Hacker News: MaxLeiter

New comment by MaxLeiter in "Ben Bernanke Joins Anthropic Oversight Trust"

MaxLeiter — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:50:19 +0000

The C++ documentary released last month was great and featured him a lot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI7tMxzSJ7w

New comment by MaxLeiter in "Claude Tag"

MaxLeiter — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:51:32 +0000

It's a major rewrite of the slack plugin, with far more functionality and more capabilities. More surfaces will be available in the future

New comment by MaxLeiter in "Claude Tag"

MaxLeiter — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:23:10 +0000

Every channel has its own Claude, and Claude's access is configurable per-channel and per-workspace. Private channels don't leak information to other channels

Show HN: Browse the web your way

MaxLeiter — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 05:03:27 +0000

Article URL: https://browse-your-way.vercel.app

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48625907

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Introducing Vercel Connect

MaxLeiter — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 05:09:42 +0000

Article URL: https://vercel.com/blog/introducing-vercel-connect

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48581067

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Which

MaxLeiter — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:44:27 +0000

Article URL: https://shud.in/thoughts/which

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470719

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by MaxLeiter in "Vim Classic 8.3 Released"

MaxLeiter — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:05:50 +0000

From the maintainer: https://drewdevault.com/blog/Forking-vim/

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47519308

New comment by MaxLeiter in "They’re made out of weights"

MaxLeiter — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:47:36 +0000

All credit to the original author. I just had to think of analogues.

They’re made out of weights

MaxLeiter — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:37:18 +0000

Article URL: https://maxleiter.com/blog/weights

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48391611

Points: 1529

# Comments: 711

TheLounge v4.5.0 released – a modern, self-hosted web IRC client

MaxLeiter — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:42:11 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge/releases/tag/v4.5.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48215309

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

New comment by MaxLeiter in "Claude for Small Business"

MaxLeiter — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:14:52 +0000

This is one reason I think openai releasing a phone makes sense

If they can build an integrated AI assistant (what Siri should be) that can spin up and call agents it will be big (or it will flop but my money is on big if it’s the easiest way to use agents in your daily life)

New comment by MaxLeiter in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

MaxLeiter — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:09:17 +0000

No, I have a bunch of PRs up and some already merged

We’re aiming for a minimal maintenance release soon, then a larger feature release after.

New comment by MaxLeiter in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

MaxLeiter — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:40:57 +0000

I’ve been working on modernizing https://thelounge.chat, a self-hostable web based IRC client

Modernizing in two ways: migrating to new JS tooling (webpack -> vite, Node’s built in sqlite, etc) and adopting ircv3 features like emoji reactions, threaded replies, and typing indicators. Trying to bring IRC into the 21st century.

Its easy to contribute to and we have an active irc channel (perks of building an always-on client…) - feel free to join us! #thelounge on irc.libera.chat

Check out the bundle / CPU savings by leaving webpack: https://github.com/thelounge/thelounge/pull/5064

New comment by MaxLeiter in "Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI"

MaxLeiter — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:00:13 +0000

Eh, we’re approaching that world (I am "an AI maximalist", I guess)

But someone with the knowledge to guide an AI will have more success than someone without, at least today. I don’t think that will necessarily be true in a year or two.

New comment by MaxLeiter in "Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI"

MaxLeiter — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:50:57 +0000

Short term: they don’t need devs to build it, it’s already built

Long term: they now have experienced dev(s?) to build their next products and features

New comment by MaxLeiter in "Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found"

MaxLeiter — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:19:24 +0000

I think they key thing here is they "isolated the relevant code"

If the exploits exist in e.g. one file, great. But many complex zerodays and exploits are chains of various bugs/behaviors in complex systems.

Important research but I don’t think it dispels anything about Mythos

New comment by MaxLeiter in "Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI"

MaxLeiter — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:32:50 +0000

FTA:

> In 2022, we built Tart, which became the most popular virtualization solution for Apple Silicon, along with several other tools along the way.

from Tart's github:

> [Tart is for] macOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon to use in CI and other automations

My (naive?) hypothesis is this kind of expertise is why OpenAI chose to acquihire.

New comment by MaxLeiter in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"

MaxLeiter — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:12:49 +0000

Great write-up. I love hardware running software it shouldn’t support

New comment by MaxLeiter in "Shader-driven web transitions with HTML-in-canvas"

MaxLeiter — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:12:30 +0000

Each page navigation runs a WebGL shader that reads both the old and new page as live textures via the new texElementImage2D() API, then composites them through the selected compiz inspired effect.

You can test it here (must be using chrome canary): https://compiz-web.vercel.app/, or see the demo video on github

Shader-driven web transitions with HTML-in-canvas

MaxLeiter — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:12:30 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/MaxLeiter/compiz-web/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47675703

Points: 2

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