Hacker News: maxprimes

New comment by maxprimes in "Plex laid off the whole player team"

maxprimes — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 20:10:30 +0000

Mad thread to drop that bomb in.

New comment by maxprimes in "Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal"

maxprimes — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:59:00 +0000

But what the entire article is saying is that 2-6 weeks is no where near enough. You need to go for months to years of minuscule gradual tapering.

New comment by maxprimes in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

maxprimes — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:48:39 +0000

I'm sure OpenAI is just interested in the greater good of mankind!

New comment by maxprimes in "My USB Drive Has a Hidden Encrypted Vault"

maxprimes — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:23:12 +0000

Just a heads-up, your blog post has a broken link for

> As for the security of the device, I’ve verified things with functional tests like this

Otherwise great project!

New comment by maxprimes in "Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s"

maxprimes — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:05:13 +0000

I know jack about hardware and had to Google ESP32, but as another SRE I've built many fun things with Raspberry Pis. How hard is the hardware part to get your head around?

New comment by maxprimes in "For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides"

maxprimes — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 19:45:55 +0000

I look forward to never hearing about this ever again.

New comment by maxprimes in "Identity verification on Claude"

maxprimes — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:29:47 +0000

Yeah that'll be a pass for me.

New comment by maxprimes in "How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry"

maxprimes — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:54:12 +0000

> Some people who are balding chose to take finasteride but it's unrelated to the procedure itself.

Couldn't that be the pills Wayne took?

New comment by maxprimes in "How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry"

maxprimes — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:48:48 +0000

Bro, side effects include breast cancer and psychosis.

New comment by maxprimes in "How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry"

maxprimes — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:40:53 +0000

How long ago is this? I literally just had one done, believed what you just wrote, and then came across this video randomly yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL7J2Mqbhrc

I think the finasteride side effects sound too much for me to handle.