Hacker News: NavinF

New comment by NavinF in "Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access June 15"

NavinF — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 23:56:24 +0000

Meta employee count has been increasing for the last 3 years, same as other tech companies: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/META/meta-platform...

PIPs and layoffs have always been a thing in tech. That's kinda one of the defining traits of the industry.

New comment by NavinF in "Amazon accused of widespread scheme to inflate prices across the economy"

NavinF — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:59:19 +0000

Almost always, considering the price is only $5 more

New comment by NavinF in "Amazon accused of widespread scheme to inflate prices across the economy"

NavinF — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 06:34:33 +0000

3k is less than I expected considering median disposable income is ~50k. Where does the rest go?

New comment by NavinF in "Amazon accused of widespread scheme to inflate prices across the economy"

NavinF — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 06:29:50 +0000

AliExpress obviously isn't comparable and the price is irrelevant when it takes 2-3 weeks vs same-day/1day

DC required daycare workers to get degrees. News only talked to those who stayed

NavinF — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 04:34:07 +0000

Article URL: https://abio.substack.com/p/dc-required-daycare-workers-to-get

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47011592

Points: 11

# Comments: 0

New comment by NavinF in "The Boring Reason We Don't Have $7 Rideshares"

NavinF — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:58:22 +0000

>The most common fare I’ve paid on Empower over the last six months is $7.65. For a recent trip from downtown to the airport, Uber wanted $32. Empower wanted $17.25.

>DC is trying to shut Empower down, primarily over liability insurance. DC law requires $1 million in coverage per ride.

>The $1 million requirement isn’t sized to typical accidents. When $100,000 is the limit available for an insurance claim, 96% of personal auto claims settle below $100,000.

>The high ceiling shifts incentives: plaintiffs' attorneys have reason to pursue cases they'd otherwise drop and push for larger settlements. Fraud rings have emerged to exploit these policies.

> insurance is around 30% of fares, particularly in states like California, New Jersey, and New York which also require additional $1 million uninsured motorist coverage and/or no-fault insurance

The Boring Reason We Don't Have $7 Rideshares

NavinF — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:56:57 +0000

Article URL: https://abio.substack.com/p/the-boring-reason-we-dont-have-7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46520668

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Sort

NavinF — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 08:28:34 +0000

Article URL: https://arealsociety.substack.com/p/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-sort

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46363510

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by NavinF in "How getting richer made teenagers less free"

NavinF — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 20:28:21 +0000

> You can't get healthcare

Kinda thing only sheltered people say. When I was unemployed and on free gov't health insurance (medi-cal), I got all my healthcare for free and most of my appointments like MRIs were next-day. Not as good as tech company insurance, but "can't get healthcare" is not a thing in the US.

> you have to work three jobs

Plot the number of people working multiple jobs vs time and you'll see a flat line that has no correlation with the stuff mentioned in the article: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12026620

How getting richer made teenagers less free

NavinF — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 10:03:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/how-getting-richer-made-teenagers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46310823

Points: 272

# Comments: 330

New comment by NavinF in "Google Titans architecture, helping AI have long-term memory"

NavinF — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 22:02:10 +0000

That day the student was the 100th person to pick it up, realize it's fake, and drop it

New comment by NavinF in "Russia Bans Roblox"

NavinF — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 02:42:39 +0000

> The wealthy already run the country

Dude this is a programming forum. Aren't you "The wealthy"?

New comment by NavinF in "Ask HN: Did ADHD treatment unlock your ability to work on self-directed work?"

NavinF — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 07:09:03 +0000

I'm guessing you're asking this question instead of just trying Adderall and answering this question yourself because you know it takes a long time to get appointments for diagnosis. FYI there are lots of online clinics in the US that will give you a diagnosis and send a prescription for $$$, not covered by insurance. After doing that, you can get refills from your normal Dr/PMHNP and local pharmacy for free/cheap. There's no point speculating about potential results when you can test it empirically.

New comment by NavinF in "Can There Ever Be Too Many Options? A Meta-Analytic Review of Choice Overload"

NavinF — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 07:00:06 +0000

tl;dr meta-analysis finds effect size of ~0 and publication bias in favor of studies showing adverse effects of choice overload

Can There Ever Be Too Many Options? A Meta-Analytic Review of Choice Overload

NavinF — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 06:59:17 +0000

Article URL: https://academic.oup.com/jcr/article-abstract/37/3/409/1827647?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46157554

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Strategy Letter IV: Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth (2001)

NavinF — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 06:31:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/03/23/strategy-letter-iv-bloatware-and-the-8020-myth/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46144443

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by NavinF in "It's much easier to hold computers accountable than to hold humans accountable"

NavinF — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 08:17:28 +0000

That's not how self-driving cars work. You could look at the car's memory, find a segmentation mask for the cat with an associated probability, and replay the data to see why it allegedly ran over the cat. You can make changes like prioritizing avoidance of blurry cat-like blobs if that's what you wanna do. Can't say the same for that human truck driver who slammed into 37 cats a few weeks ago ("Cats missing after animal rescue group involved in crash that killed 8 people on I-85" Atlanta News First Oct. 15, 2025)

(xposted my reply to a similar comment on the article)

It's much easier to hold computers accountable than to hold humans accountable

NavinF — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 07:54:38 +0000

Article URL: https://andymasley.substack.com/p/its-much-easier-to-hold-computers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45854955

Points: 7

# Comments: 3

New comment by NavinF in "HTTP3 Explained"

NavinF — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 23:31:50 +0000

HTTP 2 also does connection coalescing. Why are you quoting text instead of a specific concern? QUIC has been around for over a decade now

New comment by NavinF in "HTTP3 Explained"

NavinF — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 09:01:32 +0000

How do you imagine other protocols handle switching physical connections? With HTTP 1, you send your session ID as a cookie after wasting time creating a new TCP connection