Hacker News: magixx

New comment by magixx in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)"

magixx — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:43:34 +0000

Location: Canada

Remote: Would prefer remote but can do onsite/relocate

Willing to relocate: Yes (already have EU work eligibility and can get US visa)

Technologies: Python, JavaScript, Docker, Git, Linux, BASH, APIs, and many others

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mkORG8NSIFSSNKfqauu8uurXGdT...

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexmh/

Email: contact@feedback.mozmail.com (forwarded)

I've worked as a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) for over 12 years across startups, midsize, and FAANG companies with a focus on automating tests and processes which are often repetitively mundane or large time sinks. This ranges from writing said automated tests for web and mobile devices to the frameworks that run them. I also have experience in managing teams of people that take care of these tasks.

I enjoy the time saving nature of automation and have a genuine interest in maintaining a high degree of product quality. While my work has been SDET related up until now, I am open to developer roles as well since there is a high degree of overlap.

If you would like to get to know more about my experience work wise or personal projects feel free to send me an email.

New comment by magixx in "Parsync, a tool for parallel SSH transfers – 7x faster than rsync"

magixx — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:59:57 +0000

I've used parsyncfp2 which I think is just another implementation of the same thing and I've definitely seen 2x-3x throughput improvement when transferring over large distances.

As you mentioned it definitely depends on how the ISP handles traffic.

I have yet to try but I've heard good things about hpn-ssh as well.

New comment by magixx in "Parsync, a tool for parallel SSH transfers – 7x faster than rsync"

magixx — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:56:36 +0000

How does this differ from parsyncfp2?

https://github.com/hjmangalam/parsyncfp2

New comment by magixx in "Meta retreats from metaverse after virtual reality check"

magixx — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 22:37:51 +0000

When I was dogfooding their Horizon/avatar products I would often provide this kind of feedback on surveys. I no longer work there anymore.

On a serious note testing VR stuff was only a minor side thing I occasionally did and unrelated to my main scope.

New comment by magixx in "Ads Are Coming to ChatGPT. Here’s How They’ll Work"

magixx — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 21:45:22 +0000

I suspect it's for the same reason not everyone runs adblockers on their browser. Either not knowing about the alternative or laziness.

New comment by magixx in "Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026?"

magixx — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 21:49:47 +0000

I think EVs will head in the complete opposite direction in that sales will slow down and they will continue to be a minority. Ford just killed off the F150 lightning and EVs (but also new cars) are still expensive purchases in a time with a lot of economic uncertainty. While Chinese companies are making affordable options all the markets seem to love putting tariffs on them in order to keep their homegrown automakers alive.

New comment by magixx in "SPhotonix – 360TB into 5-inch glass disc with femtosecond laser"

magixx — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 17:21:46 +0000

Why? We can just get 7 engineers to work on each laser in parallel and it'll be done in record time!

New comment by magixx in "Greeting Vocalizations in Domestic Cats Are More Frequent with Male Caregivers"

magixx — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 04:14:26 +0000

Yeah I did clicker training for her to learn fetch and she know how to. She just seems to have zero association between the "fetch" word and action.

New comment by magixx in "Greeting Vocalizations in Domestic Cats Are More Frequent with Male Caregivers"

magixx — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 04:11:49 +0000

I think we have the same cat. I also did the clicker training for paw/fist tricks and sitting pretty quick. I took a pause with the stick pointing because she traumatized herself with a stick toy and is quite avoidant to sticks. Sprint toys are her favorite and she'll fetch those or bring them to me to throw when she wants treats.

New comment by magixx in "Greeting Vocalizations in Domestic Cats Are More Frequent with Male Caregivers"

magixx — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 04:07:44 +0000

I'm impressed by the degree of selective catS possess. They can responds to like 5 different names if in the mood while other times won't event flinch even after repeating 20 times.

While my cat doesn't seek my approval, she is definitely highly food motivated to the point where she was faking wanting to go outside and thus put a harness on (which she does not enjoy) just for the treats she would get.

New comment by magixx in "Greeting Vocalizations in Domestic Cats Are More Frequent with Male Caregivers"

magixx — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:21:06 +0000

I would love to believe this but given my experience with my cat even single words are tough for them. For example my cat knows how to fetch her favorite toy but doesn't respond to the word "fetch" at all even with positive reinforcement (treats). The word "fetch" just doesn't mean anything for her even though I've paired it with the action of her fetch many times we play.

New comment by magixx in "Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out"

magixx — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 01:28:54 +0000

Maybe they'll gamify it with credits and make you watch ads for in order to gain them and thus use the service for free.

New comment by magixx in "Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out"

magixx — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 22:38:57 +0000

They disable so many features when you remove "Smart features" i.e. Grammar, Spelling, Autocorrect, Smart Compose/Reply (those templated suggested replies), Nudges, Package tracking, Desktop notifications. Google really wants to punish you for doing that.

New comment by magixx in "IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products"

magixx — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 16:16:50 +0000

Open/Close sensors + lights (and optionally luminance sensor) is what I find to be useful. When I open my home door the light turns on automatically if it's dark enough.

New comment by magixx in "Galaxy XR: The first Android XR headset"

magixx — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 03:54:33 +0000

It's interesting because this is exactly right in that this chipset can't handle these high resolutions that well. The Play For Dream VR headset team went into this a bit and they're using similar hardware.

New comment by magixx in "Microsoft is about to launch free Xbox Cloud Gaming with ads"

magixx — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 16:03:04 +0000

Didn't we already get there with Mountain Dew [1] and Pure Kick [2]?

[1] https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2023/10/05/snack-with-doritos-mt... [2] https://www.purekick.com/products/forza-fuel

New comment by magixx in "Starbucks CTO resigned Monday amid tech revamp"

magixx — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 02:44:31 +0000

I think at their scale it would be very difficult to provide a consistent and flavorful coffee. For better or worse they gained a large market based on dark roast coffee dessert drinks and moving to artisan coffee might just not be that profitable.

New comment by magixx in "AOMedia Announces Year-End Launch of Next-Gen Video Codec AV2"

magixx — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 04:30:48 +0000

I believe it originates as the French translation of Gb

New comment by magixx in "I Open-Sourced My AI Toy Company That Runs on ESP32 and OpenAI Realtime API"

magixx — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 16:40:49 +0000

I also thought about this but wanted to look into an ESP32 CAM to get vision working. For better or worse I didn't pursue the idea as I thought in the end repurposing a cell phone would be better overall.

I do wonder if the cellphone/app argument is why we didn't see that many hardware LLM API wrappers up until now. The rabbit R1 was basically just that.

I've seen more products in this space recently such as Ropet[1], LOOI[2], and others but for now it's going to be costly for companies to sell such a product at a fixed cost as I think a subscription model would be a hard sell [3] for consumers.

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1067657324/ropet-your-n... [2] https://looirobot.com/products/looi-robot?variant=4909200762... [3] https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/tragic-robot-shutdown-sho...

New comment by magixx in "Silicon Valley crosswalk buttons apparently hacked to imitate Musk, Zuck voices"

magixx — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 20:05:43 +0000

I wonder how soon it will be before some company starts renting these out from the city for ad space.