<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: kylemaxwell</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kylemaxwell</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 15:25:14 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=kylemaxwell" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kylemaxwell in "Scorched Earth 2000 – Web"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I played the hell out of the original DOS game during high school in 1992 (or thereabouts, it's been a while.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 01:17:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48129969</link><dc:creator>kylemaxwell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48129969</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48129969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kylemaxwell in "Who Trusts Sam Altman?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I uh... well, I agree with your last sentence.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 00:48:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48129741</link><dc:creator>kylemaxwell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48129741</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48129741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kylemaxwell in "Clarification on the Notepad++ Trademark Issue"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> As long as the forked project makes the relationship (or lack of relationship) and support expectations clear, I'm not sure what this battle was about.<p>This is what it’s about: the forked project was NOT clear about the relationship to the original.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 19:10:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027095</link><dc:creator>kylemaxwell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027095</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kylemaxwell in "Alert-driven monitoring"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I like the ideas, but either it’s entirely LLM written or the writer has internalized “LLM voice”. At this point that is more distracting than helpful.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 17:40:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999403</link><dc:creator>kylemaxwell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999403</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kylemaxwell in "I'm done making desktop applications (2009)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Both can be true: we can have different preferences about what we're doing to put food on the table and what we're doing when we build something on our own for other reasons.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:00:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47896341</link><dc:creator>kylemaxwell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47896341</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47896341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kylemaxwell in "Something is afoot in the land of Qwen"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Everything on that page has two nines, so not sure what you're trying to say here.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:57:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47252949</link><dc:creator>kylemaxwell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47252949</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47252949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kylemaxwell in "Hackers strike Harrods in latest UK cyberattack"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I generally agree with your stance about the situation in eastern Europe, but there's no particular reason to connect that to <i>this</i> incident. There's no public evidence that this was state-sponsored or even connected to Russia at all. They definitely provide sponsorship and cover to a lot of attacks, but still are not the only source of online crime. We have plenty in the US and the UK and everywhere else.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 14:39:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45438264</link><dc:creator>kylemaxwell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45438264</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45438264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kylemaxwell in "Cormac McCarthy's tips on how to write a science paper (2019) [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>He was not a good person. He was one of the great writers of this age. Two things can both be true.</p>
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<p>You cannot have peace without justice.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 22:57:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45205233</link><dc:creator>kylemaxwell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45205233</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45205233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kylemaxwell in "Chat Control Must Be Stopped"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is a terrible article about what sounds like a legitimate problem. Even in the section, "What is Chat Control?", the answer to the question is buried in the middle of the seventh paragraph.<p>If the writer of this post wants people to oppose it, they really should do a better job of explaining at the very top what "it" is.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 21:40:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45174373</link><dc:creator>kylemaxwell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45174373</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45174373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kylemaxwell in "Why teach calculus in the age of AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The question makes as much sense to me as "why teach literature in the age of typewriters?" Not that the analogies are perfect, but the idea that it's not worth learning something because a related technology has advanced significantly is a non sequitur.<p>There may be good reasons to learn or not to learn calculus, or literary theory, or anything else, but the existence of some related technology isn't it. I'd go so far as to suggest that perhaps calculus is even more important for some folks to learn in the age of AI (e.g. applications in neural networks), and we don't know who those folks will be in advance.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2025 16:39:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45105486</link><dc:creator>kylemaxwell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45105486</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45105486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kylemaxwell in "Show HN: Diggit.dev – Git history for architecture archaeologists"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I got all excited thinking this was related to real-world archaeology and somehow providing a git-like representation of that. (No idea how it would work, which is why I was excited).</p>
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<p>Absolutely, but you suggested that it was because you hate to turn off music and then walk out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:44:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45027261</link><dc:creator>kylemaxwell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45027261</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45027261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kylemaxwell in "The MiniPC Revolution"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's not much of a disability-related use case to insult me about.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 01:43:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45021330</link><dc:creator>kylemaxwell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45021330</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45021330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kylemaxwell in "The MiniPC Revolution"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>These look like fun technology, but I don’t even know what the use cases would be anymore. I don’t need something to control my lights: I have an actual light switch for that. I don’t have endless terabytes of media that I need to serve within my household, so I just don’t know anymore what I would use this stuff for. Twenty or thirty years ago, I loved having a home lab, but these days I’m just not sure what I would do with it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 17:40:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45016501</link><dc:creator>kylemaxwell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45016501</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45016501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kylemaxwell in "From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I swapped from Linux to MacOS when the M1s came out, and I love the integration with all the iCloud stuff (particularly Messages). Occasionally I miss being on Linux, as somebody who did so for 20+ years before making the switch. But on Mac, stuff actually does Just Work.<p>Reading this makes me a little misty-eyed and I miss my solid old Thinkpads from 10-20 years back.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:15:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44991622</link><dc:creator>kylemaxwell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44991622</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44991622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kylemaxwell in "What could have been"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The point is that you call the LLM to generate the code that lets you talk to the API, rather than writing that glue code yourself. Not that you call the LLM to talk to that API every time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2025 23:24:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44946416</link><dc:creator>kylemaxwell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44946416</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44946416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kylemaxwell in "Agents built from alloys"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The article talks about that at the end, then says:<p>> Let models talk to each other directly, making their own case and refining each others’ answers. Exemplified in patterns like Multi-Agent Debate, this is a great solution for really critical individual actions. But XBOW is basically conducting a search, and it doesn’t need a committee to decide for each stone it turns over whether there might not be a better one.<p>In general, this seems reasonable to me as a good approximation of what works with humans, but with _much_ faster feedback loops in communication.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2025 01:46:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44631065</link><dc:creator>kylemaxwell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44631065</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44631065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kylemaxwell in "After Years of Abusive E-mails, the Creator of Linux Steps Aside"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not the NYT.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2018 01:16:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18028990</link><dc:creator>kylemaxwell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18028990</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18028990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kylemaxwell in "After Years of Abusive E-mails, the Creator of Linux Steps Aside"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Because it's the same issue.</p>
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