<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: kevinqi</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kevinqi</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 23:10:56 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=kevinqi" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kevinqi in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>my assertion isn't that china isn't able to surpass western AI. I think it may well happen. I've been to china many times and am well aware of how ahead they are in many technological/societal areas.<p>at the same time, I don't buy the idea that distillation is  unimportant in assessing what Chinese labs are capable of. If it wasn't, why did Kimi's release timing coincide so well with Fable's launch?<p>and if Anthropic hadn't released Fable, would we have Kimi today? If the answer is no, then I think that's still a very important point to consider.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:57:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49011713</link><dc:creator>kevinqi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49011713</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49011713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kevinqi in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I agree distillation isn't illegal; I also think Moonshot/Kimi is very impressive. But the more interesting question is whether labs like Moonshot can be a real competitor to OpenAI/Anthropic. If you can only play catchup (however quickly you do that), then you're never going to be at the frontier - I think that's why distillation matters.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:11:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49011026</link><dc:creator>kevinqi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49011026</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49011026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kevinqi in "Valve raises Steam Deck prices"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>don't think it's a societal problem; it's just a direct result of capitalism. and while capitalism causes all sorts of huge problems, it might also be the best of the options we've got</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 20:27:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48300150</link><dc:creator>kevinqi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48300150</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48300150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kevinqi in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Gridmatic | Product engineer + data engineer | 175-235k + equity | Cupertino, CA (hybrid)<p>Hi HN! We’re an energy + AI startup that applies modern deep learning and optimization to improve the use of renewables and grid-scale batteries to deliver cheap, clean energy to commercial/industrial customers. We also do energy trading and battery optimization.<p>Roles:<p>- Data engineer: we're hiring our first data eng! Looking for a startup-minded SWE to work on both ingest and transformation of datasets that power our best-in-class ML models for energy forecasting.<p>- Product engineer: our energy sales have been growing rapidly and we want to 10x it from here, which involves building a lot of tooling to make sales more automated. This tends to be backend/data heavy, but will also have some frontend (NextJS/React/Typescript).<p>If you're interested in making a real-world impact on climate/energy, or if you know someone that might, please email me and include a one sentence description of the most impressive thing you've built: kevin@gridmatic.com</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 21:50:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48055606</link><dc:creator>kevinqi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48055606</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48055606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kevinqi in "The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>yeah not redeploying on credential changes seems like a design flaw. Render redeploys on env var changes, for instance.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:36:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47852658</link><dc:creator>kevinqi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47852658</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47852658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kevinqi in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>it is disappointing, but is it shocking that people most driven by gaining money/power are the ones the most successful at achieving it?</p>
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<p>I don't know if it's guaranteed to work, but the strategy is real. I know Notion won vs. competitors in the space because they focused on consumer first, and consumers then brought Notion into their workplaces.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:05:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47597379</link><dc:creator>kevinqi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47597379</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47597379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kevinqi in "Show HN: Oxyde – Pydantic-native async ORM with a Rust core"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think Prisma does type-safe ORM really well on the typescript side, and was sad it doesn't seem to be super supported in python. This feels sort of similar and makes a lot of sense!</p>
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<p>seems nice. I imagine the strategy here is going for expanding user base so Apple can sell more software services?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:15:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47253967</link><dc:creator>kevinqi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47253967</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47253967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kevinqi in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>just one q: have you been to china before?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 05:04:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47147537</link><dc:creator>kevinqi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47147537</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47147537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kevinqi in "Anthropic taps IPO lawyers as it races OpenAI to go public"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think there are profitability requirements, right?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 18:38:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46138221</link><dc:creator>kevinqi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46138221</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46138221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kevinqi in "Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>+1, very polite way of saying it. of course there's a difference between the two posts. open source is interesting but not enough with a financial app, since it's all about trust + usefulness.<p>landing page needs to look good and communicate the value prop super effectively. If it doesn't look good you'll lose people's interest in about 2 seconds.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2025 22:46:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46009939</link><dc:creator>kevinqi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46009939</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46009939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kevinqi in "Steam Frame"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>probably the "slapping steamOS" part of that</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 01:11:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45909201</link><dc:creator>kevinqi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45909201</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45909201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kevinqi in "Build your own database"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>my only minor critique is using lorem ipsum examples. It tends to make me want to gloss over instead of reading; I prefer seeing realistic data. other than that, it's a really cool post</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 19:44:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45660719</link><dc:creator>kevinqi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45660719</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45660719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kevinqi in "TigerBeetle is a most interesting database"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>right, it is just syntactic sugar, but if that wasn't helpful then why have it in dev either? I find it more confusing to have asserts be stripped, which creates an implicit dev/prod discrepancy</p>
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<p>really? it's pretty but I find it unreadable/unusable</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 23:55:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45070708</link><dc:creator>kevinqi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45070708</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45070708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kevinqi in "Claude is the drug, Cursor is the dealer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I didn't think much of it until I canceled Cursor to try out copilot, which is slower and yet also worse quality. I reluctantly resubscribed to Cursor.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 23:05:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44870458</link><dc:creator>kevinqi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44870458</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44870458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kevinqi in "Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>interesting, I didn't know that corollary. sounds about right though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 02:13:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44819889</link><dc:creator>kevinqi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44819889</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44819889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kevinqi in "Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>duplicate code is not that bad. reduce duplication over time as you find the common patterns/abstractions, instead of trying to build abstractions too early</p>
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<p>very cool. btw, I also love that "sorry" is the "any" equivalent in Lean</p>
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