Hacker News: KevinMS

New comment by KevinMS in "Democrats win control of the House of Representatives"

KevinMS — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 04:06:55 +0000

Not sure how that works. Wouldn't be surprised of some hyperscalers are happy to have their overbuild interrupted.

New comment by KevinMS in "Notice How Old websites look better than new websites"

KevinMS — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 18:11:25 +0000

I've missed you, gradient navigation bar with a dropshadow

New comment by KevinMS in "Fiber lasts decades, GPUs last three years: the AI boom isn't the dot-com boom [video]"

KevinMS — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:53:01 +0000

> using them is quite cheap.

until the other guys comes out with a slightly better model, then using yours wont be cheap enough.

New comment by KevinMS in "Why are good developers so wary of agentic development?"

KevinMS — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 23:34:42 +0000

Because they have a good sense of how things can go horribly wrong.

New comment by KevinMS in "OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?"

KevinMS — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 07:48:08 +0000

The third AI winter is coming. This is the one where it works for some cases but is too expensive.

New comment by KevinMS in "Anthropic conjures threat that doesn't exist yet to stoke fears of AI apocalypse"

KevinMS — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 06:34:59 +0000

Please please regulate us, and don't forget all our competitors too, who cant afford to deal with it.

New comment by KevinMS in "X Is Bad, Though"

KevinMS — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 09:15:08 +0000

If you use the "for you" tab you have no right to complain, you did it to yourself. If you use the "following" tab, X is a very useful app.

New comment by KevinMS in "Ask HN: Why aren't Americans rising up against tipping?"

KevinMS — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 02:32:10 +0000

The comments are talking about two different things. There's traditional tipping, like at restaurants, barber, etc, where you supposedly tip for good service, and there's the newish POS (point of sale) tipping screens that are showing up everywhere and are a dark pattern for extracting extra money for doing nothing.

New comment by KevinMS in "AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom"

KevinMS — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 05:12:07 +0000

We're coming up on another AI winter. This is the one where AI is useful, but too expensive.

New comment by KevinMS in "How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs"

KevinMS — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 04:33:20 +0000

> LLMs are not about code generation.

yet that is what most people are using it for

New comment by KevinMS in "Memory Companies Have Destroyed the Consumer Market"

KevinMS — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 04:30:03 +0000

Building a gaming PC in the spring of 2025 was probably one of the luckiest things I've ever had happen. 32G DDR5 for 90 bucks, 4TB drive for about 200 bucks. Funny thing is I held off upgrading my GPU to wait for the price to come down from the crypto rush :)

New comment by KevinMS in "Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests"

KevinMS — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:52:13 +0000

Not that long ago to find both sides of an argument in the comments you could search by "controversial" and the negative comments would be at the top and often you'd agree with them, or at least appreciate the debate. Now they are mostly gone. It was probably a combination of banning wrong-think and dissidents learning to not waste their time.

The worst thing for a forum is to let users punish comments they disagree with, you know, one way by fading out their comments until you cant read them.

New comment by KevinMS in "Six-year-old breaks women's world Rubik's Cube record [video]"

KevinMS — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 05:44:13 +0000

well, why is there a women's category for this? How do we know there isn't a open category where the real competition happens?

New comment by KevinMS in "How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs"

KevinMS — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 05:41:49 +0000

there are probably countless dev jobs that aren't in code factories and don't bottleneck on coding. I know, I'm doing one now.

New comment by KevinMS in "Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain"

KevinMS — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 05:40:07 +0000

This is coming out end of year in the U.S. in the 2027 Rogue. There will also be a gas powered 2027 with a CVT. It will be interesting how they compare, and also how the series hybrid compares to Rav4 or Corolla Cross with a parallel hybrid.

New comment by KevinMS in "CAPTCHAs don't prove you're human – they prove you're American (2017)"

KevinMS — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 01:02:05 +0000

But I also see ones asking to select motorcycles, and then they show lots of photos, obviously somewhere in SE asia, all of scooters.

New comment by KevinMS in "Six-year-old breaks women's world Rubik's Cube record [video]"

KevinMS — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:44:17 +0000

not really the same thing as breaking a world record.

New comment by KevinMS in "How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs"

KevinMS — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 10:57:27 +0000

You could just not use LLMs?

New comment by KevinMS in "Six-year-old breaks women's world Rubik's Cube record [video]"

KevinMS — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 05:49:22 +0000

something is wrong with that category when a six year old wins

New comment by KevinMS in "War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready?"

KevinMS — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 02:35:13 +0000

somebody wants some extra funding