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New comment by zapatos in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

zapatos — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:34:08 +0000

> Everyone is afraid of a catastrophic 1M$ one time event.

That was my thought, too, until I researched what a catastrophic event can cost and in the US it's a lot more than $1M!

New comment by zapatos in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

zapatos — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:06:29 +0000

I have a filter to never send email to the spam folder if it contains the word "settlement" in the subject, to work around this annoying issue.

New comment by zapatos in "Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs"

zapatos — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:46:54 +0000

Heard a job ad for a TikTok senior data scientist on FM radio at 11am last week.

New comment by zapatos in "Xiaomi Home Integration for Home Assistant"

zapatos — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 18:26:18 +0000

Same story here. Everything goes through MQTT, and a single python script has my automation logic. All redeployable via Docker Compose. I never need to worry about updates breaking things, and there’s much less context for me to try to remember.

Home Assistant never “clicked” with me. It makes some hard things easy, but some easy things hard. I just don’t love YAML enough to write logic in config files…

I also hate that HA pushes you to run their whole OS. The docs usually assume you’re running HAOS.

New comment by zapatos in "Show HN: Product Hunt for Music"

zapatos — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 04:39:54 +0000

Similarly there was We Are Hunted (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_Hunted), before they got acquired by Twitter

New comment by zapatos in "Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment"

zapatos — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 23:49:52 +0000

I had some custom triggers I set up in Google Home to trigger streaming NPR on my Sonos. Every dang month I had to pick a new, more obscure trigger phrase because I’m guessing someone at Google would look at a list of phrases they couldn’t match and hardcode a new rule. And your trigger phrases couldn’t match any built-in triggers…

Ask HN: What niche business domain do you find fascinating?

zapatos — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 14:22:27 +0000

Hi HN, I currently work at a FAANG and while I’m in expert in our products and processes, the knowledge isn’t very useful outside of my company. In the past I’ve been more motivated when I’m working on industry problems that are “bigger” than my company. Even “boring” domains (payments, finance) are really interesting once you realize how deep they are.

What business domain have you worked in that you find interesting?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39800124

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New comment by zapatos in "FTC readies lawsuit that could break up Amazon"

zapatos — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 03:07:27 +0000

Of all the "big tech" companies, Amazon's monopoly position is the one that worries me the most.

Google, Apple, Netflix, Facebook - you can imagine how a clever competitor can get a foothold to compete in those markets. But Amazon's ownership over the entire physical logistics supply chain through to last-mile delivery is just such a huge moat that keeps getting larger and larger.

New comment by zapatos in "Ask HN: What is the best password manager available today?"

zapatos — Sat, 06 May 2023 23:19:00 +0000

Enpass is like Keepass but with a better UX. Which is exactly what I wanted, and it hasn’t let me down on iOS + Linux, synced via Dropbox.

New comment by zapatos in "Update to Kagi Search Pricing"

zapatos — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 05:32:46 +0000

> It used to be 1.25 cents per search. Microsoft recently increased Bing search results API cost to 2.8 cents per search

I guess Microsoft decided to switch their strategy from "help startups take market share from Google" to "kill the competition and try to get users to search on Bing"?

New comment by zapatos in "IMAP Email Backup"

zapatos — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 21:32:16 +0000

> I also tried to enable less secure apps to access email option in google settings. But keep getting the Authentication error.

Turning on 2FA and using Google's "app-specific password" eliminated errors of this sort for me recently.

New comment by zapatos in "The World of Sports Betting in a World Without Sports"

zapatos — Sun, 10 May 2020 05:21:02 +0000

I've heard that the online betting platforms quickly stop taking your money if you have a consistent positive return. Any truth to that?