Hacker News: bennyg

New comment by bennyg in "Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised"

bennyg — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 23:54:52 +0000

I didn't say generate :) - in all seriousness, I think you could reasonably have it copy the code for e.g. lodash.merge() and paste it into your codebase without the headaches you're describing. IMO, this method would be practical for a majority of npm deps in prod code. There are some I'd want to rely on the lib (and its maintenance over time), but also... a sort function is a sort function.

New comment by bennyg in "Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised"

bennyg — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:23:37 +0000

Sounds like the job for an LLM tool to extract what's actually used from appropriately-licensed OSS modules and paste directly into codebases.

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

bennyg — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 15:59:51 +0000

I built https://www.stoodious.app for my wife while she was studying for her California Real Estate Broker's Exam. She was frustrated with the price gouging on text books, or being the "state-of-the-art" study platforms being video only, having no/poor mobile UX or just feeling outright dated.

So I built Stoodious as a study guide platform that intends to give you the material and get out of your way, as opposed to the engagement-driving gamification of others. One of the killer features is being able to drill practice questions related to the specific study section you're working on - e.g. 20-30 questions about water rights, encumbrances or calculating GRM. Frequently my wife found herself studying vocab for a section but having to skim through a 100-question practice test to find related questions.

I extended the material to all 50 states' basic real estate licensing exam and am looking to add even more "professional exam" material.

New comment by bennyg in "GPT-4.5"

bennyg — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 20:54:01 +0000

This is an amazing spreadsheet - thank you for sharing!

New comment by bennyg in "Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers"

bennyg — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 23:18:17 +0000

To echo further, they may be leaning on something like the [ja4 fingerprint](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=8997844...) (which you'd need to rebuild curl to emulate that chromium version to try and trick).

New comment by bennyg in "Researchers launch "moonshot" to cure blindness through eye transplants"

bennyg — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 08:11:50 +0000

I have the same phenomena - loud sharp noise is like a flashbulb goes off. Reading another commenter mention EHS and looking it up, I don’t think that’s it either. Have had multiple RD surgeries myself. Hope your vision is otherwise stable!

New comment by bennyg in "Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230"

bennyg — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 22:03:55 +0000

Plus one-ing this - I think the external monitor may be the kicker to keeping the mic active. This drives me up the wall when Google Meet decides to just default to the closed Macbook next to me instead of my already connected Air Pods when joining work meetings.

New comment by bennyg in "Andy Warhol's lost Amiga art found"

bennyg — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 03:32:36 +0000

Again those are typically for limited runs - for unlimited runs they're surprisingly inexpensive.

New comment by bennyg in "Andy Warhol's lost Amiga art found"

bennyg — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 16:24:20 +0000

Typically these prices are for unlimited print runs as opposed to a run of a 100 or less (which command more money obviously, due to supply). I have a Haring print in my home that was about the same price (I think around $250 in total for print and frame) that's signed by the artist.

New comment by bennyg in "Uncovered Euripides fragments are 'kind of a big deal'"

bennyg — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 16:06:41 +0000

Say it out loud - it's a play on words. "You rip a dese trousers, you mend a dese trousers"

New comment by bennyg in "Police warn of thieves using WiFi-jamming tech to disarm cameras, alarms"

bennyg — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 22:41:51 +0000

What _are_ the best wired cam/local storage solutions today?

New comment by bennyg in "The Real-World Locations of 14 Sci-Fi Dystopias (2014)"

bennyg — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 16:49:58 +0000

One of my favorite cities - went there on my honeymoon in 2019. The river-turned-park is beautiful and the whole old town area of the city is just full of "play". Check out this sweet playground that's actually a giant Gulliver laying down (https://www.lovevalencia.com/en/the-gulliver-park.html).

If anybody can swing a visit to Valencia - do it. I can't wait to go back some day.

New comment by bennyg in "FDA approves first medication to reduce allergic reactions to multiple foods"

bennyg — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 06:15:59 +0000

Yeah this is one of those perspective things. I’m on a once-a-month regimen of eyeball injections to stave off macular degeneration. I’d trade it in a heartbeat for allergy-reducing injection. But even my case feels “routine” now.

New comment by bennyg in "U.S. National Park Service API"

bennyg — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 07:16:11 +0000

This is a fascinating thread under this comment. Everyone is keying off of one part of the comment (querier pays) and not the more critical issue IMO - anticipating security and budgeting issues of hosting a real-time API. You suggested an alternative and everyone is pitting the status quo against that alternative instead of maybe looking for other alternatives that help address the issue.

People here clearly don’t like a querier pays model and that’s fine. But should NPS still reinvent the wheel across the SDLC to serve this data? I think there’s a compelling argument in there.

New comment by bennyg in "Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier (2022)"

bennyg — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 07:47:52 +0000

Is that short burst of deodorant actually harmful or do the numbers just go up a lot?

New comment by bennyg in "How Australia’s ‘Bluey’ conquered children’s entertainment"

bennyg — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 05:11:11 +0000

My only problem with Bluey is actually a problem with the Disney+ app on my Vizio TV. The episodes are all fairly short, but then there’s like 5m of credits before the next episode starts and it’s kind of annoying to manually fast forward through them via remote. I often reach for stuff on Netflix just so the next episode will auto play after a few seconds instead of requiring actual manual intervention to keep the little ones out of my hair while making dinner.

New comment by bennyg in "High myopia is now the leading cause of blindness in Japan, China, and Taiwan"

bennyg — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 15:02:58 +0000

No worries - the shots are indeed for MD. I actually don’t have the retinopathy you have, but am unlucky in the eye department in other ways. Retinal detachment was passed to me from my mom, but not sure exact genes in play here.

New comment by bennyg in "High myopia is now the leading cause of blindness in Japan, China, and Taiwan"

bennyg — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 04:39:43 +0000

Heh I feel you on this one - it’s not a fun contest to “win” but I also find the “I have bad eyes” complaints funny when I have had 5 retinal detachment surgeries, leaving one eye completely blind. My good eye has had one RD surgery, glaucoma caused by surgery, cataract surgery, and is now facing macular degeneration. I get monthly eye injections to halt new blood vessels from growing. I basically live at the retinal specialist.

I hope your eye troubles keep at bay for many moons to come!

New comment by bennyg in "High myopia is now the leading cause of blindness in Japan, China, and Taiwan"

bennyg — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 02:49:25 +0000

For those with kids: https://www.aao.org/eye-health/news/low-dose-atropine-kids-w... - this is what my eye doc and his colleagues do for their kids. I’m blind in one eye with retinal detachment and myopic macular degeneration in the “good” eye. My kids will be on this when old enough.

New comment by bennyg in "$20k bounty was claimed"

bennyg — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 17:33:06 +0000

Have you tried the print width option: https://prettier.io/docs/en/options.html#print-width?