Hacker News: benwen

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

Pulse Joins Mozilla

benwen — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 22:19:28 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/pulse-joins-the-mozilla-family/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33823764

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Consulting and Clojure: It's a Living

benwen — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 20:43:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cognitect.com/cognicast/172

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33697654

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Reliable systems out of unreliable parts

benwen — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 22:33:08 +0000

Article URL: https://alti.amsterdam/berg-blockchain/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32432638

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

5-aspect naming scheme for re-frame (ClojureScript)

benwen — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 18:40:48 +0000

Article URL: https://lightpad.ai/@Ivan/blog/500640411

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31757380

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

ClojureScript and BigDecimal is a yak barbershop

benwen — Fri, 27 May 2022 17:55:31 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.janetacarr.com/thoughts-on-clojurescript-and-bigdecimal/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31532612

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Powerful American Artillery Enters the Fight in Ukraine

benwen — Tue, 24 May 2022 00:27:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/23/world/europe/us-ukraine-howitzers.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31486571

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by benwen in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2022)"

benwen — Sat, 02 Apr 2022 03:59:31 +0000

Tallyfor - Better Software for Tax Professionals | Remote | Full or Part-time | Senior Clojure/Clojurescript | SF, US

“nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” -Benjamin Franklin [0]

Tallyfor is working on the second of those certainties (taxes). Our values are “Be right. Have fun. From anywhere.”

We are a small team and we are winning customers with a modern cloud approach. Taxation in the US is strangely complex and could use a little help.

Right now we, Tallyfor, could use a little help. We’re looking for expert Clojure/Clojurescript programmers who are wanting to join a small team. Re-frame, mostly. Remote hires because that’s one of our values... from anywhere.

Founded by a programmer (me) and a CPA-turned-product-person-while-at-Xero.

No recruiters, please.

jobs@tallyfor.com. Thanks for reading.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_and_taxes_(idiom)

New comment by benwen in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)"

benwen — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 16:38:04 +0000

Tallyfor - cloud tax software | Remote | Full or Part-time | SF, US You: a Clojure/ClojureScript programmer looking for a small team to join. Curious. Capable. Kind. Us: A small team. Using Clojure (Re-frame and friends). With customers, angel financing, and a set of values that includes "Have Fun" as #2. careers@tallyfor.com for the curious. No recruiters, please.

The Lisperati1000 is a cyberdeck terminal dedicated to Lisp programming

benwen — Thu, 13 May 2021 07:25:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hackster.io/news/the-lisperati1000-is-a-cyberdeck-terminal-dedicated-to-lisp-programming-bb564f2ffcff

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27139356

Points: 171

# Comments: 86

NFTs Weren’t Supposed to End Like This

benwen — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 01:54:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/nfts-werent-supposed-end-like/618488

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26694564

Points: 3

# Comments: 1