Hacker News: maxloh

New comment by maxloh in "Doory – Open-Source Canva"

maxloh — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:44:26 +0000

The license choice is a little bit weird, but it is OSI-approved anyway: https://opensource.org/license/aal

Files v4.3

maxloh — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 09:40:00 +0000

Article URL: https://files.community/blog/posts/v4-3-0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50053787

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Gbos-VM: Run Googlebook OS in a GPU-Accelerated VM on Apple Silicon Macs

maxloh — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 09:35:20 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/skylartaylor/gbos-vm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50053743

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Gemini Flash and Pro move to paid plans, leaving free users with only Flash-Lite

maxloh — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 09:53:00 +0000

Article URL: https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/17004136?hl=en

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50031274

Points: 5

# Comments: 4

Bun check – a TypeScript type checker builtin to Bun

maxloh — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:43:23 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/44361

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50007214

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by maxloh in "Show HN: Offrun – manage every coding agent from one workspace"

maxloh — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 14:28:09 +0000

We already have similar products, like Goose [0], Paseo [1], and T3 Code [2].

[0]: https://goose.ai

[1]:https://paseo.sh/

[2]: https://t3.codes/

Some topics are off limits inside popular Chinese-made free AI, researchers find

maxloh — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 09:08:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/china-ai-qwen-artificial-intelligence-bias-analysis/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49942578

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by maxloh in "Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity"

maxloh — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:15:53 +0000

The "Obscura and Mullvad" argument actually makes sense. Having a company outside of EU jurisdiction makes it hard for both layers to be compromised at the same time.

Another question: How does the Obscura client get the Mullvad exit server’s public key? Are they hardcoded at compile time, fetched from Mullvad's server, or fetched from Obscura's server?

The latter seems to be dangerous if there isn't some kind of signature verification done on the client side before using the key.

New comment by maxloh in "Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity"

maxloh — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:14:56 +0000

Mullvad is a Swedish company, which has stricter privacy protection laws in place.

According to Obscura's legal page, it is a New York-based company [0]. Under US law, a secretive court order could compel a US company to update software or implement targeted logging on a specific user without notifying that user.

The only scenario where Obscura would be useful is if Mullvad were compromised. Why would I trust a New York company to shield me from a more reputable Swedish company?

[0]: "(2) your written notification must be mailed to 169 Madison Ave.; Ste. 11185 PMB 63183; New York, NY 10016..." https://obscura.com/legal/

New comment by maxloh in "Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity"

maxloh — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:02:46 +0000

I don't understand the point of this.

Many (if not all) of the benefits on the landing page are available in Mullvad too, which is a more mature and reputable product, has all clients fully open-source, and powers the exit servers for Obscura.

Why should I choose this over Mullvad?

New comment by maxloh in "Show HN: EterDB, a Postgres fork that makes it easy to recover from incidents"

maxloh — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 07:32:41 +0000

From the README,

  It is PostgreSQL 18. One piece, read-dependency capture, has to be in the engine, and it ships as a small upstream-tracked patch. Extensions including pgvector, your ORM, and your SQL dialect all work unchanged.

https://github.com/eterdb/eterdb#how-it-works

New comment by maxloh in "Homebrew 7.0.0"

maxloh — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 07:26:03 +0000

Old Mise user too.

Now that PNPM supports managing runtimes [0], I found that most of Mise's offerings are actually built into package managers. Maybe I will have it graduates from my machine when I have time.

[0]: https://pnpm.io/cli/runtime

Google Sans, Google/Android's branding font, officially open-sourced on GitHub

maxloh — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:32:08 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/googlefonts/googlesans-flex

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662146

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Large language models pass three-party Turing test, outscoring actual humans

maxloh — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:24:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2524472123

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49655572

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Animals fear human voices more than lions (2023)

maxloh — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:26:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-67023033

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49599479

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Operation Bluebird wants to relaunch "Twitter," says Musk abandoned the name

maxloh — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:36:18 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/12/can-twitter-fly-again-startup-wants-to-pry-iconic-trademark-from-musks-x/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49475538

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

New comment by maxloh in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"

maxloh — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 05:31:10 +0000

No Hugging Face link yet. I wish they would release it under a true FOSS license.

Kimi and QWEN are now moving on to a restricted-usage license, which, although is still better than the proprietary American models, is a step back from the open source Chinese LLM culture.

New comment by maxloh in "Flutter 3.47"

maxloh — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 03:07:32 +0000

Flutter operates more like a 2D game engine. It renders its own views, which involves a lot of arithmetic operations, making WASM a more efficient option than JS.

New comment by maxloh in "Paseo: Open-source desktop and mobile app for TUI coding agents (Codex, CC)"

maxloh — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 11:37:51 +0000

Not quite. It is a GUI for terminal coding agents. The built-in skills, system prompt, etc. still depends on the invoked CLI.

Auto Mode will be the default in Claude Code – because humans can't be trusted