<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>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 06:12:47 +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 "MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>He is 60 years old per wikipedia, this is likely his last rodeo. He has held board positions at Datadog, Athena Health, App Dynamics and other places in addition to his job at Mongo per LinkedIn. He was also at Mongo for 11 years.<p>It seems he is deeply connected, and probably approaching centimillionaire wealth.<p>Even if he is burning some bridges, its not going to affect his career at this point.<p>Edit: I looked at the current interim CEO's profile, not the outgoings, but its almost the same story- he is 55, been on other boards, has experience at director+ level since 1995 listed... this isn't going to hurt his career.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:31:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49882371</link><dc:creator>kevstev</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49882371</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49882371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kevstev in "Finger: the 1971 social network that never died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One of the more ridiculous stories I remember from Uni was sysadmins getting very upset that students were fork bombing the server. But... it was from the students in the systems programming class that were just learning about fork/exec, and bugs happen... I thought it was the most ridiculous thing ever.<p>Also, this was the late 90s and while you could get linux running, all the servers were Unix, and the profs made it very clear any issues between differences between Linux and Solaris were ours to deal with... so we were essentially forced to login to their servers. We are truly our own worst enemy sometimes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:51:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49364020</link><dc:creator>kevstev</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49364020</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49364020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kevstev in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was caught by surprise on this. I have P8Pro and while its fine, I was just kind of curious about how much of an upgrade it would be to the 11Pro, especially since I haven't really given the last two years releases any attention.<p>But the P11 Pro is now 6.3" and the P8 Pro was 6.7" meaning you have to go up to the P11 Pro XL (for another $200) for the same size. Well technically its 6.8" vs 6.7 but I feel this is just a form of shrinkflation and enshittification. Literally no other improvements on the XL as far as I can tell from the specs, not even a larger battery.<p>While I certainly don't need a bigger phone, I would be <i>pissed</i> if I just hit the buy button and what came out of the box was half an inch smaller.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:50:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49279070</link><dc:creator>kevstev</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49279070</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49279070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kevstev in "Nvidia's Risky Business"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My point with the c comparison is that it often feels like a very thin layer that still requires you to know a lot about what's going on under the hood. It was more to give a view in what it's like to work with the lib/api.<p>Maybe I wasn't being precise enough with my language for this forum, and also my last hands on experience with it was roughly 6 years ago, maybe it's gotten better. But it was much less (and forgive the imprecision!) python/pytorch-like where you say hey take this big blob of data and just slice and dice it on your many cores, and more like ok, here is the data, let's cudamemcopy it in these size chunks over to the gpu itself, to be used by this block of threads and run these commands (kernel in cudaspeak) on it. Much more painstaking and micromanagey of the resources.<p>Pytorch IMHO feels like a proper abstracted API that hides the details and lets you just unleash the fury at the cost of some efficiency, while the cuda api itself, similar to working with C, forces you to really think about the low level details. I have a heavy backend and systems development background, and while it wasn't really intimidating to me, it was like wow you really have to have a deep working knowledge of how these things work and it felt like a step back in time IMHO.<p>I doubt that's going to satisfy you but I think it gives a clearer picture of what using cuda is like if you typically use higher level languages and haven't touched C since college.</p>
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<p>I think OP is overstating it a bit tbh. So Nvidia has the market for the hardware, which helps, but there is literally no alternative to CUDA. Nvidia keeps it a scalpel for skilled users, its not super easy to use, but unlocks orders of more magnitudes of power for the use cases it excels at vs CPUs. I don't have access to anything like it in the Apple ecosystem.<p>AMD has had years to try and counter it, but just has not. Google is kinda trying to do an end run around it with TPUs but they are still niche high end stuff with limited availability.<p>Its really just CUDA, and CUDA can be seen as somewhat akin to C for assembly used by Nvidia's gpus- In many ways a wrapper around the low level hardware that often has those details bleed through.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:07:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49265154</link><dc:creator>kevstev</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49265154</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49265154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kevstev in "The case for MUDs in modern times (2018)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am not sure I understand your question- MUDs have a text interface, somewhat similar to a command line. It wouldn't be a proper MUD if it had a graphical interface- there are plenty of games out there that do this like Baldurs Gate. The files part of your comment I don't understand either.</p>
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<p>That's really interesting- I wish I could go back 30 years and verify that- I am a bit skeptical to be honest, as a young sponge with my first computer I was reading everything available to me- which wasn't much, a book on windows, and the manuals that it came with. But maybe I missed it.<p>That booklet doesn't appear to be available online anywhere :(.</p>
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<p>So I actually had a use case for this last month. My NAS is too weak to run immich well, so I dusted off my old sandybridge core i7 laptop from ~2011, and it actually benchmarks about 4x my nas, and has 8GB of RAM. But it was still loaded with windows. Long story short, its actually kind of difficult these days to install linux on such an old box, distros have become massive. I searched around in my closet and found my old spindle of burned CDs- and I wanted to go on a nostalgia trip, and every one I tried worked! I used Kodak Golds, which have lived up to their hype.<p>I even burned a CD of the smallest ubuntu distro I could find, and its happily running linux and hosting Immich, among other things.</p>
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<p>Journeyman Project... that brought back a deep rooted memory. Its still not clear to me if my Packard Bell came with a full version or a demo, because I remember being stuck about an hour in and could not figure out how to progress. I also was mildly interested in the game, but had better ones to play- Myst, X-Wing, etc.</p>
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<p>both. Stock is below IPO price and bond is trading below par.</p>
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<p>Is this a real question? ICE cars have a battery too.</p>
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<p>Eh... yes but, I can write a sql query and come back a year later and understand it at first glance, or maybe if its really complicated a minute or two.<p>Writing a regex involves always looking up the syntax, and being unable to read it an hour later without having to carefully disect it. I say this with 20+ YOE and I think I am better than the average bear with them.<p>That said, knowing what they can do is important and very useful. Its just the implementation that never quite sticks.</p>
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<p>I'm personally just at messages. And even then I make it clear I respond when I want to. Only phone rings/notifications I get are for those in my contact list.<p>Take your phones back. Life is immensely better these days.</p>
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<p>Where was this? I would like to read. I have read his papers and they are great, and usually surprisingly readable.</p>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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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