Hacker News: bentobean

New comment by bentobean in "SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)"

bentobean — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:33:26 +0000

I also love this game. I was so hoping someone had managed to port this to WASM.

The Earth Is Flat

bentobean — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:01:14 +0000

Article URL: https://nocurve.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48309087

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by bentobean in "What I'm Hearing About Cognitive Debt (So Far)"

bentobean — Tue, 05 May 2026 08:51:42 +0000

AI is a force multiplier for whoever is using it. In the hands of a skilled practitioner, AI can be used effectively. In the hands of an idiot… watch out.

Most people are idiots.

New comment by bentobean in "Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs"

bentobean — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:18:52 +0000

> Your computer only has ~20 TFLOPs.

What a time to be alive.

New comment by bentobean in "Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?"

bentobean — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:11:36 +0000

MacOS does this as well, and it drives me nuts. No, I do not want files on my desktop to be synced to iCloud.

New comment by bentobean in "AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion"

bentobean — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:38:43 +0000

> “It’s not just patterns… but also cadence…”

Nice try, ChatGPT.

New comment by bentobean in "GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability"

bentobean — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:56:53 +0000

“Microsoft Tentacle” - Now there’s a name for a new product line.

New comment by bentobean in "Man pleads guilty to $8M AI-generated music scheme"

bentobean — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 10:02:08 +0000

> The streaming service Deezer said earlier this year it is receiving more than 60,000 fully AI-generated tracks daily…

Wow!

New comment by bentobean in "Are LLM merge rates not getting better?"

bentobean — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:24:21 +0000

If you haven’t seen that “Everything is a Remix” documentary you should. It’s so good.

New comment by bentobean in "When AI writes the software, who verifies it?"

bentobean — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 04:06:50 +0000

This hits hard. I’m getting hit with so much slop at work that I’ve quietly stopped being all that careful with reviews.

From quantum computing to mRNA therapeutics: seven technologies to watch in 2026

bentobean — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:31:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00188-6

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47106211

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

AI writes the code now. What's left for software engineers?

bentobean — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:04:08 +0000

Article URL: https://sfstandard.com/2026/02/19/ai-writes-code-now-s-left-software-engineers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47105889

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The Rise of Invisible Unemployment in Tech: 2026 Will Be the Year It Changes

bentobean — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:03:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.saastr.com/the-rise-of-invisible-unemployment-in-tech-2026-will-be-the-year-when-everything-really-changes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47105307

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Accelerating Science with AI and Simulations

bentobean — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:03:09 +0000

Article URL: https://news.mit.edu/2026/accelerating-science-ai-and-simulations-rafael-gomez-bombarelli-0212

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47101986

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by bentobean in "Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100?"

bentobean — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 04:16:52 +0000

The “Cool Tools” catalog.

New comment by bentobean in "2026: This is AGI"

bentobean — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 02:35:28 +0000

This is a joke.

New comment by bentobean in "Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every second"

bentobean — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 05:27:39 +0000

Someone has to win. It might as well be me.

New comment by bentobean in "Karpathy on Programming: “I've never felt this much behind”"

bentobean — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 04:05:46 +0000

I would really like to hear more about these acquaintances who think they are evolving.

New comment by bentobean in "Measuring AI Ability to Complete Long Tasks"

bentobean — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 05:45:24 +0000

> We show that this metric has been consistently exponentially increasing over the past 6 years, with a doubling time of around 7 months.

If true, how much of this is a result of:

1. Genuine technical advancement

or:

2. Shoveling trillions of dollars into compute resources in order to service incoming LLM requests in a way that is completely unrealistic over the long term?

In other words… are we talking about genuine, sustainable innovation that we get to take with us moving forward and benefit from? Or are we talking about an “improvement” that is more akin to a mirage that will eventually disappear when the Ponzi scheme eventually collapses?

New comment by bentobean in "Show HN: Hacker News, but every headline is hysterical clickbait"

bentobean — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:41:50 +0000

Now all we need is a thumbnail next to each headline showing the author making some stupid face.