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New comment by TechRemarker in "OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic"

TechRemarker — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:36:55 +0000

I switched to Anthropic briefly to try out Code, it was great (having never tried such a product) and better than their chat bot which found prettier and nicer to talk to but far more often wrong.

Then shortly after Codex was released which made that more accessible and instantly preferred that compared to Code since much more generous allotments for $20 plan. Claude constantly kept hitting. And Code actually had a more robust UI and was more accurate when doing the same project side by side vs Claude Code.

But imagine many haven't tried Codex recently since all we hear about is Claude Code. So while they may have momentum, at least for me with no stake in the game, Codex finding far better, but I suppose that could all change again on a whim.

Carrot Weather App Gets Weather Channel Source

TechRemarker — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:23:57 +0000

Article URL: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/carrot-weather-alerts-radar/id961390574?eventid=6759457893

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47151141

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New comment by TechRemarker in "Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?"

TechRemarker — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 18:53:19 +0000

Ahh. Wok up to a follow up email an address already marked as spam so couldn't figure out what was going on.

New comment by TechRemarker in "[dead]"

TechRemarker — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:14:12 +0000

How is this not flagged and removed based on the completely false title?

New comment by TechRemarker in "Chase to become new issuer of Apple Card"

TechRemarker — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:24:57 +0000

"Of course their relationship with Apple could be different, but I doubt it'll be anything like the Goldman one" I can nearly guarantee this is completely wrong. It will be just like Goldman. That's literally the point of getting the card, is do everything through Apple and Goldman is just the backbone and support (through Apple's UI). Apple's contract with Goldman was until 2030, they wouldn't let Goldman out of it unless they were able to find a new partner with same or better experience and terms. They could have choose Synchrony, etc if Chase didn't agree. And clearly Chase was willing to concede to Apple since they don't even offer high yield savings, but agreed to for Apple since thats part of their existing offerings. Right now Apple decides the Promos for Apple Card, and at most maybe Chase will have a little more involvement in those but probably not. So in realty the only real world change is probably better customer support than Sachs, and Chase may not offer higher risks customers credit or as much like Goldman did and finally they may not offer the very low APR's that Apple card is known for, for it's best customers.

New comment by TechRemarker in "Chase to become new issuer of Apple Card"

TechRemarker — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:15:02 +0000

Have to disagree there. While the iOS wallet apple is all apple and thats what you will use for checking your statements and making payments which is great. But anytime I have to actually interact with for support that is 100% with Goldman. When you do you support through the iMessage chat feature it's all Goldman on the other end, not Apple at all. And I've had to deal with them far too many times, and each time was absolutely terrible. Because of Goldman but also because of the platform Apple gives them for support, since you send a message have to wait for a text response. So feels like a chat but unlike a chat responses can take a while more like email, but then if they respond and you dont respond very fast then it closes it out and your response triggers a how can we help and you start all over, which is unlike email. So it's the worst of Chat and the worst of Email. Hopefully that is revamped with the new relationship. And if you have to call you get Sachs not Apple. Chase isn't great but expect much better than Sachs.

New comment by TechRemarker in "Most websites don't need cookie consent banners"

TechRemarker — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 01:43:25 +0000

“You DO need consent for: Third-party tracking cookies like Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel“ Since most websites use GA then yes most need the banners. You could say most sites don’t need GA but that’s a different argument.

New comment by TechRemarker in "NYC phone ban reveals some students can't read clocks"

TechRemarker — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 22:18:32 +0000

Cursive writing first that comes to my mind.

New comment by TechRemarker in "Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address"

TechRemarker — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 00:04:04 +0000

Wow this is massive, but will come down to whether you switch to another existing address you have. That is you have example1@gmail.com and example2@gmail.com. The first one has all your decades of data and second is name you've reserved etc. With handles you can release one and use on another account so hopefully option to do the same. Or if they could just update their account migration to support migrating all historic data that would accomplish the same.

New comment by TechRemarker in "Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI"

TechRemarker — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 19:01:01 +0000

Love how employee portals for many companies essentially never get updated design wise over the decades, lol. That page styling and the balls certainly take me back.

New comment by TechRemarker in "The "Mad Men" in 4K on HBO Max Debacle"

TechRemarker — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 12:44:28 +0000

haha. Take a look at the massive unfinished window into the hallway =).

