Hacker News: myroon5

New comment by myroon5 in "Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case"

myroon5 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:41:59 +0000

> $4.99/mo subscription would yield more revenue than Facebook makes in ARPU

Even ignoring the adverse selection of who'd subscribe, their ARPU is higher than that in North America: https://www.statista.com/statistics/251328/facebooks-average...

New comment by myroon5 in "Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?"

myroon5 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 03:54:49 +0000

'Median total farm household income has exceeded the median U.S. household income in every year since 1998'

'In 2024, median farm operator household income exceeded median U.S. household income by 22.7 percent'

'In 2024, the median U.S. farm household had $1.6 million in wealth'

'In 2024, fewer than 3 percent of all farm households had wealth levels that were lower than the estimated U.S. median household level and over 97 percent had wealth levels higher than the U.S. median'

https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-economy/farm-household-...

New comment by myroon5 in "$3T flows through U.S. nonprofits every year"

myroon5 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 05:48:02 +0000

https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/2025-evaluator-research

New comment by myroon5 in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

myroon5 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:43:41 +0000

At AWS, a team asked for help maintaining a bespoke internal Java service that diff'd json for manual reviews.. replaced it with a jq one-liner

New comment by myroon5 in "Launch HN: OctaPulse (YC W26) – Robotics and computer vision for fish farming"

myroon5 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:11:43 +0000

> The math of feeding 10 billion people only works if we farm the ocean

Even for marketing puffery, "only" seems reductive when most resource usage seems specific to a few animal products like cows and lamb: https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

New comment by myroon5 in "Uncovering insiders and alpha on Polymarket with AI"

myroon5 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 17:11:58 +0000

Polymarket US has fees:

https://www.polymarketexchange.com/fees-hours.html

New comment by myroon5 in "Meta to retire messenger desktop app and messenger.com in April 2026"

myroon5 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 04:39:48 +0000

A billion dollars isn't cool; you know what's cool? A trillion dollars

New comment by myroon5 in "Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars from New York City's Public Hospitals"

myroon5 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 04:07:20 +0000

> don’t need government permission to start new restaurants

Zoning, construction permits, occupancy permits, patio permits, food licenses, liquor licenses, health inspections, dumpster permits, etc

New comment by myroon5 in "Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal"

myroon5 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:57:25 +0000

> retreat [..] when it's difficult

Focusing on more tractable causes makes sense (fwiw I think there are more tractable causes than both of those geopolitical conflicts: millions and millions die annually from preventable global health ailments)

New comment by myroon5 in "Oxide raises $200M Series C"

myroon5 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:22:41 +0000

57% of operating income in 2025: https://ir.aboutamazon.com/quarterly-results/default.aspx

New comment by myroon5 in "British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years"

myroon5 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:12:48 +0000

[nitpick tangent] the law states a much wider age range of American men can be drafted: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_the_United_States

New comment by myroon5 in "British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years"

myroon5 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:00:40 +0000

The statistic is per distance driven

The Frenzied Pursuit of Wall Street's Low-Profile All-Stars

myroon5 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 01:59:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/the-frenzied-pursuit-of-wall-streets-low-profile-all-stars-ee51b33a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46880442

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by myroon5 in "Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native"

myroon5 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 05:08:11 +0000

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/06/aws-kms-n...

https://www.amazonaws.cn/en/about-aws/regional-product-servi...

NIH lowered maximum research overhead to 15% (2025)

myroon5 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 18:35:06 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/NIH/status/1888004759396958263

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46756749

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Coverage.py sleepy snake logo (2019)

myroon5 — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 22:29:58 +0000

Article URL: https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201912/sleepy_snake.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46438847

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by myroon5 in "Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race"

myroon5 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 16:01:13 +0000

De jure, even NYC's existence itself is contingent on NYS' permission:

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forrest_Dillon#Dillon's_Rule

(de facto realpolitik-wise NYC will continue existing, but my point is to widen your Overton window to realize even NYC's own taxing authority is still under NYS' jurisdiction)

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Btw, federal and state funds were each ~1/6 of NYC's revenue in 2021: https://www.ibo.nyc.ny.us/iboreports/understandingthebudget....

New comment by myroon5 in "AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS"

myroon5 — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 19:23:16 +0000

Most years, AWS increases some prices:

https://github.com/SummitRoute/aws_breaking_changes/blob/mai...

New comment by myroon5 in "Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k"

myroon5 — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 04:55:39 +0000

> ~$250k TC [..] Concierge care

Can you elaborate on concierge care? I have never heard of anyone in tech around or below that compensation receiving https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Concierge_medicine

New comment by myroon5 in "Trump pardons convicted Binance founder"

myroon5 — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 03:35:38 +0000

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/02/sam-bankman-fried-considered...