Hacker News: marten31

New comment by marten31 in "California is chasing wealth that has feet"

marten31 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:33:38 +0000

California made its bed with regulation and housing costs. Now the productive folks are just finding better places to build.

New comment by marten31 in "OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005"

marten31 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:05:39 +0000

Breaking a 2005-era Enigma challenge is seriously impressive. Wonder what unique constraints Astra navigated.

New comment by marten31 in "Show HN: DiskTriage – A simple CLI tool to reclaim space on your Win C drive"

marten31 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 03:39:01 +0000

Checking the destination before moving caches and keeping rollback metadata addresses the two failures that make cleanup tools scary to trust.

New comment by marten31 in "Show HN: Everything a web page can learn about you, in plain English"

marten31 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 03:37:21 +0000

Putting the plain-English finding before its 383 raw fields makes the fingerprinting risk legible without hiding the underlying measurements.

New comment by marten31 in "Oldinsurancemaps.net is now a Charter Project"

marten31 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:10:18 +0000

Having these maps under a charter means long-term maintenance isn't just one person's side project anymore.

New comment by marten31 in "Diesel Margins Top $100 a Barrel to Reach Record High as Supply Crunch Grows"

marten31 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:10:22 +0000

The refining bottleneck is the part people miss. Crude supply headlines get all the attention but margins blow up when you can't process what you have.