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Re:Search PPP Loans by Zip Code on Friday February 07, 2025 @01:38AM (#42970071)
Many sole proprietorships registered and individuals in my area have these loans. I suspect this was a major contributor to inflation.

For example, a neighbor who owns several franchised restaurants received a few million in PPP loans. But during COVID he also bought a Cirrus Vision Jet. Very suspicious.

The PPP loan program is a borrower self-certified program. Meaning the gov't did absolutely nothing to ensure funds actually went to payroll.

If you have some evidence of their brilliance you can post it now.
Re:The 22-Year-Old Who Unlocked the Secrets of Ancient Rome on Monday February 03, 2025 @10:39PM (#42927566)
There’s a good reason this is being posted now.

Your astroturfing should have begun months ago.

Re: on Monday February 03, 2025 @10:22PM (#42927415)
Trump and his colleagues are trying to reduce spending by cutting payments to things deemed unnecessary. Some feel the process in which they do this is questionable and opaque.
Re: on Monday February 03, 2025 @09:05PM (#42926636)
I think the Trump admin should really spend some effort in addressing the American people on what has transpired with DOGE. What their process is, how their feedback loop looks like, etc.

Trump forgets that “half” the country did not vote for him. And he needs to appease these people if he wants to leave office with an incoming Republican. Which is probably his goal, otherwise everything he did will be reversed.

Musk et al lack professionalism, and understandably makes everyone uneasy. Keep in mind the media is painting a very bad one-sided picture.

Also it shouldn’t be a requirement to have to monitor X/twitter to understand what is happening.

P.S. Only cowards downvote.

Re:Ask HN: Why is air traffic control radio comms so poor? on Monday February 03, 2025 @08:55PM (#42926516)
> 2. More importantly, the pilots and ATC folks speak excessively quickly and do not enunciate at all.

Multiple aircraft’s one frequency. Need to speak short to allow other potentially higher priority calls. Also take a moment to read: https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/fs_html/...

Of course in practice there are deviation's from the phraseology.

I do agree the DC ATC audio is very poor. Not all ATC communication is that poor. And often it is quite clear especially once you get use to how radio calls are made.

A bug right now on Windows 11 is if you use a USB switch too fast on windows it breaks USB. Disconnecting the switch or reconnecting the devices to the host doesn’t fix it. Only a hard reboot of Windows will bring the USB stack back online.
> The guys featured in this gross and irresponsible hit piece by Wired, by all accounts, are brilliant engineers. Top 1%.

Where’s the proof of this?

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be fired? (February 2025) on Monday February 03, 2025 @07:23PM (#42925492)
Some trades are more physically demanding on the body. I was thinking more along the lines of any field that requires a gov't license like nurse/counselor/barber/pharmacist/CPA/lawyer/administrator/teacher/air traffic controller/operator of some heavy machinery.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be fired? (February 2025) on Monday February 03, 2025 @06:08PM (#42924664)
Any field that requires a certification and cannot be done from a computer is worth looking into.
Re:Django MongoDB Backend Public Preview on Monday February 03, 2025 @06:02PM (#42924608)
This is really great work!
> On top of that, forcing everyone to commute up to an hour each way is a blatant disregard for people's personal time.

Commuting is dangerous and stressful. Stressed employees cannot perform their best. It is in a company's best interest to reduce stress and danger.

Re:Sourcegraph will fast-track DOGE applicants on Monday February 03, 2025 @05:33PM (#42924261)
What makes a DOGE applicant so special?
This is proof that people will downvote to silence things they don't like. This is a gross abuse of the spirit of HN. The statement above was factual.
Trump was elected, and Elon was appointed by Trump?
Thanks for this info. This is paid.
Re:CSS Zen Garden: The Beauty of CSS Design on Monday January 27, 2025 @04:50AM (#42839242)
Look at all the individuality in these designs: https://www.csszengarden.com/pages/alldesigns/

The web became super boring with the invention of Bootstrap.

Ask HN: What should I do with an intern who can't complete any task

I hired a software engineering intern with a decent resume for an undergrad. I decided to give them a chance after an in-person interview. It's been about a year, and they still haven’t completed a single task in Jira. At first, I thought the tasks might be too complicated, so I assigned something simpler. I even asked about their interests and assigned a task accordingly. When that didn’t...

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Re:Purelymail: Cheap, no-nonsense email on Monday January 27, 2025 @02:59AM (#42838556)
It would be an interesting experiment ditch the Roundcube or any web UI to decrease the attack surface.
Re:Apple Enlists Veteran Software Executive to Help Fix AI on Saturday January 25, 2025 @05:24PM (#42825519)
Apple innovative edge has always been taking existing technologies and applying that right layer of UX on top. I think they need to really take a step back and figure out what that right layer is.
I haven't seen Meta's AI assistant incorporated to the Quest 3. There is a lot of low hanging fruit there.
Re:Apple makes a change to its AI team and plans Siri upgrades on Saturday January 25, 2025 @03:56AM (#42820443)
Perhaps the answer isn't Siri or summarizing or whatever else they had planned. Perhaps the entire interface needs to be rethought. To me this is more like the switch from text-based to graphical. They're missing the Alto to copy from this time.
Re:The past, present, and future of UI at GitHub on Friday January 24, 2025 @06:44PM (#42818041)
I would like to see renewed focus on supporting the user to be able to customize the UI to their liking. This is sorely missed in design systems and web apps. Everything is GitHub at the whims of a UX designer that did some “research”.
This was a fun read. I would amend the title to change "Agile" to "Scrum".
Re:Just used ChatGPT Operator to book a flight on Friday January 24, 2025 @02:52AM (#42811324)
It's certainly impressive. I would like to know if it could search multiple airlines directly to find the best price and best route based on my personal preferences. For example, I don't like earlier flights unless it is ~60% cheaper. And if it can handle check-in for me so I don't have to be logging in 24 hours before, and if I am offered an upgrade, it could automatically purchase.
Re:Show HN: I Made an Open-Source Laptop from Scratch on Thursday January 23, 2025 @02:31PM (#42807203)
Is your mainboard the same as the CM3588 carrier board [1] that has been re-layout to match the form factor you wanted or did you have to make other modifications?

The part I am most interested in is the 'powertrain' and how it manages battery charging.

[1] https://wiki.friendlyelec.com/wiki/index.php/CM3588_NAS_Kit#...

Re:How to improve your WFH lighting to reduce eye strain on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @04:01PM (#42797464)
Another tool, although I have only anecdotal evidence, is f.lux and similar software.
Re:Show HN: I made a service to convert WordPress blogs to Hugo on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @03:23PM (#42797079)
The real money is in converting sites with plugins and retaining the functionality which in many cases isn’t static. The copying of data to another tool is the easy part.
Re:We dont like TDD: A Developer's Perspective on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @03:04PM (#42796909)
Make some generalizations about a process and omit the obvious solution as pointed out in the comments is a good way to get some engagement.
Re:Buy This Framework Laptop Now to Avoid Buying Your Next Few on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @02:56PM (#42796832)
I am skeptical about the environmental claim.

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