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New comment by thomasben in "Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids"

thomasben — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 05:19:38 +0000

Even if social popularity has always been of high importance in children’s and teens lives (just pause 1 min and try to remember how you were when aged 10 or 12), making a business of out it is quite sad. What a world we live on…

New comment by thomasben in "Ex-Tech –> Homeless in SF"

thomasben — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 07:47:44 +0000

It is scary. We live in a harsh world. I hope you made it through.

New comment by thomasben in "Ask HN: Senior engineering mngrs: how has AI changed your day-to-day work?"

thomasben — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 17:51:11 +0000

It made me code again.

Before I had not enough time to gather context, be in the flow, code and test.

Now I work throughout the day, as soon as I have 10/15 minutes I send a prompt to one of my Claude Code so they can make progress on tasks that the teams cannot undertake because too time consuming versus business needs (major migration, architecture changes, etc…)

I love it to be able to contribute more

New comment by thomasben in "Context Engineering with Claude Code: Building Smarter AI Workflows"

thomasben — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 21:28:50 +0000

Great sum up of the Claude Code ecosystem, well explained. The formula 1 analogy is perfect. I was looking for some resources to onboard ca 50 engineers in my company, and make sure all have the basics in mind. I might take some insights from your article :)

New comment by thomasben in "How Postgres stores data on disk – this one's a page turner"

thomasben — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 06:01:56 +0000

Easy to read, well written and well structured. Great work Drew !

New comment by thomasben in "Show HN: Every mountain, building and tree shadow mapped for any date and time"

thomasben — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 06:38:20 +0000

Nice projet ! I didn’t know such a tool existed. Will definitely use it when changing home !

New comment by thomasben in "Show HN: TestFast – A Tool to Test Your Business Ideas"

thomasben — Thu, 23 May 2024 20:41:37 +0000

Hi, I tried it, it was pretty fast, and the UI/UX is nice :) Nice idea overall, I like it.

The top black bar asking you to pay at the end may however be somehow stressfull, especially when you see that a countdown has started, and you need to run to your credit card to not loose your page :p