Hacker News: jorts

New comment by jorts in "Chewing gum restores dad's taste and smell years after Covid"

jorts — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:09:37 +0000

I always wondered whether my poor sense of smell dictated my diet. I share your friend's food preferences.

New comment by jorts in "Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email"

jorts — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:29:57 +0000

Because America is a lot more than a podcaster put into a position that he has no qualifications for.

New comment by jorts in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

jorts — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:08:22 +0000

No idea who is buying them, but it's dropped the price of buying one by over $100K.

New comment by jorts in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

jorts — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:02:13 +0000

My mom's condo complex in Hawaii used to have many owners from Canada. Over the last year, the number of units for sale has probably 10x'd from previous years.

New comment by jorts in "An interactive map of Flock Cams"

jorts — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:04:41 +0000

My vehicle was stolen in an area with Flock cams. It did not help at all.

New comment by jorts in "OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine"

jorts — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 03:58:48 +0000

100% the political campaigns pinging you is endless and you cannot escape it. I have dozens of campaigns pinging me daily and I mark them all as spam as I never signed up for this nonsense. Give me a way to block them all and remove me from their database.

New comment by jorts in "People Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much"

jorts — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 04:23:13 +0000

Thanks for articulating exactly how I feel.

New comment by jorts in "State of the Windows: What is going on with Windows 11?"

jorts — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 23:35:49 +0000

I have been using Tahoe since it came out, and I really don't understand all the hate on it. Some of the aesthetics are a little off, but not burdensome. The only thing I really don't like is the large, rounded corners on windows.

New comment by jorts in "San Francisco Graffiti"

jorts — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 23:23:15 +0000

There's Clarion Alley in the heart of the Mission, which I think is open to graffiti, as everything is plastered with it, most of it looking really nice. You can see it on Street View.

New comment by jorts in "Data Leak Exposes 149M Logins, Including Gmail, Facebook"

jorts — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:17:31 +0000

Just adding plus signs and the vendor name in the address would do it.

New comment by jorts in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

jorts — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:13:41 +0000

It was probably a decade ago and I recall using something within Google that would tell you about who they thought you were. It profiled me as a middle eastern middle aged man or something like that which was… way off.

New comment by jorts in "How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips"

jorts — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 15:36:59 +0000

China is in a bad place long-term with an inevitable population decline.

New comment by jorts in "DoGE "cut muscle, not fat"; 26K experts rehired after brutal cuts"

jorts — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 23:16:12 +0000

It was all incredibly reckless.

New comment by jorts in "Homeschooling hits record numbers"

jorts — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 20:06:33 +0000

As the son of a teacher and a friend of several teachers, you're way underestimating their workload.

New comment by jorts in "Researchers discover security vulnerability in WhatsApp"

jorts — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:42:02 +0000

Yeah, I've had the same number since about 2001. It's nice as I've moved since then so any number that calls from my area code is definitely spam, although that's not really an issue now that my phone doesn't ring for unknown numbers.

New comment by jorts in "Being poor vs. being broke"

jorts — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:03:32 +0000

I had a roommate who was taking payday loans to support his brother for a while. I saw how ridiculous the interest was, paid it off for him, then had him pay me back. It got him out of the constant cycle of debt.

New comment by jorts in "I Want You to Understand Chicago"

jorts — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 22:50:38 +0000

I see your post and OPs just fine.

New comment by jorts in "Toxic Salton Sea dust triggers changes in lung microbiome after just one week"

jorts — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 17:40:04 +0000

Not surprising. I have a friend who grew up in El Centro and had asthma his whole childhood. Shortly after moving, he never had respiratory issues.

New comment by jorts in "Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else?"

jorts — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 15:55:00 +0000

I supported a lumberyard that was like this too. Also, some "modern" laser machines required ancient versions of Windows and required floppy discs. This was about 20 years ago, though.

New comment by jorts in "Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits"

jorts — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 22:05:18 +0000

In the late 90s to 2001? Many people were still using modems at that time. Cable or DSL wasn't even an option for a considerable percentage of the population.