Hacker News: fvrghl

Meta targets May 20 for first wave of layoffs; additional cuts later in 2026

fvrghl — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:37:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/meta-targets-may-20-first-wave-layoffs-additional-cuts-later-2026-2026-04-17/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47810315

Points: 26

# Comments: 10

New comment by fvrghl in "iPhone Pocket"

fvrghl — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 21:23:09 +0000

Are you familiar with Miyake's work? He did a lot of innovative design with synthetics, including the entire Pleats Please line.

New comment by fvrghl in "Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas"

fvrghl — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:17:18 +0000

This is how parking tickets work in NYC. FedEx, etc negotiate down the total amount they have to pay because they have so many tickets.

New comment by fvrghl in "Indefinite Backpack Travel"

fvrghl — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 20:52:01 +0000

Is there anyone making full wool underwear? Everything is a blend, which is good for durability.

New comment by fvrghl in "An opinionated critique of Duolingo"

fvrghl — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:33:49 +0000

What is a non-opinionated critique?

New comment by fvrghl in "'Block Everything' protests sweep across France, scores arrested"

fvrghl — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:25:14 +0000

If you had invested the 83k in the S&P500, you'd be slightly ahead I think if you include maintenance and property taxes.

https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/stocks/s-p-500/1997?amount=...

The Effect of a Monthly Unconditional Cash Transfer on Children's Development

fvrghl — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 17:37:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nber.org/papers/w33844

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44815115

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Their Water Taps Ran Dry When Meta Built Next Door

fvrghl — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 16:29:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/technology/meta-data-center-water.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44562052

Points: 49

# Comments: 25

New comment by fvrghl in "VA Tech scientists are building a better fog harp"

fvrghl — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 18:16:28 +0000

Never heard it pronounced that way in my life. Either "Tech" or "GT".

New comment by fvrghl in "The great displacement is already well underway?"

fvrghl — Mon, 12 May 2025 20:33:19 +0000

Not NY, NY:

"in fact I own three houses: A fixer-upper starter home in a rust belt upstate New York university city, and a patch of beautiful remote rural land with 2 pretty humble and simple cabins on it an hour from the city house"

New comment by fvrghl in "NYC home prices rise 10% in early 2025"

fvrghl — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 20:54:11 +0000

Source? NYC chronically under builds. It's ranked #35 in new housing construction: https://constructioncoverage.com/research/cities-investing-m...

New comment by fvrghl in "Reports of the death of California High-Speed Rail have been greatly exaggerated"

fvrghl — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 19:59:26 +0000

The flight doesn’t include the time to get to and from the airport plus TSA screening.

I greatly prefer taking a train because I can just show up and go.

New comment by fvrghl in "A Ford executive who kept score of colleagues' verbal flubs"

fvrghl — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 16:46:43 +0000

Do you pronounce it as Wed-nes-day?

I've never heard it as anything but Wends-day, but maybe everyone else is wrong.

New comment by fvrghl in "The Insanity of Being a Software Engineer"

fvrghl — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 14:34:40 +0000

Can you give your salary (or a range)?

Seems shocking that a SV swe would make what a mech eng makes after 4 years.

New comment by fvrghl in "Where does air pollution come from?"

fvrghl — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 13:37:38 +0000

Does anyone have advice for how to balance air purification with CO2 levels? My apartment will sit at around 1200 PPM if the windows are closed, but if they are open I would think running a purifier does nothing.

Firm hacked after accidentally hiring North Korean cyber criminal

fvrghl — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 17:00:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8vedz4yk7o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41871423

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by fvrghl in "Some Automattic employees accept severance package offer"

fvrghl — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 09:31:27 +0000

What is bad about overcast?

New comment by fvrghl in "Why Western designs fail in developing countries [video]"

fvrghl — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 15:14:47 +0000

The mosquito-nets-as-fishing-nets story is covered in the video.

New comment by fvrghl in "Millions of Taxpayers Call the IRS for Help. Two-Thirds Don't Reach Anyone"

fvrghl — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 18:14:57 +0000

A majority doesn't mean much these days. A supermajority is necessary to get things passed that the other side doesn't agree with [1].

The democrats haven't had a supermajority since 2011 [2].

[1] https://www.governing.com/context/how-did-the-senate-end-up-... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/111th_United_States_Congress

New comment by fvrghl in "How Shadow Banning Can Silently Shift Opinion Online"

fvrghl — Tue, 21 May 2024 16:18:22 +0000

No, the author of the tweet states it is fake in the following tweet. It's just a hypothetical.