Hacker News: benrapscallion

New comment by benrapscallion in "Claude Code Routines"

benrapscallion — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:26:46 +0000

If this is so, why do I find (for scientific research on biomedicine topics, primarily) that Claude’s results are much better than say Gemini’s? I hear the same opinion from others in biotech and big pharma.

New comment by benrapscallion in "The web is bearable with RSS"

benrapscallion — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:56:50 +0000

What is a terminal reader? Runs in the shell? Newsblur has that? I use their web and iOS interfaces.

New comment by benrapscallion in "Tinnitus Is Connected to Sleep"

benrapscallion — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 21:35:54 +0000

Might be related to neck stiffness on very cold nights.

New comment by benrapscallion in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

benrapscallion — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:28:52 +0000

It is Facebook. I expected exactly this from smart glasses made by them. You can’t change the DNA of a company.

New comment by benrapscallion in "Pinterest is drowning in a sea of AI slop and auto-moderation"

benrapscallion — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:19:47 +0000

Pinterest - the sewer of internet image search

New comment by benrapscallion in "Pinterest is drowning in a sea of AI slop and auto-moderation"

benrapscallion — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:19:05 +0000

The ability to (1) block all Pinterest domains in image search and (2) click an image hyperlink and get straight to the file - these two features alone are worth my annual subscription fee to Kagi.

New comment by benrapscallion in "What are your favorite news sources, blogs, and RSS feeds?"

benrapscallion — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 12:44:37 +0000

Techmeme

Ongoing (Tim Bray)

On My Om (Om Malik)

Rest of World

Sherwood.news

Stephen Wolfram’s blog

New comment by benrapscallion in "Ask HN: Best Podcasts of 2025?"

benrapscallion — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 01:40:35 +0000

Acquired

Scamfluencers

Business Wars

The Social Radars

Big Technology Podcast

New comment by benrapscallion in "Richard Stallman on ChatGPT"

benrapscallion — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 11:49:17 +0000

This should be a badge of honor, a rite of passage for companies: when they become big and important enough for humanity, RMS will write a negative .html page on his website.

New comment by benrapscallion in "The effect of shingles vaccination at different stages of dementia"

benrapscallion — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 02:44:43 +0000

The virus lies dormant in spinal and cranial ganglia for decades. If it reactivates, the immune system suppresses it, in the meantime. Past age 50-60, immunity wanes and these reactivations cannot be suppressed which allows the virus to travel back to the corresponding skin region as the spine segment to cause shingles. Presumably, after this the virus can also cross the blood brain barrier to cause neurodegeneration.

New comment by benrapscallion in "Coca Cola has an executive dedicated to McDonald's"

benrapscallion — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:53:30 +0000

I came here to note the same.

New comment by benrapscallion in "ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others"

benrapscallion — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:41:41 +0000

This (attribution) is exactly the issue that was mentioned by LexisNexis CEO in a recent The Verge interview.

https://www.theverge.com/podcast/807136/lexisnexis-ceo-sean-...

New comment by benrapscallion in "The Rapper 50 Cent, Adjusted for Inflation"

benrapscallion — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 00:41:14 +0000

Absolutely. This is the correct way do this. It should be adjusted downwards to account for inflation, not up.

New comment by benrapscallion in "Reasons to Not Use ChatGPT"

benrapscallion — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 02:53:10 +0000

Someone should start a StallmanGPT that writes regular blogposts on “Don’t use ”. See if readers can tell those apart from the real website.

New comment by benrapscallion in "Kagi News"

benrapscallion — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 18:11:53 +0000

Link to iOS App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kagi-news/id6748314243

New comment by benrapscallion in "Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything"

benrapscallion — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 00:55:04 +0000

Where is this setting in Perplexity?

New comment by benrapscallion in "Coronary artery calcium testing can reveal plaque in arteries, but is underused"

benrapscallion — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 15:33:51 +0000

Some of these imaging that are overdone in India involve radiation: the most problematic being (not low dose) CT. So there is a rationale for controlling these modalities.

New comment by benrapscallion in "Ask HN: What software subscriptions are worth paying for?"

benrapscallion — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 12:24:09 +0000

Fastmail and HEY email, Kagi, 1Password, Newsblur, Perplexity, Wolfram (Mathematica), Zotero, Dropbox, Backblaze, Microsoft Office, Raindrop.io, Wachete (track changes on webpages)

I also pay for Google but that’s just ransom for my data held hostage by them because I have shared that email address with many.

New comment by benrapscallion in "Death by AI"

benrapscallion — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 03:47:51 +0000

It’s called kagi.com

New comment by benrapscallion in "Sam Altman says Meta offered OpenAI staffers $100M bonuses"

benrapscallion — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 11:21:19 +0000

They did “pay” $14B to the CEO of ScaleAI. $100M sounds plausible, relatively.