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New comment by stevenking86 in "They See Your Photos"

stevenking86 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:41:33 +0000

Mine was super wrong. I was outside and it still guessed a wildly wrong location. It was wrong about my age and my interests.

The Death of Issue Tracking

stevenking86 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:42:20 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/danlovesproofs/status/2028890694837039202

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47248109

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by stevenking86 in "Search all text in New York City"

stevenking86 — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 16:56:03 +0000

Easy to find a favorite graffiti artist of mine this way: https://www.alltext.nyc/search?q=Hektad

New comment by stevenking86 in "This website is for humans"

stevenking86 — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 16:49:10 +0000

Yeah, I guess sometimes I just want to know how long to cook the chicken. I don't want a bespoke recipe with soul and feeling. I'm going to add ingredients that my family likes. I just want to remember how long it generally takes to cook a specific something-or-other.

Ask HN: Technical Writing Resources

stevenking86 — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 13:21:49 +0000

I'm an engineering manager in an organization where the current culture is extremely meeting heavy. Decisions are made in meetings, discussions take place in meetings, etc. It's not very practical as our team is distributed across the globe.

I've been in more asynchronous organizations and I'm making some attempts to steer the culture in that direction. However, one component that I think is extremely necessary for this to work is for the team to become good writers. If we're communicating in Notion, tickets, and pull requests then we need to improve as writers.

I've searched around and so far mostly found click-baity type articles like "10 ways to do better technical writing". Does anyone have any helpful resources for individuals and teams to improve at this? Thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41299817

Points: 11

# Comments: 5

New comment by stevenking86 in "Against Normalcy: Why Being Normal Can Be Dangerous"

stevenking86 — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 21:26:03 +0000

I don't know. I did enjoy the read even if I didn't agree with it very much.

I'm unsure if it's meant to be life advice or philosophy but it misses the mark on both for me.

If life advice: Sure maybe for you? Others might find they're a bit happier with a drink and their comfort TV shows in the evening.

If philosophy: Aren't mindless self indulgence and relentless self improvement both just raging against an inevitable death? In a Buddhist sort of "All life is suffering" sort of way? What about being present?

New comment by stevenking86 in "Show HN: Ambiphone, no-nonsense ambient music and white noise"

stevenking86 — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 18:53:58 +0000

The fact that we can put these things over top of each other is awesome.

New comment by stevenking86 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2024)"

stevenking86 — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 20:44:12 +0000

I'm not in the market but this seems like an amazing place to work.

New comment by stevenking86 in "Ask HN: 6-hour workdays more important than 4-day workweeks IMO"

stevenking86 — Fri, 20 May 2022 18:29:15 +0000

I love it.

New comment by stevenking86 in "Simple Ways to Be Less Divisive (2021)"

stevenking86 — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 19:22:29 +0000

> “Can I confirm that March should be the launch date?”, > don’t say “I assume we’re all aligned that March should be the launch date”.

...only if you really aren't sure. I would actually say something like "We're planning to launch in March unless there are reasons not to."

If someone has a really great reason, they'll speak up. Getting "confirmation" from a group that may be indifferent can sometimes be even worse. How many people in the group aught to "confirm" before we move forward? What if one extremely uninformed person loudly confirms? Then a person with a real issue may feel like they don't want to stir things up by disagreeing.

Tangentially related: This is why you should say "If you can't see my screen, please let me know." when you start sharing your screen on zoom rather than "Can you see my screen?" Who on Earth aught to answer that in a large meeting?

Assuming a "yes" and allowing for the "nos" to speak up is much more successful in general I think.

New comment by stevenking86 in "Ask HN: Are there any rural tech communities?"

stevenking86 — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 19:56:02 +0000

Asheville NC seems to be turning into a "work remote" tech hub. I moved here during the pandemic and have met many tech workers just walking around my neighborhood. Technically it's a city (looks like ~90k population), but coming from NYC it certainly feels like nature to me. There are streams and mountains and back yards.

New comment by stevenking86 in "Ask HN: Am I the only one baffled by the long term usage of Twitter?"

stevenking86 — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 15:50:31 +0000

I've run an account for an old job I had (promoting a bar), but beyond that I haven't really interacted with twitter, ever. Everything I hear of it is negative. (Note: I only know what happens on twitter from people on podcasts talking about what happens on twitter. So it's possibly not an accurate reflection of the platform.)

I've seen people that I respect appear to lose their sanity from things being said on it. An example is Sam Harris, who is of course a brilliant author and neuroscientist.

He's gone from a person I respected a lot for his thoughts on atheism and spirituality to being a person who I've heard dedicate hours of podcasts to basically complaining about what people say on twitter. As an adult, it's almost shocking to hear someone intelligent revert to anguishing about the same things misguided teenagers might concern themselves with.

He's not the only one. It appears famous people who use twitter end up using it as a scope into what they might perceive the real world to be like. However, what seems to be the discourse on twitter has no relation to the discourse in my neighborhood (in Western North Carolina) or my previous neighborhood (East Village, NYC).

So no, OP, you're not the only one baffled. I'm extremely baffled.

What Happens When the 1% Go Remote

stevenking86 — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 18:22:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-16/what-happens-when-the-1-move-to-miami-and-austin

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25470157

Points: 9

# Comments: 3

New comment by stevenking86 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2020)"

stevenking86 — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 17:37:08 +0000

Modern Message, a RealPage Company | Software Engineer | REMOTE | Full-Time At Modern Message our focus is on building great products that solve real-world problems for our customers. Our core product is Community Rewards, an engagement platform for apartment residents.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Engineer to join our growing and diverse team. Looking for someone with 3+ years of Ruby on Rails experience and preferably some React experience.

Apply here: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/modern-message-a-real... . Feel free to shoot me a message with any questions at steven . king at modernmsg dot com

Ask HN: Why aren't you switching jobs?

stevenking86 — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 17:15:59 +0000

Discussion in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23563997 seemed to center around staying vs. switching jobs as a Software Engineer. So, let's hear it. It's common knowledge that you can make more money by switching jobs vs. accepting small percentage raises at your current job. So why are you staying?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23565247

Points: 7

# Comments: 33

Don't ask a stranger to watch your laptop at starbucks

stevenking86 — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 19:56:29 +0000

Article URL: https://stevengerhardtking.micro.blog/2020/05/07/asking-a-stranger.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23492738

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by stevenking86 in "Malaria 'Completely Stopped' by Microbe"

stevenking86 — Mon, 04 May 2020 13:55:28 +0000

Given how helpless much of the world is against Malaria and how many people it continues to kill each year, this strikes me as one of the most significant scientific discoveries of our lifetime. Am I missing something?

New comment by stevenking86 in "People may know the best decision and not make it: study"

stevenking86 — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 19:17:02 +0000

This is a super exploitable human behavior when playing with novices at poker. Even smart folks can just become a bit to curious about seeing more cards even though they know it's not rational. Making the best decision requires discipline and maybe going against "instinct" and "gut feeling"

New comment by stevenking86 in "A charity that spends a sliver of its money on those it purports to serve"

stevenking86 — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 21:37:39 +0000

I use givewell ( https://www.givewell.org/ ) out of fear of this kind of thing. I have no affiliation with them but I do recommend them due to the way they evaluate charities.

New comment by stevenking86 in "Speedgate: World’s First Sport Generated by AI"

stevenking86 — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 18:24:24 +0000

You can score from either side so 3 can't quite block both sides if your ball movement is crisp.