<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: kevstev</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kevstev</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:40:07 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=kevstev" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kevstev in "Git commands I run before reading any code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Once word got out that a report was going up to a department head around commit frequency, a few of us started to make "backup commits" to boost our stats. Whether it be dev server config files (just in case!), local dev setups, whatever.. just something that changed enough on its own but would produce a steady stream of commits, while having some potential use case, however unlikely it was to actually be needed.<p>Modern problems require modern solutions and all...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:18:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694936</link><dc:creator>kevstev</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694936</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47694936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kevstev in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have had to do this, well over a decade ago now, when working at a place that was a pretty big deal in the node world, and node was still pretty new. They helped us.<p>I would imagine GH would do the same if its a high enough profile issue.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:01:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47592671</link><dc:creator>kevstev</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47592671</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47592671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kevstev in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think the issue is that we have under built so much for so long, that it often feels futile to build more. NYC can feel like this, because due to zoning and general difficulties in building, all that seems to happen is a new building goes up and drives up rents. But if we built 20x more of those and sated demand, we would. On a micro level though, it can appear that "new building makes rents go up."<p>And this pattern repeats across the US. Add in the fact that people want to freeze the area they moved to in time (like suburbs refusing to increase density, even urban yet car reliant neighborhoods panicking if a single parking space is removed: <a href="https://hudsoncountyview.com/outraged-jersey-city-residents-denounce-south-side-bike-lane-at-gilmores-meeting/" rel="nofollow">https://hudsoncountyview.com/outraged-jersey-city-residents-...</a>) and we get constant blockers to housing supply growth we so desparately need.<p>Its been frustrating watching the half baked measures to make housing "more affordable" by making mortgages cheaper when really they need to stimulate the supply side. It seems like an easy political win IMHO as long as you can sell it up front- stimulate GDP by juicing house building, and everyone gets cheaper housing. Just keep it under control lest you end up in a China type situation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:57:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47442460</link><dc:creator>kevstev</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47442460</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47442460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kevstev in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What is your mental model for this then? If the "2BR shack" can be built from scratch for 300k, and the value for the lot + shack is $3M, then the land value is $2.7M. Most expensive real estate is land value, not actual structure value.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:47:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47442315</link><dc:creator>kevstev</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47442315</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47442315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kevstev in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Have you questioned whether you might have been better off without seeing ISIS decapitation videos when you were a teenager (you might be too old for that though)?<p>See, I have, and I think I am actually a better person for it. Videos like these show how humans are really just apes and can easily fall into doing heinous things. It helped harden my view that religion is a net negative for the world, made me a bit more careful, especially in where I choose to travel, and has given me a wider worldview.<p>No one is rick-rolling with Isis decapitation videos, you go to those sites, and you know what you are getting into. One of the wonders of the early internet was rotten.com, and I am very sad its gone.<p>How exactly is seeing what human beings are capable of going to harm anyone? It certainly isn't so "damaging" that it needs to be hidden from anyone.</p>
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<p>The numbers are seasonally adjusted- the reports themselves are not very difficult to read, I suggest you go to to the source: <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm" rel="nofollow">https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm</a><p>The bigger question is the impact of immigration policies- the US population is smaller than expected due to immigration effects, so some of the extrapolation typically done may be skewed. I doubt this will make the numbers look better though. These numbers may be volatile for some time until the true effects of the lack of immigration are understood and modeled properly.</p>
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<p>Appreciate the clarification. I guess its a case of I don't know what I don't know, but the choice of metric around quality was just an odd one. And yeah I assumed silk because I can't imagine a wool scarf going through a ring.</p>
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<p>I am kind of lost here on this whole scarf through a ring thing as well. This is just a function of the thickness of the scarf? My wife went through a scarf phase about a decade ago, and I am pretty sure a Pucci scarf could easily fit through a typical sized ring meant to go on a finger?<p>Its entirely possible that old manufacturing methods produced things that are different, but I would be entirely surprised if they are entirely <i>better</i> overall. If the defining metric for scarves is how well they fit through rings, I am sure they would all be made so you could fit 3 through a ring if people were willing to pony up for that. If you look at a lot of old clothes, they are generally a lot heavier, but I am not sure I would really want to wear them, they look quite uncomfortable. I also think its wonderful that today you can get a set of clothes for a few hours of minimum wage work while in the past this was a major investment. You can also choose to pay thousands for a shirt if you wish, but from 10 feet away its going to be hard to tell the difference.</p>
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<p>I think this is behavior that should be encouraged online. Staying quiet and letting the experts talk to increase the signal to noise ratio is a GOOD thing. OP has hands on experience with something that is at least for now quite niche.<p>I used to only really speak about node.js topics because that was what I had real fighting experience with, at a scale beyond what most webdevs had ever seen. Those were also my most upvoted posts by far.</p>
