Hacker News: jhatax

New comment by jhatax in "M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan"

jhatax — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:35:40 +0000

Didn’t feel it either, and my family and I are close to Shirokanedai. I hope folks are fine where this was felt more than what I experienced.

New comment by jhatax in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

jhatax — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:08:22 +0000

I have uBlock Origin Lite for Safari [1] on all iOS and iPadOS devices in my household. No one complains about ads anymore.

1. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ublock-origin-lite/id674534269...

New comment by jhatax in "Swapping two blocks of memory inside a larger block, in constant memory"

jhatax — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:40:31 +0000

As a commenter noted as well, you can perform the swap using two std::rotate calls vs. three (less than 2N operations). This said, Raymond’s use of reverse is still most efficient at N operations (not considering paging/caching issues).

New comment by jhatax in "Pebble Watch software is now open source"

jhatax — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 17:09:28 +0000

From Eric’s blog post:

“Want to learn more about how we built the new app cross platform using Kotlin Multiplatform? Watch Steve’s presentation at Droidcon [1].”

1. https://youtu.be/UOQMDkCsCSw

Direct File won't happen in 2026, IRS tells states

jhatax — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 02:30:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2025/11/direct-file-wont-happen-2026-irs-tells-states/409309/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45818319

Points: 365

# Comments: 273

New comment by jhatax in "OpenAI acquires Sky.app"

jhatax — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 04:48:42 +0000

Surprised that Apple didn’t acquire Sky. Raycast might be an acquisition target if their code can become a service / extension for Spotlight in macOS. Usability win for macOS users if done right and Apple puts the right guardrails & privacy protections in place.

TiVo won the court battles, but lost the TV war

jhatax — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 18:07:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/802254/tivo-time-warp-patent-courtoom-battles-lost-tv-war

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45636415

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by jhatax in "How Wall Street offloaded $13B of debt tied to Elon Musk's Twitter deal"

jhatax — Thu, 29 May 2025 16:38:50 +0000

First tranche sold at 93c to the dollar; second sold at 98c to the dollar, with a surprise from X which covered the 2c loss, so essentially dollar for dollar.

Morgan Stanley and Bank of America came out on top of this trade. Musk's government involvement was not known with any certainty when he bought X.

New comment by jhatax in "How Wall Street offloaded $13B of debt tied to Elon Musk's Twitter deal"

jhatax — Thu, 29 May 2025 16:28:52 +0000

https://archive.is/CCvUf

How Wall Street offloaded $13B of debt tied to Elon Musk's Twitter deal

jhatax — Thu, 29 May 2025 16:28:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/51c51b49-57fc-435d-9146-e86d7b19ca81

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44127617

Points: 7

# Comments: 7

New comment by jhatax in "We're bringing Pebble back"

jhatax — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 17:28:22 +0000

Every provider / system is different. My wife is a physician who works urgent care shifts over the weekend to serve patients as described above. These are in addition to her M-Friday routine. She is part of the Kaiser system. This is systemwide for Kaiser, so my wife’s weekend engagement isn’t a one-off.

New comment by jhatax in "NYC Congestion Pricing Tracker"

jhatax — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 00:56:10 +0000

Why is the answer to offset MTA ticket revenue an additional tax on those making $100K+ or those traveling through the city (airport taxes) who don’t use the service? In a city with super high cost of living and almost no auditable way to connect taxes collected with service delivered, this sounds like a penalty to anyone making six figures or connecting through the airport.

There has to be another, more sustainable way for a rich city like NYC to make a service truly accessible and free without another tax. It’s like how the Bay Area bridge tolls have increased by $1 this year to fund the BART system => we still don’t know what was done with the last increase in tolls, yet we have to pony up the extra cash this year.

Smarter folks than me on HN might have an idea other than, “let’s tax folks who make more than an arbitrary dollar amount annually” that has worked in other large metropolitan areas.

New comment by jhatax in "Just Eat Is Selling Grubhub to Marc Lore's Wonder for $650M"

jhatax — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 17:09:19 +0000

Could ask the same question about $PTON. As another commentator said, “British empire levels of value destruction”.

New comment by jhatax in "Labor board confirms Amazon drivers are employees"

jhatax — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 03:22:19 +0000

Uber lost its appeal in NZ as well.

Labor board confirms Amazon drivers are employees

jhatax — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 03:21:16 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/08/labor-board-confirms-amazon-drivers-are-employees-in-finding-hailed-by-union/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41353722

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Amazon still has a serious plastic waste problem in the US

jhatax — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 19:41:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/4/24118295/amazon-plastic-waste-oceana-report-growth-us

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39934898

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by jhatax in "Apple Vision Pro review"

jhatax — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 20:32:18 +0000

This review from TheVerge answers some of your questions: https://www.theverge.com/24054862/apple-vision-pro-review-vr...

I recommend the video review as well. Seeing the video call between Nilay, Joanna, and MKB shows how much the tech has advanced but also how much it still needs to evolve to be at the level of FaceTime Video.

Google Layoffs, Voice Assistant Team Impacted

jhatax — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 03:51:19 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/aistocksavvy/status/1745283654668980719

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38947341

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by jhatax in "Fewer people are buying electric cars in the US"

jhatax — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 05:36:57 +0000

I agree. In the SF Bay Area, especially in PG&E’s regions where average KWh is $0.40, a hybrid makes more economical sense and it isn’t even close.

The math is skewed even further once you add the extra $500 you pay for CA annual registration for an EV vs. Hybrid (personal experience, Mach-E vs. Accord Hybrid).

New comment by jhatax in "Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft"

jhatax — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 18:02:20 +0000

This could be Satya engaging in succession planning: Sam Altman in line to become the next CEO of Microsoft.