Hacker News: kavok

New comment by kavok in "PostgreSQL for Everything"

kavok — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:32:57 +0000

Surprised it doesn't mention LISTEN / NOTIFY.

New comment by kavok in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"

kavok — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:37:37 +0000

I believe radio across Europe was largely ad free and had a different business model. The BBC for example.

New comment by kavok in "1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse"

kavok — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:07:01 +0000

We need to attach actual monetary amounts to PII. If a company loses the data they owe you that money. The money is increased based on how and if they disclosed the leak. Lying about a leak should be a criminal offense.

This would would allow engineers to better be able to prioritize security, which typically gets ignored or put low in priority.

New comment by kavok in "EY Canada published a cybersecurity report and most citations were hallucinated"

kavok — Sat, 30 May 2026 19:40:45 +0000

Very difficult to use on mobile.

New comment by kavok in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

kavok — Mon, 25 May 2026 13:16:59 +0000

You can set Kagi as the default search engine today on iOS. Unless I’m misunderstanding.

New comment by kavok in "Vivaldi 8.0"

kavok — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:44:52 +0000

I’m pretty sure Brave and Vivaldi are both based on Chromium/Blink not WebKit.

New comment by kavok in "Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools"

kavok — Sun, 17 May 2026 16:08:08 +0000

Something must be wrong with your computer. I don't see objectionable content when I turn mine on? I'd have to actively seek out objectionable content and I don't even have any sort of filtering or parental controls enabled on my own devices.

New comment by kavok in "Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools"

kavok — Sun, 17 May 2026 14:49:54 +0000

The example you give doesn’t really track. If a drug dealer is outside the entrance of your home it’s completely unavoidable. A kid looking at adult material online? Entirely within the control of the parents. We already have filtering and monitoring software.

I know several parents that limit screen time, require screen usage be restricted to public areas of the home, have parental controls and filtering operating etc.. some of the parents I know won’t even let their kids watch a movie unless they screen it first.

New comment by kavok in "Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0"

kavok — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:48:10 +0000

It’s been my experience that developers running Mac already know how to use Linux and actively choose to use Mac. Unless the company is forcing it at least.

New comment by kavok in "Why Japan has such good railways"

kavok — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:18:48 +0000

Sure, it’s stopping some, but not most/all even with strong public opposition.

See: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/small-missouri-to...

New comment by kavok in "Claude Design"

kavok — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:17:10 +0000

I don’t know a single engineer that has been terminated and replaced with AI. I know lots of engineers that were terminated due to shifting jobs offshore for cost savings, over hiring during COVID, and a poor economy.

New comment by kavok in "Why Japan has such good railways"

kavok — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:37:26 +0000

NIMBY seems to have a hard time stopping data centers. Why do they have more success stopping renewables and rail?

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.