Hacker News: benwen

New comment by benwen in "For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides"

benwen — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 19:08:52 +0000

Obligatory reference to Kuhn. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigm_shift

New comment by benwen in "Robert Schiller: This Doommaxxing Has Got to Stop"

benwen — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 06:22:56 +0000

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/opinion/ai-doom-jobs-econ...

Robert Schiller: This Doommaxxing Has Got to Stop

benwen — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 06:22:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/opinion/ai-doom-jobs-economy.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48669702

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

General-purpose large language models outperform specialized clinical AI tools

benwen — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:00:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04431-5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48562749

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by benwen in "Berkshire Hathaway invests extra $10B in Alphabet, deepening bet on AI"

benwen — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:47:27 +0000

WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-seeks-to-raise-80-billion...

Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/alphabet-raise-8...

Berkshire Hathaway invests extra $10B in Alphabet, deepening bet on AI

benwen — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:37:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/01/berkshire-hathaway-alphabet-investment.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364000

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Florida AG files first-of-its-kind state lawsuit against OpenAI, Altman

benwen — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:01:16 +0000

Article URL: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5904127-florida-lawsuit-openai-altman/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48361138

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

Florida AG files lawsuit against OpenAI, CEO Sam Altman for deceptive practices

benwen — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:44:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.myfloridalegal.com/newsrelease/attorney-general-james-uthmeier-files-first-nation-state-led-lawsuit-against-openai-ceo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48360933

Points: 52

# Comments: 12

Homebrew lead Mike McQuaid: Sandboxes and Worktrees - My Secure Agentic AI Setup

benwen — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:13:41 +0000

Article URL: https://mikemcquaid.com/sandboxed-agent-worktrees-my-coding-and-ai-setup-in-2026/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48353555

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by benwen in "Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era"

benwen — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:26:23 +0000

Beat me to it! Back in 1980. Here’s the official link https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/put-that-there-voice-...

And the paper https://dam-prod.media.mit.edu/uuid/8e6d934b-6c6f-48e4-b0a1-...

New comment by benwen in "China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus"

benwen — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:32:12 +0000

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/business/china-meta-manus...

FIRST Robotics founder Dean Kamen resigns because of Epstein files

benwen — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 02:39:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2026-03-12/dean-kamen-resigns-first-epstein-nh-newhampshire

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47484900

Points: 27

# Comments: 4

New comment by benwen in "First and Lego Education Partnership Update"

benwen — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:21:51 +0000

Maybe this: https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2026-03-12/dean-kamen-resigns-f...

Anthropic and The Pentagon

benwen — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 01:13:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/03/anthropic-and-the-pentagon.htmll

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293289

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

I used AI to make this song. The results, and its implications, startled me

benwen — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:35:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/ai-music-song-band-20797062.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45163634

Points: 11

# Comments: 7

New comment by benwen in "Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conversations"

benwen — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 20:53:00 +0000

Obligatory link to Suasn Calvin, robopsychologist from Asimov’s I, Robot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Calvin

As we take charge of bridging the gap, the machine claims the praise.

benwen — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 05:17:13 +0000

Article URL: https://ferd.ca/the-gap-through-which-we-praise-the-machine.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44232801

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Postgres MCP (model context protocol) with Cursor

benwen — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 22:34:41 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/crystaldba/postgres-mcp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43659424

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by benwen in "What I Learned Writing an Album in Just Intonation"

benwen — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 04:21:38 +0000

“ This also has the reputation of being terribly impractical, which is always a selling point for me.”

That was truly LOL. Thank you.

How to train your own large language models

benwen — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 01:09:30 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.replit.com/llm-training

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35635209

Points: 283

# Comments: 60