Hacker News: xGrill

New comment by xGrill in "The Harness Is the Company"

xGrill — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 22:41:08 +0000

I think you hit it spot on. Developers and software companies have inherently thought the goal is delivery of features, because that is what wins new business, but in reality, it is utilization of those features showing impact that actually matters.

New comment by xGrill in "Google's Antigravity bait and switch"

xGrill — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:55:59 +0000

I don't even think the consumption based pricing is available for the IDE, only Antigravity 2.0, so they are basically killing the IDE.

New comment by xGrill in "I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop"

xGrill — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:59:06 +0000

You would probably hang up if it went to voicemail too so the net loss is 0

New comment by xGrill in "The Codex App"

xGrill — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:30:20 +0000

Is this not just a skinned version of Goose: https://block.github.io/goose/

New comment by xGrill in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)"

xGrill — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:53:05 +0000

PMG | https://www.pmg.com/careers/ | Dallas / NYC | Full Time | Developers, Data Scientists, Engineering Managers We are looking to grow our technology team. We build large scale marketing technology to help make data more transparent to our clients, removing the blackbox nature of digital from a data perspective. Looking for front-end, back-end and full stack developers of all skill levels.

New comment by xGrill in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)"

xGrill — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 17:40:32 +0000

PMG | https://www.pmg.com/careers/ | Remote | Full Time | Developers, Data Scientists, Engineering Managers

We are looking to grow our technology team. We build large scale marketing technology to help make data more transparent to our clients, removing the blackbox nature of digital from a data perspective. Looking for front-end, back-end and full stack developers of all skill levels.

New comment by xGrill in "Ray-Ban Meta glasses have sold 2M units, production to be increased"

xGrill — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 14:08:24 +0000

If you put black tape over the light, it will not allow you to turn on the camera, however, I believe someone found a hack that said if you started recording and then put black tape over the recording, it would allow you to continue to record, but only for 3 minute increments.

New comment by xGrill in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024)"

xGrill — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 16:24:07 +0000

PMG | Software Engineers | ONSITE (Dallas) We are a digital marketing technology company that wants to make adtech and martech significantly more data driven. We are looking for folks who want to transition their careers from Software Engineers to AI Engineers

https://www.pmg.com/careers/job-openings?department=Data%20%...

New comment by xGrill in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2024)"

xGrill — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 02:27:43 +0000

https://www.pmg.com/careers/job-openings?department=Data%20%...

New comment by xGrill in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2024)"

xGrill — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 18:36:02 +0000

PMG | Software Engineers | ONSITE (Dallas) We are a digital marketing technology company that wants to make adtech and martech significantly more data driven.

We are looking for folks who want to transition their careers from Software Engineers to AI Engineers

https://www.pmg.com/careers/job-openings?department=Data%20%...

New comment by xGrill in "Spotify HiFi is still MIA after three years, and now so is my subscription"

xGrill — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 17:58:56 +0000

Longtime Spotify user here. I was part of the beta all the way back in 2013. I switched to Apple Music this year alongside an app that syncs the daily playlists with Apple Music.

I feel like as time goes on, the Apple Music playlist recommendations are getting better and better, but what kept me with Apple Music was actually the integrate with Sonos. I have the Arc, Sub and 2 Era 500s, and the spatial audio tracks are incredible. It reminds me of a time I used to just sit back and listen to music in my room as a kid, always discovering something new about a track that I never really hear.

New comment by xGrill in "Okta says hackers stole data for all customer support users"

xGrill — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 18:09:40 +0000

This could be potentially really dangerous. Most Okta customers who would use support would be IT admins. This is a pretty good list to start social engineering to get more information from other customers just by calling or emailing IT members impersonating corporate end users.

New comment by xGrill in "Ask HN: Is no one hiring junior devs?"

xGrill — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 17:46:14 +0000

On average, the CS grads we hire are so much further along in their journey than a bootcamp dev, yet the starting salary asks are about the same. I know there are some organizations that are a bit more desperate for anyone who has the capacity to learn to code, but we also have been exclusively hiring CS grads with far better results.

New comment by xGrill in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)"

xGrill — Mon, 02 May 2022 16:48:29 +0000

PMG | https://www.pmg.com/careers/ | Remote | Full Time | Developers, Data Scientists, Engineering Managers

Looking for front-end, back-end and full stack developers of all skill levels.

New comment by xGrill in "Tesla opens a center on Native American land, selling cars straight to consumers"

xGrill — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 22:32:24 +0000

The biggest reason has to with cost. The average consumer does not need to take out a loan to buy a phone, but most do for cars. Cars are seen as a large investment that needs added protection, and instead of doing it at the auto manufacturer level, they added dealerships to serve as middlemen to bargain with auto makers on your behalf.

New comment by xGrill in "USA Today is getting a paywall. Who’s the audience for it?"

xGrill — Sun, 11 Jul 2021 15:39:24 +0000

Lots of comments here are talking about lowering paywall site search results since you can not view them, however, I would actually consider raising them. Free content in journalism has a race to the bottom mentality when it comes to content quality. Free content often is incredibly bias or does not actually do any research. This gets you a lot of “fake news” that can spread like wildfire.

Having papers that are more reputable by having a sustainable business model that allows them to produce better quality content, to me would be worth it over fake news sites.

New comment by xGrill in "NSFW Server Designation"

xGrill — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 14:09:55 +0000

No joke, I created an iOS app a few years back that had a web view with a built in search bar and was told I needed to mark my app as 18+ because users could search for inappropriate content. My appeal was denied.

New comment by xGrill in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)"

xGrill — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 20:44:01 +0000

PMG | https://www.pmg.com/careers/ | Remote | Full Time | Developers, Data Scientists, Engineering Managers We are looking to grow our technology team. We build large scale marketing technology to help make data more transparent to our clients, removing the blackbox nature of digital from a data perspective.

Looking for front-end, back-end and full stack developers of all skill levels.

New comment by xGrill in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)"

xGrill — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 20:15:03 +0000

PMG | https://www.pmg.com/careers/ | Remote | Full Time | Developers, Data Scientists, Engineering Managers

Looking for front-end, back-end and full stack developers of all skill levels.

New comment by xGrill in "Facebook is pushing back on Apple’s new iPhone privacy rules"

xGrill — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 21:39:40 +0000

I can think of a few. An app might need to know if Twitter is installed so it can show a button to open a link in twitter or a web browser (This was before App Deeplinking was a thing). Maybe if an app company had multiple apps that it wanted to cross sell and see if they have both apps installed to enable certain functionality.