Hacker News: natbennett

New comment by natbennett in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

natbennett — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 02:04:16 +0000

The issue here isn’t that this guy shared something about his personal life it’s the particular personal details. It’s possible to share information about your personal life without talking about your drug use or your therapy or your drug use at therapy.

It is irritating that people expect you to understand what reasonable personal sharing is without explaining explicitly and goodness knows I screwed this up when I was younger but “don’t talk about your personal life at all” is bad advice.

New comment by natbennett in "Don't Take the Black Pill [video]"

natbennett — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:00:00 +0000

If you haven’t interacted much with people raised by conservative Christians in the United States, they often have strong feelings about how they were raised.

New comment by natbennett in "I regret migrating to Codeberg"

natbennett — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:19:56 +0000

Firefox is an interesting choice as a company that wasn’t affected by identity politics given how Brendan Eich left the company

New comment by natbennett in "Patreon laying off 20% of staff"

natbennett — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:17:54 +0000

They are not a “pure middle man.”

You should talk to someone who works at Patreon. Or a larger creator on their platform.

New comment by natbennett in "Patreon laying off 20% of staff"

natbennett — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:15:17 +0000

They provide a lot of services and support to their bigger creators.

Last I heard they also do their own payment processing, which is a substantial technical problem.

New comment by natbennett in "Patreon laying off 20% of staff"

natbennett — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:37:06 +0000

Patreon just does this every few years. At least Jack Conte didn’t post a video of himself crying about it this time.

New comment by natbennett in "TK, or the secret to effortless writing (2024)"

natbennett — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:06:34 +0000

I do this a lot but I use “TK:” with the colon to make it unambiguously grep-able (stands out better visually too)

New comment by natbennett in "Why it's so difficult to produce American-made medical gloves"

natbennett — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 13:54:22 +0000

Headlines and articles are typically written by different people with different goals.

Create Your Language

natbennett — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:59:31 +0000

Article URL: https://conlang.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48825148

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by natbennett in "Automating AI Away"

natbennett — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:28:49 +0000

I’ve got a test that checks to see if “Logger” has been imported anywhere in my Elixir project, and if it finds one it prints out an explanation of why this project shouldn’t use Logger and what it should do instead. (Which is— emit OpenTelemetry events.)

New comment by natbennett in "Software Bonkers"

natbennett — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:25:59 +0000

The phenomenon this describes is the most important effect of LLM coding tools, and this is my favorite description of it.

New comment by natbennett in "Software Bonkers"

natbennett — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:23:44 +0000

This was posted in March 2026.

New comment by natbennett in "The future of Flipper Zero development"

natbennett — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 21:33:25 +0000

Oh yeah that’s how you’re supposed to do it. But it’s entirely possible to set up a system that uses RFID key fobs that uh, doesn’t.

In the case where it was most useful to make copies they did eventually replace the system with one where the keys weren’t copy able. Which was better!

New comment by natbennett in "The future of Flipper Zero development"

natbennett — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 21:26:15 +0000

Nope! Only occasionally. But it’s handy on those occasions.

New comment by natbennett in "The future of Flipper Zero development"

natbennett — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:45:32 +0000

Flipper Zero is one of the handiest little pieces of tech I’ve ever owned. Being able to copy RFID keys is occasionally fantastically useful.

New comment by natbennett in "Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected"

natbennett — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:43:10 +0000

This article is at least the sixth restatement of a single Reuters article that has been posted here.

New comment by natbennett in "Why do u check my website but dont register"

natbennett — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 14:42:12 +0000

Because no one wants to “turn startups into content.” The point of posting on social media isn’t to post. You need to explain an outcome that someone would actually care about.

Egg consumption inversely correlated with Alzheimer's

natbennett — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:48:15 +0000

Article URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42002260/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48790349

Points: 69

# Comments: 52

New comment by natbennett in "Craig Mod built his own Good Reads"

natbennett — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:38:30 +0000

Specifically for his private social media that’s a benefit for his paid subscribers. 5 or 6 days of a few hours a day, with Claude.

Craig Mod built his own Good Reads

natbennett — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:38:30 +0000

Article URL: https://craigmod.com/roden/115/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48777636

Points: 24

# Comments: 29