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How I Over-Engineered My Book

https://ben.balter.com/2026/08/17/how-i-over-engineered-my-book/
8•benbalter•48m ago

Comments

hyperhello•24m ago
Okay, but I feel assured your book will be astonishingly boring.
benbalter•19m ago
Why do you think I procrastinated writing by building out all that unnecessary tooling? /s
NAR8789•14m ago
Your own descriptive comment got downvoted and the only other comment I see is bashing you.

It seems you rub people the wrong way, but so far I'm scratching my head as to why you're receiving this degree of hate. Is this common for you? Does someone have a vendetta against you?

hyperhello•3m ago
I think you’re way off. Hate is absurd, I don’t even know him. He’s automatically being downvoted for hyping his own product on HN, although he’s certainly not plugging it too hard.
t-kalinowski•14m ago
Seeing that list of tools you're using in automations, I'm guessing you'll enjoy this, as another tool to add to the pile: https://t-kalinowski.github.io/yamark/

(disclosure: I wrote it)

benbalter•11m ago
Well, there goes my weekend. Thanks for sharing. Will take a look.
khaki54•10m ago
Textbook example of structured procrastination. I bet you got all your household projects done as well as taxes for next year

OpenAI President Greg Brockman: "You Need to Believe"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXBFnfrt2gU
1•root-parent•31s ago•0 comments

Welcome to Earth – our new IDE for Linux

https://blogs.remobjects.com/2026/08/17/welcome-to-earth/
1•dwarfland•56s ago•0 comments

How to Choose a Subproblem

https://millicosm.substack.com/p/how-to-choose-a-subproblem
1•paulpauper•1m ago•0 comments

Violet Hensley Dies at 109; Ozarks Fiddler Made Opry Debut at 99

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/15/arts/music/violet-hensley-dead.html
1•paulpauper•2m ago•1 comments

Marking Time

https://www.science.org/content/article/marking-time-cosmic-ray-storms-can-pin-precise-dates-hist...
1•simonebrunozzi•2m ago•0 comments

Chernoff Face

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernoff_face
1•nycdatasci•3m ago•0 comments

Sub-$7k sportscar might be just what the future needs

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/08/the-opposite-of-a-hypercar-is-fun-meet-the-gasolini-ar1/
1•rbanffy•4m ago•0 comments

If – A senior Engineer to a Junior Engineer, 2026

https://mooresolutions.io/if.html
1•dizlexic•5m ago•0 comments

Open-source Mailchimp alternative on your own SES

https://github.com/Notifuse/notifuse
1•pierrebaz•8m ago•0 comments

You have no cookies. We know who you are anyway

https://shaderghost.gg/
1•charlieirish•8m ago•0 comments

Monero FCMP++ Cryptography Implementation Audited by Trail of Bits

https://magicgrants.org/2026/08/17/Monero-FCMP-Cryptography-Implementation-ToB
1•ementally•8m ago•0 comments

Iran threatens to go on offensive in Strait of Hormuz if diplomacy with US fails

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-threatens-go-offensive-strait-hormuz-if-diplomacy-...
1•root-parent•9m ago•0 comments

Jane Street has paid up large to avoid its numbers leaking out

https://www.ft.com/content/28a51284-98cc-4767-a306-0540d265687f
4•petethomas•10m ago•0 comments

Tangled: The next-generation social coding platform

https://tangled.org
2•icy•10m ago•0 comments

Ex-oil engineer warns about potential climate collapse [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBFos_T7cT0
2•simonebrunozzi•11m ago•0 comments

'Godfather of AI' Geoffrey Hinton Warns of Mass Unemployment

https://in.mashable.com/tech/112942/will-ai-take-your-job-godfather-of-ai-geoffrey-hinton-warns-o...
3•datakan•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Lightweight In-Browser QR Generator with Vector and PNG Export

https://convertix-fast-imager-co.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html
1•convertix123•12m ago•0 comments

I got tired of project tools like Jira, so I wrote my own

https://github.com/esbeneickhardt/Planly
1•ebbemonster•12m ago•0 comments

Why Are Rivers So Mathematical?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-are-rivers-so-mathematical-20260810/
2•bcaulfield•13m ago•0 comments

CEO who fired 900 employees over Zoom gets fired, demands job back

https://local12.com/news/nation-world/ceo-fired-zoom-vishal-garg-better-home-finance-demands-job-...
3•01-_-•13m ago•0 comments

Letta Agents SDK: An SDK for stateful agents

https://www.letta.com/blog/introducing-the-letta-agent-sdk/
6•forthwall•15m ago•0 comments

Saor.io – Persistent memory for AI agents, free, connects via MCP

https://saor.io
1•mrjaxon•15m ago•0 comments

Journalist Darryl K. Taft leaves a legacy of respected work and quiet integrity

https://thenewstack.io/darryl-taft-technology-journalist/
2•ohjeez•18m ago•0 comments

Foreign Principal

https://www.bitchute.com/video/Syw8bb8mtsEN/
1•untiledsource•18m ago•0 comments

From Financial Statements to a Living Graph

https://financialstatementsplanninggraphv21.vercel.app/
2•Mojca•23m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Does xPal's privacy model solve problems other messengers have not?

1•Brandon-Coll•23m ago•0 comments

Ubuntu Is Growing Faster on Windows Than on Linux

https://itsfoss.com/news/canonical-wsl-growth/
4•speckx•24m ago•0 comments

Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element

https://theasc.com/article/fantastic-voyage-creating-the-futurescape-for-the-fifth-element/
4•sarah-robiin•25m ago•0 comments

SF's rent is through the roof- but not relative to pre-pandemic?

https://notanothersubstack.com/2026/08/16/sfs-rent-is-through-the-roof-but-not-relative-to-pre-pa...
2•raybb•26m ago•0 comments

AI-enriched Linux 7.2 delivers cache-aware scheduling – here's everything new

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-linux-7-2-release-cache-aware-scheduling/
3•CrankyBear•26m ago•0 comments