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New comment by maxehmookau in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

maxehmookau — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:45:13 +0000

Ok, ok, if you give me $16M I'll do it faster.

New comment by maxehmookau in "OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)"

maxehmookau — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:34:01 +0000

> "Can I tell you one more thing from your X,Y,Z results which is most doctors miss ? "

That's actually gross and would result in an immediate delete from me.

New comment by maxehmookau in "Layoffs at Block"

maxehmookau — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:26:37 +0000

Oh man, I'm so entirely sick of this.

Why are billionaires so allergic to using capital letters at the start of sentences? You're laying people off, it just shows how little you actually care about the detail.

"i'll own it" doesn't mean ANYTHING. You've kept your job, your money, your security. You haven't owned anything because your decision doesn't make you accountable to anyone.

Additionally, not a single person is being "asked to leave". Every single one of those people is being _told_ to leave, and given no choice about it.

Language matters, and this entire post shows how little they care.

New comment by maxehmookau in "AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it"

maxehmookau — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:07:47 +0000

> But I really think we need to stop treating LLMs like they're just another human

Fully agree. Seeing humans so eager to devalue human-to-human contact by conversing with an LLM as if it were human makes me sad, and a little angry.

It looks like a human, it talks like a human, but it ain't a human.

New comment by maxehmookau in "Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance"

maxehmookau — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 09:34:23 +0000

Turns out you're not buying the storage and compute required to store your video. Google can afford that regardless of whether you pay.

They're licensing your own video back to you.

New comment by maxehmookau in "TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe"

maxehmookau — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:43:45 +0000

So I choose an entirely chronological one, containing only that content created by my close friends and family.

Except, I'll never be given that choice.

New comment by maxehmookau in "I miss thinking hard"

maxehmookau — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:42:12 +0000

In reality, us thinkers will have to find other things to think about. Maybe not right now, but in the not-too-distant future we'll have to find other things that make us think and scratch that bit of our brains that need itching from learning new stuff and thinking hard about it.

It might be difficult to figure out what that is, and some folks will fail at it. It might not be code though.

New comment by maxehmookau in "Spain to ban social media access for under-16s, PM Sanchez says"

maxehmookau — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 11:27:13 +0000

I guess it depends on which spaces they're banned from. Before Facebook, online communities were bulletin boards and chat rooms. They weren't hyper-addictive social media platforms designed to suck as much attention as possible; they were genuine places of connection.

My hope is that children being banned from the mega platforms would lead to a growth in less harmful online communities for folks who can benefit from it. But I don't know.

New comment by maxehmookau in "Ask HN: Notification Overload"

maxehmookau — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:27:46 +0000

Get in the habit of tapping "Don't Allow" when apps ask for notification privileges. You don't need them. Open the app when you want to.

New comment by maxehmookau in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"

maxehmookau — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:22:36 +0000

Being a nuisance is not illegal. In the eyes of the law, someone being a nuisance is, indeed, innocent - and to say so is not dishonest.

New comment by maxehmookau in "Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant"

maxehmookau — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 11:29:58 +0000

I get that this is cool, but I also feel grateful that my life just isn't busy enough to justify this as a thing beyond "oh wow, that's cool tech".

I'm able to juggle the competing priorities in my life without the need of an AI assistant, and I guess I'm just gonna enjoy that for as long as I can because I assume at some point it will become assumed of me.

New comment by maxehmookau in "Zack Polanski to hand in NHS contract termination notice to Palantir"

maxehmookau — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:35:41 +0000

I'm not a fan of Palantir being involved in the NHS, but this is just political campaigning.

Polanski is head of a political party with, currently, almost no power in the UK. This is symbolic campaigning. Which is fine, but don't be fooled in to thinking it would change anything.

New comment by maxehmookau in "GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT"

maxehmookau — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 11:00:08 +0000

I don't want my LLM to be "more conversational". I'm not using it for a chat. Accuracy is the only thing that will set LLMs apart.

New comment by maxehmookau in "Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division"

maxehmookau — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:02:40 +0000

100%. Amazon hired 14,000 people, and now it's firing 14,000 people it no longer wants on its payroll. Plain and simple.

New comment by maxehmookau in "OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly"

maxehmookau — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 09:21:40 +0000

The bar for medical devices in most countries is _incredibly_ high, for good reason. ChatGPT wasn't developed with the idea of being a therapist in mind, it was a side-effect of the technology that was developed.

Why is OpenAI getting a free pass here?

New comment by maxehmookau in "ChatGPT Atlas"

maxehmookau — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 10:44:56 +0000

This is too creepy for my taste. The benefit of having an LLM be aware of my browsing history doesn't give me even close to enough extra value to allow it.

New comment by maxehmookau in "What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?"

maxehmookau — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 13:03:00 +0000

> Reasonable people know you only start pointing to the contract when things escalate to a certain point as it locks everybody into a defensive posture and now everybody is going to be rigid moving forward.

First, and arguably most important, thing in learned in tech & business. Once the contracts come out, it's game over.

New comment by maxehmookau in "What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?"

maxehmookau — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 12:13:51 +0000

> It might be legal, but it's not polite.

Too many folks forget this.

Do what you want, but I'll tell you if I don't like it. Others might too.

They're not infringing on your rights, but it might make you a little uncomfortable.

New comment by maxehmookau in "What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?"

maxehmookau — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 12:00:29 +0000

Yeah, because he's right, it is a free country. He shouldn't be arrested, or thrown in prison for it.

But I'm also free to apply societal pressure to behave like a grown-up.

New comment by maxehmookau in "What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?"

maxehmookau — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 11:50:59 +0000

I agree and it bugs me too.

Sometimes I just want to enjoy a thing with other people enjoying a thing without any expectation that it might end up as "content" to be monetized by the algorithm.

I don't look forward to mass adoption of things like Meta glasses, where even the mundane examples of _going outside_ are all content opportunities waiting to happen.