Hacker News: Delphiki

New comment by Delphiki in "The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video]"

Delphiki — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:12:39 +0000

Yepp, I generally will try for the exit row or the first row in a section (sacrificing no under seat storage), but they tend to be the first seats booked. Since I'm usually traveling with multiple other people and we prefer sitting together, it makes it pretty difficult to reliably select those seats with extra leg room. I haven't seen any airlines that charge "+$25 for the extra leg room" on 12+ hour international flights, but if they exist I'd love to know which ones they are!

New comment by Delphiki in "The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video]"

Delphiki — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:50:42 +0000

Anecdotal, but I'm 193cm, take a few 12+ hour flights per year, and have no problem not reclining. For what it's worth, I feel like I've experienced people on my shorter, domestic flights reclining their seats more often than on my longer, international flights.

New comment by Delphiki in "The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video]"

Delphiki — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:34:04 +0000

I'm 6'4" with a lot of my height in my legs. Sitting comfortably (not slouching, mind you), my knees already barely rub against the seat in front of me. As soon as that seat is reclined, my knees get crushed and I have to either sit up even straighter or twist to the side, neither of which are comfortable. Or, I have to pay to be in a higher fare class with more space.

New comment by Delphiki in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

Delphiki — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:45:23 +0000

You can tap on the filter button (three stacked horizontal lines of decreasing length) and select the "Voicemails" filter to view them all.

New comment by Delphiki in "How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants"

Delphiki — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 01:56:13 +0000

Apple Maps has had "Look Around" (their implementation of Street View) for a while now.

New comment by Delphiki in "Apple Maps on the web launches in beta"

Delphiki — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 17:35:25 +0000

I have over 2,000 places saved in Guides in the Apple Maps app. Not sure what that 300 place limit is referring to, but I haven't had any issues.

New comment by Delphiki in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2023)"

Delphiki — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 20:25:00 +0000

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Remote: Ideally yes, but depends on the opportunity

Willing to relocate: Yes, but depends on the opportunity

Technologies: Swift, UIKit, SwiftUI, Vapor, JavaScript, Node.js, MongoDB, Neo4j, PostgreSQL

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NZdAwPtISwkDFWLHvFjmrkLj-ud...

Email: lewis@godow.ski

Hello! I'm Lewis Godowski, a creatively-driven lead engineer with over a decade of experience across the Apple ecosystem. Passionate about the little details of good design and a strong advocate for the human-centered design process.

Most recently, I was brought onto a new strategic business unit build to turnaround, manage, and lead an underperforming team of ~10 iOS engineers at a top 3 global motorcycle manufacturer. I had two main responsibilities I needed to balance: doing some heavy lifting as an individual contributor, and more importantly people management (upwards with product stakeholders, laterally with other pods and work streams, and downwards with my team). I identified and reduced inefficiencies in our scrum sprint cycle rituals, and established a standard architecture, code style guide, and best practices document for the client's codebase, resulting in a 28% increase in velocity and allowing us to deliver on schedule for an in-person launch event with 150+ dealerships.

Unfortunately, my current role has been transforming more and more into a business/digital consultant, which means a lot of my time is spent working on slide decks and high-level architectures that never see the light of day. It's bumming me out and taking me away from what I really enjoy: writing code, learning new skills, and wearing multiple hats to solve problems.

Ideally, I'm looking for an iOS (or Vapor, a server-side Swift framework) role as either manager or IC that lets me really flex my Swift and iOS expertise.

New comment by Delphiki in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2023)"

Delphiki — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 16:42:03 +0000

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Remote: Ideally yes, but depends on the opportunity

Willing to relocate: Yes, to Seattle, San Francisco, New York City, or Portland, depending on the opportunity

Technologies: Swift, UIKit, SwiftUI, Vapor, JavaScript, Node.js, MongoDB, Neo4j

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T_QMQb8MNBE3qDSkM-JwqQwoN5J...

Email: lewis@godow.ski

Hello! I'm Lewis Godowski, a software engineer with ~10 years of experience across iOS and backend. I find joy in dogs, desserts, and the small details of good design. I am a strong advocate for end users and their experience with a product.

Most recently, I was brought onto a new strategic business unit build to turnaround, manage, and lead an underperforming team of ~10 iOS engineers at a top 10 global motorcycle manufacturer. I had two main responsibilities I needed to balance: people management (upwards with product stakeholders, laterally with other pods and work streams, and downwards with my team) and doing some heavy lifting as an individual contributor. I created structure and improved hygiene in the team, codebase, and sprint/scrum life cycle, which stabilized our velocity and allowed us to find our rhythm and deliver on schedule.

