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New comment by sirpilade in "It's still ok to enjoy programming"

sirpilade — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 19:00:48 +0000

I’ve been thinking for a while that these tools should be slower. This doesn’t mean lower quality, they could still think (ah wait, overthink) at same speed. I’d just like them to output text at the same speed I can read and understand. This would make it more like a conversation, where you hear the flow of concepts coming and at the same time think about it and get involved in the conversation. For some reason I enjoy more running a local LLM at 4 t/s than a faster than thought change to my whole codebase by Opus

New comment by sirpilade in "Ask HN: What are you reading?"

sirpilade — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 07:50:06 +0000

Aeneid, it’s been a while since my school years

New comment by sirpilade in "Nesbox: A fast MicroVM with GPU sharing"

sirpilade — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:25:36 +0000

Is there anything similar for sharing cuda computing capabilities?

Russia is ramping up mass production of drone motors

sirpilade — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:12:37 +0000

Article URL: https://theins.press/en/inv/295510

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120377

Points: 2

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AI models' values are different from most people's

sirpilade — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 05:01:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/briefing/2026/06/25/ai-models-values-are-very-different-from-most-peoples

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48916463

Points: 4

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Lens Aberrations Explained (2023)

sirpilade — Sun, 24 May 2026 20:42:38 +0000

Article URL: https://phillipreeve.net/blog/lens-aberrations-explained-part-1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48260828

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by sirpilade in "TiddlyWiki v5.4.0"

sirpilade — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 06:42:08 +0000

IMHO, it's dependability. It's easy and flexible because I can set it up as a web service or use it offline. For the average reader of HN, it takes probably 10 min to set it as web service with npm and reverse proxy + SSL and then you can use it from any device. With a little CSS it can be beautiful and with plugins you can have a connection graph similar to Obisidian. Once it runs, then I don't need to worry about updating it every other hour because of bug fixes and compatibility breaks. And I know it will be there for the next 20+ years.

New comment by sirpilade in "The Claude Code Leak"

sirpilade — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:02:50 +0000

As a more general comment, I hope we’ll stop trying to discriminate whether a certain text was or not written/polished/extended by AI and focus more on content and author’s responsibility for what they do or do not say with that text.

New comment by sirpilade in "Show HN: Kula – Lightweight, self-contained Linux server monitoring tool"

sirpilade — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 07:17:02 +0000

I think that having the « How it works » section in the README makes the aim of the project a lot easier to understand

New comment by sirpilade in "Google Safe Browsing missed 84% of confirmed phishing sites"

sirpilade — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:24:33 +0000

Pun aside, I cannot fully trust a centralized URL checker on a remote server that I don’t own, even if they guarantee that my privacy is safe

New comment by sirpilade in "Google Safe Browsing missed 84% of confirmed phishing sites"

sirpilade — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:05:39 +0000

But hits 100% of browsing tracking

New comment by sirpilade in "How to take a photo with scotch tape (lensless imaging) [video]"

sirpilade — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 05:41:45 +0000

Yes, but it’s not flipped

New comment by sirpilade in "US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private"

sirpilade — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 23:19:52 +0000

Is anybody using any open source, self-hosted solution with an UI on par to whatsapp? Asking for my wife

New comment by sirpilade in "'Stop sending butt plugs to Bahrain'"

sirpilade — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:49:19 +0000

I just wanted to say that I enjoyed your story and I am deeply sorry for your loss.

New comment by sirpilade in "Your Prize for Saving Time at Work with AI: More Work"

sirpilade — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 06:42:43 +0000

Altough I’m not an economist, it seems that the events shown in the graph coincide with the suspension of dollar - gold convertibility until then regulated by Bretton Woods monetary system

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_system

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock

New comment by sirpilade in "Smalltalk, Haskell and Lisp"

sirpilade — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 19:57:46 +0000

I’m curious to know what would be your top reading suggestions for learning CL

New comment by sirpilade in "Londoners will soon see drones ferrying blood between hospitals"

sirpilade — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 20:18:55 +0000

Good to hear, although not a first. For example, this has been happening in Lugano, Switzerland since 2017 [1]. And I guess in other places too

[1] https://www.tio.ch/ticino/attualita/1138424/ecco-all-opera-i...

New comment by sirpilade in "Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything (1985)"

sirpilade — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 09:00:21 +0000

well, I meant unmindful as in trying to forget that to get to the point where you stand today you had to pass past some doors that you decided not to open. A child-like attitude towards discovery, free from preconceptions. Then, after discovery, we should ground ourselves and leverage from our adult experience. My own experience with great thinkers I knew (some Nobel-prize level) is that we need to go from moments of imagination to moments of reality check many times. Kind of the same line as Feynman’s experience

New comment by sirpilade in "Fluorite lenses: Corrective capabilities beyond ordinary optical glass"

sirpilade — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 08:37:06 +0000

Yes the explanation is diffraction. As light passes through a lens, diffraction acts in similar way as a light through a small pinhole. Incidentally, pinholes and apertures are low pass filters.

Some more info here

Miles V. Klein, Thomas E. Furtak - Optics 2nd ed, Wiley

Joseph W. Goodman - Introduction to Fourier optics, W.H. Freeman

New comment by sirpilade in "Feynman: I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything (1985)"

sirpilade — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 13:35:55 +0000

I totally agree with your comment. I should add that, as the Romans used to say quite some time ago, 'Audentes fortuna juvat' (fortune favors the bold). With this I mean to say that some more optimistic and unmindful attitude usually helps in finding those doors, or at least in forgetting the ones that did not eventually open.