Hacker News: laxmena

New comment by laxmena in "Salmon exposed to cocaine and its main byproduct roam more widely"

laxmena — Sun, 03 May 2026 22:23:47 +0000

I have a lot of questions after reading this article

1. How would Cocaine end up in wastewater treatment plant in the first place? 2. What is the volume of Cocaine needed, or used to observe this behavior from the fish? 3. If Cocaine pollution has already been happening in the wild, are there any recorded events that support the claim of effects on the habitat

New comment by laxmena in "Scientists Gave Cocaine to Salmon"

laxmena — Sun, 03 May 2026 22:20:15 +0000

I'm curious, why would cocaine end up in the wastewater systems in the first place?

The Google Cloud Knowledge Catalog

laxmena — Sun, 03 May 2026 22:07:59 +0000

Article URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/introducing-the-google-cloud-knowledge-catalog

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002080

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

AI Skills as loader spec, not prompts – why the architecture changes everything

laxmena — Fri, 01 May 2026 01:01:09 +0000

Article URL: https://internals.laxmena.com/p/what-youre-actually-writing-when

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47970243

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

Understanding LangGraph as a stateful execution system

laxmena — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:49:48 +0000

Article URL: https://internals.laxmena.com/p/langgraph-internals-how-production

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937042

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by laxmena in "I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job"

laxmena — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:36:35 +0000

If I'm being interviewed by a bot, I see no reason not to send my own bot to represent me. It levels the playing field.

I’ll probably start building an AI agent to sit in these AI bot interviews

Ask HN: What single AI tool/technique 10x'd your productivity last year?

laxmena — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:21:40 +0000

As someone tinkering with AI agents daily, I’ve seen massive shifts since mid-2025.

What’s the single AI tool, feature, or technique that gave you the biggest productivity leap in the last year? (Cursor Composer? Claude 4.5 projects? A custom RAG setup? Vibe-coding with o1?)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46707806

Points: 7

# Comments: 10

New comment by laxmena in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

laxmena — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:11:45 +0000

https://laxmena.com

Show HN: MCP Server for AI Agents to Publish on WriteFreely

laxmena — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 05:04:16 +0000

I built this MCP (Model Context Protocol) server to let AI agents easily publish, edit, and manage content on Write.as or self-hosted WriteFreely instances.

It's useful for automating AI-generated blogs, newsletters, or feeds without manual intervention.Key

features: 1. Publish/edit/delete posts and collections 2. Browse public feeds 3. Supports auth via access tokens

Python-based, installs via uv/pip

Motivation:

I wanted a simple way for AI workflows to integrate with privacy-focused platforms like (Write.as) WriteFreely.

It's early (v0.1.3), so feedback on tools like publish_post() or config would be great.

MIT license—fork/contribute if interested!

Repo: https://github.com/laxmena/writefreely-mcp-server PyPi: https://pypi.org/project/writefreely-mcp-server/

What do you think? Any use cases or improvements?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46572837

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by laxmena in "AI employees don't pay taxes"

laxmena — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 16:48:04 +0000

Setting aside the tax discussion for a moment:

> In the end, the “shortcut” had cost her more time than if she’d just done the work herself from the start.

I had this same opinion on AI IDE Copilots about a year and a half ago. They were too nascent, and writing code manually saved me hours of debugging their buggy code recommendations.

Fast forward - today—IDE Copilots have grown leaps and bounds in its quality of outputs. They have real utility now.

It's important to note that - "This is the worst AI agents will ever be, it will only get better moving forward."

I'm confident these tools will keep improving and eventually create net productivity gains, including for the Excel use case you mentioned.

New comment by laxmena in "Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?"

laxmena — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 07:00:01 +0000

Toby - Bookmark and organize browser tabs

Pocket/Instapaper - To save articles for offline use

Video Speed Controller - Play videos at faster playback speed, time is precious

Send to Kindle - To send articles to Kindle

How Instagram solved it's Justin Bieber problem (2015)

laxmena — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 06:08:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/2015/11/how-instagram-solved-its-justin-bieber-problem/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29274329

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

IBM, AWS Join to Help Oil and Gas Industry Accelerate Energy Transition

laxmena — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 16:21:53 +0000

Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-amazon-services-join-forces-050000372.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29229154

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by laxmena in "Ask HN: Got Any Movie Recomandations?"

laxmena — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 18:26:59 +0000

International movie suggestions:

Soorarai Potru - An army man tries to start a Low Cost Carrier Aircraft company

Sardar Udham - Jallianwala Bagh Massacre on Non-Violent protestors

Jai Bhim - IMDB's most recent top rated film.

New comment by laxmena in "Ask HN: Looking for a book on algorithms and data structures"

laxmena — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 18:14:14 +0000

Introduction to Algorithms -Thomas H. Cormen

Grokking Algorithms -Aditya Bhargava

Cracking the Coding Interview Book by Gayle Laakmann McDowell

New comment by laxmena in "Ask HN: Advise on Strategies for Job Search as a Grad Student in the USA"

laxmena — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 18:16:41 +0000

Any advise is appreciated!

Ask HN: Advise on Strategies for Job Search as a Grad Student in the USA

laxmena — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 18:16:05 +0000

What are some effective ways to build a strong profile, and search for jobs.

Plethora of job listings are available on LinkedIn, but the response rate is very less.

What are some effective strategies to land a job, which has good scope for career growth, in Software vertical.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29165208

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by laxmena in "Ask HN: If HN united to solve 1 problem under 1 year, what would it be, and why?"

laxmena — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 05:19:42 +0000

Fake-news

Ask HN: What is your strategy to reach niche audience in Social Media?

laxmena — Sat, 16 Nov 2019 08:58:08 +0000

How did you start gaining traction initially to your Instagram or YouTube or other media platforms? Did you follow any strategy to reach a larger audience?

Hacker News: laxmena

New comment by laxmena in "Salmon exposed to cocaine and its main byproduct roam more widely"

New comment by laxmena in "Scientists Gave Cocaine to Salmon"

The Google Cloud Knowledge Catalog

AI Skills as loader spec, not prompts – why the architecture changes everything

Understanding LangGraph as a stateful execution system

New comment by laxmena in "I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job"

Ask HN: What single AI tool/technique 10x'd your productivity last year?

New comment by laxmena in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

Show HN: MCP Server for AI Agents to Publish on WriteFreely

New comment by laxmena in "AI employees don't pay taxes"

New comment by laxmena in "Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?"

How Instagram solved it's Justin Bieber problem (2015)

IBM, AWS Join to Help Oil and Gas Industry Accelerate Energy Transition

New comment by laxmena in "Ask HN: Got Any Movie Recomandations?"

New comment by laxmena in "Ask HN: Looking for a book on algorithms and data structures"

New comment by laxmena in "Ask HN: Advise on Strategies for Job Search as a Grad Student in the USA"

Ask HN: Advise on Strategies for Job Search as a Grad Student in the USA

New comment by laxmena in "Ask HN: If HN united to solve 1 problem under 1 year, what would it be, and why?"

Ask HN: What is your strategy to reach niche audience in Social Media?

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