Hacker News: KevinMS

New comment by KevinMS in "EFF is leaving X"

KevinMS — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:27:59 +0000

I follow lots of accounts that have low views, thanks for considering me not worth a simple cut and paste once in a while.

New comment by KevinMS in "Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters"

KevinMS — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:42:28 +0000

I'm a heavy YT user and I don't have a problem either. I'm not sure what everybody is complaining about. Maybe its because I don't search on super specific things because I'm just looking for a larger topic, and I'm not sure if its actually returning all the best results because I don't know what it has to give me.

All this tool does is use YT search but makes it easier to include existing search switches to get more specific. (which I had forgotten about and I'm grateful the tool reminded me of them.

Really, if there's a problem, its not the search itself but how it prioritizes the search without the switches.

New comment by KevinMS in "Tor Alva: The Tallest 3D-Printed Building in the World"

KevinMS — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:56:26 +0000

What I'm seeing is the organic design that 3d printing offers and the scaling strength of whatever material they have to use makes one ugly structure. If they could have made it finely detailed and "lacey" like small 3d models can achieve it would have looked really cool.

New comment by KevinMS in "Solar is winning the energy race"

KevinMS — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:25:46 +0000

almost nobody seems to get this. even if you replace conventional generators with solar, you still have to keep them around (and pay to keep them there) for when the sun is not shining, since there's currently no way to buffer the solar power.

New comment by KevinMS in "The Cloud: The dystopian book that changed Germany (2022)"

KevinMS — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 01:41:04 +0000

dont forget three mile island accident happened 12 days after this film was released. The combo really created a panic and a lot more activism, nevermind the movie was about bad safety standards at nuclear power plants and three mile island's safety standards contained the problem as expected.

New comment by KevinMS in "God, I hate .env files"

KevinMS — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:33:55 +0000

I never figured out why they are dot files. Why are we hiding important information from somebody using a shell?

New comment by KevinMS in "LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash"

KevinMS — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:20:12 +0000

Clickbait detected:

> Nasa reports show repeated warnings of close calls before crash...

So was there an increase in repeated warnings before crash, or was there just the normal amount of warnings over a long period of time? If you go to that database they are referencing (using that web1.0 interface), there are a lot of reports, even ones marked 'critical'.

New comment by KevinMS in "Goodbye to Sora"

KevinMS — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:56:44 +0000

Its looking like Michael Jackson stealing KFC will be the peak of AI

New comment by KevinMS in "MacBook Neo"

KevinMS — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:45:47 +0000

> But we all know M1 Air will lose updates in a couple of years maybe because Apple doesn't want us to keep using old hardware even if it's similar to new hardware.

I'm not sure if that will happen in just a couple of years because brand new M1A were being sold just a few weeks ago at places like walmart.

New comment by KevinMS in "Humans 40k yrs ago developed a system of conventional signs"

KevinMS — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:36:00 +0000

considering there are so many of them I think you are right.

New comment by KevinMS in "Stephen Colbert going down swinging"

KevinMS — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:24:08 +0000

So you see general entertainment TV shows as the same as literally conservative radio? If a conservative radio show gave equal time to Jasmine Crockett who would even listen? If Hannity gave equal time to Joe Biden, probably hours of equal time, who would even want that? Or take it seriously? That's like a Mosque giving equal time to a Rabbi. That's not the spirit of the rule. Late night entertainment shows were getting around the rule by claiming they were news shows that are exempt.

New comment by KevinMS in "We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science"

KevinMS — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:31:31 +0000

> In the normal trajectory of a life in science, Morgan would be planning to set up his own laboratory conducting groundbreaking research designed to win the war on superbugs. But with an ongoing hiring freeze at NIH, his options are limited.

That seems a bit too optimistic to be a valid argument.

New comment by KevinMS in "Stephen Colbert going down swinging"

KevinMS — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:06:12 +0000

Weird how you are against giving another democrat equal time.

New comment by KevinMS in "99% of adults over 40 have shoulder "abnormalities" on an MRI, study finds"

KevinMS — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:56:29 +0000

Didn't they find something similar for herniated disc a while back? Meaning they were treating people for herniated discs with back pain and then eventually figured out that lots of people with no pain also had herniated discs?

New comment by KevinMS in "US funding for global internet freedom 'effectively gutted'"

KevinMS — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:52:28 +0000

hold up. 40 million dollars over 5 years for an open source VPN?

New comment by KevinMS in "Stephen Colbert going down swinging"

KevinMS — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:31:59 +0000

This is a weird hill to fight and die on. I have no problem with the FCC applying their equal-time rule to late night shows if they run on local television. Seems like its a healthy thing for democracy.

New comment by KevinMS in "Q&A: New UK onshore wind and solar is '50% cheaper' than new gas"

KevinMS — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:33:47 +0000

> We have 10 too much capacity without building any more gas generation.

YOU STILL HAVE TO RUN THEM. Maintenance, upkeep, crews, and then you have to subsidize any loses they have for sharing the load to keep them online. Basically any wind farm is TWO power plants, the wind farm and its backup. They never count that backup in these cost assessments.

New comment by KevinMS in "AI is going to kill app subscriptions"

KevinMS — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:58:31 +0000

> If someone charges $10/month for a local PDF editor, someone else will build a clone for $5 one-time. Then someone will make it free.

There are free PDF editors, but that hasn't changed the fact people pay for them. I don't think this is going to work out like the article thinks it is, unless AI is really easy to use, and does a very good job, but there's always going to be that last 5% of quality that people will want to pay for.

New comment by KevinMS in "Q&A: New UK onshore wind and solar is '50% cheaper' than new gas"

KevinMS — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 05:42:09 +0000

you aren't getting it. You need to match, on demand, any solar or wind generation. On demand means gas turbines, because nothing else can power up quickly enough. X amount of power generation from a wind farm needs X amount of capacity sitting around waiting to come online.

New comment by KevinMS in "The wonder of modern drywall"

KevinMS — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 19:58:26 +0000

> Because drywall is a dense and uniform mixture, hanging anything off the wall (from pictures to heavier items like shelves, TVs, or even cabinetry) is a trivial exercise, either a simple nail for a small frame, plaster anchors for medium loads, or toggle bolts for the real heavy hitters.

yikes