Hacker News: MarxOk

What is 'pink-slime' journalism and has it infiltrated Australian media?

MarxOk — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:10:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-22/pink-slime-journalism-regional-australia-ai/106639600

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48273385

Points: 9

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New comment by MarxOk in "Canada losing top talent as workers head to the U.S."

MarxOk — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:07:36 +0000

It's the pay, it's always the pay. If our salaries were closer to the U.S. this wouldn't be happening.

New comment by MarxOk in "A successful Japanese trial of a ramjet engine designed for Mach‑5 aircraft"

MarxOk — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:06:38 +0000

As a Canadian who travels to Europe about once per month I am very excited for this :D

New comment by MarxOk in "Click"

MarxOk — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 22:19:09 +0000

Sites like this often go down when they reach the HN first page. I've naively deployed stuff on AWS free tier with no scaling or anything that's handled thousands of concurrent requests out of the box. Is the HN kiss of death that bad, or is it just that a lot of people use weird/shared hosting providers?

New comment by MarxOk in "Show HN: Using flamegraphs to read big HN threads"

MarxOk — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 08:49:50 +0000

This is epic, maybe it can help fix @dang's pagination problems :-)

New comment by MarxOk in "Ask HN: How to effectively get feedback from users?"

MarxOk — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 10:58:47 +0000

I have had a lot of success cold emailing them after signup with something that's clearly not automated. Most people are surprisingly responsive.

New comment by MarxOk in "Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in your terminal"

MarxOk — Tue, 03 Nov 2020 10:57:41 +0000

Yeah! I think Rust is mature enough now that this isn't necessary from a novelty perspective. And it's not really an obscure language. "In Haskell" for eg is still warranted because it's obscure and uncommon, but I don't think this fits Rust.

New comment by MarxOk in "DigitalOcean App Platform"

MarxOk — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 01:36:26 +0000

Is it just me or is Heroku mostly dead now? Most people I know have given up on "PaaS" and gone back to plain EC2 etc. It's just not that hard to spin up an instance and deploy a rails/django or whatever app, especially with Docker now.

New comment by MarxOk in "The Death of Corporate Research Labs"

MarxOk — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 00:14:07 +0000

Big Pharma is a classic example of what happens with private enterprise becomes so powerful that "regulatory capture" occurs. They can charge what they like, and undertake other dirty marketing practices, because nobody can compete.

New comment by MarxOk in "Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0"

MarxOk — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 12:08:50 +0000

UBI has always been a no-brainer. It's economically sound, the research is clear. But it's just not popular enough, because people are scared of the socialist undertones. Look at Yang's treatment in the last election.

New comment by MarxOk in "Sledding athletes are taking their lives"

MarxOk — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 08:05:26 +0000

How does one possibly elicit causation versus correlation for something like this? There are so many possible variables that could explain the connection (risk-taking behaviour for example).

New comment by MarxOk in "72% of Americans say social media companies have too much political influence"

MarxOk — Fri, 24 Jul 2020 12:57:50 +0000

If only the stakes were as low as the scroll lock key...

New comment by MarxOk in "In search of 2.11BSD, as originally released"

MarxOk — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 02:16:17 +0000

It's surprising how often "utterly useless" project turn into huge companies. I for one will keep pursuing them :D

New comment by MarxOk in "Ask HN: What are some skills you have that are worth learning?"

MarxOk — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 02:15:21 +0000

In the majority of human evolution (I'm vegan, and doing just fine :))

New comment by MarxOk in "Ask HN: What are some skills you have that are worth learning?"

MarxOk — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 11:09:02 +0000

All useful except butchering a hog - a human being does not need to eat hogs to survive and thrive.

New comment by MarxOk in "A researcher on how to live a happy life"

MarxOk — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 02:04:12 +0000

It sounds like you're advocating drugs as a kind of shortcut to resetting the mind and noticing thoughts as passing arisings. Can you talk more about your experience with this?

Socialist Calculation Debate

MarxOk — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 01:39:57 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_calculation_debate

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23673583

Points: 2

# Comments: 0