<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: maxehmookau</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=maxehmookau</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:22:54 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=maxehmookau" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxehmookau in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Absolutely get in the bin with this ridiculous take from a newspaper with a vested interest in getting people back in to expensive office real estate.<p>Juniors cost more to train, take more effort, and time from seniors who are otherwise "productive" and so companies don't want to hire them and be responsible for that additional work.<p>It's not remote working, or AI that's to blame for weak junior hiring. It's short-termism from companies that see no reason to spend their time training up juniors.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:25:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48354911</link><dc:creator>maxehmookau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48354911</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48354911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxehmookau in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wait, I'm paying and I still get targeted ads shown to me? But I do get "super reactions"? Come on.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:00:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48354745</link><dc:creator>maxehmookau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48354745</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48354745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxehmookau in "Programming Still Sucks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One of the best things I've read this year. Also one of the worst things I've read this year, actually. But also, I enjoyed reading it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 12:01:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048342</link><dc:creator>maxehmookau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048342</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxehmookau in "Your Website Is Not for You"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I _think_ it's the best we have right now, right? Excellent UX research speaks for itself, there's just not much of it. As an industry, we've done a realllllly good job of devaluing high-quality UX research and those who do it for a living.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 13:12:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47974412</link><dc:creator>maxehmookau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47974412</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47974412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxehmookau in "Your Website Is Not for You"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is a distillation of what we used to (still do?) teach junior SWEs.<p>"You are not the customer for the thing we're making, nor have you ever been. You don't know what they want/need."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 12:12:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973881</link><dc:creator>maxehmookau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973881</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47973881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxehmookau in "Playdate’s handheld changed how Duke University teaches game design"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My sister made rhythm game Otto's Galactic Groove so you should totally check that out: <a href="https://play.date/games/ottos-galactic-groove/" rel="nofollow">https://play.date/games/ottos-galactic-groove/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:11:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806807</link><dc:creator>maxehmookau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806807</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxehmookau in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ok, ok, if you give me $16M I'll do it faster.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:45:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47715677</link><dc:creator>maxehmookau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47715677</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47715677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxehmookau in "OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> "Can I tell you one more thing from your X,Y,Z results which is most doctors miss ? "<p>That's actually gross and would result in an immediate delete from me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:34:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47424939</link><dc:creator>maxehmookau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47424939</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47424939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxehmookau in "Layoffs at Block"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oh man, I'm so entirely sick of this.<p>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.<p>"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.<p>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.<p>Language matters, and this entire post shows how little they care.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:26:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47180271</link><dc:creator>maxehmookau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47180271</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47180271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxehmookau in "AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> But I really think we need to stop treating LLMs like they're just another human<p>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.<p>It looks like a human, it talks like a human, but it ain't a human.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:07:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46988371</link><dc:creator>maxehmookau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46988371</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46988371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxehmookau in "Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Turns out you're not buying the storage and compute required to store your video. Google can afford that regardless of whether you pay.<p>They're licensing your own video back to you.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 09:34:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46986674</link><dc:creator>maxehmookau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46986674</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46986674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxehmookau in "TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So I choose an entirely chronological one, containing only that content created by my close friends and family.<p>Except, I'll never be given that choice.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:43:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46914205</link><dc:creator>maxehmookau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46914205</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46914205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxehmookau in "I miss thinking hard"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>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.<p>It might be difficult to figure out what that is, and some folks will fail at it. It might not be code though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:42:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46886390</link><dc:creator>maxehmookau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46886390</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46886390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxehmookau in "Spain to ban social media access for under-16s, PM Sanchez says"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>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.<p>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.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 11:27:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46869579</link><dc:creator>maxehmookau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46869579</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46869579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxehmookau in "Ask HN: Notification Overload"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>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.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:27:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46823676</link><dc:creator>maxehmookau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46823676</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46823676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxehmookau in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>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.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:22:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46794405</link><dc:creator>maxehmookau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46794405</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46794405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxehmookau in "Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>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".<p>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.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 11:29:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46764378</link><dc:creator>maxehmookau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46764378</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46764378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxehmookau in "Zack Polanski to hand in NHS contract termination notice to Palantir"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not a fan of Palantir being involved in the NHS, but this is just political campaigning.<p>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.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:35:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46721556</link><dc:creator>maxehmookau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46721556</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46721556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxehmookau in "GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>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.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 11:00:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45913420</link><dc:creator>maxehmookau</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45913420</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45913420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maxehmookau in "Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>100%. Amazon hired 14,000 people, and now it's firing 14,000 people it no longer wants on its payroll. Plain and simple.</p>
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