<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: kats</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kats</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 06:10:59 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=kats" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kats in "Steam Machine launches today"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're firmly in the build-a-pc bracket. Nothing else will ever make sense.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:13:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48650664</link><dc:creator>kats</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48650664</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48650664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kats in "Steam Machine launches today"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But a person can't really use their PS5 as a home PC.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:48:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48650358</link><dc:creator>kats</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48650358</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48650358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kats in "Claude Corps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sounds like a nice, charitable thing. Of course it benefits the business too, nothing is free, duh. But it's still good. Cheers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:21:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546535</link><dc:creator>kats</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546535</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48546535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kats in "Meta's New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This Hacker News thread isn't useful at all. It's the same people that comment on every thread stating their opinions overconfidently. It's the same perpetually negative Wired article. These things would be the same no matter what is really going on, and so I can't use it to learn anything.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 16:58:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48138034</link><dc:creator>kats</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48138034</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48138034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kats in "Chrome's AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I couldn't care less about this, it's not in the top 1 million problems. If this is an issue for you, seriously re-evaluate how you spend your time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 21:10:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48114630</link><dc:creator>kats</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48114630</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48114630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kats in "Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Bilt sends your rent payments to Equifax. Equifax used to sell that data through The Work Number.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:01:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666193</link><dc:creator>kats</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666193</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kats in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There seem to be a lot of misleading sentences on this page.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:48:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47622100</link><dc:creator>kats</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47622100</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47622100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kats in "Meta exposé author faces $50k fine per breach of non-disparagement agreement"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Actually when you put it that way, I mean who can't relate to that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:36:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45335875</link><dc:creator>kats</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45335875</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45335875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kats in "Meta exposé author faces $50k fine per breach of non-disparagement agreement"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's that section about how Meta executives got drunk on an airplane. And the only thing that happens is they sing karaoke. There's nothing inappropriate. They're a bunch of boring nerds.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2025 21:09:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45326663</link><dc:creator>kats</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45326663</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45326663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kats in "Nordic Semiconductor Acquires Memfault"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Congrats, sounds good for everyone.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2025 16:36:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44368023</link><dc:creator>kats</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44368023</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44368023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kats in "Ask HN: How are you acquiring your first hundred users?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why did you write this using AI?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 17:53:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43975727</link><dc:creator>kats</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43975727</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43975727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kats in "Car companies are in a billion-dollar software war"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Consumers have had it with clunky, slow automotive technology<p>No. I don't want it. I want Not to have it.<p>I don't want a touchscreen. I don't want a computer car. And I definitely don't want an internet-connected car.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2025 21:12:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43957203</link><dc:creator>kats</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43957203</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43957203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kats in "Tabular Programming: A New Paradigm for Expressive Computing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Some random thoughts, might be interesting (or not).<p>Some things that really do fit into tables, where there's no empty fields in the rows:<p>- Relational databases<p>- Hardware circuit truth tables<p>- Assembly language opcodes<p>- FPGA compiler output<p>- Matrix multiplication. Or some GPU programs
e.g. if you want to have a conditional statement using multiply-add, then 'if (cond) then x1 else x2' would be 'out = (cond * x1) + (cond * x2)'.<p>Those things have good performance in one way or another. But it's not easy to make all the application logic fit into a table-based schema.<p>e.g. Why does someone choose a python web server framework which sends and receives JSON. It's really super easy to extend and add something without knowing what you'll need in advance.<p>But if you try to fit that into a table, you'll have to change the table schema for everything to try to best fit what the program does right at the moment. And then if there's one new extra complex or long-running function, it will never easily fit the same schema as the others. You'll have to break the big function down into some smaller common operations.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2025 04:44:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43759133</link><dc:creator>kats</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43759133</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43759133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kats in "The Defer Technical Specification: It Is Time"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Great! I'm a programmer. And I've sure spent too much time on C++isms.<p>> (And I hardly think that analyzing speculating about the motivation for the author's chosen nickname is constructive.)<p>Nope! Gets right to it. This is really building C++ (but this time how I want). It adds work for every C programmer who has to check off a whole bunch of small tasks to keep a codebase living for many years.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2025 22:30:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43417923</link><dc:creator>kats</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43417923</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43417923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kats in "Google to buy Wiz for $32B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Google is making a huge mistake. They are clearly getting scammed, the price is up to $32B from $23B less than a year ago.<p>There is no pressure or need to buy Wiz.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 17:53:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43402457</link><dc:creator>kats</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43402457</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43402457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kats in "Google to buy Wiz for $32B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wiz has no brand, no one knows who they are.<p>Revenue from Wiz's customers will not make back $32 billion dollars even in 30 years.<p>Wiz's technology is irrelevant. I think Google already scans for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. And can build similar for low millions of dollars.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 17:41:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43402311</link><dc:creator>kats</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43402311</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43402311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kats in "Google to buy Wiz for $32B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, but Instagram and WhatsApp have billions of users. Everybody has heard of them. Advertising on Instagram generates revenue.<p>Wiz is a SaaS b2b startup. Even on a forum for startups most people haven't heard of them.<p>Wiz reportedly has a revenue of 750m. It would take Google 30 years or more to break even on this deal. But like all bs startups Wiz will fade into irrelevancy 6 months after being acquired.<p>Google is getting completely scammed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 17:38:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43402257</link><dc:creator>kats</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43402257</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43402257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kats in "Google to buy Wiz for $32B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Don't do it!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:16:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43399713</link><dc:creator>kats</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43399713</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43399713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kats in "Launch HN: Enhanced Radar (YC W25) – A safety net for air traffic control"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Great!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:34:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43261263</link><dc:creator>kats</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43261263</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43261263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kats in "Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's the most common use by far.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2025 21:06:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43235101</link><dc:creator>kats</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43235101</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43235101</guid></item></channel></rss>