Hacker News: kavok

New comment by kavok in "Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce"

kavok — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 13:07:03 +0000

Yeah but in that case main is shorter, still understandable, and has the same autocomplete. It’s actually an improvement.

New comment by kavok in "Plan mode is dead"

kavok — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 11:54:12 +0000

I’ve been trying it out on a personal project. It’s been going well. The only difficulty I’ve had is getting it to work with cloud sessions on Claude.

New comment by kavok in "Plan mode is dead"

kavok — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 17:58:01 +0000

Checking this out, the skill it wants me to add to my project seems to reference issues that wouldn't make sense in the context of my project. IE: `QPPR7PE` and `MBB6WY5` ?

New comment by kavok in "Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]"

kavok — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 01:33:26 +0000

Isn’t a lot of Rails dev done by Shopify and Intercom these days instead of by DHH companies?

New comment by kavok in "I said no and Apple said yes"

kavok — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 11:56:11 +0000

Can any OS gracefully handle switching between WiFi and Ethernet without at least a blip in connectivity?

New comment by kavok in "Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes"

kavok — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:07:17 +0000

I often don’t see agents reaching for available or potential tools/libraries unless explicitly told to.

Sometimes they’ll even manually search or write bespoke code to search json instead of using something like jq.

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-...