Hacker News: kevinh

New comment by kevinh in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

kevinh — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:58:54 +0000

Sure, and if depressed people weren't sad, they'd be happier. 'Just don't get frustrated' isn't actionable advice.

New comment by kevinh in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

kevinh — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:58:57 +0000

The one that doesn't have a monopoly on the market.

New comment by kevinh in "Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting"

kevinh — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:40:29 +0000

Slippery slope is famously a fallacious argument. My first exposure to it was people insisting that legalizing gay marriage would end up legalizing marriage to animals.

New comment by kevinh in "US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf]"

kevinh — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:39:21 +0000

Because he has power. Putting aside all the people who admire him who he could direct to boycott or harass some company, he can also direct increased scrutiny to companies that don't pander to him.

New comment by kevinh in "AI doesn't replace white collar work"

kevinh — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 23:18:30 +0000

Sure, you could go to an educational institution for 2-4 years and hope that your new job doesn't get automated away before you graduate.

New comment by kevinh in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

kevinh — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:07:51 +0000

The thing about building fulling automated kill bots is then you've built fully automated kill bots.

New comment by kevinh in "Making a font with ligatures to display thirteenth-century monk numerals"

kevinh — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:30:34 +0000

Seems like it's only when adding 1 + 4, 6, or 8 in a place value or where one of them is 0. It doesn't seem like it'd ever hold across a carry, but I could be missing something.

Edit: There's actually a few cases with adding 2 as well!

New comment by kevinh in "Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass"

kevinh — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 23:54:20 +0000

Alternatively, hand someone $20 and your phone and have them do the verification for you.

New comment by kevinh in "Microsoft 365 now tracks you in real time?"

kevinh — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:40:55 +0000

This article is like 300 words. Would it have killed them to not generate it using AI?

New comment by kevinh in "Looking for flagged discussions on HN? See what's active"

kevinh — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 21:56:36 +0000

It seems like this post got killed as well, but it's the first I'm hearing of the functionality. I wouldn't say I'm a frequent user of the site, but I think I would have noticed if people were posting this link often.

New comment by kevinh in "Looking for flagged discussions on HN? See what's active"

kevinh — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 21:47:38 +0000

People on Hacker News with a high enough score get a "super downvote" that can downrank a story, with enough removing it off the page entirely (flagged). It's why you won't see stories critical of Elon Musk or the current administration last for longer than an hour.

New comment by kevinh in "Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs"

kevinh — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 23:32:43 +0000

Sometimes, but I didn't get sucked into the crypto/blockchain/NFT hype and feel like that was the right call in hindsight.

New comment by kevinh in "Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame"

kevinh — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 16:11:49 +0000

Valve's 30% cut would lower it substantially. Taxes might put it beneath 50%.

New comment by kevinh in "Foreign tech workers are avoiding travel to the US"

kevinh — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 20:46:29 +0000

What's wrong with having a hyphen in your name?

New comment by kevinh in "You’re not burnt out, you’re existentially starving"

kevinh — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 20:12:24 +0000

15 years ago this exact comment would have been written swapping out millennials for gen x and gen z for millennials.

New comment by kevinh in "A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote"

kevinh — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 23:33:30 +0000

Yeah, I saw some posts on there the other day that felt a bit suspect, went to look at their profile, and nothing. I'd already become an infrequent user of reddit since some earlier changes, but that makes me even less likely to go back.

New comment by kevinh in "Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union"

kevinh — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:01:44 +0000

It's still going on now - they just use a third party to help them collude.

New comment by kevinh in "How Cops Are Using Flock's ALPR Network to Surveil Protesters and Activists"

kevinh — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 19:15:07 +0000

But suddenly adding cameras that resulted in catching more people fixed the issue? Surely if the catch and release was the issue, that wouldn't make a difference.

New comment by kevinh in "Rockstar employee shares account of the company's union-busting efforts"

kevinh — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 21:15:36 +0000

There's a lawsuit ongoing about Valve threatening developers with delisting if they sell non-Steam copies of games (that's NOT Steam keys, but, say, a version on the Epic store) on other stores.

New comment by kevinh in "Man who threw sandwich at US border agent not guilty of assault"

kevinh — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 23:47:20 +0000

Do you really think many people are being charged and found guilty of felony assault for throwing a sandwich at a random person? He was only charged because the guy was part of a cop-like class.