Max Woolf
@minimaxir.bsky.social
Senior Data Scientist at BuzzFeed in San Francisco // AI content generation ethics and R&D // plotter of pretty charts
https://minimaxir.com
https://minimaxir.com
The power of Hacker News
November 14, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The power of Hacker News
(OCR predates LLMs by a decade)
November 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
(OCR predates LLMs by a decade)
no one tell people that Gemini/Nano Banana has effectively no content restrictions
November 12, 2025 at 10:07 PM
no one tell people that Gemini/Nano Banana has effectively no content restrictions
create an agent to summarize all the other agents
November 12, 2025 at 1:01 AM
create an agent to summarize all the other agents
the interesting thing is that it's easy to break the guard rails though minimaxir.com/2025/07/llms...
LLMs can now identify public figures in images
ChatGPT and Claude won’t, but Gemini will.
minimaxir.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
the interesting thing is that it's easy to break the guard rails though minimaxir.com/2025/07/llms...
standard approach is to use a .env file (load it using python-dotenv) and immediately put .env in a .gitignore.
November 4, 2025 at 7:23 AM
standard approach is to use a .env file (load it using python-dotenv) and immediately put .env in a .gitignore.
Reposted by Max Woolf
Sure, an individual subscriber of a blocklist is not enduring a significant harm if they are missing content from one person due to a false positive. An individual person who is unable to appeal being structurally blocked by unaccountable parties could be, though. And that does happen.
November 3, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Sure, an individual subscriber of a blocklist is not enduring a significant harm if they are missing content from one person due to a false positive. An individual person who is unable to appeal being structurally blocked by unaccountable parties could be, though. And that does happen.
just link to this and pub it bsky.app/profile/will...
Blocking hatemongers is one thing but this trend of using mass block lists to avoid hearing from people who might or might not hold points of view you expect to disagree with is unhealthy imo and hurts the platform.
Bluesky was better off with folks like Margaret Mitchell and Giada Pistilli on it.
Bluesky was better off with folks like Margaret Mitchell and Giada Pistilli on it.
November 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
just link to this and pub it bsky.app/profile/will...
People Who Wine About People Who Whine About Blocklists blocklist
November 3, 2025 at 7:17 PM
People Who Wine About People Who Whine About Blocklists blocklist
if it’s a work expense you are entirely justified to ask for reimbursement
November 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
if it’s a work expense you are entirely justified to ask for reimbursement
Even with the highest CPMs, there's no way ads alone for a single user can have positive profit margins against even mundane agentic coding. The revenue has to come from *somewhere*.
November 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Even with the highest CPMs, there's no way ads alone for a single user can have positive profit margins against even mundane agentic coding. The revenue has to come from *somewhere*.
In a way, that's worse because it makes the economics highly suspect.
November 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM
In a way, that's worse because it makes the economics highly suspect.
IP in Japan is weird
November 2, 2025 at 10:06 PM
IP in Japan is weird