Unfortunately, my current role has been transforming more and more into a business/digital consultant, which means a lot of working on slide decks and high-level architectures that never see the light of day. It's bumming me out and taking me away from what I really enjoy: writing code, learning new skills, and wearing multiple hats to solve problems.

Ideally, I'm looking for an iOS (or Vapor, a server-side Swift framework) role that lets me really flex my Swift expertise.

New comment by Delphiki in "Tesla committed fraud by “grossly” exaggerating EV range, class action says"

Delphiki — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 21:11:57 +0000

Anecdata, but a few weeks ago I drove from LA to SF in my 2018 Model 3 (long range, single motor). It has a 75 kWh battery pack, my drive was 417 miles, and I drove 70 mph for probably 90-95% of the trip. I used a total of 95 kWh, which equates to ~329 miles on a full charge (100-0%). My efficiency was 226 Wh/mi.

There are absolutely other times when I'll get substantially less range, but it's understandably when I'm driving faster of more aggressive, or it's colder outside, or it's primarily uphill, or there's a strong headwind, etc.

There are a lot of different factors that can affect a car's range (regardless if it's an EV or ICE), and it seems like Tesla has decided to show the EPA range on the dashboard because there's no way they could magically know where you're driving if it's not entered in the navigation system. Once you start navigation however, it's able to factor in all these externalities and give a very accurate estimate. On the first leg of the above trip, I arrived to charge within 3% of Tesla's estimate.

New comment by Delphiki in "Tesla committed fraud by “grossly” exaggerating EV range, class action says"

Delphiki — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 20:49:06 +0000

> in every EV range comparison I’ve ever seen, teslas are the ones that can’t meet their claimed range by a fair margin. Other brands are almost always close to accurate or in some cases do noticeably better than claimed.

What's your source? Cause I don't think that's true... [1][2]

[1]https://youtu.be/fvwOa7TCd1E?t=2233

[2]https://youtu.be/xg6-Vc9CSwk?t=2589

New comment by Delphiki in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2023)"

Delphiki — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 21:32:14 +0000

Is remote in other GMT+9 timezones ok?

New comment by Delphiki in "Rivian embraces Tesla's charging standard for EVs"

Delphiki — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:09:48 +0000

For me, it's hard to find anyone else that matches Tesla on price, range, and performance. It seems like with the other EVs you get to pick two of those.

New comment by Delphiki in "100 Days of SwiftUI"

Delphiki — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 02:07:49 +0000

> Probably rarely a wise choice

I think you'd be surprised! There are some big names using it at scale[1].

[1] https://youtu.be/Te0aCoenCMg?t=710

New comment by Delphiki in "Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer"

Delphiki — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 19:13:00 +0000

Sounds like a great use for SharePlay! (:

New comment by Delphiki in "Tesla rival Rivian posts losses of $1.7B, with worse to come"

Delphiki — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 16:25:54 +0000

Because articles with "Tesla" in the title get more clicks.

New comment by Delphiki in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)"

Delphiki — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 03:10:29 +0000

Heads up, clicking the iPhone on your website opens an unrelated Themify YouTube video.

New comment by Delphiki in "Tesla remotely converts battery pack, cutting 1/3 of range"

Delphiki — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 19:02:57 +0000

Doesn't really help the situation, but it's not clear who rebadged the car. It could have been the first owner, or the second owner, or Tesla.

New comment by Delphiki in "Apple's claim is that it bans other browsers for security"

Delphiki — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 17:03:02 +0000

Web push notifications will be available (in some capacity) in iOS 16 this fall. But that's beside the point.

New comment by Delphiki in "Tesla’s ‘phantom braking’ problem is getting worse"

Delphiki — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 21:24:28 +0000

I mean, I pay full attention while the car is on autopilot, keep both hands on the wheel, and my foot over the pedals. Sure, that particular trip was pretty annoying, but my daily commute (~80 miles roundtrip) rarely, if ever, has any phantom braking occurrences, so I don't know that I would call it a "way of life".

New comment by Delphiki in "macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers"

Delphiki — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 20:58:31 +0000

Or press command+shift+5 click the "Options" button, and then the "Other Location..." option in the "Save to" menu, like it shows in the article.