HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

Maxious

4,623 karma · joined May 13, 2009

open data hacker for http://www.lambdacomplex.org and http://lobbylens.info maxious@lambdacomplex.org

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/maxious; my proof: https://keybase.io/maxious/sigs/YGkLiX20MnPygNqtb43voyvjf5-Hmrn5Msqt5gfu2G8 ]

submissionscomments
Maxious··on Australian startup joins race to build local ChatGPT
> Our AI future is being built overseas. We can’t afford that

> Unless we develop our own sovereign AI capability from the ground up, organisations will forever be looking over their shoulder, dogged by fear of ending up on the front page of the papers for all the wrong reasons.

> Michelle Ananda-Rajah; Senator for Victoria

https://www.afr.com/technology/our-ai-future-is-being-built-...

The grift that keeps giving

Maxious··on Stanford Scientists Successfully Reverse Autism Symptoms in Mice
Keto diet also worked in mice https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23755170/
Maxious··on Kiwi.com flight search MCP server
Cursor https://cursor.com/changelog and vscode https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/customization/mcp... support it
Maxious··on Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?
Perhaps to avoid people using misconfigured open proxies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_proxy

Like a less sophisticated Tor/VPN that is easily detected by port scans

Maxious··on The future of large files in Git is Git
Microsoft uses git for office development https://danielsada.tech/blog/carreer-part-7-how-office-moved...

Google has android and chromium as well as Git+Gerrit-on-Borg https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/releasing/...

Maxious··on ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes
I wish they would just give Atomoxetine first. Yes the side effects suck but no abuse concerns and it gets your brain working to be able to navigate the stimulant regulation disaster
Maxious··on ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes
The shortages are due to the DEA, you can read the documents on the TGA FOI website what "manufacturing issues" really means https://www.reddit.com/r/ausadhd/comments/1mhdmgs/foi_250162...
Maxious··on What does Palantir actually do?
> Peter Thiel’s worldview centers on the conviction that Western society faces existential threats from nihilism, progressivism, and the rise of a global totalitarian order, which he believes are leading to decline and could culminate in an apocalyptic collapse. His proposed solution involves a right-wing religious revival rooted in Christianity, combined with technological acceleration and a reimagined political order that prioritizes heroic individuals and hierarchical impulses.

https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/desconstructing_thiel/

Maxious··on Sam Altman now says AGI, or human-level AI, is 'not a super useful term'
The compromising of the initial "Open" in OpenAI was also justified because of... ding ding ding AGI

> We spent a lot of time trying to envision a plausible path to AGI. In early 2017, we came to the realization that building AGI will require vast quantities of compute. We began calculating how much compute an AGI might plausibly require. We all understood we were going to need a lot more capital to succeed at our mission—billions of dollars per year, which was far more than any of us, especially Elon, thought we’d be able to raise as the non-profit.

https://openai.com/index/openai-elon-musk/

Maxious··on FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support
yep, there's a c++ implementation to run it https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp
Maxious··on Australian court finds Apple, Google guilty of being anticompetitive
The transcript of the oral summary should appear at that URL.

The full judgement with redactions could be requested under https://www.fedcourt.gov.au/services/access-to-files-and-tra... it's just not automatically and immediately created

Maxious··on Mistral Integration Improved in Llama.cpp
It uses a cpp implementation of jinja https://github.com/google/minja
Maxious··on How attention sinks keep language models stable
There was skepticism last time this was posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37740932

Implementation for gpt-oss this week showed 2-3x improvements https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/15157 https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1mkowrw/llamacp...

Maxious··on Overengineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers
I had to do a bios upgrade using Windows but a single 32gb Corsair "DDR4 SODIMM for 11th Generation Intel Core Processors" worked
Maxious··on Ollama Turbo
> Have you supported our past gigs before?

Docker Desktop? One of the most memorable private equity rugpulls in developer tooling?

Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me

Maxious··on ‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]
> The identification of the armed individuals on the convoy and near/in the WCK vehicles had not been done in a professional manner. The mindset involved in the decision making was wrong.

> It was inferred a number of times that not only had the gunmen associated with the WCK aid convoy exhibited tactics similar to Hamas, but that in fact ‘they were Hamas’.

> Head FFAM confirmed that only the video feed being used by the UAV operators was used to identify the gunmen as Hamas.

Maxious··on ‘I witnessed war crimes’ in Gaza – former worker at GHF aid site [video]
> Mobile phone footage has emerged that appears to contradict Israel's account of why soldiers opened fire on a convoy of ambulances and a fire truck on March 23, killing 15 rescue workers.

> The video, published by the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), shows the vehicles moving in darkness with headlights and emergency flashing lights switched on - before coming under fire. The PRCS said the video was obtained from the phone of a paramedic who was killed.

> The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) initially denied the vehicles had their headlights or emergency signals on.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g2z103nqxo

Maxious··on Britain's spies-for-hire are running wild
US veterans have to seek permission to enter employment or invest in companies that do business with foreign governments https://dodsoco.ogc.osd.mil/Portals/102/summary_emoluments_c...

Australia introduced a less onerous 1/5/10 year permission period but for anybody with "training in military tactics and use of software or technology with military applications" https://www.defence.gov.au/news-events/news/2024-05-07/new-l...

Most famously due to a former US citizen turned Australian citizen awaiting extradiction back to the US for allegedly training chinese fighter pilots (although this seems to be more of an ITAR violation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecution_of_Daniel_Duggan

Maxious··on DJI couldn't confirm or deny it disguised this drone to evade a US ban
ArduPilot exists. And was used in the attacks on russian air bases https://www.reddit.com/r/ardupilot/comments/1l0pdg9/sbu_appa...

The hardware typically runs https://pixhawk.org/ on 3d printed airframes https://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/ukraine-s-drone-air-for... or to OP's point, DJI drones flashed with custom firmware

Maxious··on Cerebras launches Qwen3-235B, achieving 1.5k tokens per second
https://cc.yovy.app/ lets you connect https://openrouter.ai/provider/cerebras to claude code
Maxious··on eslint-config-prettier npm package compromised
This package is downloaded millions of times a week https://www.npmjs.com/package/eslint-config-prettier?activeT...

It's the primary way suggested to integrate the two https://prettier.io/docs/integrating-with-linters

Maxious··on Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration
you dont have to use the shim, just follow this https://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/controlling-sb.htm...
Maxious··on OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025
ask chatgpt
Maxious··on Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf
> Cursor recently forced a switch to their own version of Pyright

Microsoft forced Cursor to stop using their versions of various plugins https://forum.cursor.com/t/the-c-dev-kit-extension/76226/18

Maxious··on DOGE Denizen Marko Elez Leaked API Key for xAI
Big Balls for example is officially no longer a GSA employee of the United States DOGE Service (USDS) but an SSA employee https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
Maxious··on OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google
https://medium.com/@villispeaks/the-blitzhire-acquisition-e3... explores this some more. The remaining employees need to make it look like the business is still viable
Maxious··on The North Korean fake IT worker problem is ubiquitous
Jeff Geerling recently discussed being contacted by the FBI to learn more about minature KVMs, one of the devices North Korean fake IT workers use to appear to be coming from other countries https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lc2hB2AwHso
Maxious··on OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google
Only if OpenAI declares they have achieved AGI.
Maxious··on OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google
As part of this whole drama, the APIs that Copilot uses are being opened up https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2025/06/30/openSourceAIE...
Maxious··on At Least 13 People Died by Suicide Amid U.K. Post Office Scandal, Report Says
I regret to inform you that not only is Fujitsu not banned from UK government work, they're not even banned from continuing the same project https://www.publictechnology.net/2025/03/17/business-and-ind...
← PreviousPage 6 of 33Next →