Hacker News: qmarchi

New comment by qmarchi in "$85,000 in tokens later: What I learned from scaling agentic coding at Lovable"

qmarchi — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 03:41:27 +0000

Except that any lawyer worth their salt won't touch AI for fear of getting disbarred.

New comment by qmarchi in "CarPlay Is Additive"

qmarchi — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:49:27 +0000

CarPlay and Android Auto only really started seeing adoption in post 2017 Model Year vehicles.

Anyone I know that has one, will immediately either plugin or connect whenever they go live.

There's other benefits like (in the aforementioned article), CarPlay Ultra being able to send data to multiple screens like the front dash. Where having my directions right next to me speed means I don't have to check two screens.

New comment by qmarchi in "A magnitude 6.9 earthquake has struck near Iwate Pref Japan"

qmarchi — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:05:14 +0000

You're conflating two things, magnitude and intensity.

This earthquake was measured as a 6.9 moment magnitude, sometimes referred to incorrectly as the "Richter" scale.

The Shindo intensity system is measured without decimal places. In this particular case, the intensity was a 6+. Which isn't the highest, but is still quite severe.

New comment by qmarchi in "Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI"

qmarchi — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 23:55:45 +0000

Former Googler here, and one that has open-sourced projects while working in Cloud.

This is certainly not the case in other product areas and for specifically for something that uses the Google name.

If I was expected to go through a full IARC committee in order to get my little Discord bot open sourced under my own account, something that uses the Google name would likely have to get IARC + Legal approvals, along with a proper launch/privacy review.

The OP also notes that they had a competing product in the process of development when they "launched" theirs, likely leading to significant internal confusion, and is something that would've been caught during a review.

I'm gunna be real, this whole thing smells of "I'm purposely bit telling the whole truth" and looks like clout chasing.

New comment by qmarchi in "The complete IPv4 address space, mapped"

qmarchi — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 23:18:58 +0000

Some weird data quality issues. Says my /24 is registered and announced in X, but in reality it's only announced in X, and registered in Y. Which would be obvious if you pulled the ARIN whois records.

New comment by qmarchi in "Protestware for coding agents"

qmarchi — Sat, 30 May 2026 12:53:52 +0000

Note: jqwik was already using EPL, which isn't FOSS anyways.

New comment by qmarchi in "Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion"

qmarchi — Fri, 29 May 2026 09:27:36 +0000

You can still use the infotainment without signing into a Google Account. The only thing that's locked out is the Play Store and 3rd party apps (which you need the play store to download).

Even Google Maps is usable without an account.

New comment by qmarchi in "Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion"

qmarchi — Fri, 29 May 2026 09:24:04 +0000

The apps now require the use of "Security Assertion" from the client.

In this case, it's by Play Protect on Android, and whatever they use on iOS.

New comment by qmarchi in "Toshifumi Suzuki, founder of Seven-Eleven Japan, has died"

qmarchi — Mon, 25 May 2026 23:29:18 +0000

I would still call this accurate.

ATMs from the major banks (SMBC, Mizuho, Yuucho, etc.) are still extremely picky about supporting US cards. Most will do it... for an egregious fee.

Kombini ATMs are better about this, but 7Bank ATMs remain the gold standard with no fees outside of whatever the bank itself charges. LawsonBank is OK, but few/far between. Enet (at a lot of kombinis) are terrible.

Disclaimer: Former Visa, current PayPay employee

New comment by qmarchi in "Toshifumi Suzuki, founder of Seven-Eleven Japan, has died"

qmarchi — Mon, 25 May 2026 23:23:38 +0000

Tokyo Metro, Toei, Keikyu, and others have rolled it out across a significant chunk of their lines at this point.

You can get to a significant portion of the network... So long as you don't have to take a JR train.

My only complaints about Contactless Cards from Visa/Mastercard/etc. Is that they're significantly slower than FeliCa. I can sprint through a gate with my Pasmo; I have to stop with my Visa.

For Visa, the closest transaction processing happens in Colorado. So they're slooooooow.

Disclaimer: Fmr Visa, current PayPay employee. I hate payments.

New comment by qmarchi in "Istio 1.30.0 (Including Agentgateway)"

qmarchi — Wed, 20 May 2026 05:13:52 +0000

TBH, I actually hate this with a passion.

It's a completely separate gateway product, and it even actively competes against Istio's own Envoy implementation.

Leave it out and separate. If I want `agentgateway` (which we _do_) we'll deploy it on our own terms.

Istio 1.30.0 (Including Agentgateway)

qmarchi — Wed, 20 May 2026 05:12:22 +0000

Article URL: https://istio.io/latest/news/releases/1.30.x/announcing-1.30/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48203353

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by qmarchi in "Japan’s robot wolf sells out as record bear attacks drive demand"

qmarchi — Sat, 16 May 2026 23:30:08 +0000

It's actually more of a social issue rather than a legislative issue.

The vast majority of hunters live out in aging, rural areas. Areas where young people are moving from to more urban cores like Tokyo, Nagoya, or Osaka.

Additionally, hunting isn't seen as a "leisure" activity here; it's seen as a job. One that doesn't pay that well either.

Getting a gun license here isn't hard, takes a couple of months, mostly of just waiting, at worst. The police will do mental health screenings, financial reports, social screenings, and a few other risk vectors, which take a bit.

Source: Actively going through the process.

New comment by qmarchi in "Apple Is Holding My Pictures Hostage Until I Accept Their New Terms of Service"

qmarchi — Sat, 09 May 2026 00:54:42 +0000

File a GDPR request to have a download provided to you? Seems pretty simple fwiw.

Not that I agree with the practice of rug-pulling, but "hostage" is a strong term.

New comment by qmarchi in "YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken"

qmarchi — Wed, 06 May 2026 04:40:08 +0000

> Access to feeds from this network are restricted due to continued abuse of the service, which brings down the performance of feeds for everyone else. You'll need to use a verification token or use a different network to restore access

Ahh, good to know that my regular ISP got banned for something I have no clue about. Can't even read the blog.

New comment by qmarchi in "Moving a large-scale metrics pipeline from StatsD to OpenTelemetry / Prometheus"

qmarchi — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:54:56 +0000

Interesting choice to go with Prometheus directly, especially when other TSDBs have "native" support for OTLP ingestion support.

New comment by qmarchi in "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew"

qmarchi — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:35:06 +0000

At least, in Japan, they're generally as advertised.

New comment by qmarchi in "LLM scraper bots are overloading acme.com's HTTPS server"

qmarchi — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:59:29 +0000

Depends on the country. In Japan, you could be considered a "public nusicance" and be tossed behind bars for a bit.

New comment by qmarchi in "Move Detroit"

qmarchi — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:03:27 +0000

I'll get asked where I identify as "from" since I've moved around a lot as a kid, and without fail I'll respond 'Detroit'.

There's so much history and culture to explore; along with tons of huge parks.

If I had to leave Tokyo, would definitely be up there.

New comment by qmarchi in "The Hackers Who Tracked My Sleep Cycle"

qmarchi — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 10:21:42 +0000

I would wonder if this could also be used as a kind of tripwire, where legitimate users won't present CAPCHA tokens, etc. But fake connections will.