Hacker News: oarla

New comment by oarla in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

oarla — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 01:13:38 +0000

Thanks, makes sense now why they’re pushing for it.

New comment by oarla in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

oarla — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 22:53:30 +0000

I don’t have any background in finance, but what is stopping these companies from creating their own index and promoting it heavily? They have the market cap and the capital backing to do it I presume.

New comment by oarla in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

oarla — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 22:38:02 +0000

Probably it estimated future AI subscription costs.

New comment by oarla in "Cars collect a startling amount of data about you"

oarla — Sat, 30 May 2026 04:18:05 +0000

Now you have a different problem to solve!

New comment by oarla in "100 Best Novels of All Time"

oarla — Mon, 18 May 2026 00:52:06 +0000

I was initially very surprised to see "The god of small things" in this list and even more so to see it at 32 in the list. But then, this is a list voted for by authors, critics and academics who are probably the only set where such books are popular.

New comment by oarla in "US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants"

oarla — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:17:32 +0000

Relevance?

New comment by oarla in "IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup"

oarla — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:16:05 +0000

I suspect something like this may already be in place.

New comment by oarla in "What your Bluetooth devices reveal"

oarla — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 01:30:14 +0000

As someone explained it below in this thread, walk into a mall with Bluetooth turned on and phone starts chiming with multiple "... wants to send you a media/audio/image etc." Not just ads, some bad actors would try to infect the phone with malware. Luckily never happened to me, but I heard from my acquaintances.

New comment by oarla in "What your Bluetooth devices reveal"

oarla — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:14:57 +0000

Yeah, but it stopped pretty soon stores figured out that they could flood you with advertisements over Bluetooth. In some places it was bad enough that I had to turn off Bluetooth.

New comment by oarla in "Common bad arguments for the correct answer to the Monty Hall Problem"

oarla — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 05:41:55 +0000

The way I understood why it’s beneficial to switch your choice after the host opens a door showing you a goat is as below

Assume that door 1 has a goat , door 2 has a car and door 3 has a goat behind it. There are 3 trials possible in the Monty Hall scenario

Trial 1 Contestant chose door 1(which is a goat). Host opens door 3(because he has to) and asks if contestant would like to switch. If he switches, then he wins the !

Trial 2 Contestant chooses door 2, host can open door 1 or 3 doesn’t matter. Host asks contestant if he’d like to switch and if he does then he loses.

Trial 3 Contestant chooses door 3(which has a goat). Host opens door 1(he has to) and asks if contestant would like to switch to door 2. Contestant switches to door 2 and wins a cat!

So 2/3 times contestant wins when switching his/her original choice.

New comment by oarla in "Captive Wi-Fi"

oarla — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 04:51:43 +0000

I see this every time I connect to my local library Wifi or Costco. I thought Captive was the name of the company providing this service. TIL.

New comment by oarla in "Show HN: H-1B Salary Data Explorer"

oarla — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 06:20:38 +0000

Thanks for sharing this! I suspect that the salary listed for certified petitions may be capturing the upper end of the range of salary provided in the LCA for the job/position rather than the actual salary.

New comment by oarla in "When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts"

oarla — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 01:28:15 +0000

Yes. Pitfall of not reading the entire comment before responding.

New comment by oarla in "When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts"

oarla — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 01:27:45 +0000

Noted.

New comment by oarla in "When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts"

oarla — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 00:50:56 +0000

True, but does not help in this case with vintage parts.

New comment by oarla in "Who still uses cash?"

oarla — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:15:35 +0000

Many prefer to be tipped in cash.

New comment by oarla in "NASA pushes back after Kim Kardashian claims the 1969 moon landing was fake"

oarla — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 05:04:40 +0000

Why is this news?

New comment by oarla in "Tech megacaps lose $770B in value as Nasdaq suffers steepest drop since April"

oarla — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 16:32:48 +0000

If you have cash, it may be a good idea to buy in this small downturn. Though I expect there will be more buying opportunities in the coming year.

New comment by oarla in "Ex-WhatsApp cybersecurity head says Meta endangered billions of users"

oarla — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 01:20:08 +0000

It’s not uncommon. Orkut back in the day was wildly popular in Latin America and India. WhatsApp is the same. I think users in NA have a lot of high quality options as against those in Asia and LatAm who don’t have much reliable options other than ones developed in NA.

New comment by oarla in "How did Tether profit $13B in 2024 from USDT?"

oarla — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 22:03:44 +0000

13B it’s not entirely from treasuries. The breakdown is 7B from treasuries —> probably from the methods you described 5B from Gold —> believable if you notice how gold has done in 2024 1B from other sources. No idea what they are.

The article mentions that tether may not have been audited by a third party. So I’m not sure how believable these numbers are.