Hacker News: bentt

New comment by bentt in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

bentt — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:30:42 +0000

I find Google Drive desktop to be just fine on Windows. Gave up a long time Dropbox sub for it and I have been happy. Dropbox just got too bloaty and unfocused for me.

New comment by bentt in "US is starting to see heavy job losses in roles exposed to AI"

bentt — Sat, 16 May 2026 22:43:34 +0000

Yes, they played a zero sum growth game and seeked acquisition and stock price increase. That ended. That explains most tech layoffs in the past few years.

New comment by bentt in "Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?"

bentt — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:57:18 +0000

GLP-1’s are a weak counterpoint. Perhaps go take a look at that yourself.

New comment by bentt in "Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?"

bentt — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 04:55:52 +0000

Big Pharma refuses to believe that the gut microbiome plays a significant role in human health. They either don't take it seriously or think it's so complex that it's not worth working on. I think they're totally wrong and that the microbiome is the arbiter of not only Alzheimers but cancer and other metabolic disorders like T2 Diabetes.

New comment by bentt in "Google Flow Music"

bentt — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 02:43:33 +0000

I hate this and I hate that they think it's what they should be doing.

If Google can't see the difference between this and useful, moral AI tools then I worry for their path forward.

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

bentt — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:52:36 +0000

I thought this was Apple’s plan all along. How is this not already their thing?

New comment by bentt in "YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts"

bentt — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:17:17 +0000

great tip! i didnt know this.

New comment by bentt in "YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts"

bentt — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:16:00 +0000

The only reason they would do this is because some kind of research determined it would yield higher revenue.

New comment by bentt in "YouTube starts showing 90-second unskippable ads to TV viewers"

bentt — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:42:09 +0000

It does blow my mind that advertisers pay to show ads and I pay to not show ads.

That my friends is a Business Model.

New comment by bentt in "Women were never meant to give birth on their backs"

bentt — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:55:33 +0000

https://www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2024/09/19/childbirth...

Childbirth was extraordinaly dangerous. 6-8 births per woman and a 1-2% chance of dying per birth for the majority of history.

We have no idea what that was like. Rates today are ~0.013%.

New comment by bentt in "Show HN: I tested 15 free AI models at building real software on a $25/year VPS"

bentt — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:15:54 +0000

I’m a little confused. So you got a VPS… was that just to host the result? Surely you weren’t running the models on it?

What were the models running on? It doesn’t matter a ton but would help paint the whole picture better.

New comment by bentt in "Cursor 3"

bentt — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:14:39 +0000

I’m a Cursor user but I am not an agent maximalist. I just like having it work on code in an IDE with good inline diffs and a nice chat UI.

This change is possibly too big and unless all my existing usage patterns are maintained or improved, I’ll likely give CC a try now. Not optimistic.

New comment by bentt in "Cursor 3"

bentt — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:10:53 +0000

Yep, Composer 2 has been quite good for me too. I only turn to Opus for major brainteasers.

New comment by bentt in "Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps"

bentt — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:06:09 +0000

It took SpaceX a number of goes to get their camerawork and streaming right. NASA just hasn’t done this frequently enough.

New comment by bentt in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

bentt — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:51:28 +0000

I support this. Having a boundary around tech is a great asset for a growing mind.

At the same time, get your kids a computer early so they can learn the basics. Maybe even keep it off the internet.

Skip phones and tablets altogether for as long as possible.

New comment by bentt in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

bentt — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:44:54 +0000

Intuitively, it just doesn’t feel like OpenAI has a trillion dollar moat.

New comment by bentt in "Car Seats as Contraception"

bentt — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:57:59 +0000

Let’s just focus on how cars and car culture are reducing birth rates. Nobody wants to chuck their kids into the back seat without a carseat any more. Laws aren’t the problem.

New comment by bentt in "Why are executives enamored with AI, but ICs aren't?"

bentt — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 02:20:38 +0000

Because now you need less programmers. It is self explanatory.

New comment by bentt in "What came after the 486?"

bentt — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:05:19 +0000

Cool writeup. I never knew they moved to the name Pentium over 586 simply for trademark ability.

New comment by bentt in "Windows native app development is a mess"

bentt — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 13:07:34 +0000

I wonder if Unity (the game engine) actually has a sneaky potential here. It’s cross platform, fast, and maybe just maybe less bloated than carrying around an entire browser like Electron?