Hacker News: mrjaeger

Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case

mrjaeger — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:29:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/technology/social-media-trial-verdict.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47520505

Points: 501

# Comments: 523

Becoming a Centenarian

mrjaeger — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 02:42:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/22/becoming-a-centenarian

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46472258

Points: 60

# Comments: 5

The Crypto Maniacs and the Torture Townhouse

mrjaeger — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 18:05:48 +0000

Article URL: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/william-duplessie-john-woeltz-nyc-clubs-crypto-soho-torture.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44879813

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My English Classroom

mrjaeger — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 21:01:59 +0000

Article URL: https://lithub.com/what-happened-when-i-tried-to-replace-myself-with-chatgpt-in-my-english-classroom/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44715604

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

NYC Apartment Rent Guesser Game

mrjaeger — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 15:30:46 +0000

Article URL: https://nyc-price-guesser.web.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44397570

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mrjaeger in ""No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens"

mrjaeger — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 17:23:41 +0000

What this article is parodying, in case folk aren't familiar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_to_Prevent_This,%27_...

Daniel Kahneman has died

mrjaeger — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 15:09:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/03/27/daniel-kahneman-dead/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39840286

Points: 1002

# Comments: 309

A South Korean woman who adopted her best friend

mrjaeger — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 17:19:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/12/2/the-south-korean-woman-who-adopted-her-best-friend

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38723399

Points: 29

# Comments: 4

New comment by mrjaeger in "Insider trade on Splunk acquisition?"

mrjaeger — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 17:06:01 +0000

I think $10M is right. The options cost $0.04 each yesterday (per the tweet), so spending $22,000 would get you 550000 options. Those options are now worth $18.30 (per the tweet) for a total value of ~$10M.

New comment by mrjaeger in "Insider trade on Splunk acquisition?"

mrjaeger — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 16:59:03 +0000

Broke Rule #2 of Matt Levine's "Laws of Insider Trading": "Don’t do it by buying short-dated out-of-the-money call options on merger targets."

New comment by mrjaeger in "Wet-bulb temperature"

mrjaeger — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 14:34:28 +0000

That's actually the inciting incident for the cli-fi book "The Ministry for the Future". Overall I really enjoyed the book, was a good mix of interesting economic/policy ideas interwoven through a compelling character based narrative.

Walking Off Grief on the Appalachian Trail

mrjaeger — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 15:32:35 +0000

Article URL: https://catapult.co/stories/gunnar-lundberg-appalachian-trail-grief-through-thru-hike

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34655181

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mrjaeger in "Musk’s desire to own the Libs is alienating the buyers of Teslas"

mrjaeger — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 16:37:21 +0000

As is often the case, Matt Levine (writer of Money Stuff) had some fun hypothesising about how this might be actually part of his "plan".

'Tesla Inc. is the main source of Musk’s wealth, and his main goal in life is selling lots of Teslas. He has sold all the Teslas that he can sell to coastal elite liberals, and now he faces the daunting challenge of selling electric cars to social conservatives. Acquiring Twitter and turning it into a right-wing media company with himself as the main character might be bad for, like, Twitter ad sales, but that is small potatoes if it is good for selling Teslas to Republicans. “Our cars are electric, yes, but they are free from the woke mind virus” is perhaps a good pitch.'

I don't think Matt (or myself) put much weight into this being his true reasoning, but it's a fun thought exercise :)

New comment by mrjaeger in "Plaid Layoffs"

mrjaeger — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 16:45:05 +0000

Reminds me of Connor Roy's funeral speech from Succession https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEdOB9OIh70

New comment by mrjaeger in "Not Perfect, Just Better"

mrjaeger — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 00:07:42 +0000

Reminds me of a quote from Bojack Horseman I think about quite often (in the show it's in reference to running): "It gets easier. Every day it gets a little easier. But you gotta do it every day. That's the hard part".

New comment by mrjaeger in "Twilio employees, associates charged with insider trading by SEC"

mrjaeger — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 21:24:45 +0000

From the Complaint (https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2022/comp-pr2022-5...): "Kamujula met with Sure on April 8, 2020 and later that night began purchasing out-of-the-money Twilio call options."

Clearly not Money Stuff readers!

New comment by mrjaeger in "PostgreSQL EXPLAIN Output Explained"

mrjaeger — Sat, 29 May 2021 12:31:57 +0000

Do you know how to clear the cache inside of a running Postgres instance? All of the articles online say to just restart the db, but that isn’t feasible in some cases I’ve come across, such as when trying to do testing against a remote db spun up to test against more prod like data. Like you said the query perf against a cold cache vs. something that has had a lot of rows loaded into the shared buffed can be quite different!

New comment by mrjaeger in "Physicists Nail Down the ‘Magic Number’ That Shapes the Universe"

mrjaeger — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 21:02:41 +0000

Yes but! (1 + 1) * (7 * 3) = 42 =O

New comment by mrjaeger in "No one who got Moderna's vaccine in trial developed severe Covid-19"

mrjaeger — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 15:16:27 +0000

Can read all of them in their published protocol at https://www.modernatx.com/sites/default/files/mRNA-1273-P301... under section 5.2.

New comment by mrjaeger in "100 Years on a Dirty Dog: The History of Greyhound (2013)"

mrjaeger — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 01:34:28 +0000

I've taken Bolt buses now and again, usually to go from NYC -> Philly, which is kind of a pain by train. Didn't even realize they were a Greyhound brand! I'm not a very finnicky public transit user and while not fancy, the buses I was on were usually pretty clean and spacious. I do wish Americans were more willing to utilize buses, as often times they are a very economic way of getting around (both for the individual, the environment and congestion on the roads).

There is a very similar style bus service in Europe called FlixBus that I have fond (nostalgic) memories of as an incredibly cheap way to get around Europe. Was it fun trying to sleep on a cramped 12 hour bus ride? No. But you can't beat getting from Bratislava to Zagreb for only 20 euro!