Hacker News: maxrmk

New comment by maxrmk in "Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit"

maxrmk — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:06:08 +0000

It’s easy to opt out of being indexed by Google.

New comment by maxrmk in "Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a frontier math open problem"

maxrmk — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 04:53:39 +0000

I don't think this is a correct explanation of how things work these days. RL has really changed things.

New comment by maxrmk in "Senior European journalist suspended over AI-generated quotes"

maxrmk — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 18:07:54 +0000

Fair enough. It reads as extremely AI generated to me. But that isn’t completely reliable.

New comment by maxrmk in "Senior European journalist suspended over AI-generated quotes"

maxrmk — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:57:31 +0000

Ironic coming from the Guardian. One of their journalists consistently publishes ai slop and the paper is in denial about it.

https://x.com/maxwelltani/status/2023089526445371777?s=46

New comment by maxrmk in "Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill"

maxrmk — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:21:50 +0000

If a company relies on self reported ages, they don't "know" it well enough to satisfy COPPA. Probably. I'm not a lawyer but I do keep up with the latest in privacy enforcement and I think this is the way things are headed.

For the record, I'm against age verification laws. But I think companies are pushing for them because of liabilities they face under other laws, not because they would actually like to have the data.

New comment by maxrmk in "Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation"

maxrmk — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 05:36:34 +0000

Those exist! People choose to use gmail because of the scale, stability, and feature set paid for by targeted advertising.

New comment by maxrmk in "Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation"

maxrmk — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 05:35:31 +0000

My desire is to be able to use those products without paying for them. And to use them with friends and family members that can't pay for them.

New comment by maxrmk in "Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation"

maxrmk — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 03:56:58 +0000

The bill bans making access to a service contingent on consent. This would kill Gmail, Google Maps, Facebook, Instagram and basically every other ad supported service. Making subscriptions the only consumer business model would be bad imo.

Seldom: An Anonymity Network with Selective Deanonymization

maxrmk — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:54:41 +0000

Article URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3794848?af=R

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47312684

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by maxrmk in "MongoBleed Explained Simply"

maxrmk — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:46:35 +0000

Yeah fair, I was being a bit lazy here when writing my comment. I've used nosql professionally quite a bit, but always set up by others. When working on personal projects I reach for SQL first because I can throw something together and don't need ideal performance. You're absolutely right that they both have their place.

That being said the question was genuine - because I don't keep up with the ecosystem, I don't know it's ever valid practice to have a nosql db exposed to the internet.

New comment by maxrmk in "MongoBleed Explained Simply"

maxrmk — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 21:48:11 +0000

How often are mongo instances exposed to the internet? I'm more of an SQL person and for those I know it's pretty uncommon, but does happen.

New comment by maxrmk in "Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo"

maxrmk — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 19:09:57 +0000

Google (currently) pays Mozilla $400-500 million a year to be the default search engine in firefox.

edit: in 2023 they took in $653M in total, $555M of which was from Google. They spent $260M on software development, and $236M on other things.

New comment by maxrmk in ".NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser"

maxrmk — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:21:40 +0000

Took more than a minute to load on my macbook. Ouch!

I really love C# and the .net ecosystem, but they just haven't made it work for web.

New comment by maxrmk in "Tell HN: Mechanical Turk is twenty years old today"

maxrmk — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 22:19:56 +0000

What do you see as net negative about it? I’m familiar with the product but not that aware of how it’s been used.

New comment by maxrmk in "The human only public license"

maxrmk — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:52:14 +0000

Do you think there _should_ be a legal mechanism for enforcing the kind of rules they're trying to create here? I have mixed feelings about it.

New comment by maxrmk in "Vendors that treat single sign-on as a luxury feature"

maxrmk — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 21:09:36 +0000

Evil feels strong? Small companies benefit from having the basic feature set subsidized by big cos. It's kind of hard for me to imagine a scenario where pricing of a saas product could be _evil_. you can just choose not to do business with them!

New comment by maxrmk in "GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation"

maxrmk — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 21:17:36 +0000

Do you work in devdiv at Microsoft? I can see the org chart in this comment haha

New comment by maxrmk in "Show HN: RULER – Easily apply RL to any agent"

maxrmk — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 23:10:17 +0000

Very cool. Do you do anything to mitigate ordering bias in the evaluation function, or do you just expect it to average out over time?

Nurses Charge $40/Hour to Copy from Medical Records. LLMs Cost Pennies

maxrmk — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 13:38:20 +0000

Article URL: https://talc.ai/blog/post/68547250bb0b34000133f535

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44327642

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by maxrmk in "Breaking Quadratic Barriers: A Non-Attention LLM for Ultra-Long Context Horizons"

maxrmk — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 21:57:31 +0000

> While the specific internal workings of DeepSeek LLM are still being elucidated, it appears to maintain or approximate the self-attention paradigm to some extent.

Totally nonsensical. Deepseeks architecture is well documented, multiple implementations are available online.