<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: pstorm</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pstorm</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 23:52:53 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=pstorm" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pstorm in "GPT-5.6"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cost and intelligence aren't the only axes. Terra has better latency and output speed than Sol for example.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:24:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48852549</link><dc:creator>pstorm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48852549</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48852549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pstorm in "Backpressure is all you need"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’ve been building this out too, and your comment made me realize the missing piece for me. I’ve given the agents tools to validate its own work, but I haven’t improved the experience of humans verifying the agents’ work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 15:52:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48346710</link><dc:creator>pstorm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48346710</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48346710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pstorm in "Show HN: Mechs.lol – a free, web-based autoshooter game"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I played again and found issues. After level 40ish, basically nothing can hurt you. You heal too fast. And once I got past level 80ish, I was running so fast, I ran through walls. And the saddest part, I got to level 200+ and couldn’t die to lock in my high score! It was a fun time though, thanks for sharing this game!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 21:42:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48261283</link><dc:creator>pstorm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48261283</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48261283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pstorm in "Show HN: Mechs.lol – a free, web-based autoshooter game"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This was more fun than I was expecting. Nice way to waste 20 min!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 19:01:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48239981</link><dc:creator>pstorm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48239981</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48239981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pstorm in "Ask HN: Best Embedding Models?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>At a minimum, you increase top-k to cast a wider net, then after reranking, take the N you really want. You have to play around with it a bit, but that’s the idea.</p>
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<p>I’m very surprised this isn’t getting more attention. Am I missing something?<p>It seems at or above SOTA on the given benchmarks, doesn’t have context rot, is orders of magnitude faster, and uses less compute that current transformer models. I suppose it’s just an announcement and we can’t test it ourselves yet.</p>
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<p>Just fyi, for RAG/similarity search, adding a reranker was much bigger pay off than switching embedding models.</p>
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<p>I built one of the top 3 results on Google when you search “compound interest calculator” and a dozen other similarly popular calculator pages.<p>The value isn’t the interface, it’s the trust that its calculations are accurate. I can’t tell you how many meetings I had with accountants and finance people to validate all the calculations.</p>
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<p>Being flexible is important, but the latest research shows that heavy lifting improves flexibility about as much as a dedicated stretching program: <a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9935664/" rel="nofollow">https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9935664/</a></p>
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<p>That’s a new fire as of a couple hours ago - Sunset Fire. There are 5 going on in LA at the moment.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2025 05:47:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42642031</link><dc:creator>pstorm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42642031</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42642031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pstorm in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Less than 10% of my projects ever made anything. Check out indiehackers.com - tons of old posts of people starting things, but the domain is dead when you click through.</p>
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<p>I’ve worked in e-commerce for years and the thing that always slows down the sites the most is 3rd party scripts. Are you addressing this? I couldn’t find anything in the repo.<p>Ive had websites slow down 10x just by introducing the Facebook re-targeting script for instance</p>
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<p>Fyi regarding cover images: I have built and run a handful of book related websites and Amazon is the easiest place I found to get book covers. You just need the Amazon id and every image is a standard url.</p>
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<p>This resonates a lot. For years, I would dive in for a week or two, sometimes I would make it to a few months. Lately, I've just been telling myself no, to keep focus on my start up, but it sometimes feels like I'm squandering this spark of energy you described. I absolutely love your approach of doing the planning in that initial burst rather than just getting some part of the idea working in a day or two.<p>I think those ultra-productive days earlier in my career account for some of the best learning, but now, over a decade into software engineering, focusing on the planning aspect seems much more prudent.</p>
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<p>I've recently come to believe the differences in hypertrophy are negligible between eccentric and concentric focused movements, but can't find any recent, compelling research that says so. There was a 2017 meta analysis by Brad Schoenfeld (basically THE hypertrophy researcher) that showed a pretty significant different in hypertrophy: an average of 10% vs 6.8%.<p>I know Greg Nuckols from StrongerByScience believes this is mostly caused by lifters, especially untrained lifters which most of the research is on, having spent less time in eccentric phases so there is more opportunity for growth there, but it will eventually plateau.</p>
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<p>This is RAG. They are <i>retrieving</i> specific info to <i>augment</i> the <i>generation</i></p>
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<p>I'm trying to understand this approach. Maybe I am expecting too much out of this basic approach, but how does this create a similarity between words with indices close to each other? Wouldn't it just be a popularity contest - the more common words have higher indices and vice versa? For instance, "king" and "prince" wouldn't necessarily have similar indices, but they are semantically very similar.</p>
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<p>Came here to say this exact thing. I have the exact modem/router mentioned in the article - my reliability, speed, and coverage all improved when I switched to my own $100 router.</p>
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<p>I looked into this to see where it was getting new information, and as far as I can tell, it is searching wikipedia exclusively. Useful for sure, but not exactly what I was expecting based on the title.</p>
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<p>I’ve never really thought about this before, but it is obvious in hindsight. When I finally made enough money to move into a newer apartment, the noise from neighbors and outside was almost nonexistent. It was a stark contrast, but I never thought about how that affected my sleep/productivity, let alone how it would affect all apartment dwellers.</p>
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