Hacker News: stevev

New comment by stevev in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"

stevev — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 04:41:34 +0000

Nothing against American ingenuity, but when situations like this occur, quality often declines for a time. The process may be replicated from its original source, but the key difference lies in the workers’ experience—something the Chinese have already mastered.

New comment by stevev in "The React Foundation"

stevev — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 13:08:12 +0000

It’s natural for Vercel to have a strong influence on the project. That’s what happens when a framework grows large and fragmented without a defined board, group, or leadership focused on both short- and long-term goals. At least now, with the foundation in place, there are additional voices to help guide the project rather than letting it move entirely in line with Vercel’s direction.

New comment by stevev in "A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator"

stevev — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 06:48:07 +0000

No doubt the industry suffered due to a market downturn, but your continuous posts and attacks worsened the situation for that company. Based on your Reddit activity, it appears to have been driven by a personal vendetta. If they pursue a defamation case, the evidence could strongly work against you. The overwhelming proof he presented of your actions toward the company would be difficult to defend. I honestly can’t understand why anyone would risk their own reputation—and that of their family—for dishonest gain. Most people are civil in such cases, but not everyone is if they conclude that evil was done. Scary situation to be in.

New comment by stevev in "What caused the 'baby boom'? What would it take to have another?"

stevev — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 00:39:50 +0000

Increase dependent rate, suspend income tax and property tax.

New comment by stevev in "OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%"

stevev — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 00:23:40 +0000

It was only a matter of time considering Deepseek R1’s recent release. OpenAI’s competitor is an open-source product that offers similar quality at a tenth of the cost. Now they’re just trying to prevent customers from leaving.

New comment by stevev in "Eleven v3"

stevev — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 01:34:23 +0000

It’s still too expensive. Their voices are very similar to Disney voices in quality; not surprising since they recently worked with them.

With such a potential backing, their margins are probably going to actors voices and rights; thus why it’s expensive.

Chatterbox an open source free version is very close. Hume ai is a close second and much more affordable. OpenAI tts is also 10x cheaper.

New comment by stevev in "Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into online, interactive courses"

stevev — Wed, 14 May 2025 04:47:15 +0000

Nice App. Another similar one is You learn ai.

https://app.youlearn.ai/?via=sou

New comment by stevev in "A critical look at MCP"

stevev — Sat, 10 May 2025 19:31:06 +0000

One major obstacle to grasping high-level abstractions and their implementations lies in poorly designed systems or language limitations. At this stage, any human-produced effort—be it documentation, explanations, or naming—should be reviewed by AI. Language models often excel at crafting clearer analogies and selecting more meaningful or intuitive naming conventions than we do. In short, let LLMs handle the documentation.

— written by ai

New comment by stevev in "Ask HN: I'm an MIT senior and still unemployed – and so are most of my friends"

stevev — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 12:22:25 +0000

With a few trusted classmates, do a market analysis on a need and build an mvp for it. Post it on here and say you’re looking for investors.

New comment by stevev in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

stevev — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 18:42:50 +0000

Nice opinion.

New comment by stevev in "Sesame CSM: A Conversational Speech Generation Model"

stevev — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 19:41:21 +0000

A16z won’t allow it. For them there is Money to be made.

New comment by stevev in "Lynx: Open Source Native Cross Platform framework used in TikTok"

stevev — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 21:54:56 +0000

Try ReactLynx first.

New comment by stevev in "Evidence that our ancestors lived in rainforests 150k years ago"

stevev — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 04:02:36 +0000

Where are the billions of human fossils?

New comment by stevev in "Why Ruby on Rails still matters"

stevev — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 15:13:53 +0000

I love Ruby. However, based on my readings, Rust, rocket, seems like a compelling choice due to its true parallel processing capabilities, strong typing, and impressive speed. Perhaps the author has yet to explore other technologies outside of Rails.

New comment by stevev in "A woman made her AI voice clone say "arse." Then she got banned"

stevev — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 14:41:02 +0000

Big tech is working on a few models that should beat ElevenLabs in terms of pricing and quality. Eventually Deepseek will opensource theirs and cause ElevenLabs to be sold to Disney to stay relevant or something.

New comment by stevev in "Northeastern's redesign of the CS curriculum"

stevev — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 00:55:58 +0000

I’m wondering if neighboring competitor schools who offer python classes are the reason for the change since more students would actually consider attending a different school due to having a stronger post experience and skills gained.

New comment by stevev in "Scientists claim they've found the cause mystery colon cancers in young people"

stevev — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 18:36:16 +0000

‘There is no clear cut one thing, I think it is multi-factorial and there are other aspects,’

The title contradicts the answer, which is also vague and lacks specificity. Considering the mass list of advertisements on the page, it’s AI generated for $$$; thus the baity title, imo.

New comment by stevev in "React 19"

stevev — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 04:32:14 +0000

Using both I think it comes down to personal preferences. One learns to appreciate their approaches to the complexity of FE dev. I do think ultimately it comes down to support , tooling and job opportunities. I was an advocate for Vue and now unfortunately I recommend React. Native mobile development is too important to disregard.

New comment by stevev in "React 19"

stevev — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 04:28:48 +0000

Nice opinion. I started with Vue2/3 and now I’m learning react. Vue is designed better but react is further in development and more widely supported. Native mobile performance was the deal breaker. Ultimately you’ll find it easier to get a job using react vs vue.

New comment by stevev in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

stevev — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 14:34:13 +0000

The left and the Democrats has become so far left and radical that their party didn’t resonate with everyday Americans for the past several years.