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Edward Benson

Personal blog · edwardbenson.com · on HN as eobaistartups

Edward Benson's personal blog at edwardbenson.com covers ai and startups. Since 2009, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “The First AI Street Hawker”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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16mentions?
6HN people?
2009–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2010

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link these posts about building HTML5 iPhone apps and how Safari and Firefox handle HTML5. The one comment shown cites a post alongside the WHATWG spec and makes no judgement of the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Ted Benson is an AI researcher turned entrepreneur.

The author on HN?

eob · 2,671 karma · member since 2009

I build Figma Make. Before: Founder @ Steamship. Head of ML @ Instabase, YC Alum (S15), PhD @ MIT CSAIL, Google Research Contact: - @edwardbenson - edward.benson@gmail.com Websites: - https://edwardbenson.com - https://robotbookclub.com - https://kaya-lang.org

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Most-linked posts?

  1. The First AI Street Hawker
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-11-19

What Hacker News says?

  1. I think the answer to this lies in regulation, but I think we also need to start treating the thriving market for our personal data differently. Privacy and regulation is super important. But I think we, as "products" also need to become active, engaged participants in the economic market for our personal information. We should have profit sharing agreements with Facebook to resell our data, should we consent to dat…

    Comment linking /facebooks-product-is-you

    on “Facebook caught sharing secret data with advertisers”
  2. Submitted Google’s AI thinks I left a Gatorade bottle on the moon as a story · 367 points

    HN discussion
  3. I am sorry, but please no URL shorteners. http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/... http://edwardbenson.com/how-safari-and-firefox-handle-html-5...

    Comment linking /how-safari-and-firefox-handle-html-5-manifest

    on “How to Make an HTML5 iPhone App”
  4. Submitted A Manchurian Candidate Hidden in Qwen's Weights as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. We did this with sqlite about six years back and got awesome performance results. It was a system called SyncKit. Still would have preferred relational storage in the browser, but glad to see at least we're moving toward something. http://edwardbenson.com/papers/www2010-synckit.pdf

    Comment linking /papers/www2010-synckit.pdf

    on “Lovefield: Cross-browser, SQL-like, relational query engine on top of IndexedDB”
  6. Submitted A book for understanding document automation as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Embedding boolean circuits in a neural network as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted The First AI Street Hawker as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Solving Problems versus Selling Products as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Facebook's Product is You as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted These Neurons Control Territorial Claims as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted What I learned building an AI book publisher as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Hawke – the first AI street hawker as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Show HN: An AI street hawker that negotiates and sells licorice as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted The Irony of WikiLeaks as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Will the Namespace Traffic Jam Kill RDFa in HTML5? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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