<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: saxelsen</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=saxelsen</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:11:52 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=saxelsen" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saxelsen in "The dead economy theory"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think the premise of the article is interesting, but it's a bit mis-leading to start it out by quoting "last year half of the internet was AI-generated" and the source doesn't actually say that at all, just that there has been a huge uptick in AI crawlers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 21:31:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48329576</link><dc:creator>saxelsen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48329576</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48329576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saxelsen in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes but companies would love for a robot to be able to do it instead.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 01:07:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155842</link><dc:creator>saxelsen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155842</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saxelsen in "When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In reality, I think it's more likely that the lay-offs will be when the marginal rate of growth slows down. Once executives see that growth doesn't change much when hiring, they stop hiring, and once they see that growth doesn't decrease much when firing, they start firing.<p>There's still an opportunity for engineers to eat their bosses lunch and just start their own company. It's never been easier to start a lower cost competitor.<p>Employment isn't a social law of nature: it's a transaction of money for "units of work", just like the business might have with other vendors. Governments should be making it easier to become a vendor.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 21:24:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028812</link><dc:creator>saxelsen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028812</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saxelsen in "Trump fires NSF's oversight board"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What do you know?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:31:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906117</link><dc:creator>saxelsen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906117</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saxelsen in "Claude Design"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Agree, but maybe they worry they'll be even more irrelevant if they don't partner? Keep your enemies close...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:51:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47811012</link><dc:creator>saxelsen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47811012</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47811012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saxelsen in "Introduction to Obsidian"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Shout out to Joplin (<a href="https://joplinapp.org/" rel="nofollow">https://joplinapp.org/</a>), which I use on a daily basis.<p>It does most of what Obsidian does but has a free sync version where you just use your cloud drive as the storage.<p>The main thing missing, from what I've found, is that it does do the "notes mind map". But I never really found that useful.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:23:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47758006</link><dc:creator>saxelsen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47758006</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47758006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saxelsen in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Safety"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They are being selected for their survival potential, though. Any current version of LLMs are the winners of the training selection process. They will "die" once new generations are trained that supercede them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:14:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47757902</link><dc:creator>saxelsen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47757902</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47757902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saxelsen in "Software Engineering Is Becoming Civil Engineering"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The PMs writing features? That’s the welding. And there’s nothing wrong with it. But it only works if the bridge is designed right.
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> The profession is splitting. The mistake would be pretending it isn’t happening<p>I'm tired of reading AI blog-posts. Write in your own words, please.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:16:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606665</link><dc:creator>saxelsen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606665</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saxelsen in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Would you like me to draft a list of recommendations for how best to use comments?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:59:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47594592</link><dc:creator>saxelsen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47594592</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47594592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saxelsen in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can I ask how you annotate the feedback for it? Just with inline comments like `# This should be changed to X`?<p>The author mentions annotations but doesn't go into detail about how to feed the annotations to Claude.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 02:56:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107662</link><dc:creator>saxelsen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107662</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saxelsen in "I found a vulnerability. they found a lawyer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's pretty much only one global insurer affiliated with dive schools, so this is spot on</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:24:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47094175</link><dc:creator>saxelsen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47094175</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47094175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saxelsen in "Mark Zuckerberg grilled on usage goals and underage users at California trial"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If the monopolist chef is deliberately adding addictive ingredients that causes health problems, I think, yes, they're the ones to punish or address the problem with.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:09:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47079423</link><dc:creator>saxelsen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47079423</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47079423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saxelsen in "Raising money fucked me up"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This hit close to home..!<p>I had a startup some years ago and took angel funding from family. When we were later running out of cash and had to raise professional money to stay alive, the pressure of the expectations I <i>thought</i> my family had because I was on the verge of losing their money caused me debilitating panic attacks.<p>I still feel the effects 6 years later, but have learned to cope whenever I feel the pressure begin to build. But man did it scar.<p>OP if there is any advice I can give, it's that you should have a chat with your investor friends about and make sure you feel like you can always walk away.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 10:20:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46666545</link><dc:creator>saxelsen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46666545</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46666545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saxelsen in "Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I used to resonate with the word "taste" as a distinguishing factor between good and bad quality, but a comment on HN some months ago about one of the many blog posts that talks about taste really nailed it:<p>"Taste" is just the degree to which two people value the same things.<p>When someone is rated as having "good taste" it just means that the person rating them values a lot of the same qualities.<p>The more I thought about it, the more that applies everywhere: Food, wine, clothes, architecture, software design, etc.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 22:54:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45740365</link><dc:creator>saxelsen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45740365</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45740365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saxelsen in "Claude Memory"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>1000% agree on the YouTube/Spotify parallel!!<p>I find it so annoying on Spotify when my daughter wants to listen to kids music, I have to navigate 5 clicks and scrolls to turn on privacy so her listening doesn't pollute my recommendations.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 21:39:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45687569</link><dc:creator>saxelsen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45687569</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45687569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saxelsen in "Build your own database"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nice interactivity, but this is taken straight from the Designing Data-Intensive Applications. Literally all the content here is an interactive version of chapter 3.<p>Maybe give credit?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 20:48:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45661498</link><dc:creator>saxelsen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45661498</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45661498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saxelsen in "A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A person with integrity would have promoted bootcamps <i>and</i> recused themselves from smearing competitors.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2025 09:13:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45536762</link><dc:creator>saxelsen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45536762</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45536762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saxelsen in "Apps SDK"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I agree with you. Just disappointing that it's just another company slowly abandoning their mission in favor of profits.</p>
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<p>I'll bet $100 they're seeing an opportunity to dethrone Google as the entrance point to the web and this is a big part of it.<p>It feels like OpenAI's mission has changed from "We want to do do AGI" to<p>"it'll be easier to do AGI with a lot of money, so let's make a lot of money first" to<p>"we have a shot at becoming bigger than Google and stealing their revenue. Let's do that and maybe do AGI if that ever works out"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2025 04:47:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45499470</link><dc:creator>saxelsen</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45499470</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45499470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saxelsen in "A venture capitalist goes to extremes to punish her surrogate"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This story sounds like the worst consequence of American liberalism and capitalism in one.<p>This would be a hit TV show on par with Baby Reindeer, if it was ever televised.</p>
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