Hacker News: maqnius

New comment by maqnius in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

maqnius — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:15:01 +0000

Tststs.. it's only allowed to harm adults and the environment for profit.

New comment by maqnius in "Invoker Commands API"

maqnius — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:38:11 +0000

JS is not needed for some defined build-in commands [0]. Custom commands will emit an Event only which probably should end up in some JS function most of the time.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

New comment by maqnius in "The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future"

maqnius — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:52:56 +0000

Depends on where you work in the industry, there's a huge level of division of work. Upstream departments should work more on new products and marketing etc. But a little more downstream, there isn't much todo if not enough cars are ordered.

The intention of Kurzarbeitergeld is to prevent large layoffs. I honestly can't tell if that makes sense in the long run, but it seems reasonable for a political party trying to make it to the next term.

New comment by maqnius in "Invoker Commands API"

maqnius — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 08:16:53 +0000

I just noticed, that Invoker Commands are available across all major browsers. Good to see that HTML progresses to make Javascript redundant for basic UX.

Invoker Commands API

maqnius — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 08:16:53 +0000

Article URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Invoker_Commands_API

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47295559

Points: 99

# Comments: 15

Httpx: Closing off access to issues and discussions

maqnius — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:46:09 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/encode/httpx/discussions/3784

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47261495

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by maqnius in "The Lighthouse: How extreme isolation transforms the body and mind (2020)"

maqnius — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:26:33 +0000

I assume days alone in tiny rooms are something different than days alone in a cozy cabin oder days alone in nature in general. Seems odd to me that the effects have been contributed to the missing social interactions alone and neglect the jail like setting.

New comment by maqnius in "[dead]"

maqnius — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:24:21 +0000

Is it okay to flag low quality ai content like this?

New comment by maqnius in "Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, Polarization (2025)"

maqnius — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 10:37:56 +0000

I guess it's correlated to the commercialization of those platforms. The amount of content which is actually from your friends and families is declining and was replaced by adds and viral content. If facebook would've been from the beginning what it's now, we probably never would have named it 'social media' in the first place.

New comment by maqnius in "My AI Adoption Journey"

maqnius — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:03:21 +0000

Open to applications I would say, but not completely remote. So unless you're Python or c/c++ Dev living in nrw, Germany..

New comment by maqnius in "My AI Adoption Journey"

maqnius — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:00:48 +0000

In my real life bubble, AI isn't a big deal either, at least for programmers. They tend to be very sceptical about it for many reasons, perceived productivity being only one of them. So, I guess it's much less of a thing than you would expect from media coverage and certain internet communities.

New comment by maqnius in "Xfce is great"

maqnius — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 10:26:17 +0000

Is there something like a tilling extension for xfce? Not snappy corners but actually tilling by default?

I'm currently on popos (using GNOME) and enjoy the tilling of its GNOME extension. Actual tilling wms were too hackish for me whenever I tried them.

New comment by maqnius in "I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me"

maqnius — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:05:19 +0000

Correlated but kinda off topic: I don't mind the style so much, I mind the verbosity. The amount of words spit out effortless by the writer which then need to be comprehended and filtered by every reader.

Seeing a project basically wrapping 100 lines of code with a novel length README ala 'emoticon how does it compare to.. emoticon'-bla bla really puts me off.

New comment by maqnius in "Ask HN: How do you handle release notes for multiple audiences?"

maqnius — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 22:37:14 +0000

A changelog.md file for users which is used to automatically create release messages.

If features need more explanation, we create a wiki page and link it in the release.

Sometimes we feel like there should be a changelog for devs but in the end git blame is used anyways.

New comment by maqnius in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

maqnius — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 12:34:35 +0000

Regulating dark patterns and recommendation algorithms would benefit everyone. Banning social media until age 16 and then suddenly allowing teenagers into the toxic social media world feels half-baked and somewhat misses the point to me.

New comment by maqnius in "New layouts with CSS Subgrid"

maqnius — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 09:04:05 +0000

CSS grids are for presentation, HTML is for semantics. Ideally they are separated. That's why the use of

tag is deprecated.

New comment by maqnius in "The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership"

maqnius — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 17:19:14 +0000

> Do you think this goal during training cannot be changed to impersonate someone normal such that you cannot detect you are chatting with an LLM?

I don't think so, because LLMs hallucinate by design, which will always produce oddities.

> Before flight was understood some thought "magic" was involved. Do you think minds operate using "magic"? Are minds not machines? Their operation can not be duplicated?

Might involve something we don't grasp, but despite that: only because something moves through air it's not flying and will never be, just like a thrown stone.

New comment by maqnius in "KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices"

maqnius — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:48:32 +0000

I have a all my messengers running on my desktop as well, so I don't really have those problems. How's KDE Connect superior?

I'm seriously interested, since I read it's a killer feature but I cannot really imagine how it would help me.

New comment by maqnius in "Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents"

maqnius — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 19:25:25 +0000

Well, no one really knows — maybe we're just putting a lot of effort into turning a lump of clay into pizza. It already looks confusingly similar; now it just needs to smell and taste like it.

New comment by maqnius in "Just talk to it – A way of agentic engineering"

maqnius — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:37:26 +0000

I skimmed through one of the videos and it reminded me of how I just had a week of mainly reviewing other's code and supporting their work.

When I finally had the occasion to code myself, I felt so much better and less stressed at the end of the day.

My point is: what I just saw is hopefully not my future.

I sometimes read the opinion, that those who like the programming part of software engineering, don't like „agentic engineering“ and vica versa. But can we really assume that Armin Ronacher doesn't like programming?