Hacker News: jhpankow

New comment by jhpankow in "Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake"

jhpankow — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:02:10 +0000

EBITDAI

New comment by jhpankow in "What Gets Kept"

jhpankow — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:42:22 +0000

"Oh yeah. Tappets."

New comment by jhpankow in "Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere"

jhpankow — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 16:20:09 +0000

Homes in the upper midwest are well-sealed and insulated. Bedrooms can hit 2,000 ppm with two adults sleeping in them.

New comment by jhpankow in "Spaceballs 2 Will See Rick Moranis Return as Dark Helmet"

jhpankow — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 19:13:22 +0000

The flamethrower was the first thing that gave me pause.

New comment by jhpankow in "How X-Plane Works"

jhpankow — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 12:40:09 +0000

ChatGPT

New comment by jhpankow in "Giant SpaceX Spiral Appears Amid the Aurora Lights in Alaska's Night Sky"

jhpankow — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 16:37:51 +0000

Unfortunately Sealab 2021 was more accurate in predicting the future.

New comment by jhpankow in "Gordon Moore has died"

jhpankow — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 21:14:28 +0000

I hope the company is not buried with his passing.

New comment by jhpankow in "FTC cracks down on companies that impose harmful noncompete restrictions"

jhpankow — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 04:38:58 +0000

I had an employer tie a forced arbitration clause to a stock option refresh.

New comment by jhpankow in "Quantum winter is coming"

jhpankow — Sat, 05 Nov 2022 14:29:25 +0000

There was as far as marketing. My family members stopped asking me about ads they saw on TV for IBM's quantum computers.

New comment by jhpankow in "More than half of Silicon Valley residents want to leave: The mood is darkening"

jhpankow — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 20:07:39 +0000

CA is the future. Transplants are just exporting it to your area.

New comment by jhpankow in "Economists are flocking to Silicon Valley"

jhpankow — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 11:27:46 +0000

Yep. You can see Reed-Hillview airport on the left and 680 on the right.

New comment by jhpankow in "Reverse-engineering a tiny 1980s chip that plays Christmas tunes"

jhpankow — Sat, 25 Dec 2021 21:30:58 +0000

Is it possible that your "Structure of an inverter" image is mislabed? NMOS would be on the left and PMOS on the right. My thinking is the PMOS has the extra diffusion step to create the n-well for the channel under the gate.

New comment by jhpankow in "L0phtCrack Is Now Open Source"

jhpankow — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 11:43:54 +0000

At my school the password was the person’s username. Someone guessed it one day. Which in hindsight was inevitable when the login screen was exposed to hundreds of bored kids every day.

New comment by jhpankow in "Meterorite chunk crashes into house, bedroom, pillow"

jhpankow — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 12:15:33 +0000

I can't see gravity perfectly canceling out forward velocity while simultaneously contacting the surface. It would have to come through the body first. Which, I suppose, is terrifyingly possible.

New comment by jhpankow in "Intel breaks ground on $20B Arizona plants as U.S. chip factory race heats up"

jhpankow — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 14:04:16 +0000

Clean, pure, delicious semiconductor wastewater.

New comment by jhpankow in "Reasons to Quit Social Media"

jhpankow — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 21:04:50 +0000

The eternal September continues.

New comment by jhpankow in "Ask HN: Managing career progression for those with no interest in progressing?"

jhpankow — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 15:16:48 +0000

I'm sure it would make sense if you saw the balance sheet.

New comment by jhpankow in "The Coronavirus Is Here Forever"

jhpankow — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 13:16:51 +0000

Or as TFA speculates: an endemic virus like the flu that kills 10k-60k in the US every year.

New comment by jhpankow in "Tesla Autopilot thinks the moon is a yellow traffic light"

jhpankow — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 20:32:17 +0000

just speed up a little bit

New comment by jhpankow in "A top audio engineer explains NPR’s signature sound (2015)"

jhpankow — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 14:19:28 +0000

Years ago when I moved for my first job out of school I decided to set my clock radio to the local NPR station (KERA Dallas) to wake up to the news. I had to switch to a hard rock station because I'd fall back asleep to their soft voices.