Hacker News: aespinoza

New comment by aespinoza in "Ask HN: How are Markov chains so different from tiny LLMs?"

aespinoza — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:50:52 +0000

Would you be willing to write an article comparing the results ? Or share the code you used to test? I am super interested in the results of this experiment.

New comment by aespinoza in "Google Antigravity"

aespinoza — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 21:51:39 +0000

I downloaded it, but I was not even able to get past `Account Set Up`. :(

New comment by aespinoza in "Ask HN: Is it possible that ChatGPT is not creative at all"

aespinoza — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 18:50:21 +0000

Under that definition, I wonder if anybody is `creative`. We would need to assess how many of what we call `original ideas` are not rehashes of other ideas.

New comment by aespinoza in "Why do people demand from themselves anything less than greatness?"

aespinoza — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 17:40:18 +0000

Greatness comes at a very high cost. But to me greatness is not about money, or economic success. Greatness is a very subjective term.

For me greatness is about mastering my craft. Creating great things. It still comes at a very high cost, because practice is not free, and it takes away time from life, especially family time.

Now, Why? Look at life this way: Humans only care about the experience of life. Experience can be focused on family, money, personal achievements, material things, etc.

What you refer to a `great` experience is not really a `great` experience for another person. So `greatness`, IMHO, refers to the experience you wanna have. My great experience is becoming a master in my craft. That is my image of greatness. To Transcend. I trade time focused on my work, for time doing other things.

Now, there could be a person that has a vision of `greatness` that refers to being the greatest dad ever. That is still greatness. So basically, what I am trying to say is that everyone looks for their version greatness, and that not necessarily matches what you define as greatness.

New comment by aespinoza in "Ask HN: Mono-Repo or Multi-Repo?"

aespinoza — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 18:16:31 +0000

IMHO mono-repo vs multi-repo should be decided based on the sources of change for each component in a product. For example, the cloud components of a product usually change at the same pace and for the same reasons, it makes sense to have them in a mono-repo. Even in a microservices approach. Even in the cloud certain components can change at a different pace and for different reasons. For example if you have grpc api that talks to your mobile app and a webapi exposed to your customers.

I believe that components that move at a different pace and change for different reason should not be in the same repo. It is difficult to setup CI/CD for different ways of deployment and specially if they not changing at the same time.

Now, regarding security, it is important to keep different components of a product in different repos, this will give you the flexibility to manage a more restricted set of credentials and reduce the number of people that have access to it.

In the end it involved 3 things: 1) Sources of Change, 2) CI/CD Processes and 3) Security. You can definitely mix and match.

Making CPython Faster

aespinoza — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 15:47:12 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/857754/ca5c35e391007553/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27370052

Points: 4

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Lockless patterns: an introduction to compare-and-swap

aespinoza — Sun, 14 Mar 2021 06:05:54 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/847973/af897c27ea0c5e6b/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26453170

Points: 3

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New comment by aespinoza in "Ask HN: Monitors vs. 1 Big Monitor"

aespinoza — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 17:47:56 +0000

I haven't seen any research that has pointed to me to one or the other. I can however give you my own experience.

I have mixed feelings about this. I moved from multiple monitors to one big monitor. I do not see a considerable difference between one or the other.

Obviously this is all subjective so I cannot give you any numbers to back this up. I am however not going back to multiple monitors.

New comment by aespinoza in "Ask HN: I want to start learning Lisp. Where do I begin?"

aespinoza — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 17:02:22 +0000

This book made me fall in love with Lisp: Land of Lisp - https://nostarch.com/lisp.htm

I found it super helpful understanding everything there is about Lisp, and you can move from there.

New comment by aespinoza in "Ask HN: Who do you consider a genius in the CS world?"

aespinoza — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 21:26:13 +0000

Donald Knuth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth)

Leslie Lamport (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Lamport)

Ian Goodfellow (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Goodfellow)

Just to name a few....

Privacy by Design: A Holochain Exploration

aespinoza — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 15:33:56 +0000

Article URL: https://journal.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/article/view/2801/983

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24482406

Points: 1

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New comment by aespinoza in "Ask HN: If you prefer physical books, how do you read without breaking the bank?"

aespinoza — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 19:56:31 +0000

In the case of technical books, I have found that pricing is not that different from digital to physical books.

This is a good example: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1449373321/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_x_qQ8...

It is $29.99 for Kindle and Physical is $34.91.

New comment by aespinoza in "Ask HN: Is there a list of known software attack vectors?"

aespinoza — Thu, 10 Sep 2020 00:23:20 +0000

Not sure if this is what you are referring to, but this page contains a list of offensive techniques which could be used to create attack vectors:

https://attack.mitre.org/

New comment by aespinoza in "Tiny Core Linux Dead?"

aespinoza — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 15:31:51 +0000

I can access it fine: https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/tinycorelinux.net.html

Data on the Outside vs. Data on the Inside

aespinoza — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 17:10:03 +0000

Article URL: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3415014

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24225654

Points: 2

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New comment by aespinoza in "Ask HN: Ergonomic Keyboard Recommendations"

aespinoza — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 15:32:52 +0000

Basically what put me off was the way the keys are arranged in a semi circle. It was uncomfortable to code. I am not sure if it is because I have big hands or just the design didn't work for me.

New comment by aespinoza in "Ask HN: Ergonomic Keyboard Recommendations"

aespinoza — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 15:13:12 +0000

Most of the good ergonomic keyboards are around the same price. Look at this one which it is good, but I personally didn't like: https://kinesis-ergo.com/shop/advantage2/

You could try Microsoft's ergonomic keyboards, they are cheaper, but I personally didn't like them either: https://www.microsoft.com/accessories/en-us/products/keyboar...

New comment by aespinoza in "Ask HN: Ergonomic Keyboard Recommendations"

aespinoza — Tue, 18 Aug 2020 18:28:37 +0000

I love Ergodox (https://ergodox-ez.com/). There is a new keyboard by the same company which looks cool, but I haven't tried it yet: The Moonlander (https://www.zsa.io/moonlander/)

Broken Hearts and Coffee Mugs – The ordeal of security reviews

aespinoza — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 18:33:11 +0000

Article URL: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3407138

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24161541

Points: 1

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Zero Trust Architecture

aespinoza — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 22:38:35 +0000

Article URL: https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-207/final

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24137894

Points: 2

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