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marginalx··on Show HN: Raven – The harness of harnesses, built for RSI
I'm curious if you have a few mins for feedback, what are the top 2 things here that omnigent does that is significantly better for you than latest cc/codex which can launch subagents, auto save memory of a project.

I'm wondering that as these core tools continue to enhance and add these capabilities, how much of a benefit these meta harnesses actually provide.

marginalx··on GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car
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?
marginalx··on The Amazon tax
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.
marginalx··on The Amazon tax
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
marginalx··on The Amazon tax
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.

marginalx··on Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database
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.

marginalx··on Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters
They also have a new CEO at the helm.
marginalx··on Google hallucinated that I am sponsored by Ground News
"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.

marginalx··on Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch
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.

marginalx··on Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension
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.

marginalx··on We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag
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.
marginalx··on Welcome to the Strip Mining Era of OSS Security
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 .

marginalx··on Debunking the CIA's “magic” heartbeat sensor [video]
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.
marginalx··on IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark
Precisely the reasons for lack of adoption I would say.
marginalx··on IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark
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.

marginalx··on Show HN: 41 years sea surface temperature anomalies
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)
marginalx··on Show HN: 41 years sea surface temperature anomalies
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?
marginalx··on Show HN: ChartGPU – WebGPU-powered charting library (1M points at 60fps)
@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.
marginalx··on Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
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.

marginalx··on Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files
Are you saying executives cannot make mistakes ever (ask because you didn't qualify your statement)?
marginalx··on India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app
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?
marginalx··on India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app
This is quite dismissive of the audience, how do you suggest this app protects the people from believing whatever someone says?
marginalx··on India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app
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.
marginalx··on India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app
Nothing in this app stops scammers, scammers use land lines/voip to make calls.
marginalx··on India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app
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...

marginalx··on India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app
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.

marginalx··on India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app
"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.
marginalx··on GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT
Is this the chatgpt speaking?
marginalx··on GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT
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

marginalx··on GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT
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.

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