Ben Tucker

Moment of Zen youtu.be/jYiexkNTgKY?...

I accidentally started building a little Mac app today. Claude + Swift/SwiftUI makes this so much fun! What a difference from Obj-C when I last tried this 15 years ago.

My blog is back after a 20 year hiatus. www.btucker.net

Am I missing something or is there very little done in the space of benchmarks of coding agent harnesses together with models? SWE-Bench is just the model as it runs it's own harness. This is the only thing I've found: marginlab.ai/trackers/cla... marginlab.ai/trackers/codex

I like the idea of github.com/steveyegge/beads, but in practice I kept running into problems. So Claude Code & I built a much simpler version: github.com/btucker/micr... No SQLite, no daemon, merge conflicts. Fully works in Claude Code Web.

Someone on HN posted about a common hallucination & then someone else noticed that the HN post caused Gemini to doubt itself. I'm thinking we should call these "Heisenjections" news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=460...

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

US citizen Maria Greeley, a Latina who was adopted, was walking home from work downtown when masked agents zip tied her. They said she “doesn’t look like a Greeley.” This is how the government treats people under current deportation policies. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...

The comments on the Slate launch video are quite something. They seem to be making someone people want. youtu.be/jKVwEg4ZToI?...

Great turnout today for the #50501 protest in Chicago

🚨BREAKING: 4th Circuit Court of Appeal throws out Trump’s request to halt proceedings in the case of wrongfully imprisoned Kilmar Abrego Garcia. It is a devastating judgement. Just read this extract.👇

I’m all for folks going on the bropods & getting in front of these audiences. BUT, get it in writing that you get edit approval for any clips. Case in point, this edited clip of a “debate” youtube.com/shorts/uRVOy...

We need to stop saying “wrongly deported.” That means we expel someone out of the country. No, we sent him to a US-funded prison. Abrego Garcia is being “wrongly imprisoned.”

There's been a LOT going on, but the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case really deserves all of our attention. Some thoughts at CAMPAIGN TRAILS: campaign-trails.ghost.io/homegrown-cr...

THIS. Also, we need continuous innovation in regulating effectively.

Time to pack it up. It’s all a big game to gamble on.

CECOT is a hellhole that local despot Nayib Bukele had proactively offered up weeks ago. On what basis can our government send people there?

How could a slavery scandal involving the President of the United States be worse than we thought? This extremely long, extremely detailed, and fully sourced PROOF report explains. This—not the tariff war—is the most important story in America right now. I hope you will consider checking it out.

If you ever have the opportunity to fly Avelo Airlines—don’t.

Surely these insider traders on the WH Signal chats will be held accountable, right?

Who knew the invisible hand of the market was so small & orange.

Undocumented immigrants pay $96 BILLION in taxes each year. itep.org/undocumented...

There would be a lot of upside for JD Vance were Trump removed from office.

I, too, run a bilateral trade deficit with Trader Joe's. Love @justinwolfers.bsky.social’s explanation here.

Yet another example of how "Progressives" in blue cities use process arguments as delay tactics opposing progress: "There's typically been the same refrain for a long time, which is, 'the process wasn't extensive enough,' 'you didn't stakeholder this,' 'you didn't get enough feedback,'"

This is an important read: quotably.com/q/X4EThNd

Default subreddits like r/pics are playing an important role in showing the general population what’s happening

At some point being a vocal Trump fan & CEO of Canada’s second-largest company is an untenable combination. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

They’ll never accept it, but everyone who cast a vote for Donald Trump did real, generations-long damage to the United States and the west in exchange for essentially nothing of value.

Timeline cleanser youtu.be/TURkB9zqxa0?...

This is our ‘Trumparture’ from the rest of the world. Not surprising the best minds don't want to be a part of it.

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

Well wow. With just 3 precincts left, Dem James Malone is up by 800 votes in PA's #SD36. This is looking like an astonishing Dem flip in a Trump+15 seat, per our calculations. electionresults.lancastercountypa.gov/results/publ...

Democrats have secured their majority by one seat in the Pennsylvania State House. Congratulations, Dan!

In case there was any question. From 2015: “Electronic messages created or received in the course of agency business are Federal records. Like all Federal records, these electronic messages must be scheduled for disposition.” www.archives.gov/records-mgmt...

In case there was any question. From 2015: “Electronic messages created or received in the course of agency business are Federal records. Like all Federal records, these electronic messages must be scheduled for disposition.” www.archives.gov/records-mgmt...

UPDATE: The Trump admin rushed to the 4th Circuit, seeking an emergency stay to pause the ruling against DOGE We just filed our opposition. The court got it right—there's a high likelihood of success on both the Appts Clause & separation of powers claims statedemocracydefenders.org/wp-content/u...

I think he's actually telling the truth that he wasn't briefed on this before getting sent out. Wild.

I feel like this is getting lost. Marco Rubio has the power to ensure that data/evidence of potential Russian war crimes on abducted Ukrainian children gets to Europol. Instead, he is preventing this. Why? He won't say. Let's not let this one drop. newrepublic.com/article/1930...

We did this. Just like we took children from their parents at the southern border. We did that. And we did this too. We need our Democratic leaders to call this out. Loudly.