Hacker News: romanzubenko

New comment by romanzubenko in "High Density Living, 2000 Years Ago: Inside the Roman Apartment Building"

romanzubenko — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:22:13 +0000

I really really wish, there was a VR game/app where I can transport myself to different places/times in the past and just walk around to get the texture and feel for what it felt like living in that time.

Walking around a Roman town, hearing what people talked like, what they wore, what technology was around, what did they do most of the day.

Someone please make it real.

New comment by romanzubenko in "OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019)"

romanzubenko — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:13:41 +0000

I remember seeing this article and example output text and feeling what's the big deal?

It wasn't until I got early access to GPT-3, that I though like something big is about to happen. At the time only a few companies/yc alums had access and I remember showing playground to people outside of tech, and my friend just kept asking "How does it know about my [x] domain? It it a trick?".

Self-Assembly Gets Automated in Reverse of 'Game of Life'

romanzubenko — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 03:20:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/self-assembly-gets-automated-in-reverse-of-game-of-life-20250910/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45245758

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by romanzubenko in "Ask HN: GCP Outage?"

romanzubenko — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 15:35:30 +0000

We first noticed google login issues with our app, can't login with google anywhere now, Google Analytics is down as well.

Section-174 is reversed: all US-based R&D expenses are now deductible

romanzubenko — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 19:34:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.afternoon.co/blog/section-174-is-reversed

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44513963

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by romanzubenko in "Judge said Meta illegally used books to build its AI"

romanzubenko — Mon, 05 May 2025 16:40:55 +0000

This is actually clever, let the market decide the price and the worth of each book for training. Pricing per model might be tricky, instead annual licensing for training might be better pricing structure. Very quickly all big publishers and big labs might find very precisely what the fair price is to pay per book/catalogue.

New comment by romanzubenko in "I tried making artificial sunlight at home"

romanzubenko — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 14:13:16 +0000

What’s the mechanism for sunlight/artificial light psoriasis treatment?

Open Duck Mini

romanzubenko — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 17:00:51 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/apirrone/Open_Duck_Mini

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43334591

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by romanzubenko in "Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today"

romanzubenko — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 19:33:51 +0000

Amazing outcome, congratulations! Back in 2015 working at Gusto as the first growth engineer I remember reading vwo blog to understand how a/b testing works.

New comment by romanzubenko in "Bench accounting services shutting down"

romanzubenko — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 23:56:38 +0000

If you are an ecom brand or tech startup - I'm CEO of Afternoon.co (YC F25) providing same services as Bench including year end tax filing, ready to onboard you asap, just email me at roman@afternoon.co

New comment by romanzubenko in "Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life"

romanzubenko — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:06:25 +0000

Amazing post, read through all blog posts in a single beat. I would be great to have a final blogpost on assembly process.

On a different note, it's mind-blowing that today one person today can do small scale design and manufacturing of a consumer electronics product. Super inspiring.

New comment by romanzubenko in "The President of Iran has died"

romanzubenko — Mon, 20 May 2024 03:23:19 +0000

President of Iran is not head of state for Iran, you might be thinking of Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, who is very much alive.

New comment by romanzubenko in "Ask HN: Do you also marvel at the complexity of everyday objects?"

romanzubenko — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 18:38:49 +0000

Not just the complexity but the absurd amount of human effort behind to produce every object around us.

As John Collison tweeted: "As you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren't just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity everything requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects."

https://twitter.com/collision/status/1529452415346302976

New comment by romanzubenko in "A drone that calculates coordinates using a camera and Google Maps"

romanzubenko — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 03:42:31 +0000

During the hackathon the team only did a simulated flight, not a real flight, so take the results on effectiveness with a grain of salt. In any environment with significant seasonal changes, localization based on google maps will be a lot harder.

New comment by romanzubenko in "Stable-Audio-Demo"

romanzubenko — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 04:26:58 +0000

As with Stable Diffusion, text prompting will be the least controllable way to get useful output with this model. I can easily imagine midi being used as an input with control net to essentially get a neural synthesizer.

New comment by romanzubenko in "Thoughts on tech employment"

romanzubenko — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 19:39:13 +0000

Did anyone perform an analysis on where the laid off employees for last 3 years went? According to layoffs.fyi nearly 500k were laid off since 2021, would be interesting to see if people mostly reshuffled within FAANG or there was a more structural talent migration e.g. from megacorps to startups.

Brilliant Frame – open-source AR glasses

romanzubenko — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 01:33:29 +0000

Article URL: https://brilliant.xyz/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39310334

Points: 31

# Comments: 8

New comment by romanzubenko in "23andMe's Fall"

romanzubenko — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:18:29 +0000

in 2021 Sequoia switched their strategy to hold on to stock of their portfolio companies for few more years after IPO.

"Sequoia is abandoning the 10-year venture fund, in which limited partners, the outside investors that contribute to the fund, expect to get paid back over a decade. The firm said it’s establishing a single fund, the Sequoia Fund, that will raise money from LPs and then funnel that capital down to a series of smaller funds that invest by stage.

Proceeds from those funds will feed back into the Sequoia Fund. With no time horizon, Sequoia can hold public stock for longer stretches, rather than distributing those shares to LPs. Investors who want liquidity can pull money out instead of waiting for distributions."

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/26/sequoia-changes-fund-structu...

Good News Stories You Didn't Hear About in 2023

romanzubenko — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 15:51:04 +0000

Article URL: https://futurecrunch.com/goodnews2023/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38772781

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by romanzubenko in "2,300-year-old mosaic made of shells and coral found under Rome"

romanzubenko — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 16:09:49 +0000

Making something so extremely beautiful is the surest way to optimize for long term longevity.