Hacker News: benterris

New comment by benterris in "Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop"

benterris — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:38:07 +0000

What do you mean they support airdrop? Natively?

New comment by benterris in "How I write software with LLMs"

benterris — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:35:47 +0000

One thing I don't get with this workflow, and all the ones we see in similar articles: do the authors run their agents in YOLO mode (full unchecked permission on their machine)? It seems their agents have full edit rights (scoped to a directory, which seems reasonable), but can also run tests autonomously (which means they can run any code), which equates to full read/write access on the machine? I mean, there are ways to sandbox agents in dedicated containers, but it requires quite a bit of setup, and none of these articles mention it, so I guess they are YOLOing it?

New comment by benterris in "Flash media longevity testing – 6 years later"

benterris — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:35:20 +0000

Does rewriting data help prevent bit rot? Does it mean powered drives can take advantage of it by periodically rewriting the same data over?

New comment by benterris in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

benterris — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:44:40 +0000

Also your website (https://zulip.com) is so fast and snappy, I was surprised to see everything load instantly when clicking around. I have not tried the app yet, but seeing a static website like this is quite refreshing.

New comment by benterris in "Liquibase continues to advertise itself as "open source" despite license switch"

benterris — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 10:15:27 +0000

For more context, the FSL was created by Sentry, who explain why it's been created and what problems it was trying to solve here: https://blog.sentry.io/introducing-the-functional-source-lic...

New comment by benterris in "Google’s “G” gets a brighter look."

benterris — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 22:12:46 +0000

This document is insane. I really can't decide if it's satire. Somehow I hope it's not.

New comment by benterris in "Arizona resident dies from the plague less than 24 hours after showing symptoms"

benterris — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 23:06:31 +0000

How would reintroducing the black footed ferret reduce the plague ? It's not stated in that link.

New comment by benterris in "AI Horseless Carriages"

benterris — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 17:56:14 +0000

I really don't get why people would want AI to write their messages for them. If I can write a concise prompt with all the required information, why not save everyone time and just send that instead ? And especially for messages to my close ones, I feel like the actual words I choose are meaningful and the process of writing them is an expression of our living interaction, and I certainly would not like to know the messages from my wife were written by an AI. On the other end of the spectrum, of course sometimes I need to be more formal, but these are usually cases where the precise wording matters, and typing the message is not the time-consuming part.

New comment by benterris in "Very Wrong Math"

benterris — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 10:17:48 +0000

I believe the strength of gravitational force would not be constant either, as your center of mass would still have a fixed location, so every point on the disc have different distances to that center of mass (in addition to not being orthogonal to the surface). But maybe it might be approximated with an infinitely long cylinder, so the center of mass is infinitely far away below the surface ?

New comment by benterris in "Crossing the USA by Train"

benterris — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 11:15:09 +0000

French high speed trains are fast, for instance the average speed of the train on the Paris-Strasbourg section (~400km in length) is 250km/h. This is the global average speed, so it is even faster on the high-speed section, going at around 320km/h. I often take this train, which is very convenient.

New comment by benterris in "炊紙(kashikishi) is a text editor that utilizes GPU to edit text in a 3D space"

benterris — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 14:04:30 +0000

Why are there so many "Update Reamde.md" pull requests ? They all are named exactly the same, and most of the time add a single line to the readme with the name of the commit author. I guess some git tutorial somewhere shows how to open a PR with this repo as an example, and people actually do it.

New comment by benterris in "An accessible one-handed keyboard, inspired by FrogPad"

benterris — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 21:55:15 +0000

Out of curiosity, how fast did you type on the frogpad ?

New comment by benterris in "Topo magazine uses comics to tell the news to French teens"

benterris — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 07:57:53 +0000

Bat is actually "bald mouse", not "shaved", which makes sense somehow !

New comment by benterris in "Stanford requires booster shots for all students"

benterris — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 17:34:22 +0000

What religious exemption is the page referring to ? How are vaccines a religious subject ?

New comment by benterris in "Ask HN: How to work effectively at a typing-based job after breaking my wrist?"

benterris — Sat, 16 Oct 2021 02:18:50 +0000

I suffered from RSI in one hand for a whole year, which forced me to mostly use a single hand to type. I found out that as a developer, the time I spent typing was not that extensive, and I spent much more time navigating through code and reading stuff. Though my typing speed was more than halved, all in all I believe my productivity was not really reduced. The most annoying things were typing emails and chat, and I often called my coworkers instead of starting long chat sessions. It ended up going away by itself, and I've been pain free for almost two years now.

China bans online gaming for minors except from 8pm-9pm Friday to Sunday

benterris — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 12:06:42 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/china-bans-online-gaming-for-minors-except-from-8-pm-9-pm-friday-to-sunday/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28366843

Points: 4

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New comment by benterris in "Nuclear lighthouses built by the Soviets in the Arctic [video]"

benterris — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 23:30:04 +0000

Here you can find a detailed report about this event, if you get intrigued as I did : https://www.iaea.org/publications/10602/the-radiological-acc...

New comment by benterris in "Ranger: A console file manager with VI key bindings"

benterris — Sun, 30 Aug 2020 13:12:52 +0000

I use ranger quite a lot when I have to explore the contents of a folder I just cloned or downloaded. Moving around with vim keybindings is much quicker than typing many `cd`, `ls` and `cat`, as you have a preview of files or folder contents on the right side.

I find it also quite useful when doing some housekeeping and cleaning, as while moving around you can mark several items to delete or move them all at once.

New comment by benterris in "On Voice Coding"

benterris — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 23:30:32 +0000

Could you please elaborate on the exercises you're finding helpful ? I have a mild RSI myself (outer part of the forearm, near the elbow) and have been trying some eccentric exercises for a few months now but I'm not seeing a big improvement.

New comment by benterris in "Expertise in the Age of YouTube"

benterris — Sun, 10 Nov 2019 00:51:45 +0000

What "absurdly demanding online game" is the author referring to in the first paragraph ? He mentions Overwatch later in the article but in another context so I'm not sure that's the one he meant.