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maxwell··on Galdr – open-source audio perception framework; what LLMs find in music
Like an interpretive dance of the Empire State Building.
maxwell··on Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
Would you give one to Sam, Mark, or Sundar?
maxwell··on Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional
Huh? No, you don't stop if it turns yellow, you yield.
maxwell··on Contrarian view: Data centers vs. Meat
You can't eat data. Seven States have already banned lab-grown meat.
maxwell··on Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking
Please, they're ngmi with no fat. The unhealthy frat boy office sounds like a throwback to the early '10s. What woman would work there? They seem poised to crash and burn out.

Historical aristocracy were defined by eating meat, while their subjects ate grain. "Beef" for the Normans, "cows" raised and slaughtered by the Anglo-Saxons.

maxwell··on Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking
Sounds like they're sitting around eating rabbits wondering why they're starving, or just fill up on sugar when no one's looking.

Fat was demonized to push sugar. "Protein" was then pushed because you can just load up stuff like "protein bars" with sugar.

maxwell··on Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court
Which later republics, specifically? Who has stronger rights?
maxwell··on Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court
I mean, it was the world's first codified constitution, written after the world's first successful war of independence.

Which later constitutions do you grade higher? Who has stronger rights?

maxwell··on Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking
> "We're big believers in protein," Roy said. "It's impossible to get fat at Cluely. Nothing here has any fat."

Clueless.

maxwell··on Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court
What piece of paper is worth more to you?
maxwell··on Jony Ive Designed Ferrari Luce EV Interior
What are some car interiors with good/better design to you?
maxwell··on Ask HN: Examples of software where the new version is worse than the old?
Yeah CS2 was the peak to me, I started using it again maybe a year ago instead of their recent slop. Works even better with modern processors, back in the mid '00s it seemed to lag on everything but the first Mac Pro. And Adobe publicly published serial numbers when they shut down the activation servers, if you can get your hands on a copy of the install discs.
maxwell··on Amazon must face US nationwide class action over third-party sales
Our poor representation is an extreme outlier among OECD countries:

https://www.amacad.org/ourcommonpurpose/enlarging-the-house/...

Nordic countries have similar representation to the U.S. in the early 1800s.

Though virtual, Colonial Americans had better representation in Parliament.

maxwell··on Launch HN: Channel3 (YC S25) – A database of every product on the internet
Please consider exposing where the products are actually made.

No business case for me here without country of origin labeling, and on the consumer side I only buy from online retailers that include where their products are made, e.g. officesupply.com

maxwell··on Ask HN: Where can I see a live octopus in Maine?
There was a giant Pacific octopus at the aquarium in Boston but it appears he passed in '21.

I'm in Maine but the last octopus I saw was in Salt Lake City.

maxwell··on Launch HN: Channel3 (YC S25) – A database of every product on the internet
Not seeing product country of origin info?
maxwell··on Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York
> “I said, ‘Who is this?’” Linda recalled. “When Julie saw it, she said, ‘Mom, it’s an AI.’ I said, ‘It’s a what?’ And that’s when it hit me.”
maxwell··on Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York
Why was he rushing in the dark with a roller-bag suitcase to catch the train?

To meet someone he met online who claimed multiple times to be real.

maxwell··on Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England
Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four still function as science fiction, Fahrenheit 451 basically captures the present.
maxwell··on Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England
There seems to only be a single free country left sadly.
maxwell··on Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England
Huxley and Bradbury did.
maxwell··on Berkshire Hathaway's Website looks like it's from the 90s
Countersignaling.
maxwell··on States and cities decimated SROs, Americans' lowest-cost housing option
Yurts.
maxwell··on Serving a half billion requests per day with Rust and CGI
I've had a similar experience. Generating Vue/React scaffolding is nice, but yeah debugging and refactoring require the additional context you described. I've been using web components lately on personal projects, nice to jump into comprehensible vanilla JS/HTML/CSS when needed.
maxwell··on Maya Blue: Unlocking the Mysteries of an Ancient Pigment
Egyptian blue was recently recreated using ancient methods:

https://news.wsu.edu/press-release/2025/06/02/researchers-re...

They look chemically quite different: clay, palygorskite/sepiolite, and indigo for Mayan blue; silica, lime, copper, and an alkali for Egyptian blue.

maxwell··on Defiant loyalists paid dearly for choosing wrong side in the American Revolution
Due to our current lack of representation. We're an extreme outlier among OECD countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_legislatures_by_countr...

https://www.reddit.com/r/UncapTheHouse/comments/lklp4h/the_u...

maxwell··on Defiant loyalists paid dearly for choosing wrong side in the American Revolution
Not at all, they had the votes. The public option was killed by Lieberman.

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/newsletter-art...

The ACA was the same market-based approach as the 1993 GOP healthcare plan. Republicans don't want to touch it because it was their idea.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2013/nov/15/ellen-qual...

maxwell··on Defiant loyalists paid dearly for choosing wrong side in the American Revolution
The Democrats operate as if they're controlled opposition. It's like their donors pay them to blunt their base. They haven't accomplished anything legislatively this century beyond pass the 1993 Republican healthcare plan under Obama's name. They couldn't even raise the minimum wage.
maxwell··on LLMs are mirrors of operator skill
We trust those tools to do the job correctly now.

https://vivekhaldar.com/articles/when-compilers-were-the--ai...

maxwell··on LLMs are mirrors of operator skill
It's just a higher level abstraction, subject to leaks as with all abstractions.

How many professional programmers don't have assemblers/compilers/interpreters "calling the shots" on arbitrary implementation details outside the problem domain?

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