Hacker News: marginalx

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)?

New comment by marginalx in "India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app"

marginalx — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 23:02:41 +0000

I feel like you are making a contradicting point, on one hand you say its all disorganized but "organized enough" to allow the govt to force install their app, but not enough so it can coordinate the same thing with the same people they are going to force to install the app?

New comment by marginalx in "India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app"

marginalx — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 21:45:27 +0000

This is quite dismissive of the audience, how do you suggest this app protects the people from believing whatever someone says?

New comment by marginalx in "India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app"

marginalx — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 21:44:08 +0000

So, if you have tons of ways - you vote for the way that could lead to potentially the most exploitation of the population? No one is saying it "will" be exploited, but the potential itself should steer the solution clear off that direction.

New comment by marginalx in "India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app"

marginalx — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 21:41:16 +0000

Nothing in this app stops scammers, scammers use land lines/voip to make calls.

New comment by marginalx in "India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app"

marginalx — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 21:40:32 +0000

All good goals - but this can be done by the government forcing the private companies (Apple/Goog/Samsung) to build tools, reporting, support services around helping with both Scamming applications or Stolen phones etc....

This will keep the data out of governments hands, while pushing the cost burden to these companies and they would be better equipped to build around these goals than the government themselves.

We all know the govt doesn't have a great track record with using Pegasus etc... Giving away control to apps that can decide your phone is stolen and lock it opens the door to any possibility including a totalitarian regime. It would be naive to believe that even if this is done with good intentions, such control could be easily mis used by opposition parties, one malicious individual etc...

New comment by marginalx in "India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app"

marginalx — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 18:56:34 +0000

And you trust the government to only use it for good purposes? and not to track people who may be protesting or belong to opposing political/religious/cultural views? We know based on historical pegasus complaints that this trust has to be earned and can't be given.

There are lots of ways to solve for this, mandating that these companies own the identification process through their systems, report misuse, govern apps. Why taken on the ownership of a process that is better handled outside of government while the government holds them to account via huge fines and timelines but giving these large companies ownership of protection from scams or stolen phones etc...? win win and I think these large companies are due spending extra money to protect their users anyway.

New comment by marginalx in "India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app"

marginalx — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 18:51:19 +0000

"With 5 million total downloads - the app has saved 3.7 million lost phones", this somehow doesn't add up for me, as this implies more than 74% of phones are stolen? Or this this govt lying to pad the numbers to make the app look like a sheep in wolves clothing.

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

marginalx — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 12:24:52 +0000

Is this the chatgpt speaking?

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

marginalx — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 12:21:06 +0000

Just to rule out a random error, I asked the same question two more times in separate chats to gpt 5.1 auto, below are responses...

#2: One Romanian footballer who did not win the Premier League but played in it is Dan Petrescu.

If you meant actually won the Premier League title (as opposed to just playing), I couldn’t find a Romanian player who is a verified Premier League champion.

Would you like me to check more deeply (perhaps look at medal-winners lists) to see if there is a Romanian player who earned a title medal?

#3: The Romanian football player who won the Premier League is Costel Pantilimon.

He was part of Manchester City when they won the Premier League in 2011-12 and again in 2013-14. Wikipedia +1

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

marginalx — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 12:17:20 +0000

I just asked chatgpt 5.1 auto (not instant) on teams account, and its first repsonse was...

I could not find a Romanian football player who has won the Premier League title.

If you like, I can check deeper records to verify whether any Romanian has been part of a title-winning squad (even if as a non-regular player) and report back.

Then I followed up with an 'ok' and it then found the right player.

New comment by marginalx in "Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k"

marginalx — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:20:31 +0000

The domain ntp.org is a very visible one, why not add a "Donors" page and say everyone who donates 250+ gets to show their company name as a sponsor on that page? This usually gets the attention of corporates and makes it easy to make the case internally as well, they all love to sponsor!

New comment by marginalx in "Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantum advantage on hardware"

marginalx — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:44:20 +0000

Finally some good news to the crypto madness!