Hacker News: wenbin

New comment by wenbin in "Shooting down ideas is not a skill"

wenbin — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:43:56 +0000

“pessimists sound smart , but optimists make money”

New comment by wenbin in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

wenbin — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:02:56 +0000

Does this mean AWS's #1 position is safe?

Every big cloud provider has its share of UX/stability/customer support issues.

At this point, it feels less like AWS is the 'least bad' option because alternatives are even worse.

37,000 AI-generated podcasts on Kaggle

wenbin — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:44:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/listennotes/ai-generated-fake-podcasts-spams

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47641369

Points: 4

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New comment by wenbin in "Delve removed from Y Combinator"

wenbin — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:13:57 +0000

Curious - in this situation, does delve return money to YC? Or YC simply writes off the investment

New comment by wenbin in "GitHub is once again down"

wenbin — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:29:21 +0000

I guess vibe coding can't solve such problem for now...

Ask HN: In 2026, how do you share a list of URLs to the public (or friends)?

wenbin — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:02:00 +0000

Like del.icio.us in the old days?

Ideally, this list of URLs grows. I add new URLs, and others who follow the list can see the updates.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47353908

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by wenbin in "Good software knows when to stop"

wenbin — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:54:55 +0000

Yea, good old days :)

The catch was that old boxed software eventually breaks on new OS versions or devices.

However, SaaS has the potential to "freeze" features while remaining functional 20+ years down the road. Behind the scenes, developers can update server dependencies and push minor fixes to ensure compatibility with new browsers and screen sizes.

From the end-user's perspective, the product remains unchanged and reliable. To me, that’s very good!

New comment by wenbin in "Good software knows when to stop"

wenbin — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:46:17 +0000

We should normalize "finished" software products that stop feature creep and focus strictly on bug fixes and security updates.

It takes real courage for a builder to say, "It’s good enough. It’s complete. It serves the core use cases well." If people want more features? Great, make it a separate product under a new brand.

Evernote and Dropbox were perfect in 2012. Adding more features just to chase new user growth often comes at the expense of confusing the existing user base. Not good

New comment by wenbin in "The Great Unwind"

wenbin — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:23:30 +0000

HN is full of tech savvy people. Yet an llm slop article is upvoted to the front page of HN...

Imagine how deceptive llm slop contents are to the general population.

New comment by wenbin in "AI Slop Report: The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos"

wenbin — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 08:36:28 +0000

Same for podcasts (and other types of online contents) -

Here's a dataset of 26,000+ ai-generated "podcasts"

https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/listennotes/ai-generated-fak...

New comment by wenbin in "Stop crawling my HTML – use the API"

wenbin — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 20:03:34 +0000

if you use microfeed.org , you can use jsonfeed , eg, https://www.microfeed.org/json/

Sharding Web Traffic with Subdomains to Better Leverage Cloudflare CDN and WAF

wenbin — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:16:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.listennotes.com/blog/sharding-web-traffic-with-subdomains-to-better-114/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46222199

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by wenbin in "It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts"

wenbin — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 18:04:44 +0000

It's similarly insulting to listen to your AI-generated fake podcasts[0]. Ten minutes spent on them is ten minutes wasted.

[0] AI-generated fake podcasts (mostly via NotebookLM) https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/listennotes/ai-generated-fak...

Show HN: Microfeed – open-source CMS on Cloudflare (10G r2 storage for free)

wenbin — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 16:55:24 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/microfeed/microfeed

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45375382

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Tech and Non-Tech Stacks to Run Listen Notes (2025)

wenbin — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:41:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.listennotes.com/blog/tech-non-tech-stacks-to-run-listen-notes-2025-113/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45361906

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by wenbin in "AI False information rate for news nearly doubles in one year"

wenbin — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 03:14:37 +0000

Maybe some of them already embed some simple, secret marker to identify their own generated content. But people outside the organization wouldn’t know. And this still can’t prevent other companies from training models on synthetic data.

Once synthetic data becomes pervasive, it’s inevitable that some of it will end up in the training process. Then it’ll be interesting to see how the information world evolves: AI-generated content built on synthetic data produced by other AIs. Over time, people may trust AI-generated content less and less.

New comment by wenbin in "AI False information rate for news nearly doubles in one year"

wenbin — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 02:17:52 +0000

AI will create ever more AI-generated synthetic content because current systems still can't determine with 100% certainty whether a piece of content was produced by AI. And AIs will, intentionally or unintentionally, train on synthetic content produced by other AIs.

AI generators don't have a strong incentive to add watermarks to synthetic content. They also don't provide reliable AI-detection tools (or any tools at all) to help others detect content generated by them.

New comment by wenbin in "SynthID – A tool to watermark and identify content generated through AI"

wenbin — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 08:13:50 +0000

I really hope SynthID becomes a widely adopted standard - at the very least, Google should implement it across its own products like NotebookLM.

The problem is becoming urgent: more and more so-called “podcasts” are entirely fake, generated by NotebookLM and pushed to every major platform purely to farm backlinks and run blackhat SEO campaigns.

Beyond SynthID or similar watermarking standards, we also need models trained specifically [0] to detect AI-generated audio. Otherwise, the damage compounds - people might waste 30 minutes listening to a meaningless AI-generated podcast, or worse, absorb and believe misleading or outright harmful information.

[0] 15,000+ ai generated fake podcasts https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/listennotes/ai-generated-fak...

New comment by wenbin in "Subreply – an open source text-only social network"

wenbin — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 00:37:56 +0000

missed the good old days of telnet bbs & newsgroup :)

15,000+ AI-generated fake podcasts

wenbin — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 17:36:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/listennotes/ai-generated-fake-podcasts-spams

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44595898

Points: 11

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