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Re:Show HN: JSON Query on Monday October 27, 2025 @10:25PM (#45728646)
Plugging a previous personal project for learning jq interactively: https://jqjake.com/
Generalizing a lot here, but Jews and Christians interpret ambiguities within scripture very differently. Most Christians will try to maintain the spirit of the rule. Jews often view ambiguities as loopholes intentionally left by God. If the loophole wasn't mean to be there, God would have written it differently.

For a great example see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruv . Look carefully and you'll see these in Jewish areas of NYC like Williamsburg.

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025) on Sunday June 29, 2025 @08:48PM (#44418054)
jq Jake: An interactive challenge based approach to learning jq for JSON processing. https://jqjake.com

jq is an incredibly powerful tool, but it's not always the easiest tool to use. LLM's are remarkably good at constructing filters for most uses cases, but for people that work with JSON a lot, learning jq can be real benefit.

"They Stole a Quarter-Billion in Crypto and Got Caught Within a Month. How luxury cars, $500,000 bar tabs and a mysterious kidnapping attempt helped investigators unravel the heist of a lifetime." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/magazine/crybercrime-cryp... (gift article)
Re:Show HN: Jq Jake, an interactive approach to learning jq on Sunday January 26, 2025 @08:55AM (#42830116)
Thank you!

Show HN: Jq Jake, an interactive approach to learning jq

https://jqjake.com

jq Jake was inspired by the difficulty I was having introducing and teaching jq to coworkers, particularly when working with complex inherited filters.jq is popular enough that for one-off situations LLM's typically can write new filters and sufficiently interpret existing filters, but for more regular work jq Jake is my attempt to help people understand the jq mental model.

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https://developer.visa.com/use-cases/identify-merchants-rece...

This is solid as a convenience to the cardholder. When there's fraudulent activity and the card needs to be reissued with a new number, it's not as painful to update all of the subscription services. Most cardholders, most of the time, would prefer the impact to be as minimal as possible when issued a new card number.

Obviously only an issue for Americans, but the Huawei Mateview isn't widely available due to the ban on Huawei products. It could be imported grey-market, but only at slightly inflated prices and without any warranty protection.

The BenQ monitor will be commercially available in the US.

Re:Firefox Keeps Getting Faster on Saturday December 09, 2023 @10:04PM (#38588644)
Right click on a single tab > Select all tabs > Reload tabs.

Show HN: NoisyNYC – A data driven approach to measuring noise in NYC

https://noisynyc.com/

311 is NYC's consolidated line for non-emergency local government services. They'll forward complaints to the correct department, everything from missed trash pickup to apartments without heat or hot water. I was browsing through their data and was surprised to discover that more than a quarter of all complaints -- hundreds of thousands per year -- are noise related. I built NoisyNYC on top of...

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I see this line every so often that Patagonia will repair or replace damaged articles, but the one time I tried, I wasn't successful. I purchased a Tortentshell rain jacket and the laminate on the top of the hood started to peel after a year or so. I took it to a Patagonia store for inspection and they offered to recycle it for me. No repair, no free replacement, no offer of a discount on a replacement.
Re:Ask HN: How does TurboTax get away with dark patterns? on Sunday February 20, 2022 @05:45PM (#30409987)
Is there a consensus on whose software we should be using instead? I get that they're all bad, but which one is least bad?
This is mostly correct. Prior to 1999 individuals who worked in NYC were required to pay the ~2% income tax regardless of residency. This included people from NJ and CT. They're no longer subject to the tax (the reverse is untrue; I live in NYC and work in NJ, but I'm still required to pay NYC income tax). Historically this was known as the "commuter tax."

Since 2009 residents of NY who live in counties adjacent to NYC are subject to a 0.34% tax if they work in NYC. I believe this tax does not go toward general NYC operations, but rather helps fund the mass-transit that supports their commute. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commuter_tax

Re:American chestnut on Monday February 14, 2022 @12:51PM (#30335275)
Stretch explanation: in popular culture the chestnut tree served as a major plot point in Richard Power's 2018 novel The Overstory, which won several major awards. His most recent novel was published in late September, so to some extent his name and plots are back in the news.

Stretchier explanation: Frequency illusion, also called Baader–Meinhof phenomenon. Per Wikipedia, "a cognitive bias in which, after noticing something for the first time, there is a tendency to notice it more often, leading someone to believe that it has a high frequency of occurrence"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion

Shhh, quiet on the NJ-is-nice front, please. NJ doesn't need more people, let's all pretend the bad rap is true.
Thomas Picketty's "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" is best known for central its argument that wealth will concentrate in the long term, but it also extensively documents the European generational wealth that was destroyed in the first half of the 20th century. Two wars, a great depression, inflation, and high taxes were enough to permanently ruin the accumulated capital of many families.

So it's true that some families that were wealthy 500 years ago are still wealthy today, but this was not the norm.

Re:Why Are Topre Keyboards So Expensive? on Friday November 19, 2021 @10:13PM (#29285249)
Yes, true, Leopold is Korean, however the C boards with Topre switches are made in Japan, though some sources say made in China and inspected in Japan.

I believe Leopold sells a similar line of non-Topre keyboards as well, certainly possible that the cases are manufactured elsewhere and imported/sent to various factories based on switch type.

Regardless, if final assembly/inspection does occur in Japan, it was quite disappointing to receive a keyboard with such an obvious defect, especially at that price point.

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