<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: mavamaarten</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mavamaarten</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 03:15:03 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mavamaarten" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mavamaarten in "Gemini 4 Argon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Agreed. It's much better at working with stuff (like documents and presentations) in other languages too. It feels like it's trained in multiple languages from the ground up rather than as an afterthought.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:34:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50075530</link><dc:creator>mavamaarten</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50075530</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50075530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mavamaarten in "Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah. I hate that everyone is coming up with conspiracy theories about selling data about the user's coffee habits. While it's much more likely that the device just has a weird mDNS or Bonjour issue or an IP misconfiguration and causes storms on the network. It was one tweet without much proof.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:02:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50024388</link><dc:creator>mavamaarten</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50024388</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50024388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mavamaarten in "Amazon introduces a redesigned Kindle family"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How so? I really can't relate.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 08:55:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49951965</link><dc:creator>mavamaarten</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49951965</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49951965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mavamaarten in "Claude Opus 5.5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How? Explicit instructions, memories and even skills have not been able to keep Claude from saying "genuinely" every two sentences and keep it from explaining heavily what something _isn't_.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:06:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49804557</link><dc:creator>mavamaarten</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49804557</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49804557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mavamaarten in "Claude Opus 5.5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I use it for executing well-prepared plans sometimes. And for exploring larger codebases.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:01:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49804466</link><dc:creator>mavamaarten</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49804466</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49804466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mavamaarten in "Claude Opus 5.5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's literally all I'm hoping for. Is it an insufferable cunt and does it write awful text, or is it nice to work with?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:58:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49804441</link><dc:creator>mavamaarten</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49804441</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49804441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mavamaarten in "Why does mathmain need an encrypted loader?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah lots of weird emphasis on things a human wouldn't care about. And emphasis on what it isn't, rather than what it is. It's not Y, it's X. And there are two files!!!</p>
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<p>Yeah. I'm actively avoiding giving mr far right any $$</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:40:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49790576</link><dc:creator>mavamaarten</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49790576</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49790576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mavamaarten in "Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have, but honestly that was exactly what I am not looking for. Sometimes it picked a model for a Dutch email that totally does not support Dutch. Other times it would work fine. It's just a layer of indeterminism I wasn't looking for.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 19:19:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49758931</link><dc:creator>mavamaarten</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49758931</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49758931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mavamaarten in "Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm wondering, is there a tool or something out there that helps me pick a model, in the vast sea of models out there these days? Every time I need a model for something I see the list on openrouter and I'm completely overwhelmed.<p>I'd love to be able to explain my use case, my cost preferences and have a tool select a few good models to try.<p>E.g. I wrote a tool that cleans out my email spam box. It classifies emails that are already flagged as spam, and if it's very obviously spam it removes it permanently (keeps a copy on disk though). And after x emails, it goes through the list of deleted spam mails and suggests email rules. What model would be best suited? I'd love to be able to explain this use case and get this info served to me. The list of models and the information about what they're good at is just too splintered and spread out. I landed on google/gemma-4-31b for now, because it's cheap and good enough and also supports Dutch and French a bit. But I can't realistically try them all.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:08:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751471</link><dc:creator>mavamaarten</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751471</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mavamaarten in "Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No. If you're making maps and building a database of facts, I think the possibility of hallucinations is actively harmful.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 07:19:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49680969</link><dc:creator>mavamaarten</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49680969</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49680969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mavamaarten in "How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah they sent an official looking mail saying that someone took action against my review and that it was therefore removed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:10:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49629805</link><dc:creator>mavamaarten</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49629805</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49629805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mavamaarten in "How I advertise malicious software on Google Ads"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Another thing they apparently do is let business owners (e.g. hotels) remove negative reviews because they're "defamatory".<p>I had a very factual 3-star review on a hotel that was supposedly very quiet, but was super noisy and the AC was not working. And there was literally nobody at the reception at the time of check-out and nobody picked up the phone either. All in all, nothing serious, but worth a review. Purely factual stuff, nothing bad-mouthed, just my experience and three stars.<p>A few months later the review was removed because it was "defamatory". I was able to get it reinstated by sending them proof of payment to the hotel and proof that I was there. A few months later, it was removed again! That same dance was repeated six times..... What a weird system.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:50:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49627577</link><dc:creator>mavamaarten</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49627577</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49627577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mavamaarten in "Muse: Meta's personal AI agent, features and capabilities"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And on top of that, we've all seen how confidently LLM's get things wrong. I've seen them get better, but even the current SOTA models fumble. Why would you want to send a bot a message "sure, reschedule my flight" and have a bot potentially fumble that in all sorts of ways? I really really do not see the appeal. My calendar and my emails and my things to do are all things I want to be on top of. Not have it half-assed or potentially messed up by a chatbot made to harvest all your data.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:16:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49616386</link><dc:creator>mavamaarten</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49616386</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49616386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mavamaarten in "Restoring 5 GHz Wi-Fi on an LG C5 by changing its webOS region"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So I can turn it on using Home Assistant reliably.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:23:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49569790</link><dc:creator>mavamaarten</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49569790</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49569790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mavamaarten in "Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And find --exec too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:19:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49569741</link><dc:creator>mavamaarten</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49569741</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49569741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mavamaarten in "Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oh and don't forget: it keeps chaining a bazillion commands together so any whitelisted commands still need approval because they're nested in such a convoluted way.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:01:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562211</link><dc:creator>mavamaarten</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562211</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49562211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mavamaarten in "Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nothing another .md file can't fix</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:12:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49555162</link><dc:creator>mavamaarten</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49555162</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49555162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mavamaarten in "“It works better in the app”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>LinkedIn too. The first time they show a bottom sheet dialog thing on the website, and if you dismiss it, it scrolls you all the way to the top. The second time it appears, it messes with the page and sometimes automatically closes the tab.</p>
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<p>Yeah I've seen it a lot. It goes through the effort, unasked, of pulling screenshots off a connected device and then it's like... Oh shit yeah I can't see.</p>
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