Hacker News: kevinob11

New comment by kevinob11 in "An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail"

kevinob11 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:14:19 +0000

I want to try another provider, but my family (partner, kids, grandparents) stores pictures in Google Photos, shares docs from google drive, etc. It is all the extra stuff I get with Google that feels daunting to me, I'd love to switch for email and calendar.

New comment by kevinob11 in "How Kalshi Infects the News"

kevinob11 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:50:26 +0000

How in the world do we get money out of politics? I want to so so so badly, but I have no idea how to successfully do it. I can't even figure it out as a thought exercise.

New comment by kevinob11 in "The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs"

kevinob11 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:18:01 +0000

I live in WA (south of seattle) and your description is accurate, there are kids riding around on sidewalks in the area around my house on electric motorcycles that are sold as e-bikes. While I don't personally love it, they kept their distance from my small kids so I figure "let kids be kids". The one instance that frustrated me was they also show up at local mountain bike and skate parks. There they ride up the down trails and destroy a lot of the trail edges, a couple of times I've asked folks to leave.

I was hopeful when I saw the new law that it'll be used as a tool to take action on actual problem usage without punishing those using them safely. Unfortunately I'm aware of the history of laws like this, so I'm worried it'll just be used against lower income / privilege folks. We'll see.

New comment by kevinob11 in "How TimescaleDB compresses time-series data"

kevinob11 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:52:40 +0000

It is one of many columns. The other columns are what most of the analysis is done on.

New comment by kevinob11 in "How TimescaleDB compresses time-series data"

kevinob11 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:05:59 +0000

Ha, we (my partner at our company) filed this issue 5 years ago. We have a large-ish (but not giant) json blob in one of our timescale tables that I'd love to get better compression on. It changes just frequently enough that we didn't split it into columns, but infrequently enough that it could (I think) be compressed quite nicely. Generally timescale has been great for us.

New comment by kevinob11 in "Where is the AI jobs crisis?"

kevinob11 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:13:22 +0000

Sort of, that it crosses so many lines makes it seem like it must be 6X, but it peaks at 230 based on a baseline of 100, so just 2.3X their baseline. Still a ton, but not as much as I thought at first glance.

New comment by kevinob11 in "Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics"

kevinob11 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:06:23 +0000

Isn't [bad thing is happening] let's work backwards and find [difficult to find cause] a really solid approach?

New comment by kevinob11 in "Some uncomfortable truths about AI coding agents"

kevinob11 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:59:22 +0000

I don't need one to know where it goes, but it certainly is better than I am at never missing one.

New comment by kevinob11 in "GPT‑5.3 Instant"

kevinob11 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:24:54 +0000

The comment above says "uplifting" could you not counter some wrongs by doing some rights?

New comment by kevinob11 in "Collaboration sucks"

kevinob11 — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 20:49:20 +0000

"Instead of the "Collaboration Sucks" approach, we need to apply Gravitational Pull. For every key project, the Driver defines three essential stakeholders (e.g., Tech Lead, Business Owner, Target User) who form the "Quantum Sync Circle." - this sentence had me so freaked out with all of its buzz words, but man I think I really strongly agree with it. I love the inclusion of target user!

New comment by kevinob11 in "Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over"

kevinob11 — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 15:40:45 +0000

I know from a strictly economic standpoint the things I do are the things I want. But is doing an activity are you addicted to what you really want in a human sense?

New comment by kevinob11 in "Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'"

kevinob11 — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 06:04:24 +0000

That very well may be all this is, I wasn't alive for the last famous president. I suppose folks feelings about him do feel similar to the other types of celebrity infatuation. I've never really understood the way people relate to famous people, I wonder if it is escapism, an inhuman place to project the idealized good or evil they imagine exists but that they never find in people who they actually know.

New comment by kevinob11 in "Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'"

kevinob11 — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 04:44:49 +0000

While I generally agree that he doesn't look all that smart in the traditional sense, during the early part of his first election I don't think he had the full power of right wing media behind him. He is _excellent_ at something, and I think demagoguery might be a reasonable term for it. He seems to me to be very good at saying things that make people feel "activated" (to quote dang above). It is almost like the way he speaks is the human manifestation of the engagement algorithm that it took Facebook years and years to develop. It is really quite something.

New comment by kevinob11 in "Insurers Rely on Doctors Whose Judgments Have Been Criticized by Courts"

kevinob11 — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 17:15:41 +0000

Tragedy?

New comment by kevinob11 in "OnlyFans models are using AI impersonators to keep up with their DMs"

kevinob11 — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 15:44:43 +0000

While describing it this way may make it sound worse, this is (IME) how it works. For some folks the optimization is intuitive and mostly happens subconsciously for some others it doesn't and needs more focus.

A long time ago I started noting when people (esp. my partner) said they like certain things in my phone, then I get them as gifts days, weeks, months, years later. People now think I'm very thoughtful, but I'm just a good note taker. The experience made me think that people who are naturally more "thoughtful", at least partially, just have better memories.

New comment by kevinob11 in "Launch HN: Modern Realty (YC S24) – AI Real Estate Agent for Home Buyers"

kevinob11 — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 20:34:00 +0000

I was so excited when I saw this and now I'm disappointed. This kind of statement "quit on trying to win clients that are trying to get the best price" creates a false dichotomy of those who are trying to pay nothing and those willing pay whatever. There are tons of customers in the middle who are happy to pay for important services but think 30K (3% in high COL areas) is too much for the services rendered.

That being said, I think as long as you are honest that "better pricing" isn't your goal then fair enough. It isn't the service for me, but I'm sure some folks will certainly be excited about it.

New comment by kevinob11 in "The Intelligence Age"

kevinob11 — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 21:41:22 +0000

Replace salary with the thing he wants

New comment by kevinob11 in "Can solar costs keep shrinking?"

kevinob11 — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 19:55:02 +0000

I'm in the Seattle metro area and 25K to 40K is very common. They tell you all kinds of subsidies and payback periods but the out of pocket or loan is always in that range. And payback periods are terrible here given the weather.

New comment by kevinob11 in "Dokku: My favorite personal serverless platform"

kevinob11 — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 15:51:23 +0000

For a while dokku was selling a pro version with a web ui and json api. I don't really mind the CLI so while we bought it I don't really use it. I see there hasn't been much activity on pro, I wonder if it is still a focus.

New comment by kevinob11 in "The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community"

kevinob11 — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 18:54:37 +0000

I can think of a few reasons why people want (either already or after enough pulls of the slot machine) a committed relationship.

Though to be clear, just because I think the other more stable thing is valuable to folks even with the availability of the sex slot machine, I still don't love businesses trying to push slot machines or any kind really.