Hacker News: marginalx

New comment by marginalx in "GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car"

marginalx — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:45:02 +0000

Could this work to drive robots in a confined space without humans, and time isn't a huge factor, where full automation with scale can still be economical, like in a lights out environment?

New comment by marginalx in "The Amazon tax"

marginalx — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:38:31 +0000

Walmart is not making me move things(ads) out of the way to proceed to checkout, I don't know how much simpler I can get beyond this.

New comment by marginalx in "The Amazon tax"

marginalx — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:55:08 +0000

This is by far the most annoying thing about Amazon to me. They clearly are doing a disservice to their consumer with this. Many times I go straight to google to search for Amazon products, which leads to better results

New comment by marginalx in "The Amazon tax"

marginalx — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 18:52:56 +0000

No one does it like Amazon, it requires users to walk through the sponsored ads before they can see organic search results, almost no other platform does this online. Walmart has a single strip of sponsored results at top, immediately leading to organic results, others like Target, HomeDepot do not mix in sponsored results with search results.

B&M is different, Ads are there, but you aren't forced to look at them like Amazon does.

New comment by marginalx in "Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database"

marginalx — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:11:16 +0000

Everything comes with a risk, and people usually take it with a decent understanding of how to mitigate it mostly.

If we start thinking along the lines of technology has risk and we shouldn't use it, we should go back all the way to the discovery of fire as we all know fire can cause a lot of damage if in the wrong hands.

New comment by marginalx in "Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters"

marginalx — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:09:53 +0000

They also have a new CEO at the helm.

New comment by marginalx in "Google hallucinated that I am sponsored by Ground News"

marginalx — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:31:53 +0000

"In all fairness, fake reviews and just people lying on the internet" is not the same as a corporation who builds a feature that lies regularly.

Imagine how would you feel if Amazon made up descriptions of all products, claiming features they didn't support and you ordered it... would you be ok with it, I bet not.

New comment by marginalx in "Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch"

marginalx — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:31:41 +0000

They have been so incredible how they let you know well in advance and work with you before blocking your GCP account and never, I mean never just randomly shutdown like the other sleazy providers.

This is a huge surprise, never thought I would see this in my life time.

New comment by marginalx in "Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension"

marginalx — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:40:56 +0000

Who is the "You" in "you haven't addressed the root cause"? If you are asking Railway to spend effort doing this rather than simply moving away from GCP, I'm not sure why they would unless they want to sue GCP to recover damages to brand and long term customer retention.

The moment GCP shut off without any forewarning, its done deal, no need to ask any further questions.

New comment by marginalx in "We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag"

marginalx — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:58:58 +0000

Problem is the bots can create any number of github accounts and continue spamming. Though this would be a good simple defense to start with.

New comment by marginalx in "Welcome to the Strip Mining Era of OSS Security"

marginalx — Fri, 15 May 2026 12:12:02 +0000

Clearly for commercial oriented opensource software, security through obscurity is one way to keep the pace in the short term. Not an option for proper open source software. Will this be the case that people who use open source software that is easily detectable will also start to shy away from using them for the fear of zero-days?

One of the benefits of Open source has been that there are more eye balls on the source, leading to more secure code/better quality. I think given enough time the bug reports will plateau and we will be back to a normal cadence - once the tsunami is over, hopefully things will settle at a more manageable cadence .

New comment by marginalx in "Debunking the CIA's “magic” heartbeat sensor [video]"

marginalx — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:29:13 +0000

I think the fear of being located isn't based on the fact that someone can decrypt an encrypted transmission, its simply because someone can trace that a particular location is transmitting some radio waves.

New comment by marginalx in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

marginalx — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:53:35 +0000

Precisely the reasons for lack of adoption I would say.

New comment by marginalx in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

marginalx — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:01:22 +0000

Is most of that due to mobile?

The real migration challenges are in the server side/consumer home internet space which I'm not sure if there are clear stats around the adoption there.

I think IPV6 is a great example of over engineering, trying to do too much in one iteration. In an ideal scenario this could work, but in the context of large scale change with no single responsible party, it usually doesn't work well.

New comment by marginalx in "Show HN: 41 years sea surface temperature anomalies"

marginalx — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:13:44 +0000

This doesn't give me a clear idea as a layman on how to interpret this information. Is it ok for the layman to believe that may 1st 1985 the variations of -5 to 5 were around 86 mean but in 2025 the same were around 82 mean, if that were to be the case, irrespective of the variations, it would not give me an idea of whether its concerning or not (this is just a random example, don't read too much into my beliefs)

New comment by marginalx in "Show HN: 41 years sea surface temperature anomalies"

marginalx — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:09:15 +0000

I don't quite understand the temperature color scale of -5 to 5, what is the baseline here on -5 to 5, is it relative to global average of that day? Or a period of time?

Claude-Code Automode

marginalx — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:03:28 +0000

Article URL: https://claude.com/blog/auto-mode

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47506708

Points: 26

# Comments: 5

New comment by marginalx in "Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps)"

marginalx — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:19:45 +0000

@huntergemmer - assuming you are the author, curious about your experience using .claude and .cursor, I see sub agents defined under these folders, what percent of your time spent would you say is raw coding vs prompting working on this project? And perhaps any other insights you may have on using these tools to build a library - see your first commit was only 5 days ago.

New comment by marginalx in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

marginalx — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:44:50 +0000

I urge you to understand what he is going through, he started the project, made it available freely, as more effort was required he added a premium offering to keep the whole thing running and hire more help. Please pause to think before coming to a rush judgement. How would you react if you had done exactly the things he had done, and you just had to lay off most of your team yesterday. We are humans and not robots, for all he has done, he has certainly earned the right to some times focus on what's affecting him first before he can focus on OSS.

Be Kind, we are all born billionaires with billions of "kindness tokens" in the bank, don't use them sparingly.

New comment by marginalx in "Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files"

marginalx — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 20:28:17 +0000

Are you saying executives cannot make mistakes ever (ask because you didn't qualify your statement)?