<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: bentcorner</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bentcorner</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:48:21 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=bentcorner" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bentcorner in "App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>30% is a surprising metric because just anecdotally my team's PR submissions have jumped by about the same ratio in the same time frame.  (No, I'm not measuring it - I just own a downstream piece and have casually observed its higher rate of use).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:31:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47699285</link><dc:creator>bentcorner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47699285</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47699285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bentcorner in "Running out of disk space in production"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Kinda sorta, but there's a limit where users will typically install X apps and apps of Y size need Z extra space to update.  User content would fill up the rest.  I would imagine a typical 256 gb phone is probably over this limit and people who take lots of videos/photos just need to clean up their phone a little more often.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:14:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47685586</link><dc:creator>bentcorner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47685586</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47685586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bentcorner in "Alzheimer's disease mortality among taxi and ambulance drivers (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Exactly - I'm thinking the bad spatial navigators have a higher probability of washing out of driving and pursue some other career.  They may not say "I'm bad at figuring out where I am", but the economics of the job are just a little bit worse for these people.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 04:15:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47560345</link><dc:creator>bentcorner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47560345</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47560345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bentcorner in "I put all 8,642 Spanish laws in Git – every reform is a commit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't think this is where the problem lies. If you kill someone with intent, it's murder. But the whole system needs to prove that you killed someone with intent beyond a reasonable doubt, and a DSL will not help you there.</p>
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<p>This could in theory already happen without any tech, but I suspect since the government is pretty monolithic, any changes in a specific law are all being done by the same set of people.<p>You might not have merge conflicts but I imagine you could end up with conflicting guidance from two separate pieces of law (e.g., law A says you must wear green on St. Patrick's day, law B outlaws green pajamas).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:08:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47555866</link><dc:creator>bentcorner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47555866</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47555866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bentcorner in ""Disregard That" Attacks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think the right solution is to endow the LLM with just enough permissions to do whatever it was meant to do in the first place.<p>In the customer service case, it has read access to the customer data who is calling, read access to support docs, write access to creating a ticket, and maybe write access to that customer's account within reason. Nothing else. It cannot search the internet, it cannot run a shell, nothing else whatsoever.<p>You treat it like you would an entry level person who just started - there is no reason to give the new hire the capability to SMS the entire customer base.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 04:56:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47526753</link><dc:creator>bentcorner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47526753</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47526753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bentcorner in "Nanobrew: The fastest macOS package manager compatible with brew"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> People are free and probably do this because it is slow. Alternatives often are not a bad thing.<p>Alternatives are always good but IMO brew is just not something I interact with all that much and to me it's "good enough". It works and does what I expect, although to be fair maybe I'm on the happy path <shrug>.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 01:16:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47511940</link><dc:creator>bentcorner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47511940</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47511940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bentcorner in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Tik Tok is arguably a Facebook killer.<p>Roblox is in some ways there, I think Epic thought fortnite could have competed. IMO they made a strategic mistake in shackling their game-as-a-platform to Fortnite. I thought the music fortnite thing looked interesting, but I have negative interest in installing Fortnite.<p>Call it something else and make it literally the first thing you see on epicgames.com, have it work on mobile, and maybe things would be different today.<p>(Aside: Roblox wins because I can go from typing in roblox.com into my browser and be playing a game with a friend in under 20s)</p>
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<p>Yeah this one is a classic: <a href="https://youtu.be/8OzZxjqKG10" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/8OzZxjqKG10</a></p>
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<p>Makes me wonder if there's a bet you can take on Polymarket that Polymarket will get shut down due to it negatively influencing behavior. The insider trading on that one should get interesting.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:09:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47399278</link><dc:creator>bentcorner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47399278</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47399278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bentcorner in "Shall I implement it? No"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I just say something like "spawn an agent to review your plan" or something to that effect.  "Red/green TDD" is apparently the nomenclature: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/red-green-tdd/" rel="nofollow">https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-pattern...</a><p>I've also found it to be better to ask the LLM to come up with several ideas and then spawn additional agents to evaluate each approach individually.<p>I think the general problem is that context cuts both ways, and the LLM has no idea what is "important".  It's easier to make sure your context doesn't contain pink elephants than it is to tell it to forget about the pink elephants.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:10:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47359092</link><dc:creator>bentcorner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47359092</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47359092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bentcorner in "US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unfortunately the only way this changes is if a company writes a <i>just enough</i> unreasonable ToS, and someone violates it in <i>just the right way</i> and the company decides to enforce said ToS, and the user fights back, and this all ends in court.<p>I'd be surprised if all those stars align anytime soon.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:50:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47308380</link><dc:creator>bentcorner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47308380</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47308380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bentcorner in "BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Installing humanoid robots in a factory is like using regexes to parse data.<p>It makes sense if it's a one-off but there are better solutions.<p>Maybe it does make sense for small scale businesses that need just a little automation? Like a humanoid robot could restock shelves and do inventory in a grocery store at night, and you wouldn't need to retrofit anything to be able to do that.<p>Large scale factories seems like the wrong use case for humanoid robots.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y_hbz6loEo</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47226350">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47226350</a></p>
<p>Points: 7</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://cthor.me/Fighting-games-product-design">https://cthor.me/Fighting-games-product-design</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47106390">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47106390</a></p>
<p>Points: 20</p>
<p># Comments: 8</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:49:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://cthor.me/Fighting-games-product-design</link><dc:creator>bentcorner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47106390</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47106390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bentcorner in "Facebook is cooked"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Personally I stopped using Facebook because even in the before-AI days it started becoming a glamour photo book of everyone you ever knew (and probably lots of people you only kind of sorta know), and while people certainly deserve to do and see great things, seeing it all shoved in your face every day becomes exhausting in a keeping-up-with-the-joneses kind of way.<p>I totally get that not everybody is like that, but I am, and so I stopped going to Facebook.<p>These days I'm in private Whatsapp groups for my direct family and so I learn about what they do, and not the random stuff that my neighbors and 20-years-past classmates did.<p>My wife is still active on Facebook and I actually do still visit occasionally to boost her posts but that's about it.</p>
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<p>Nope, I hand wrote this.<p>I actually considered using an LLM but in my experience they "warp" the content too much for anything like this. The effort required to get them to retain what I would consider something to my taste would take longer than just writing the poem myself. (Although tbf it's been awhile since I've asked a LLM to do parody work, so I could be wrong)</p>
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<p><p><pre><code>    I met a user from an antique land
    Who said: Two squares of a clip of video
    Stand in at the end of the search. Near them,
    Lossly compressed, a profile with a pfp, whose smile,
    And vacant eyes, and shock of content baiting,
    Tell that its creator well those passions read
    Which yet survive, stamped on these unclicked things,
    The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
    And on the title these words appear:
    "My name is Ozymandias, Top Youtuber of All Time:
    Look on my works, ye Mighty, and like and subscribe!"
    No other video beside remains. Round the decay
    Of that empty profile, boundless and bare
    The lone and level page stretch far away.</code></pre></p>
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<p>> Clearly tapping a letter “taps” a different letter (hot spots poorly calibrated)<p>FWIW I encounter this in Android every so often (using gboard).  Anecdotally I don't know what causes it (I swear sometimes it's worse and sometimes it's better), but Android isn't entirely problem free.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:22:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47008019</link><dc:creator>bentcorner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47008019</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47008019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bentcorner in "The Day the Telnet Died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A very very long time ago as an intern I was working on a perl cgi script and I would often test it with telnet.  I was used to messing around with hayes commands so manually typing in HTTP commands seemed like a natural extension of that.</p>
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