Hacker News: gobengo

New comment by gobengo in "You wouldn't steal a font"

gobengo — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 23:07:33 +0000

op isn't saying you shouldn't complain. op is saying you shouldn't steal instead of complaining

New comment by gobengo in "Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today"

gobengo — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 23:20:36 +0000

private equity + a whole lot of commons to encircle

New comment by gobengo in "The unplanned impact of mathematics (2011)"

gobengo — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 19:14:00 +0000

This book is a good riff on "The Goal" but for software manufacturers https://itrevolution.com/product/the-phoenix-project/

New comment by gobengo in "Tesla Has a Design Problem"

gobengo — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 11:10:19 +0000

> a country with essentially zero roundabouts

there are thousands of roundabouts

New comment by gobengo in "Consensus: Use AI to find insights in research papers"

gobengo — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 03:17:26 +0000

... depends on who u ask

New comment by gobengo in "How to communicate when trust is low without digging yourself into a deeper hole"

gobengo — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 03:13:58 +0000

This reminds me of the good book "Crucial Conversations"

New comment by gobengo in "Tell HN: Cloudflare verification is breaking the internet"

gobengo — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 03:54:07 +0000

I want the internet to be free/open to all as much as anyone. But specific websites aren’t the internet work itself. You aren’t entitled to them. many websites, most startup websites, are maintained by individuals or small businesses which aren’t inherently profitable. They can’t afford to deal with spambots, ad click through fraud, etc. It’s reasonable for them to deny-by-default and only spend time (money) dealing with user-agents that can pass this proof-of-personhood test (until there are better zip proof of personhoods, a huge opportunity atm)

New comment by gobengo in "U.S. regulator set to take over First Republic"

gobengo — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 03:50:48 +0000

from wikipedia “Barrack recommended that Trump hire Paul Manafort as his campaign manager. Barrack first met Manafort in the 1970s when they were both working for Saudis and living in Beirut. In 2007, Barrack had loaned Manafort $1.5 million to refinance a home in the Hamptons.”

some folks wish they were too big to fail but aren’t. they’re just small big failures

New comment by gobengo in "U.S. regulator set to take over First Republic"

gobengo — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 03:48:51 +0000

Anyone else notice how First Republic bank was bought a few years ago by Colony Capital co-managed by Thomas Barrack, who was a Senior Advisor to the Trump Campaign before being found guilty of acting as an unregistered foreign agent for UAE? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Barrack

Probably nothing.

New comment by gobengo in "Spanish climber emerges after 500 days in cave"

gobengo — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 18:21:19 +0000

> At what point do we consider this a mental illness

usually when the patient complains or harms someone else, and not before

New comment by gobengo in "Trendy “raw water” source under bird’s nest sparks diarrheal outbreak"

gobengo — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 18:05:52 +0000

millenia is not very much time to be applying inductive reasoning about future odds.

absence of evidence is not evidence of absence

New comment by gobengo in "Universal Speech Model"

gobengo — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 01:44:54 +0000

yes "They've only ever done one thing well, from a business perspective - create a world class search algo, put it behind a minimalistic web page, and pay for it with ads. And they didn't even come up with that business model: they just did what the competition did, but made the idealistic-nerd version of it."

New comment by gobengo in "Pentagon woos Silicon Valley to join ranks of arms makers"

gobengo — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 17:51:42 +0000

why did you put quotes around american enough

New comment by gobengo in "Activity Pub vs. Web Frameworks"

gobengo — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 01:55:05 +0000

We need good patterns for ‘dereferencing’ dns-bound identifiers like many https://{dns} URLs into something like a multiformats/cid[1]

[1]: https://github.com/multiformats/cid

New comment by gobengo in "I saw RealPage's crappy rent-jacking-up software so you don't have to"

gobengo — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 17:58:40 +0000

look into the software your HR dept uses to know how much to pay you

New comment by gobengo in "The age of cargo cult Agile must end"

gobengo — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 02:04:45 +0000

https://www.asyncagile.org/method-stack

New comment by gobengo in "We chose NanoIDs for PlanetScale’s API"

gobengo — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 19:03:24 +0000

NanoIDs are shorter than UUIDs because they have a bigger alphabet. That's probably why.

It's not very important for putting IDs in URL paths. But it can matter when using them in DNS subdomains because often there are surprisingly short max character lengths for domain names in e.g. LetsEncrypt SSL certs (iirc 63 characters)

New comment by gobengo in "The AT Protocol"

gobengo — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 22:49:09 +0000

I believe it's not particularly standards-track at W3C. Is there a reason you think that it is?

New comment by gobengo in "EU Digital ID wallet is coming"

gobengo — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 06:36:29 +0000

lets go web5

If you wanna study this stuff, participate in

* https://w3c-ccg.github.io/

* https://trustoverip.org/

* https://identity.foundation/

New comment by gobengo in "Quantum Algorithm Implementations for Beginners"

gobengo — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 09:48:01 +0000

> Can these computers actually do something better than their classical counterparts, right now?

The answer is yes. Sometimes this is referred to as 'quantum supremacy' and some researchers at Google declared it in 2019.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1666-5 https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/10/quantum-supremacy-using-pr...