Hacker News: forgotmypassworhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=forgotmypassworHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:20:21 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by forgotmypasswor in "Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation"]]>Didn't we have negative unemployment rate sometime during or right after COVID? I remember people talking about how gamed and disconnected from reality these numbers were because (I think) a bunch of people stopped looking for work or filing for unemployment and were dropped from the labor force for official statistics. It really messed up the models being used.

]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 07:49:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49358345forgotmypassworhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49358345https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49358345<![CDATA[New comment by forgotmypasswor in "How does IKEA come up with names for its products?"]]>I was at IKEA once when they first came to America and there was a chair that was called the "assengråbben" or something like that.

I heard a guy nearby telling the person with him "must be for the interns".

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