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New comment by MaxwellM in "Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude"

MaxwellM — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:43:16 +0000

Really spectacular analysis – thank you for sharing, fun to scroll and easy to understand.

Is it possible to expand this analysis beyond words to other Claude ticks? Contrastive framings, sentence length, caveating, for instance.

New comment by MaxwellM in "How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing"

MaxwellM — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:26:44 +0000

my "belt and suspenders" are "load-bearing"

New comment by MaxwellM in "Has_not_been_viewed_much"

MaxwellM — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:27:04 +0000

Tangentially related. I built a little app to help me find art for my home art frame (Meural) -- it searches through the Cleveland Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, and Museum of Modern Art APIs.

You can try it here https://artfindr.mohitbhasin.com/

New comment by MaxwellM in "Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer"

MaxwellM — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:40:43 +0000

Very exciting!

New comment by MaxwellM in "The RSS feed reader landscape"

MaxwellM — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 16:53:43 +0000

Google Reader was killed by Vic because it was the only "social" app at Google at the time. He wanted to grow their FB competitor (G+) and insisted on migrating users over from Reader to G+, which never happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic_Gundotra#Career

New comment by MaxwellM in "Effective Spaced Repetition"

MaxwellM — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 21:26:40 +0000

Agreed. Logseq changed the game for me. Because SRS is closely coupled with note-taking and is as simple as adding "#card", it eliminates any friction and excuses I had for not using SRS. I look forward to adding new cards as much as I do reviewing old ones.

New comment by MaxwellM in "Ask HN: Solving problems by mapping to other problems that we know how to solve"

MaxwellM — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 08:29:30 +0000

Godel numbering does this for Logic. Reading GEB rn so top of mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del_numbering

New comment by MaxwellM in "Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?"

MaxwellM — Thu, 27 May 2021 16:56:09 +0000

https://www.climaticthoughts.com/

Nitin discuss from a fresh perspective what it will take to prevent climate change. He distills and synthesizes books and articles into short essays that push my thinking forward.

New comment by MaxwellM in "Why I Work on Ads"

MaxwellM — Thu, 06 May 2021 15:08:29 +0000

Thanks for sharing. This was a compelling argument that nudged my understanding in a new direction.

I recently started paying creators on Patreon and subscribing to news outlets I wanted to support. But within a year, I realized that this was inefficient, I didn't like/read/watch most of the content that my subscriptions were supporting. As much as I wanted to support the content creators and quality journalism, I questioned the value of my subscriptions and cancelled - I felt like I signed up for a gym membership on Jan 1st that I wasn't using anymore.

Ads allow me "to pay" with my attention for only the content that I value. I don't like ads, I generally use an ad-blocker, but I appreciate the post and the perspective.

New comment by MaxwellM in "RIP Google Reader"

MaxwellM — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 02:24:11 +0000

Using Google Reader felt like hanging out and having a beer with my favorite friends. It was teeming with conversation threads waiting to be pulled.

Seeing a new share was like getting a tiny intellectual present, filled with all the right connotations - "Here's this thing I think you would find interesting," "I care about your opinion, what are your thoughts on this," "It's not important, but it is entertaining," "not trying to share this with the world, just you, my friend."

Google Reader was our company's post-lunch ritual. A way to balance a mornings worth of engineering effort and soporific pad thai with a jolt of fresh news and virtual office banter.

RIP.

New comment by MaxwellM in "Launch HN: June (YC W21) – Two-click analytics reports on top of Segment data"

MaxwellM — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 19:50:37 +0000

Congratulations, this is exciting. Canned solutions are a good way to get young companies from zero to one quickly

New comment by MaxwellM in "Simple Anomaly Detection Using Plain SQL"

MaxwellM — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 23:16:54 +0000

Amazing work here. The slow build, the clear code with highlighting, and the suggested improvements at the end - all made this easy to read and follow along!

New comment by MaxwellM in "U.S. sues Visa to block its acquisition of Plaid"

MaxwellM — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 17:35:03 +0000

Also maybe, try to innovate instead of suffocating innovation with a pillow stuffed with cash.

The Work-From-Home Tinderbox: How to reclaim control and find your flow

MaxwellM — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 09:43:20 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OY8L2qvJ_pIoEOjS-xIvtVac8AShyB67RIy4Z7nWoRw/edit?usp=sharing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24905792

Points: 2

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New comment by MaxwellM in "Launch HN: Osmind (YC S20) – software for better mental health therapies"

MaxwellM — Thu, 15 Oct 2020 17:25:25 +0000

As a data scientist excited about the potential of psychedelic therapies, I like that you are helping bring rigor to the space. I imagine supplementing clinical data with feedback from daily in-app experience sampling could help validate or invalidate new therapies. Keen to follow along and possibly get involved in the future.

New comment by MaxwellM in "Launch HN: Datafold (YC S20) – Diff Tool for SQL Databases"

MaxwellM — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 18:43:27 +0000

Much needed! Analysts struggle with this all the time - trying to explain why an analysis is off and having to manually debug every column in a new database

New comment by MaxwellM in "Quotebacks – Quote the Web"

MaxwellM — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 17:18:46 +0000

This is exciting! Thanks for doing this.

An MBAs guide to breaking into Data Science

MaxwellM — Wed, 20 May 2020 15:24:07 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@BernoulliSays/an-mbas-guide-to-breaking-into-data-science-695a1e8a672f