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benhurmarcel··on Gemini 4 Argon
My company is on Enterprise Plus, and we're still on 3.6 flash.
benhurmarcel··on Gemini 4 Argon
I also only have access to 3.6 flash on both my free personal account, and my professional Enterprise account.

Google just takes months to roll out their models to everyone.

benhurmarcel··on Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability
They skimp on plastic buttons, you think they'll include a HUD?
benhurmarcel··on Dots: Always-on agents
The agent needs you to pay for the subscription
benhurmarcel··on Excel now supports multiple values in a single cell
I did some spreadsheets that included matrix math. It would have been convenient to store the whole matrix into a single cell.
benhurmarcel··on Best LLM for every budget, updated daily
Same thing. I'm sure a subscription would be better value if I had enough usage, but I don't. With Deepseek or similar a few $ is quite a bit of usage already.
benhurmarcel··on Dropbox's Jan 1st 2027 terms of service
Sounds like git annex assistant https://git-annex.branchable.com/assistant/
benhurmarcel··on Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite
In a corporate context it's basically impossible for employees to host an app anywhere. So an app that works entirely locally and you can send to colleagues sounds useful.
benhurmarcel··on Chopping up books when they're physically too big
It doesn't work that much on sites which organize comments in a tree, like HN or Reddit. You can just fold that part of the thread.
benhurmarcel··on Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking
Google takes a long time to roll out models in general. Both my personal and work accounts still have only 3.6 Flash, even though 3.8 was released 2 weeks ago and 3.7 more than a month ago.
benhurmarcel··on New $100K H-1B Visa Fee Pushes Tech Jobs Offshore
Ranking by salary would basically mean ranking by industry, not just skill
benhurmarcel··on google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
The 300 searches a month work for me because I only use Kagi when I think it will give better results than others. And most searches are trivial so any free engine will do (like you have the website name and want the url).
benhurmarcel··on Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
Lots of companies have security policies that forbid installing a local agent/harness. So employees still only have access to the web chat interface, and copy paste content yes.
benhurmarcel··on Mistral raises €3B
That's pretty high for engineering in France though. Most engineers by far are way below that there, this is top management level.
benhurmarcel··on Ask HN: Advice on Migrating from 1Password?
But you still need to store the login and version number for each domain in a database. And provide the secret key. At this point you might as well store the encrypted password along with the rest.
benhurmarcel··on Tim Cook Sold Out Steve Jobs (2025)
There are ads in the Apps Store, and in Maps. Also ads for iCloud subscriptions in the settings if you don't use it.
benhurmarcel··on Woman stranded in Spain after UK's eVisa system mistakes her for twin sister
There is no requirement about that here. Anyway I only provide a printed copy, which the employee visually compares to the person.
benhurmarcel··on Woman stranded in Spain after UK's eVisa system mistakes her for twin sister
I just did an ID picture for a 1 month old. I just did it flat on a bed and used a Nano Banana model to clean it up to match requirements.
benhurmarcel··on Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?
You underestimate the amount of detailed tedious work that is done in those fields. It’s far from being all about architectural blueprints.
benhurmarcel··on Cloudflare's new AI traffic options for customers
I’ve been blocked by Turnstile without possibility of challenge, no way to access nor know why. And it was with standard iOS and Windows machines and no VPN or anything. It happens.
benhurmarcel··on Back to Kagi
I do the same thing, I only use Kagi when the result I want isn’t obvious, so the cheap plan is plenty. It’s easy to do with the browser’s shortcuts.
benhurmarcel··on Airbus Takes Flight from AWS
Well I don’t miss the days of sending Word and Excel files as attachments back and forth to collaborate
benhurmarcel··on Airbus Takes Flight from AWS
Because you could get a bug fixed in Outlook before?
benhurmarcel··on Global Warming at 3 °C by 2050? What's Behind the New German Climate Warning
No, it’s 18°F. This is a temperature difference, not an absolute temperature, the conversion isn’t the same.
benhurmarcel··on AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn
By email this is true but you can’t do that as well by chat or texts. You only get one thread per contact.
benhurmarcel··on CarPlay Is Additive
When I plan to use a rental car I usually pack a phone holder that fits on air vents. You never know if you’ll be able to connect your phone to the car so that’s a small backup.
benhurmarcel··on Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly
It has its quirks. For example it can’t attach an image without inlining it. Or if the sender has several email addresses saved it can’t show which one sent you a particular email. And it can’t show you which of your email addresses received a given email.
benhurmarcel··on Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption
Because you don't trust Google either, so you're out of realistic options
benhurmarcel··on How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown
> If there's a conflict on the server and your change cannot be applied, your change is rolled back on your client

Do you lose your data then? Or are you thrown back into the form after it closed?

benhurmarcel··on Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)
Only if you actually try to achieve them
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