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<p>Personally I am already there- I go to Qwen and Deepseek locally via ollama for my dumb questions and small tasks, and only go to Claude if they fail. I do this partially because I am just so tired of everything I do over a network being logged, tracked, mined and monetized, and also partially because I would like my end state to be using all local tools, at least for personal stuff.</p>
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<p>I don't love all the new tahoe stuff, and do wish I could go roll back, but this hand wringing around Apple is way overblown IMHO. What he is reporting is real, but in my actual usage I haven't noticed this at all- in other words, if this wans't called out, I am not sure I would have ever realized it.<p>Tbh I have always found window management on Macs to be annoying and something to be avoided- Rectangle or something similar is one of the first things I install and try to use the shortcuts to just put windows in either a quarter or half of the screen.<p>That said, I use Macbooks for the hardware, if for whatever reason I had to switch to Linux I would just shrug and not care one bit. It took me a few years to realize, but MSFT just disappeared from my life one day and I didn't even notice.</p>
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<p>As someone who frequently posts online- with em dashes- I wonder if I am part of the problem with training llms to use them so much- and am going to get punished in the future for doing so.<p>I also tend to way overuse parenthesis (because I tend to wander in the middle of sentences) but they haven't shown up much in llms so /shrug.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:25:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46995434</link><dc:creator>kevstev</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46995434</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46995434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kevstev in "Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A few years back, well ok maybe almost ten now, but regardless- a recruiter reached out to me about a role at a "series G" company like it was a selling point, and I was just kinda like ok maybe thats signaling its relatively stable and can raise money, but at the same time, that's a lot of rounds to have preferences ensure unprivileged shareholders get nothing, and also to have most of the hockey stick growth already tapped out.<p>This was in the middle of the boom when companies were fighting over talent, so I found it odd.</p>
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<p>Yeah it was mayo clinic.<p>Also there was packard bell navigator. I still have all the shovelware cds from that machine. Other stuff was Tuneland, which was narrated by howie mandel and my little brother loved, Sports Illustrated clips, and some weird not very good reference books. Maybe there were some creation tool demos, I vaguely remember corel draw and some 3d took.<p>It was never clear to me if the journeyman project was a demo or a full game- I remember getting stuck pretty quickly.</p>
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<p>Heh, I agree. There is a vast ocean of dev work that is just "upgrade criticalLib to v2.0" or adding support for a new field from the FE through to the BE.<p>I can name a few times where I worked on something that you could consider groundbreaking (for some values of groundbreaking), and even that was usually more the combination of small pieces of work or existing ideas.<p>As maybe a more poignant example- I used to do a lot of on-campus recruiting when I worked in HFT, and I think I disappointed a lot of people when I told them my day to day was pretty mundane and consisted of banging out Jiras, usually to support new exchanges, and/or securities we hadn't traded previously.   3% excitement, 97% unit tests and covering corner cases.</p>
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<p>Yeah- but LFS didn't really expose you to that or really teach you much about Systemd internals. Here is the page on it: <a href="https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/systemd/chapter09/systemd-custom.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/systemd/chapter09/...</a><p>The only other page that covers it is how to compile it and it install it (make configure, make, make install essentially- with a bunch of flags).<p>It kind of touches upon a few commands that will let you know what its doing and how to get it started, but from this page you don't learn much about how it works.<p>In fact, one of my takeaways from LFS was that I already kind of knew how a linux system starts... and what I really wanted to learn was how the devices are discovered and configured upon startup to be used, and that is pretty much all done in the black box that is SystemD.</p>
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<p>But the "fraud" here is being done mostly to VC investors with deep pockets and lawyers, at least until he tries to take this entity public. And I can't imagine them just taking this lying down, but then again maybe they realize that offloading this steaming pile on public market investors is the best way out. But even then... SpaceX seemed like it was quite viable on its own, the investors there are the real losers here.<p>It is all very puzzling to me.</p>
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<p>Didn't you find though that systemd was just a black box? I was hoping to learn more about it as well- and I did manage to get a fully baked LFS CLI system up and running, and it was just like "ok install systemd..." and now... it just goes.<p>Sysv at least gave you a peak under the covers when you used it, and while it may have given people headaches and lacked some functionality, was IMHO simple to understand. Of course the entire spaghetti of scripts was hard to understand in terms of making sense of all the dependencies, but it felt a lot less like magic than systemd does.</p>
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<p>No, Walmart. Their drivers were actually quite nice as well, at least the ones I met. The standards were high, I have mixed feelings about Walmart overall with respect to their line level employees, but in general everyone meant well. This was quite a long time ago though, and we were still in "startup" mode and focused on gaining market share, as opposed to focusing on squeezing out as much profit as possible.</p>
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<p>There is actually. I used to work in grocery e-commerce. The model is pickers in a store --> a "dark store" that looks more like a home Depot with only pickers, not open to public --> warehouse like environment with various levels of automation.<p>This was a bit before the model of having Uber driver type delivery though. I am guessing that having the deliverers be close to the deliverees make it more economical to keep them in stores until a larger scale is reached. The dark store+ model was also predicated on a more factory floor like environment with only FTEs present. Think pallets moving about among the pickers- not too hard to work around IMHO but maybe the lawyers and insurers feel differently.<p>I still feel the overreaching factor is that in dense urban centers there is no cheap commercial/industrial space that is also in close proximity to customers.</p>
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