Hacker News: jexe

New comment by jexe in "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE"

jexe — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:48:47 +0000

It's clear time and again that having short-term growth at all costs means you can't have principles.

New comment by jexe in "The best is over: The fun has been optimized out of the Internet"

jexe — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:04:55 +0000

Lots of agreement and think there has been a lot written about the sterilization of something that was once beautiful and creative. Sad but inevitable when your best kept secret club isn't so best-kept anymore.

Left off, and what we really want to know, is... ok, so what now?

New comment by jexe in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

jexe — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:28:37 +0000

This tweet was from 3 days ago.

Mismanaged comms? Yes

HN front page effect? Prob not

(could be Reddit frontpage effect or related tho)

New comment by jexe in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

jexe — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:45:01 +0000

> I don't like it, but can't do much about it.

Is the culture really such that you can't escalate an obvious, fairly minor mistake that is turning into disastrous PR?

That would explain a lot of recent Anthropic takes actually.

New comment by jexe in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

jexe — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:59:57 +0000

I'm concerned that there's no real way to "opt out" of an AI future realistically. Is this something that people are seriously thinking they'll be able to do and successfully stay gainfully employed and contributing to the world?

New comment by jexe in "The OpenAI graveyard: All the deals and products that haven't happened"

jexe — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:46:00 +0000

I'm not an OAI fanboy by a longshot - but I'd view lots of experiments that didn't work out as a healthy thing, especially for a company trying to find footing in a new industry.

New comment by jexe in "Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed"

jexe — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:13:39 +0000

Right, depends on your use cases. I was looking forward to the model as an upgrade to 2.5 Flash, but when you're processing hundreds of millions of tokens a day (not hard to do if you're dealing in documents or emails with a few users), the economics fall apart.

New comment by jexe in "How to Keep Winning"

jexe — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:30:11 +0000

Half of the founders will say never quit. The other half will say you have to fail fast.

Choose your gurus wisely.

New comment by jexe in "It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts"

jexe — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:18:42 +0000

Reading an AI blog post (or reddit post, etc) just signals that the author actually just doesn't care that much about the subject.. which makes me care less too.

New comment by jexe in "If you are reading this obituary, it looks like I'm dead"

jexe — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 16:58:57 +0000

I read it as rolling with her own joke and lightening the load on the B+ rating (obviously also expressed as a loving ribbing given the context around it)

New comment by jexe in "Generative AI as Seniority-Biased Technological Change"

jexe — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:05:50 +0000

That's a lot to invest in someone at a large comparative loss, in a world where employees don't last more than a couple years before job hopping.

New comment by jexe in "I'm absolutely right"

jexe — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 13:26:08 +0000

nobody in my life feeds me as many positive messages as Claude Code. It's as if my dog could talk to me. I just hope nobody takes this simple pleasure away

New comment by jexe in "Bill Atkinson's psychedelic user interface"

jexe — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 15:22:15 +0000

Incidental gatekeeping by leaving it on the black market isn't the way to keep it safe, quite the opposite - that poses a lot of dangerous risks.

Bringing it into the light under thoughtful consideration and openly discussing and encouraging harm prevention is the only way to make this safe. Everyone should have the right to to exploring this if they want to, and there should be plenty of open discussion, research, and education. I really appreciate the open-source approach here, the spirit of this movement feels like the right thing for humanity.

New comment by jexe in "Tell HN: John Friel my father, internet pioneer and creator of QModem, has died"

jexe — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 19:48:47 +0000

Thanks to your father for his contribution to my childhood, I used QModem every single day until my parents screamed, and it changed my life. I made friends on some local BBSes that I still have 30+ years later.

Sending condolences and gratitude.

New comment by jexe in "The trap of "I am not an extrovert""

jexe — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 23:13:49 +0000

These labels do as much to hurt ourselves as they do to try and help.

The truth (for me at least) is that whether I'm comfortable and energized by others depends on my level of comfort with the people, my familiarity with the situation, my mood, the general vibe, etc.

"Being" one or the other feels like a limiting belief that we can hide behind if we're not aware of what it's doing to us.

New comment by jexe in "Fish have a brain microbiome – could humans have one too?"

jexe — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 04:00:06 +0000

Well finally I have a new excuse to ask dumb questions here...

But what I mean is, what are the downstream consequences of this knowledge? Does it change how we can reason about health, cognition, etc?

New comment by jexe in "Fish have a brain microbiome – could humans have one too?"

jexe — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 00:00:01 +0000

If this were also true for humans, what would the implications be?

New comment by jexe in "OpenAI shows 'Strawberry' to feds, races to launch it"

jexe — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 19:50:16 +0000

Missed opportunity to name it Strawbery

New comment by jexe in "Software Friction"

jexe — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 17:29:38 +0000

Most important point on keeping friction to a minimum is the reduction of moving parts in your app. Find the most architecturally simple way to build, without relying on many third parties or external dependencies. Think long and hard every time you sign up for an API key somewhere. Baroqueness doesn't necessarily win the game.

New comment by jexe in "Mental health in software engineering"

jexe — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 01:25:23 +0000

I worked in the Meta NY office for a while, and had a friend living down the block with anxiety, with a prescription to treat it.

Sometime during my tenure, her prescription started becoming unfillable; the pharmacies are only legally allowed to carry a limited quantity to combat substance abuse issues.

What was happening? Turns out the Meta office was staffing up rapidly and taking more floors in the building, and all of the engineers needing anti-anxiety medication started consuming all of the local supply.

This is a serious problem that we do not take seriously. Broadly speaking, startups in particular are aggressive and there's still an air of machismo and bro culture (from which Meta was born) that prevents caring for one another in this way.