Hacker News: MaxMatti

New comment by MaxMatti in "Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers (2022)"

MaxMatti — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:19:40 +0000

I have yet to find a messenger with a better UX than Telegram. And I have tried lots in countless attempts to get away from this badly encrypted russian App.

New comment by MaxMatti in "Good Tools Are Invisible"

MaxMatti — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:35:33 +0000

Theoretically yes, but in reality I have found that often it's much easier to just fix something locally or with a workaround rather than jumping through all hoops required to get somebody in another team or even another company to understand and agree with you on your (or your teams) issues, let alone fix them in a satisfactory way.

New comment by MaxMatti in "Organic Maps"

MaxMatti — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:45:16 +0000

When I downloaded it via F-Droid earlier today it did what wanted. Unfortunately Android Auto is only enabled in the Play Store Version, so I downloaded that and there it went the same as for you. At least it immediately prompted me to download my local tile set when I tapped the geolocation button to zoom in.

New comment by MaxMatti in "Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing"

MaxMatti — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:56:42 +0000

I still feel that during agentic workload sometimes it would be nice to have the model identify it is veering off the main track, send out a "keep the cached states and tell me which they are" command to the inference server, do the side thing (such as handling an error that plopped up that has not that much to do with the main task) and return back to the cached state with just a comment tacked at the end to say "oh and btw I fixed DNS" instead of having the DNS debugging inside the context window now. Maybe other harnesses just steer the models more towards using subagents for such tasks and my pi is misconfigured. I can use the tree feature, but having insight into what's cached would be nice there.

New comment by MaxMatti in "Tongyi DeepResearch – open-source 30B MoE Model that rivals OpenAI DeepResearch"

MaxMatti — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 19:29:23 +0000

How's the battery holding up during vibe coding sessions or occasional LLM usage? I've been thinking about getting a MacBook or a laptop with a similar Ryzen chip specifically for that reason.

New comment by MaxMatti in "Do Users Verify SSH Keys? (2011) [pdf]"

MaxMatti — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:38:23 +0000

The paper does mention that you can have your ssh keys signed by a ca, so in a company the it staff could configure everybodys os to only trust ssh keys signed by the organization.

New comment by MaxMatti in "Landrun: Sandbox any Linux process using Landlock, no root or containers"

MaxMatti — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 08:57:24 +0000

There's conflicting information in the readme about whether --best-effort is enabled or disabled by default.

New comment by MaxMatti in "What Excessive Screen Time Does to the Adult Brain"

MaxMatti — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 12:24:15 +0000

I'm unsure how much of a difference that really makes as there's lots of distractions in my (and probably most peoples) morning routine that are not related to my phone. Boring things like the hygiene routine but also things that come up and require thought such as (almost) empty grocery items or things related to the commute such as radio in the car or ads in public transit. While most of these are not specifically engineered to be attention seeking, I still see most of them as distracting and my focus only starts when I sit down to do some work.

New comment by MaxMatti in "Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charles Mullenweg [pdf]"

MaxMatti — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 10:33:27 +0000

Above a certain size all communities sooner or later turn into cults, most of the time around one or a few persons. The ones that you don't perceive as such you just haven't looked into close enough. I wish it were different but so far I have yet to find a community that doesn't fit that description. Not just open source, not just software, any community.

New comment by MaxMatti in "Ask HN: Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts?"

MaxMatti — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 11:59:55 +0000

Wouldn't that also apply if you blocked the number?

New comment by MaxMatti in "A word about private attribution in Firefox"

MaxMatti — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 08:16:18 +0000

If Firefox is so bad then which better alternative do you propose? The one owned by the biggest advertising company? The one that is only available on Apple's devices? The one owned by the company that puts ads into the start menu of your OS? The one that injects its own affiliate ID into the websites you browse? The one that takes tens of seconds to load even the simplest website? One of those that don't support JavaScript and thus don't let you use 99% of the web?

New comment by MaxMatti in "Twilio confirms data breach after hackers leak 33M Authy user phone numbers"

MaxMatti — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 15:43:53 +0000

I used Aegis for a while and really liked it, switched to Bitwarden now but the UX was better

New comment by MaxMatti in "Regulation Alone Will Not Save Us from Big Tech"

MaxMatti — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 14:51:05 +0000

Many important parts of android auch as the keyboard, camera App and even call/SMS have been der facto replaced with closed source alternatives by Google or your smartphone manufacturer.

New comment by MaxMatti in "Why not parse `ls` and what to do instead"

MaxMatti — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 11:14:43 +0000

Json is maybe a bit heavy, but using a machine readable format such as tsv or csv (including configuring your terminal emulator to properly display it) would be a big step up from the status quo.

New comment by MaxMatti in "Fonts are still a Helvetica of a Problem"

MaxMatti — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 09:36:33 +0000

Even if they did, some designer would just decide that they need a specific font that is not in the set and then it's just the same thing again.

New comment by MaxMatti in "Ask HN: People who switched from GPT to their own models. How was it?"

MaxMatti — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 13:51:38 +0000

What model are you using for more complex prompts?

New comment by MaxMatti in "Cockpit: Web-based graphical interface for servers"

MaxMatti — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 13:25:30 +0000

And using any of them is more of a hassle than just using cockpit instead.

New comment by MaxMatti in "Bing ChatGPT image jailbreak"

MaxMatti — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 01:19:50 +0000

Sounds just like social engineering. Whenever there's a call center worker that doesn't comply you just redial to get somebody else or try a different phrasing. And most attacks go against specific rules that the person has been "trained" with (i.e. instead of saying that you're speaking in behalf of somebody just claim to be that person or vice versa, depending on the situation).

New comment by MaxMatti in "Heat pumps show how hard decarbonisation will be"

MaxMatti — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 18:04:35 +0000

It's always easier to choose the option that costs less to install but more to use. That's why lots of homes have poorly insulated pipes and lots of people use cheap printers that require expensive ink.

New comment by MaxMatti in "A Critical Analysis of the What3Words Geocoding Algorithm"

MaxMatti — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 16:02:06 +0000

My last two (android) phones showed a screen that included my current coordinates whenever I call any emergency number. I would say putting your phone on speaker and reading out the numbers that are right there on the screen could be considered "easy".