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bennyg commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)    · Posted by u/david927
bennyg · a month ago
I built https://www.stoodious.app for my wife while she was studying for her California Real Estate Broker's Exam. She was frustrated with the price gouging on text books, or being the "state-of-the-art" study platforms being video only, having no/poor mobile UX or just feeling outright dated.

So I built Stoodious as a study guide platform that intends to give you the material and get out of your way, as opposed to the engagement-driving gamification of others. One of the killer features is being able to drill practice questions related to the specific study section you're working on - e.g. 20-30 questions about water rights, encumbrances or calculating GRM. Frequently my wife found herself studying vocab for a section but having to skim through a 100-question practice test to find related questions.

I extended the material to all 50 states' basic real estate licensing exam and am looking to add even more "professional exam" material.

bennyg commented on GPT-4.5   openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
harlanlewis · 6 months ago
The price really is eye watering. At a glance, my first impression is this is something like Llama 3.1 405B, where the primary value may be realized in generating high quality synthetic data for training rather than direct use.

I keep a little google spreadsheet with some charts to help visualize the landscape at a glance in terms of capability/price/throughput, bringing in the various index scores as they become available. Hope folks find it useful, feel free to copy and claim as your own.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1foc98Jtbi0-GUsNySddv...

bennyg · 6 months ago
This is an amazing spreadsheet - thank you for sharing!
bennyg commented on Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers    · Posted by u/Hold-And-Modify
schroeding · 7 months ago
> Does cURL have an easy-to-spot fingerprint outside of its headers?

If it's a https URL: Yes, the TLS handshake. There are curl builds[1] which try (and succeed) to imitate the TLS handshake (and settings for HTTP/2) of a normal browser, though.

[1] https://github.com/lwthiker/curl-impersonate

bennyg · 7 months ago
To echo further, they may be leaning on something like the [ja4 fingerprint](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=8997844...) (which you'd need to rebuild curl to emulate that chromium version to try and trick).
bennyg commented on Researchers launch "moonshot" to cure blindness through eye transplants   canoncitydailyrecord.com/... · Posted by u/viewtransform
Fr0styMatt88 · 9 months ago
The other thing I found insanely wild was that if I looked at a repeating pattern and held still (like say a tiled floor or carpet), the image from my good eye would slowly start expanding over and filling in the big blind spot in my bad eye.

Also if lighting conditions were just right (mostly dim but bright enough to make out shapes like in the middle of the night with only some light coming through windows), my brain would ‘forget’ the other eye couldn’t see and it would look like I could see out of both eyes again. It was trippy as hell.

bennyg · 9 months ago
I have the same phenomena - loud sharp noise is like a flashbulb goes off. Reading another commenter mention EHS and looking it up, I don’t think that’s it either. Have had multiple RD surgeries myself. Hope your vision is otherwise stable!
bennyg commented on Malware can turn off webcam LED and record video, demonstrated on ThinkPad X230   github.com/xairy/lights-o... · Posted by u/xairy
ryanisnan · 9 months ago
How is that true? I use my macbook mic occasionally with the lid closed, and an external monitor.
bennyg · 9 months ago
Plus one-ing this - I think the external monitor may be the kicker to keeping the mic active. This drives me up the wall when Google Meet decides to just default to the closed Macbook next to me instead of my already connected Air Pods when joining work meetings.
bennyg commented on Andy Warhol's lost Amiga art found   dfarq.homeip.net/andy-war... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
tofu8 · a year ago
It's most likely a fake. Signed prints by Haring and Warhol for for a lot more — you can get an idea for how much by looking at Sotheby's/Christie's past results.
bennyg · a year ago
Again those are typically for limited runs - for unlimited runs they're surprisingly inexpensive.
bennyg commented on Andy Warhol's lost Amiga art found   dfarq.homeip.net/andy-war... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
duxup · a year ago
>You can pick one up on Ebay

Are they, legit?

I used to collect coins before the days of the internet and decided to pull out my collection and thought about getting back into it. It's just scam / fakes everywhere on Ebay.

bennyg · a year ago
Typically these prices are for unlimited print runs as opposed to a run of a 100 or less (which command more money obviously, due to supply). I have a Haring print in my home that was about the same price (I think around $250 in total for print and frame) that's signed by the artist.
bennyg commented on Uncovered Euripides fragments are 'kind of a big deal'   colorado.edu/asmagazine/2... · Posted by u/caf
_a_a_a_ · a year ago
Essplain? Am lost.
bennyg · a year ago
Say it out loud - it's a play on words. "You rip a dese trousers, you mend a dese trousers"
bennyg commented on Police warn of thieves using WiFi-jamming tech to disarm cameras, alarms   ktla.com/news/local-news/... · Posted by u/Bluestein
ysacfanboi · a year ago
One solution is to throw out all those Ring cameras and get local storage solutions. After all, your data should belong to you.
bennyg · a year ago
What _are_ the best wired cam/local storage solutions today?
bennyg commented on The Real-World Locations of 14 Sci-Fi Dystopias (2014)   atlasobscura.com/articles... · Posted by u/BerislavLopac
yardie · 2 years ago
Probably because it's the opposite of dystopic but Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciences [0], Valencia, ESP is one of the most sci-fi locations I've ever set foot in. You'll recognize it from Marvel films it's the setting for Guardians of the Galaxy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Arts_and_Sciences

bennyg · 2 years ago
One of my favorite cities - went there on my honeymoon in 2019. The river-turned-park is beautiful and the whole old town area of the city is just full of "play". Check out this sweet playground that's actually a giant Gulliver laying down (https://www.lovevalencia.com/en/the-gulliver-park.html).

If anybody can swing a visit to Valencia - do it. I can't wait to go back some day.

u/bennyg

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