Hacker News: maxverse

New comment by maxverse in "They See Your Photos"

maxverse — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:16:46 +0000

> His agnostic leanings and heterosexual orientation align with a more liberal political stance.

That's a very safe guess

> He is susceptible to confirmation bias, in-group bias, the availability heuristic and out-group homogeneity... he may also be prone to excessive phone use, binge-watching TV shows, and impulse buying.

That's literally everyone

New comment by maxverse in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

maxverse — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:01:22 +0000

Are you suggesting this was written by AI?

New comment by maxverse in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

maxverse — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:28:51 +0000

I use an M1 for personal development an an M4 for work. I'm a typical dev. I don't feel any difference.

New comment by maxverse in "Show HN: Strava for Claude Code"

maxverse — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:25:39 +0000

I am genuinely curious what you're hoping to get out of your goal to use claude code daily!

New comment by maxverse in "Show HN: Strava for Claude Code"

maxverse — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:23:16 +0000

Thank you for putting my feelings into words. "Really weird" is exactly how I feel. AI output in our work should be measured in engineering progress, not in use metrics, right?

New comment by maxverse in "Privilege is bad grammar"

maxverse — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 23:40:49 +0000

100%. "Needs more attention to detail."

New comment by maxverse in "Age of Empires: 25 years of pathfinding problems with C++ [video]"

maxverse — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:04:00 +0000

It's kind of crazy how nice people in multiplayer are. Nobody says anything about my mother or what kind of content I'm downloading to cause lag. Everyone's got the personality of, like, a chill dad now. People are more interested in a good game than just winning. It's really nice.

The other day, I was playing a noob game where one opponent on the other team was way better than the rest of us and rushed. His own team came down on him after.

New comment by maxverse in "Native Instruments enters into insolvency proceedings"

maxverse — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:39:14 +0000

The Gentleman is my go-to piano library to mess around! I have Noire and a few others, but have always loved its sound.

But also, yeah, NI is to music what... VS Code is to devs, right? Everyone uses/makes Kontakt libraries at some point.

New comment by maxverse in "There is an AI code review bubble"

maxverse — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:52:49 +0000

Maybe I'm buying into the cool-aid, but I actually really liked the self-aware tone of this post.

> Based on our benchmarks, we are uniquely good at catching bugs. However, if all company blogs are to be trusted, this is something we have in common with every other AI code review product. One just has to try a few, and pick the one that feels the best.

New comment by maxverse in "There is an AI code review bubble"

maxverse — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:50:49 +0000

> Today's agents are better than the median human code reviewer

"...at catching issues and enforcing standards, and they're only getting better".

I took this to mean what good code review is is subjective. But if you clearly define standards and patterns for your code, your linter/automated tools/ AI code reviewer will always catch more than humans.

New comment by maxverse in "Training my smartwatch to track intelligence"

maxverse — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:06:20 +0000

Absolutely love this kind of project, combining different data sources to predict/model how you're doing. I also use chess as a proxy for my brain is working!

New comment by maxverse in "Indifference is a power (2015)"

maxverse — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:15:28 +0000

If anyone Googles it and is wondering about Feeling Good (1999) and Feeling Great (2020) by the same author, it seems like Feeling Great is just an updated version of the original book, based on more experience and new insights. Here's the author discussing the difference:

https://feelinggood.com/2020/10/26/213-from-feeling-good-to-...

New comment by maxverse in "Show HN: A simulator for engineers transitioning from IC to management"

maxverse — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 21:18:26 +0000

It's crazy that it set off our alarms at the same time. One agreement -- oh, nice human. Two -- what is this!?

New comment by maxverse in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

maxverse — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 21:20:14 +0000

I love Addy's work, and enjoyed this article -- and I completely agree that it felt very LLM-y. I'm not sure what's scarier; that we know some of this didn't come from the author (and maybe that's okay?) or that one day soon, we'll get to a point where we won't be able to tell anymore.

New comment by maxverse in "Don't Become the Machine"

maxverse — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 15:45:46 +0000

This feels like a good second draft. There's definitely a message in here, but it shifts through the piece. To me, the most poignant sentence was " If I can just keep chugging forward, I will end up somewhere that is not here." I think the message is "Why are you working this hard? What do you hope to get out of participating in hustle culture; to what end?

New comment by maxverse in "Response to "Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language""

maxverse — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:19:08 +0000

So glad someone already spoke up about this -- I love Wired, and I think that piece is really poor (not because I love Ruby or think it's without fault, but because the argument it makes is essentially "it's not Ruby or Python, which have static typing tools.")

New comment by maxverse in "Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised"

maxverse — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:07:42 +0000

AI is helpful for this, but I also built https://www.hackterms.com eight years ago for this exact reason.

New comment by maxverse in "Writing code is easy, reading it isn't"

maxverse — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 19:51:31 +0000

You're not alone!

New comment by maxverse in "Developing our position on AI"

maxverse — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 00:30:50 +0000

What do you mean?

New comment by maxverse in "Show HN: The Magic of Code – book about the wonders and weirdness of computation"

maxverse — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 21:49:49 +0000

Saw your talk at the Recurse Center, and really appreciated it. I'm looking forward to reading this book!