Hacker News: mxxx

New comment by mxxx in "An MCP Server for Fastmail – National Email Day"

mxxx — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 07:48:26 +0000

Yeah I think that was one of the vapourware features that Apple showed in an advert a couple of years ago, right?

New comment by mxxx in "Animated Knots"

mxxx — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 11:07:45 +0000

Love this site. Bought their app a couple of years ago and started learning knots by tying them over and over on repeat during zoom meetings with a couple of lengths of paracord. Slowly building up a decent collection of knots!

I particularly like the comparison between similar knots that helps you understand when one is better than the other.

New comment by mxxx in "Oxy is Cloudflare's Rust-based next generation proxy framework (2023)"

mxxx — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 05:12:44 +0000

unfortunate name

New comment by mxxx in "Top Trump Officials Are Moving onto Military Bases"

mxxx — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 10:27:13 +0000

Aw man, I love sowing but hate reaping.

New comment by mxxx in "A statistical analysis of Rotten Tomatoes"

mxxx — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 02:07:42 +0000

If they're actual movie reviewers then their job is to go see films regardless of whether they think they'd personally enjoy them. Some of the best reviews come from reviewers who have to go and see something they absolutely hate and would never go see for their own entertainment.

New comment by mxxx in "A statistical analysis of Rotten Tomatoes"

mxxx — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 02:06:28 +0000

Regardless of the introduction of sycophantic reviewers, the 3/5 = fresh thing has always been a pretty half-ass threshold imo, and that a fact that a film can be "100% fresh" on RT on the basis of every single reviewer saying "yeah it's nothing special but it's fine, 3 stars" is fairly easy to misinterpret.

New comment by mxxx in "Lego Transformers Soundwave"

mxxx — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 03:37:09 +0000

Gonna drop a classic curmudgeonly HN comment here but the first thing that happens when you open that link is you get a pop up that asks you if you want to go somewhere else instead. What’s with that? It’s literally taking me away from the part of the site where I can give them money.

New comment by mxxx in "Dark patterns"

mxxx — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 04:34:59 +0000

The killer these days is places demanding your email prior to giving you a shipping estimate. Particularly annoying if you live somewhere where shipping costs vary greatly between providers.

New comment by mxxx in "Dark patterns"

mxxx — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 04:34:01 +0000

Yeah sometimes you can use this one to your advantage though. If was buying something recently and the website was just giving off those types of vibes, so I went to the checkout and bailed. Next day, got a reminder. Three days later, discount offer. One week later, slightly better discount offer.

New comment by mxxx in "Ask HN: Do you still use search engines?"

mxxx — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 22:26:46 +0000

I gave LLMs a bit of a go but a couple of occasions wasted a bunch of time by giving incorrect answers, so my trust levels are pretty low.

New comment by mxxx in "Facebook Marketplace is keeping young people on the platform"

mxxx — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 07:53:18 +0000

My FB account exists almost solely for marketplace, which has almost total market dominance for local classifieds where I live in Australia. Recently they’ve stopped letting you send messages to sellers via the website on your phone and insist that you use the app instead. It’s probably one of the few hooks they have left to try and get people on to the platform.

New comment by mxxx in "Satya Nadella on knowledge work"

mxxx — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 09:57:27 +0000

Good read that seems more relevant by the day.

New comment by mxxx in "Amazon now discloses you're buying a license to view Kindle eBooks"

mxxx — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 03:25:37 +0000

Yeah I did this with all the kindle books I ever bought before switching to a Kobo. Just need to try and get my partner out of the Amazon ecosystem now.

New comment by mxxx in "Trump administration halts proposed EPA limits on PFAS pollution"

mxxx — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 10:44:20 +0000

Right? What’s next, bringing back asbestos? Should we start putting lead in everything again?

New comment by mxxx in "Arsenal FC AI Research Engineer job posting"

mxxx — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 05:09:49 +0000

I’m an Arsenal fan living in Australia, so I often watch the games the next day because they’re on very late at night our time. Until I’ve watched the game I keep off social media to avoid spoilers, and HN is one of the few things I’m very confident in reading knowing that nothing related to Arsenal FC would ever ever get posted here. Go figure.

New comment by mxxx in "Why the Getty Center Is the Safest Place for Art During a Fire (2019)"

mxxx — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 02:22:21 +0000

There’s a museum built a few years ago in regional Australia that was also designed with bushfire resistance in mind.

https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/history-cultu...

New comment by mxxx in "Australian House passes bill to ban children under 16 from social media"

mxxx — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 10:52:46 +0000

Good articulation of some of the potential issues with an approach like this from an independent who originally supported the bill but voted against it https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/27/why-iv...

New comment by mxxx in "Ask HN: Preferred md / Markdown presentation slide tool?"

mxxx — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 21:24:28 +0000

Previously used mdx-deck but it’s no longer developed. Tried the Marp CLI for the first time the other day and it did the job.

New comment by mxxx in "Researchers seeing little evidence of benefit from co pilots"

mxxx — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 23:39:28 +0000

The thing that I’ve seen my team use it most for is explaining blocks of code. We maintain a bunch of legacy systems that don’t get touched often and are written in stacks that our engineers aren’t completely fluent with, and it can be helpful when they’ve traced an issue to a particular function but the original intent or purpose of the code is obtuse.

New comment by mxxx in "The music industry is engineering artist popularity"

mxxx — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 08:59:57 +0000

https://youtu.be/5pidokakU4I?si=bnmQrxEGHRCz3ZJm