SerenityOS completely now (https://hackaday.com/2024/07/02/fork-ladybird-browser-and-se...) so the Ladybird contributors can fully focus on it

New comment by bennett_dev in "I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers"

bennett_dev — Fri, 01 May 2026 07:55:56 +0000

Sounds similar to Vercel‘s portless CLI (https://portless.sh/)

New comment by bennett_dev in "Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0"

bennett_dev — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:52:07 +0000

There was a nice task on 39c3 https://youtu.be/3OAiOfCcYFM

They do try to upstream and eventually just have Linux natively support Apple Silicon!

The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US

bennett_dev — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 08:52:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/news/899172/fcc-foreign-router-ban

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47500054

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

New comment by bennett_dev in "Show HN: Elysia JIT "Compiler", why it's one of the fastest JavaScript framework"

bennett_dev — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:55:53 +0000

I'm not familiar with Elysia but how does this handle subfunctions? e.g. if my code is

const app = new Elysia() .patch('/user/:id', (request) => { return handleUserRequest(request); })

or some other custom logic, does it automatically need to fall back to full parsing?

New comment by bennett_dev in "IsoCoaster – Theme Park Builder"

bennett_dev — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:26:03 +0000

Such an interesting showcase of history. RCT was a masterpiece written in Assembly from hand. Looking at code from OpenRCT2 you can really see the thought behind it.

Now ISO Coaster really is a badly slipped together adaptation. A lot of details don’t make sense, graphics often look weird and performance is terrible - all while using tons of compute resources.

New comment by bennett_dev in "HTTP Cats"

bennett_dev — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 09:43:41 +0000

Same - most of the time I just directly open the specific status (e.g https://http.cat/504 )

New comment by bennett_dev in "We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports"

bennett_dev — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:07:10 +0000

Nothing to do with politics and everything to do with crappy AI slop. There was some list somewhere of some of those reports and it was painful to look at

New comment by bennett_dev in "Show HN: DevicePrint – device fingerprinting without cookies"

bennett_dev — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:07:41 +0000

What differentiates this from http://fingerprint.com/?

Visited for the first time and it said I already visited 800+ times with a 99.5% accurancy - not very promising. From the code this also looks like very simple client-side fingerprinting + IP information?

Date-fns 3.6.0 increased install size from 4.7MB to 21.1MB

bennett_dev — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 13:28:07 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/date-fns/date-fns/issues/4120

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46204708

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by bennett_dev in "Show HN: Q.js – Smaller than React/Vue, yet more powerful (40KB gzipped)"

bennett_dev — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 07:30:25 +0000

Exactly my thoughts. The whole time scrolling I thought „and now a full example? Ah no, another block of extreme details I dont need“. If it’s so easy and great - just show me what it looks like