New comment by TechRemarker in "OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race"

TechRemarker — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 18:59:28 +0000

Heard all the news how Gemini 3 is passing everyone on benchmarks, so quickly tested and still find it a far cry from ChatGPT in real world use when testing questions on both platforms. But importantly the ChatGPT app experience at least for iPhone/Mac users is drastically superior vs Google which feels very Google still. So Gemini would have to be drastically better answer wise than ChatGPT to lure users from a better UI/UX experience to Gemini. But glad to see competition since certainly don't want only one winner in this race.

New comment by TechRemarker in "Voyager 1 is about to reach one light-day from Earth"

TechRemarker — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 14:50:31 +0000

No, not "About to". It's this time "next year".

New comment by TechRemarker in "What happens when even college students can't do math anymore?"

TechRemarker — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:36:40 +0000

Imagine still will be all the advanced tracks but will be only reserved for those with the resources to afford it and seemingly further the divide.

New comment by TechRemarker in "Multiple Digital Ocean services down"

TechRemarker — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:17:12 +0000

Yes all sites showing the CloudFlare error due to the massive outage. Seems their outages are getting more frequent and taking down the internet in new ways each time.

New comment by TechRemarker in "GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT"

TechRemarker — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 19:49:07 +0000

Interesting, this seems to be "less" ideal. The problem lately for me is it being to verbose and conversational for things that need not be. Have added custom instructions which helps but still issues. Setting the chat style to "Efficient" more recently did help a lot but has been prone to many more hallucinations, requiring me to constantly ask if they are sure and never responds in a way that yes my latest statement is correct, ignoring it's previous error and showing no sign that it will avoid a similar error further in the conversation. When it constantly makes similar mistakes which I had a way to train my ChatGPT to avoid that, but while adding "memories" helps with somethings, it does not help with certain issues it continues to make since it's programming overrides whatever memory I make for it. Hoping some improvements in 5.1.

New comment by TechRemarker in "ChatGPT knows my IP geolocation"

TechRemarker — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 17:09:44 +0000

I just asked where am I currently today and on the iOS app it responded with the correct current location for where I’m visiting without needing to trick it into using the devices location data. In settings on iOS this app does not request or have access to location. So yes, a little surprised iOS still provides ip address but assume necessary for some functionality.

New comment by TechRemarker in "iOS 26.2 to allow third-party app stores in Japan ahead of regulatory deadline"

TechRemarker — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 14:20:20 +0000

Doubt they would have been considered “goodwill”. Investors would complain they are doing their fiscal responsibilities. Customers and companies would complain they didn’t do it soon enough and still didn’t do enough. And if people started having issues with their phones because of side loading they would not blame themselves they would blame Apple for allowing them to do so and potentially hurting the brand. Vision Pro as a test of hardware capabilities seems to be going as one would expect at the current price points. Once they release their first consumer focused glasses as an accessible price point, that will be the real test of the product category.

New comment by TechRemarker in "iOS 26.2 to allow third-party app stores in Japan ahead of regulatory deadline"

TechRemarker — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 14:15:12 +0000

On the other hand if long ago they backed down and lowered fees and allowed more control, aside from the potential security and privacy concerns that could negatively affect the brand, companies would have just then wanted more. As Epic has said they think they should have to pay nothing for all that Apple provides. So not saying all Apple’s choices and timing were right or best, but giving up previously wouldn’t have prevented all of this but rather just lowered the bar and making it easier for companies and countries to make it easier to lower it even further.

New comment by TechRemarker in "Affinity Studio now free"

TechRemarker — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:48:57 +0000

Been curious what the Oct 10 announcement would be. It seemed most likely an acquisition since they wanted enough time of not selling existing products to avoid dealing with a month of refunds. Appears Canva bought with it now being a single app that is "free" but paid for premium features. While many may rejoice at a solid free options it's certainly an unfortunate day for those who rely on it. As Canva makes money on people using the paid version so attention will be at making that version more enticing over time and free less. If people all just used the free and not the premium for AI, then they would either start charging for the "free" version or take away features from the free version to make the "choice" easier to upgrade. All in all good for Canva, and good for more casual users who can jump ship any time to free options but would be quite worrisome for those who have looked towards Affinity as the alternative to Adobe.