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How SSA Makes Long Context Practical

sirobg — Tue, 05 May 2026 23:08:31 +0000

Article URL: https://subq.ai/how-ssa-makes-long-context-practical

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48029961

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by sirobg in "Engineers repurpose a mosquito proboscis to create a 3D printing nozzle"

sirobg — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 08:53:02 +0000

I wonder if at scale this will lead to mosquito farms or to mosquito extinction in nature.

Of course I suspect it will be the former but the latter is way funnier.

We've been stuck with these insects for a while. It would be so funny that the solution to get rid of them was in fact the same that wiped out many species before: over exploitation of natural resources.

cc https://tornyol.com/

Neo Home Robot

sirobg — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 22:45:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.1x.tech/discover/neo-home-robot

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45740267

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by sirobg in "China vs. the West: Unity vs. Freedom"

sirobg — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 19:47:20 +0000

OP here.

Sharing this for the philosophical questions it raises, as well as what it means for politics in general. The discussion was super interesting to me, so I figured it might be to some other people here.

I'm not sharing this to discuss short term political subjects, neither to judge wether China or the West is better/worst.

China vs. the West: Unity vs. Freedom

sirobg — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 19:39:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.boris.fyi/unity-vs-freedom

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45056192

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

The Day Elon Musk Decided to Personally Rip Servers Out of a Data Center (2023)

sirobg — Sun, 25 May 2025 11:43:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/09/12/the-batshit-crazy-story-of-the-day-elon-musk-decided-to-personally-rip-servers-out-of-a-sacramento-data-center/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44087137

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by sirobg in "Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment"

sirobg — Fri, 16 May 2025 09:45:22 +0000

Did AI help at any step in the process?

The old man lost his horse: a 200 BCE Taoist parable on luck and fate

sirobg — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 22:47:35 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_old_man_lost_his_horse

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43732546

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

New comment by sirobg in "WikiTok"

sirobg — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 12:22:09 +0000

After seeing this, I (or rather, v0) created https://hnhell.com for the joke.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42946932

New comment by sirobg in "Show HN: HN as TikTok, welcome to HN hell"

sirobg — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 12:20:13 +0000

To be fair it is really not great, but it works for the joke and I'm impressed by how good it works for how little time it took.

Show HN: HN as TikTok, welcome to HN hell

sirobg — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 11:15:01 +0000

Inspired by WikiTok (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936723)

After making HN paradise: https://meet.hn

I had to make https://hnhell.com

Fully created with v0.dev: wanted to make the joke but didn't have time for it. Thanks v0!

It's even better as you will probably enjoy some very cursed errors/problems, which is expected in hell.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42946918

Points: 170

# Comments: 58

Buridan's Ass

sirobg — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 23:39:15 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan%27s_ass

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42847151

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by sirobg in "Ask HN: What Are Your Best Tips for Household Chores?"

sirobg — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 18:09:12 +0000

I would have liked to get the specific HNers pov.

New comment by sirobg in "Ask HN: What Are Your Best Tips for Household Chores?"

sirobg — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 15:09:25 +0000

Actually I just shared an example of the type of tips I had in mind. Limestone in the shower was pretty time-consuming to clean up, and using microfiber cloth and white vinegar made it much easier/better/faster.

New comment by sirobg in "Ask HN: What Are Your Best Tips for Household Chores?"

sirobg — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 15:07:32 +0000

Removed the optimizing part from the title. I shared an example of what I meant in a comment.

New comment by sirobg in "Ask HN: What Are Your Best Tips for Household Chores?"

sirobg — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 15:06:04 +0000

OP: White vinegar for limestone. With microfiber cloth it's very effective.

Ask HN: What Are Your Best Tips for Household Chores?

sirobg — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 15:02:44 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42757575

Points: 4

# Comments: 16

New comment by sirobg in "I've acquired a new superpower"

sirobg — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 23:38:41 +0000

Damn! After reading this I was surprised by the fact that this sounded very familiar.

I actually "practiced" a lot like this because I was always amused to notice how we could basically "see through" objects with this double-image thingy (see experiment below).

So I decided to film myself... and I was actually already doing a divergence! Not convergence!

Thanks a lot for your comment which made me realize that.

Experiment:

1. place your phone (handy size/shape for the experiment) in front of one eye (X), at about 20cm.

2. close the other eye (Y) and look at your phone

3. Open Y and look straight without focusing on the phone. By blinking Y, the double-image should appear/disappear, as if it was unveiling what's behind your phone.

4. By closing X and with Y open, looking at your phone, you should see it displaced from where it was when X was open and Y was closed. The size of this displacement is equal to the size of the double-image transparent part.

New comment by sirobg in "I've acquired a new superpower"

sirobg — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 19:55:00 +0000

Do you have a training method for divergence?

Similar to the finger moving closer and closer to the upper nose technique, for convergence.

New comment by sirobg in "I've acquired a new superpower"

sirobg — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 19:48:17 +0000

This is incredible! Works unbelievably well. Thanks for sharing!