Hacker News: AJMaxwell

New comment by AJMaxwell in "Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years"

AJMaxwell — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 05:31:20 +0000

The lack of animals to domesticate meant fewer zoonotic diseases in Native American populations, so they were ill equipped when those diseases appeared.

IIRC, there was a massive plague in North America a decade or so before Columbus arrived.

New comment by AJMaxwell in "Messing with scraper bots"

AJMaxwell — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 21:12:51 +0000

That's a simple and effective way to block a lot of bots, gonna implement that on my sites. Thanks!

New comment by AJMaxwell in "Caffeinated coffee consumption or abstinence to reduce atrial fibrillation"

AJMaxwell — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 21:01:54 +0000

It's probably whatever "1 cup" means to the patient. The researchers would want them to stick to their status quo for the best results.

For example, 1 cup of coffee for my wife involves a blend of coffee and espresso beans with no adders, but 1 cup to her dad means lighter roast bean with milk. Both options have different caffeine contents and nutritional values.

New comment by AJMaxwell in "Posting your property on Airbnb is now punishable offense in Sausalito, Bay Area"

AJMaxwell — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 03:40:35 +0000

No. It's not considered interstate commerce when one purchases goods or services in a state one is visiting. No goods or services crossed state lines.

New comment by AJMaxwell in "Let me pay for Firefox"

AJMaxwell — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 15:53:49 +0000

Like what?

New comment by AJMaxwell in "Open source Google Analytics replacement"

AJMaxwell — Thu, 08 May 2025 05:31:27 +0000

I have been using Matomo along side GA4 for a month now. The amount of useful data coming from Matomo, even anonymized, is more expansive and easier to access than GA4. Plus self-hosting was pretty easy and it keeps the data on our servers, which just feels right.

New comment by AJMaxwell in "Show HN: I built an app to get daily wisdom from Mr. Worldwide"

AJMaxwell — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 00:44:30 +0000

And amazing

New comment by AJMaxwell in "Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website"

AJMaxwell — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 00:42:43 +0000

Any time the government tries to do something for The People, the wealthy and their mouthpieces get a portion of the population to believe the much needed help is actually evil socialism/communism and will destroy their way of life.

America has been propagandized to by the wealthy for a century and this is the end result. The world's richest person reforming the government for profit.

New comment by AJMaxwell in "Ask HN: Alternatives to Bitwarden?"

AJMaxwell — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 18:30:43 +0000

Made the switch from BitWarden to ProtonPass a few months ago. I'm very happy with the switch despite Proton Pass missing some android functionality BitWarden has.

New comment by AJMaxwell in "How does DNS work? (2002)"

AJMaxwell — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 22:17:23 +0000

I learned more about DNS from a cat than I've learned in 15 years of web dev and devops

New comment by AJMaxwell in "How to copy a file between devices? (2022)"

AJMaxwell — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 02:23:21 +0000

Been using KDE Connect for years and it can do exactly that, along with clipboard sharing, SMS, and device notifications.

https://kdeconnect.kde.org/

New comment by AJMaxwell in "NSA's Warrantless Wiretaps (2012)"

AJMaxwell — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 23:40:54 +0000

To be fair, the US government has been able to monitor who communicates with whom and how many pages their conversation is through the postal service since the beginning. Today it's much easier to track those physical with technology and automation.

New comment by AJMaxwell in "Genetic modification could protect soldiers from chemical weapons"

AJMaxwell — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 16:14:56 +0000

Gettin some real Rogue Trooper vibes

New comment by AJMaxwell in "Who has the fastest website in F1?"

AJMaxwell — Wed, 03 Apr 2019 04:52:55 +0000

This is one of the metrics I use when voting

New comment by AJMaxwell in "How to Find Hidden Cameras and Spy Gear"

AJMaxwell — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 07:05:38 +0000

Wouldn't be too difficult to run it on a Raspberry Pi

New comment by AJMaxwell in "Ask HN: What is your favorite programming font?"

AJMaxwell — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 15:53:17 +0000

Roboto Mono. I use the Roboto family as my default font in Ubuntu and Windows.

New comment by AJMaxwell in "A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript"

AJMaxwell — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 02:39:09 +0000

I'm overly excited about this. Winamp was a huge part of my early computer experience, even went so far as to (poorly) design my own. Can't wait to start using this!

New comment by AJMaxwell in "Dog sits on the editorial boards of seven international medical journals"

AJMaxwell — Thu, 25 May 2017 01:58:20 +0000

This is funny.... and concerning.