Hacker News: kavok

New comment by kavok in "Kagi Product Tips – Customize Your Search Results with URL Redirects"

kavok — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:35:26 +0000

AI still uses search engines though.

New comment by kavok in "Why Doesn't Anybody Realize We're Going Back to the Moon?"

kavok — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:23:59 +0000

> It's costing a lot, it's not bringing much.

It kinda depends on what you mean by “much”, but we’ve certainly had advances from the ISS in the last decade.

Several experiments with microgravity manufacturing such as ZBLAN fiber optics, 3D bioprinting, and other medical technologies. Microgravity manufacturing can offer some significant quality improvements and prevent settling.

There are other improvements as well. Foundational research is very important and space has a solid track record of delivering science that we turn into very useful technology on earth.

Sources:

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/station/iss-research/out-of-th...

https://issnationallab.org/press-releases/2024-iss-national-...

New comment by kavok in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"

kavok — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:34:16 +0000

I feel like people have been saying AI was great for years now?

New comment by kavok in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"

kavok — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:33:25 +0000

It’s amazing how often an LLM mocks or stubs some code and then writes a test that only checks the mock, which ends up testing nothing.

New comment by kavok in "Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope"

kavok — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:37:12 +0000

Is it the public’s job to police what your son does or is it your job?

New comment by kavok in "It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA"

kavok — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:19:08 +0000

It’s because the people that built and maintain the SPAs were beat into submission with the “SSR” bad message. Now people want them to do SSR again.

New comment by kavok in "Apple Exclaves"

kavok — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 15:59:19 +0000

Out of curiosity would you prefer Windows or Linux instead of Mac?

New comment by kavok in "Show HN: A new kind of book recommender"

kavok — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 11:18:52 +0000

The recommendations from this are surprisingly good.

New comment by kavok in "A $10k stipend is available for anyone moving to Cumberland, MD"

kavok — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 19:56:02 +0000

Upload, download, latency, and how many options to choose from are what I looked for the last time I bought a house.

I actually asked some of the neighbors about it and called local ISPs.

New comment by kavok in "Thinking out loud about 2nd-gen email"

kavok — Sun, 19 May 2024 17:21:05 +0000

My work email is virtually useless at this point due to the absurd quantities of spam I receive. I think the OP suggestions would actually make email less shitty.

Any communication medium that is cheap and easy will be relentlessly abused by spammers.

New comment by kavok in "Thinking out loud about 2nd-gen email"

kavok — Sat, 18 May 2024 14:47:36 +0000

Email being so cheap and easy is is a significant component of spam, which is a technical problem to a degree. Spam on Signal, text message, voicemail, Discord, etc… is significantly less present for various reasons (cost, complexity, etc…)

New comment by kavok in "Hertz is ditching even more electric cars"

kavok — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 00:37:19 +0000

I’ve rented Teslas from Turo three times and the experience was seamless and delightful. The car was dropped off and picked up from my house and everything just worked. Phone keys, supercharger access, full charge when dropped off (basically).

I think the traditional rental places are just incompetent or under investing.

New comment by kavok in "Twitch layoffs: Amazon-owned livestreaming platform cutting workforce by 35%"

kavok — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 14:44:43 +0000

Predicting the future is literally a core upper management job duty. It was fairly obvious and should’ve been assumed that interest rates would eventually rise.

New comment by kavok in "Twitch layoffs: Amazon-owned livestreaming platform cutting workforce by 35%"

kavok — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 14:42:37 +0000

Isn’t over-hiring a form of management incompetence?

Money was too cheap, tech companies are now slapped with larger debt servicing costs and a less captive audience. Growth focused and delusion forecasting done by companies weren’t grounded in reality or pragmatism. This led to things like over-hiring.

New comment by kavok in "Tell HN: Heroku completely removed app's Postgres db which was on free plan"

kavok — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 23:10:47 +0000

Just seems like bad practice for them to not scream test this first. Disable the databases for 48 hours, enable them for a week, then delete them. That would give people the same alerts as randomly deleting it but allow them to gracefully recover.

New comment by kavok in "AWS us-east-1 outage"

kavok — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 16:41:27 +0000

Didn't us-east-2 have an issue last week?

New comment by kavok in "Air Force Strike Takes Out SpaceX's Floating GovSat Booster"

kavok — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 17:29:48 +0000

I would assume the USAF conducts regular training missions, which this easily could've been counted as one of.

New comment by kavok in "CloudBees acquires Codeship as devops consolidates"

kavok — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 17:35:56 +0000

Congrats! I've used codeship for awhile now. Was sad to see the live chat/help go.

New comment by kavok in "Chelsea Manning files to run for U.S. Senate in Maryland"

kavok — Sun, 14 Jan 2018 02:24:43 +0000

I’ve never heard of a background check for an elected representative.

It is a bit strange that someone who can’t vote (a felon) could be elected and then vote on our behalf.

New comment by kavok in "Improving URLs for AMP Pages"

kavok — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 10:40:59 +0000

It isn't only used in America, but I would agree that it is predominantly known for that. Usage of the word appears to be increasing. It fulfills a role in the English language that no other word seems to hit as easily. It'd be nice if the word were more publicly acceptable. I didn't grow up in the south but always found the word to be useful.