Hacker News: jen20

New comment by jen20 in "The tiny holdout building in the middle of Macy’s is back in view"

jen20 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 15:33:17 +0000

> but it was original New York Times building.

It was the second New York Times building! The original was on Park Row.

New comment by jen20 in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

jen20 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:46:06 +0000

In even more recent history, both were cleared by a court of wrongdoing [1]. Infantino is clearly worse in every respect.

[1]: https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/44397617/ex-fifa-chie...

New comment by jen20 in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

jen20 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:47:16 +0000

Blatter was president of FIFA, not UEFA.

New comment by jen20 in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

jen20 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:46:11 +0000

This would only be true if they did not allow the hydration breaks to be used as a group coaching opportunity.

New comment by jen20 in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

jen20 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:44:08 +0000

They should also not be used an excuse for teams to be coached as a group.

New comment by jen20 in "Superlogical"

jen20 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:00:17 +0000

While that might be tongue-in-cheek, no company I have ever worked at has had a better work/life balance than the earliest days of HashiCorp (low tens of people) when Mitchell was the CEO.

New comment by jen20 in "Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts"

jen20 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:43:05 +0000

They certainly were not late to AI, unless you narrowly define AI as “LLMs”. See [1] as a single example among many.

[1]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1609/aimag.v19i1.1355

New comment by jen20 in "London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service"

jen20 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:56:10 +0000

In a garage or not, it's not a normal thing to do in the UK.

It's also not a _normal_ thing to do in the US, though I have heard some people do it in higher-crime cities to avoid the windows being broken.

New comment by jen20 in "Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site"

jen20 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 02:14:12 +0000

I tried searching for "Austin, Texas, United States", "Austin, Texas" and just "Texas" and didn't find very much - not sure if I'm missing how they're indexed, but I'd expect at least one of those to find it!

New comment by jen20 in "JEP 541: Deprecate the macOS/x64 Port for Removal"

jen20 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 19:26:36 +0000

Aha, thanks for the reference. Good to see that written down by Apple!

New comment by jen20 in "Teardown: The BMW / Harman IDC23H Infotainment Unit (B423)"

jen20 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 19:24:36 +0000

CPUs do not talk to displays via CAN.

New comment by jen20 in "Teardown: The BMW / Harman IDC23H Infotainment Unit (B423)"

jen20 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 19:24:04 +0000

Do you have a specific example of a function that exhibits this?

Both my BMWs (one each of the last two generations of iDrive) do not in any noticeable capacity, nor did my 2009 one with what was then known as "professional" navigation.

New comment by jen20 in "Teardown: The BMW / Harman IDC23H Infotainment Unit (B423)"

jen20 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 19:22:56 +0000

I've seen cars that didn't have large screens put the reversing camera in the rear-view mirror - which actually is an excellent place for them.

New comment by jen20 in "JEP 541: Deprecate the macOS/x64 Port for Removal"

jen20 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 20:21:02 +0000

My guess (without much to substantiate it) is that it will also keep support for running x86_64 programs in virtual machines via `container` too.

New comment by jen20 in "Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now"

jen20 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:50:33 +0000

That is also true of the rest of their codebase, no?

New comment by jen20 in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

jen20 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 04:43:03 +0000

Voice and video calls are both outlawed in the US by the DOT.

New comment by jen20 in "Ditching Vagrant: VMs with KVM and Virsh on Debian"

jen20 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:29:34 +0000

Anything that uses virtual machines (perhaps you're running FreeBSD inside them, for example), or where you need complex network topology.

New comment by jen20 in "Cargo-nextest: 3x faster than cargo test, per-test isolation, first-class CI"

jen20 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:08:57 +0000

That (unpleasant) saying predates Kubernetes by at least half a decade.

New comment by jen20 in "FAANG Simulator"

jen20 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:22:09 +0000

US citizen and permanent resident are equivalent for the purposes of this...

New comment by jen20 in "Rewriting Bun in Rust"

jen20 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 23:50:07 +0000

To understand your error, consider that in the month leading up to the 2016 US presidential election, the widely-accepted probabilities were between 70% (Five-Thirty-Eight) and 90% (Reuters) in favour of Clinton.