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New comment by bensyverson in "The AI sell-off compared to well-known stock market crashes"

bensyverson — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 03:41:06 +0000

I guess we'll see if it's really a sell-off, or if it was normal market volatility around an election.

New comment by bensyverson in "Inkling 2 Small"

bensyverson — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 04:13:51 +0000

Seems to be pretty close to SOTA on design. I’m excited to try it out with my agentic design system.

New comment by bensyverson in "Vibe Coding Keypad"

bensyverson — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 20:50:21 +0000

Thank God it has an 8K polling rate!

New comment by bensyverson in "sshole"

bensyverson — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 14:27:37 +0000

Yeah, I am mystified as to how this could have happened.

New comment by bensyverson in "Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI"

bensyverson — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 16:04:41 +0000

hn is full of technical people that like to believe that they behave logically (they don't), and that others would change their behavior if the logic was explained to them (they won't).

But yeah, there are a lot of comments from genie-rebottlers that are not very grounded in reality. They're functionally equivalent to saying "hey, everyone in the world, let's not actually use electricity after all" in 1905.

New comment by bensyverson in "Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI"

bensyverson — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 15:31:12 +0000

Maybe AI lab CEOs will change their behavior once they read about it /s

New comment by bensyverson in "Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI"

bensyverson — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 14:40:14 +0000

Just to flip it around on you, what do you think would happen if Anthropic and OpenAI agreed to stop working on AI altogether?

I'm not arguing about the consequences or responsibility. I'm asking which humans would be capable of stopping the development of AI at this point in history.

New comment by bensyverson in "Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse"

bensyverson — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 19:29:43 +0000

If we're cherry picking statistically insignificant examples, we can also select the most warm & fuzzy examples of animal testing too.

New comment by bensyverson in "Mac at any scale"

bensyverson — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 17:29:57 +0000

A world where people use Claude to operate doomed SaaS products

New comment by bensyverson in "Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse"

bensyverson — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 15:03:18 +0000

Folks who eat meat but wring their hands about animal testing: I accept your illogical downvotes!

New comment by bensyverson in "Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse"

bensyverson — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 14:20:41 +0000

Are you vegan?

New comment by bensyverson in "Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age"

bensyverson — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 18:41:44 +0000

That’s just a harness with a hat on it

New comment by bensyverson in "Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age"

bensyverson — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 18:17:20 +0000

I’m self employed, which means there is less than zero chance I could rely on self-hosted AI. $200/mo for virtually unlimited use, or $10k for a machine that will be less capable and slower?

New comment by bensyverson in "Prospero: A new coding harness for a more civilized age"

bensyverson — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 14:08:23 +0000

There are so many cool harnesses I could use if I didn't have an outrageously subsidized Claude subscription

New comment by bensyverson in "Sigma Says the Compact, Modular FP2 Is the Ultimate Hybrid Camera"

bensyverson — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 20:07:34 +0000

Are you browsing the web without an ad blocker?

New comment by bensyverson in "We should be more ambitious with the software we build"

bensyverson — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 20:50:02 +0000

We should be more courageous in adding `p{max-width: 36em;}` to our stylesheets.

New comment by bensyverson in "No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector"

bensyverson — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 21:04:33 +0000

BI is just the word Excel users give to charts they can't make in Excel

New comment by bensyverson in "[dead]"

bensyverson — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 12:33:11 +0000

God, some people really can’t get over the fact that the site is run by a Nazi /s

New comment by bensyverson in "Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads"

bensyverson — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:50:42 +0000

The best evidence is just how comically bad their ad targeting is vs Meta

New comment by bensyverson in "Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads"

bensyverson — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:49:34 +0000

I don’t think it’s conspiratorial to question how strong the firewall was between your Gmail content and Google’s algorithms. Whether or not they actually leveraged that understanding for targeted ads is somewhat beside the point.