Hacker News: marcuschong

New comment by marcuschong in "Dubious research tied to Red Bull has shaped energy drink policy"

marcuschong — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 01:21:17 +0000

I'm regularly afraid of things like that, not only for drinking too much coke but also for not having exactly the healthiest lifestyle overall. I've tried reducing coke a few times with some luck here and there, but eventually got back to it everytime. For now, my annual checkups are good.

New comment by marcuschong in "Dubious research tied to Red Bull has shaped energy drink policy"

marcuschong — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 01:17:06 +0000

My dentist, annual consultation.

New comment by marcuschong in "Dubious research tied to Red Bull has shaped energy drink policy"

marcuschong — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:13:14 +0000

I've been drinking loads of coke Zero (up to 3 liters a day, these days it's about 2 liters), and my teeth are fine. I'm 40 and have been drinking it for most of my life, it started when I was about 16, with regular coke back then. Maybe I'm lucky.

New comment by marcuschong in "An Uncomplicated Man – A review of The Odyssey, directed by Christopher Nolan"

marcuschong — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:08:47 +0000

Emily Watson about the movie: "I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script.”

New comment by marcuschong in "John C. Dvorak has died"

marcuschong — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 23:16:18 +0000

I really enjoyed reading John C. Dvorak's PC Magazine column when I was just getting started in tech. His contrarian style was a nice change from most tech columnists at the time. He had a grumpy but oddly likable personality, and I even enjoyed No Agenda for a while and his occasional TWiT appearances.

That's why I have such mixed feelings about him. Somewhere along the way, being a contrarian seemed to become an end in itself. He became a Trump fan, and the No Agenda agenda increasingly drifted toward questioning well-established facts, from climate science to questioning the parents of the Sandy Hook victims. Real Alex Jones shit.

New comment by marcuschong in "In the age of algorithms and AI, is traditional media democracy's defence?"

marcuschong — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:52:09 +0000

Something I've been wondering about is whether fake news and these alternative realities people live in will eventually have a material impact on their lives.

In my country, where the political divide is huge, I know people who are very successful professionally and financially, yet believe all sorts of things that seem completely detached from reality. For example, I have a cousin who was convinced that if a certain presidential candidate won, the government would confiscate people's savings. Her solution was to convert a large part of her savings into jewelry.

She's highly educated. She also gets a lot of her information about climate change from a fortune teller on Instagram. I know that sounds made up, but it's not.

What's interesting to me is that, despite all this, their lives seem to go on just fine. Maybe they're a bit more anxious than they need to be, but they don't seem materially worse off because of these beliefs.

It makes me wonder whether we're just in an unusual transition period. As it becomes harder to trust what we see online, and as misinformation gets more convincing, will there eventually be a real advantage to consistently relying on reputable sources.

New comment by marcuschong in "Screen time can damage under-twos' development, landmark study suggests"

marcuschong — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 11:36:51 +0000

I don't think my 18-month-old had any problems from watching a little Miss Rachel and Baby Einstein here and there. However, the few times my mother showed her cute animal videos on Instagram, it was a completely different story. She became obsessed with the phone and would fuss and scream whenever my mother put it away. It was pretty incredible. We banned it pretty quickly.

New comment by marcuschong in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

marcuschong — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:56:01 +0000

It's curious that the person claiming LLMs will soon skip code entirely and go straight to binary is willing to spend $60bn on Cursor.

New comment by marcuschong in "We're going to put Codex inside ChatGPT"

marcuschong — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:01:30 +0000

At 14:52

We're going to put Codex inside ChatGPT

marcuschong — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:01:30 +0000

Article URL: https://openai.com/business/intelligence-at-work/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48377444

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by marcuschong in "Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking"

marcuschong — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:24:06 +0000

I've felt the same about Reddit subs, the few times I tried asking something. Very discouraging when you're having some trouble in life and looking for help online.

New comment by marcuschong in "Mistral's CEO: Europe has 2 years to stop becoming America's AI 'vassal state'"

marcuschong — Mon, 18 May 2026 00:17:02 +0000

Plus, even if you do prefer the American way (and I could see why), it seems fanatic for people to not recognize the clear benefits of the European model.

New comment by marcuschong in "Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind"

marcuschong — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:28:54 +0000

Me too. I'm an active father, love my daughter and don't regret our choice. But damn I would never opt to go through this again and can't wait until she's a little older. I see parents having orderly lunches in restaurants with their older children and it just seems like the most beautiful and civilized thing in the world.

The whole experience is too much noise and not enough signal to me.

New comment by marcuschong in "Surely no brand is more hated by web users that Cloudflare"

marcuschong — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:00:29 +0000

And now it appears every single time I use incognito mode on my browser, somehow. I hate it profoundly.

New comment by marcuschong in "Starlink Mini as a failover"

marcuschong — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:14:58 +0000

Plus doing it to a hundred million followers and controlling the medium that delivers his message.

Natural Emergent Misalignment from Reward Hacking in Production RL [pdf]

marcuschong — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:10:44 +0000

Article URL: https://assets.anthropic.com/m/74342f2c96095771/original/Natural-emergent-misalignment-from-reward-hacking-paper.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47371767

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by marcuschong in "Are LLM merge rates not getting better?"

marcuschong — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:40:50 +0000

That's a big problem with very specific manifestations. My startup helps customers handle regulatory compliance, also by forwarding complex questions to a pool of consultants.

We've compared now more than a hundred replies to that of GPT Pro, and the quality is roughly the same. Sometimes a little worse, sometimes a little better. Always more detailed. Never unacceptable.

But how to convince our customers that we have the right technology and know how to use it appropriately? We're trying, but it's not easy.

Part of that's accountability. In the event of the LLM producing rubbish, as rare as it may be, who is accountable? There is not a person and her reputation attached to it.

Sam Altman AMA about DoD deal

marcuschong — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 01:09:15 +0000

Article URL: https://xcancel.com/i/status/2027900042720498089

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47202496

Points: 21

# Comments: 6

New comment by marcuschong in "Sandboxes won't save you from OpenClaw"

marcuschong — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:22:00 +0000

That's what I've been struggling with to give it a go. How to make it useful somehow if I can't really give it access to my stuff.

New comment by marcuschong in "AI is going to kill app subscriptions"

marcuschong — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 18:22:41 +0000

I don't disagree with the premise, but I still can't think of a SaaS that I'm paying for that I can replace. And I have many subscriptions.