Hacker News: qmarchi

New comment by qmarchi in "Dutch 'idealist' bank ASN blocks non-Google Android, including GrapheneOS"

qmarchi — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 01:02:38 +0000

Two immediate options exist: - Crew (unofficial, but blessed, SDK) - Mercury (official)

Neither are technically a bank, but provide banking services. Mercury is more focused on big earners, and Crew is focused more on budgeting. Both have pretty extensive API surfaces.

(Disclaimer: Affiliate for Crew)

New comment by qmarchi in "Dutch 'idealist' bank ASN blocks non-Google Android, including GrapheneOS"

qmarchi — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:58:04 +0000

Depends on the country. My money is stored in a bank, licensed as a bank, and insured like a bank (because it's a bank).

Wise is really just a glorified interface on the account. And no, it's not a shared account. Those don't really exist in Japan.

New comment by qmarchi in "How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet"

qmarchi — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 07:14:52 +0000

Similar experience in Japan. We have lockers all over the place that we can just scan a QR code, shove it in a locker, and be on my merry way.

New comment by qmarchi in "An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows"

qmarchi — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 06:22:09 +0000

Sad that the other two platforms won't have the same stewardship as Orion on macOS. Especially since we're likely to see drift from the core WebKit implementation between them now.

New comment by qmarchi in "Show HN: Zchyoom - Live-ish Shinkansen Map"

qmarchi — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 04:05:45 +0000

Already on the backlog!

Show HN: Zchyoom - Live-ish Shinkansen Map

qmarchi — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 03:20:05 +0000

Created in an afternoon by a friend and I while heading home on the Shinkansen.

Uses publicly available data to best guess the positions of the trains, falling back to the timetable posted by JR Central when data isn't available.

Still working on it and planning to expand to the other lines.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49839832

Points: 2

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New comment by qmarchi in "Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA"

qmarchi — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:56:27 +0000

Thanks kinda how Japan works. Inventing something new is hard, but taking something that's a cool idea and making it actually usable is well within their wheelhouse.

See: - Blue LEDs - Quartz Watches - Lithium-ion Batteries - Bidets

New comment by qmarchi in "California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law"

qmarchi — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 06:18:03 +0000

Hard to argue that it's open source...

New comment by qmarchi in "Monzo Stand-In"

qmarchi — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 06:01:07 +0000

Something like this has been top-of-mind for us since we have a heavy reliance on AWS, which was made evident with the VPC Origin failure earlier this year.

Multi-cloud is best cloud.

New comment by qmarchi in "Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card"

qmarchi — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:26:33 +0000

Many systems within Japan are also setup to accept Tap-to-pay/PayWave/contactless (though JR East is a notable exception), but many locals just use Suica/Pasmo because it's the much _faster_.

New comment by qmarchi in "Fairphone is now officially available in the United States"

qmarchi — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 07:32:33 +0000

Likely because Verizon will only let "certified by Verizon" devices on their network, while AT&T and T-Mo will let pretty much anything with an LTE modem connect.

New comment by qmarchi in "Samsung Health app threatens data deletion if users opt out AI training"

qmarchi — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:59:34 +0000

I use a Watch 6 Classic, just went in to find this toggle. Doesn't seem to exist in the Japanese market at least.

New comment by qmarchi in "Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring"

qmarchi — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 15:23:48 +0000

He was involved in the design, planning, and future-proofing one of the major redesigns of Google's data center fabric. Google, AFAIK still uses a derivative of the fabric today.

Disc: Former Googler, Cloud Networking.

New comment by qmarchi in "$85,000 in tokens later: What I learned from scaling agentic coding at Lovable"

qmarchi — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 03:41:27 +0000

Except that any lawyer worth their salt won't touch AI for fear of getting disbarred.

New comment by qmarchi in "CarPlay Is Additive"

qmarchi — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:49:27 +0000

CarPlay and Android Auto only really started seeing adoption in post 2017 Model Year vehicles.

Anyone I know that has one, will immediately either plugin or connect whenever they go live.

There's other benefits like (in the aforementioned article), CarPlay Ultra being able to send data to multiple screens like the front dash. Where having my directions right next to me speed means I don't have to check two screens.

New comment by qmarchi in "A magnitude 6.9 earthquake has struck near Iwate Pref Japan"

qmarchi — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:05:14 +0000

You're conflating two things, magnitude and intensity.

This earthquake was measured as a 6.9 moment magnitude, sometimes referred to incorrectly as the "Richter" scale.

The Shindo intensity system is measured without decimal places. In this particular case, the intensity was a 6+. Which isn't the highest, but is still quite severe.

New comment by qmarchi in "Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI"

qmarchi — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 23:55:45 +0000

Former Googler here, and one that has open-sourced projects while working in Cloud.

This is certainly not the case in other product areas and for specifically for something that uses the Google name.

If I was expected to go through a full IARC committee in order to get my little Discord bot open sourced under my own account, something that uses the Google name would likely have to get IARC + Legal approvals, along with a proper launch/privacy review.

The OP also notes that they had a competing product in the process of development when they "launched" theirs, likely leading to significant internal confusion, and is something that would've been caught during a review.

I'm gunna be real, this whole thing smells of "I'm purposely bit telling the whole truth" and looks like clout chasing.

New comment by qmarchi in "The complete IPv4 address space, mapped"

qmarchi — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 23:18:58 +0000

Some weird data quality issues. Says my /24 is registered and announced in X, but in reality it's only announced in X, and registered in Y. Which would be obvious if you pulled the ARIN whois records.

New comment by qmarchi in "Protestware for coding agents"

qmarchi — Sat, 30 May 2026 12:53:52 +0000

Note: jqwik was already using EPL, which isn't FOSS anyways.

New comment by qmarchi in "Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion"

qmarchi — Fri, 29 May 2026 09:27:36 +0000

You can still use the infotainment without signing into a Google Account. The only thing that's locked out is the Play Store and 3rd party apps (which you need the play store to download).

Even Google Maps is usable without an account.