Hacker News: maxaw

New comment by maxaw in "The lost joy of music piracy"

maxaw — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 06:35:05 +0000

What a cool article. I have good memories of being 13 and my cousin telling me about limewire. Between random pornography titles there was an artist called burial, which I downloaded cause I thought it sounded edgy. How lucky was I!

New comment by maxaw in "The bread paradox: why convenience always wins, and why SaaS isn't doomed"

maxaw — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 06:09:10 +0000

Great article. This last year I've been travelling around and have met 2 people running very lucrative vibe coding agencies. They vibe code websites and apps on behalf of people for whom writing prompts is too much mental overhead.

New comment by maxaw in "Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles"

maxaw — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:49:16 +0000

Your middle ground idea is interesting. And maybe inevitable in some ways, if the llm becomes even more of a universal interface to the outside world.

Regarding llm writing, it is disappointing. Especially as people could use it in the “opposite” direction, using the tirelessness of the llm to experiment with the communication with the aim to make it as clear as possible for the reader…

New comment by maxaw in "Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles"

maxaw — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:52:26 +0000

to play devils advocate - i doubt the articles that end up on the front page are one shotted (theres probably a sequence of back and forward refinement). and in any case, i feel the avg reader would actually not prefer to read the prompt, which would be very information dense

having said that, i'd still much prefer a norm of including prompt history with the article, or the codebase for that matter, so people can choose for themselves :)

New comment by maxaw in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

maxaw — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:29:25 +0000

Looking to experience life outside of software, but I don't know exactly what. In short, current filters are:

high total customer face to face time// high face to face time per customer// probably not in sales

as these are too abstract to map cleanly to traditional job board filters I’m scraping indeed and using deepseek to classify jobs according to this criteria, with an aim to discover really good jobs and then put a lot of effort into each of those jobs, like reaching out to hiring teams directly etc. works alright but worried coverage is an issue.

ps- can any one recommend a service or product that does this already? i should be able to set a city and then write my own filters like "this job involves dressing up like a crocodile" or "this job requires ballet dancer experience" and have each job posted in my city get assessed. maybe i get an email each day of matched and not matched jobs. i have tried to search myself but given there is so so so much slop in this space i find it very hard going. and most products do this just very poorly...

New comment by maxaw in "Big AI labs are hiring philosophers"

maxaw — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:18:41 +0000

Given the the labs are trying to create [super] human-like consciousness, partly through the guidance of huge system prompts, and many philosophers are experts in textual descriptions of consciousness it makes sense

New comment by maxaw in "Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at lower cost"

maxaw — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 03:01:37 +0000

Just went down a chatgpt rabbit hole because I was also curious - seems it’s literally physical repackaging, no modification of the drug itself- as another commenter pointed out it’s not quite the same molecule but they have the same effect? Someone correct me if I’m wrong

New comment by maxaw in "A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer"

maxaw — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:41:45 +0000

this happened to me too. few things about the process made me suspicious. i downloaded the repo and told claude to "find the malware". took about 15 seconds. remote code execution that would have run upon npm install, iirc. many layers of obfuscation. in implementation, a little different to the op's situation but there are similarities. it was a "crypto startup". maybe they think people in crypto world are more forgiving of idiosyncrasies in the recruiting process? i reported the recruiter's profile to linkedin, with extensive details. they said they wouldn't look into it unless i opened a ticket in some other part of their site, lol. however it seems they got onto it, or someone else complained, because i can't find the recruiter "alice kenny" anymore. but the "company" she was recruiting for is still live:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/blockchainaustraliasolution...

New comment by maxaw in "What the Fuck Happened to Nerds"

maxaw — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:17:06 +0000

>why are they doing this?? [the mafia game show]

Instantly thought of the big short: “they’re not confessing. They’re bragging”

New comment by maxaw in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

maxaw — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 05:58:00 +0000

I don’t know why people have to pick one side or the other. AI speeds up development at the cost of oversight. Whether this tradeoff makes sense depends on the real world consequences of getting it wrong and the quality of the foregone oversight, which is very much case by case

New comment by maxaw in "Ableton Extensions SDK"

maxaw — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:14:08 +0000

Yes! Glad to see someone else having this thought. Will be interesting to see how it plays out

New comment by maxaw in "Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)"

maxaw — Sat, 30 May 2026 05:38:39 +0000

Good to know my thoughts are in good company! It seems obvious to me that on some level I believe these llms to be conscious otherwise I wouldn’t feel the urge to type all caps rage in the first place - rather than robotically reverting state to my last prompt. so I don’t want to get used to treating what my brain thinks are conscious beings with anything less than kindness and certainly not habitually calling them the worst words in the language ..

New comment by maxaw in "Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)"

maxaw — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:06:06 +0000

I’d rather lose 4% accuracy and practice kindness! I’ve been actively trying to avoid raging at the bot because I worry about this behaviour leaking into real world interactions

Show HN: Voice-note based social network prototype

maxaw — Thu, 07 May 2026 09:50:26 +0000

I love voice notes because they are intimate. I've been thinking of a platform based around them. Such a platform would likely be for close friends only. But I made this to show others what it might feel like. Any feedback is welcome :)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48047420

Points: 1

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New comment by maxaw in "Show HN: GitRails-Let agents call only the GitHub endpoints and params you allow"

maxaw — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 02:10:26 +0000

Thanks for commenting :) The whole point is tighter scopes. You control what parameters the agent is allowed to pass when calling endpoints. This allows things like revealing only a few folders in your repo to your agent

Show HN: GitRails-Let agents call only the GitHub endpoints and params you allow

maxaw — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:35:15 +0000

This is a proxy over the GitHub API. The aim is to make it easy to provide untrusted agents very fine-grained access to GitHub. To test it, you can install the GitHub app, receive a principal key, and point a trusted agent at the README.md with the key and ask it to help you configure keys and permissions for untrusted agents, which can then call the proxied endpoints. It is open source and a work in progress :)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47885571

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by maxaw in "Show HN: Mediator.ai – Using Nash bargaining and LLMs to systematize fairness"

maxaw — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:49:44 +0000

I didn’t say it doesn’t exist, rather that it’s already taken into account. I’m also not sure what you are proposing- if mediation is required, and someone has more power than someone else, why would they voluntarily engage with a mediator who will reduce that power? Or if they are forced to use this mediator (eg by the state) then this means they never had the power in the first place

New comment by maxaw in "Show HN: Mediator.ai – Using Nash bargaining and LLMs to systematize fairness"

maxaw — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:12:41 +0000

In reality people never have equal power over anything (what would that look like, physically?) so something like nash bargaining is an attempt to get closer to a notion of fair given this inequality

New comment by maxaw in "Show HN: Mediator.ai – Using Nash bargaining and LLMs to systematize fairness"

maxaw — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:53:24 +0000

This is so cool. Even small disputes like roommate arrangements can feel very emotionally impactful at the time and it would be wonderful to have a tool for these moments

New comment by maxaw in "A. J. Ayer – ‘What I Saw When I Was Dead’ (1988)"

maxaw — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:33:49 +0000

This is lovely. Thank you for sharing this