Hacker News: bpiche

New comment by bpiche in "Grammarly will send unhinged messages to all your users if you try to cancel"

bpiche — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:45:25 +0000

Grammarly itself is basically a closed-source version of LanguageTool https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool

New comment by bpiche in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)"

bpiche — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:03:14 +0000

Location: Oakland, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, JS/node/react/ts, Java, R, vector/relational/nosql dbs, docker/k8es, terraform, GitHub actions, tensorflow/pytorch/gensim etc etc

Resume: Available on request

Email: ben.h.piche@gmail.com

Github: https://www.github.com/bpiche

Hi, I'm Ben Piché, a full stack AI/NLP engineer with about 15 years of experience. Have worked at lots of startups as well as big companies like Apple, Capgemini, Deloitte, Twitter, Wells Fargo and SAP. Specializing in AI architecture, agents, conversational AI, digital transformation, and related solutions.

New comment by bpiche in "From brain waves to words: a new path to communication without surgery"

bpiche — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:16:53 +0000

I still think of this video often and wonder if it is building on any of that technology, almost 10 years old now. Just looking at this whitepaper it seems like they both use some kind of infrared transcranial light, but never imagined the machine in the original iteration was so big [Regina Dugan's Keynote at Facebook F8 2017 | Inverse] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCDWKdmwhUI

New comment by bpiche in "Haystack: Open-Source AI Framework for Production Ready Agents, RAG"

bpiche — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:52:06 +0000

Likewise

New comment by bpiche in "Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds"

bpiche — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:35:36 +0000

This is the plot of The Peripheral, right? Love the way the second half of that book turned out. Never finished Agency..

New comment by bpiche in "Inside The Internet Archive's Infrastructure"

bpiche — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:36:09 +0000

IA is hosting a couple more of Rick Prelinger’s shows this month. Looking forward to visiting

New comment by bpiche in "Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves"

bpiche — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:49:12 +0000

Kirlian Selections rocks

New comment by bpiche in "Joseph Gordon-Levitt wonders why AI companies don't have to 'follow any laws'"

bpiche — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:13:28 +0000

I didn't see any mention of this in the article, but: not sure if his wife is still on the board of OpenAI or not. He must have a unique and intimate view into some of this stuff and it's probably why they asked him about this stuff instead of another good actor. Big fan of his movies

New comment by bpiche in "Meta Ray-Ban Display"

bpiche — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 01:10:10 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCDWKdmwhUI

regina dugan's f8 keynote 8 years ago

where they announced they were working on a 'haptic vocabulary' for a skin interface as well as noninvasive brain scanning technologyu\

New comment by bpiche in "Ask HN: Pull the curtain back on Nvidia's CES keynote please"

bpiche — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 21:36:18 +0000

After Doug's recent passing, I sincerely doubt it.

New comment by bpiche in "Best Pens for 2025"

bpiche — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 22:21:13 +0000

I've had a few TWSBIs over the last 5 years or so and I love them. Haven't had any hairline fractures yet - any idea what may have caused them? Am curious now

New comment by bpiche in "Ask HN: How are you reading (nonfiction) books/pdfs in 2025?"

bpiche — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 22:13:07 +0000

https://www.kavitareader.com

Kavita is awesome. I host it on my pc and serve it to my iPad/iPhone over a zerotier VPN

New comment by bpiche in "That dark matter video aged like milk"

bpiche — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 05:36:36 +0000

Well for what it’s worth I wouldn’t have watched it without this retrospective. Very skeptical of dark matter and find this topic highly interesting

New comment by bpiche in "Trading cards with e-ink displays (2023)"

bpiche — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 21:20:28 +0000

Yeah that makes sense. Got me wondering to what extent it’s possible with something like load balancing too. Maybe meetups don’t have to corner the market on that kind of info sharing

Active Mass Balance Auto-Control (Gundam)

bpiche — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 20:56:42 +0000

Article URL: https://gundam.fandom.com/wiki/Active_Mass_Balance_Auto-Control

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40710965

Points: 1

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New comment by bpiche in "Trading cards with e-ink displays (2023)"

bpiche — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 20:20:32 +0000

I live here too. I'm biased, but 1) this place is not full of awesome engineers, it's mostly full of overworked contractors and newbies with eighth grader syndrome. And 2) you can't just walk up to them and ask them to explain everything about their project. That's a huge security issue and if it were true it would be a lot easier to social engineer places today. Not to say that it isn't possible, but this comment paints an unproductive, idealized, and inaccurate view of the bay.

edit: it is a very cool e-ink project, and there are some cool communities like the maker faire. Reflexively reacting against the generalization

New comment by bpiche in "3 Days in Space Were Enough to Change 4 Astronauts' Bodies and Minds"

bpiche — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 22:08:28 +0000

Spacenoid and newtype neonates

New comment by bpiche in "Is Apple about to launch the real Siri?"

bpiche — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 18:50:59 +0000

People have a lot more faith in ReAct than they should, for applications like this

New comment by bpiche in "Hudson Yards Video Game"

bpiche — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 04:41:39 +0000

Ahh yes the early beta version of endorphin port

New comment by bpiche in "Hi, AI: Our Thesis on AI Voice Agents"

bpiche — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 04:26:03 +0000

Theyre so out of touch it’s almost funny