<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: sota_pop</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sota_pop</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:19:33 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=sota_pop" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sota_pop in "Why it’s impossible to measure England’s coastline"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That’s fair, the “practically plagiarize” comment was admittedly harsh and quickly written.It’s obviously an allusion to the paper.<p>Nevertheless, referencing the LFR work and merely including a link where the paper is discussed feels a little like beating around the bush. The primary article doesn’t seem to use the words “self-similar” nor “fractal” - if you’re only interested in LFR work, why reference Mandelbrot at all?</p>
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<p>How on earth can you write an article that practically plagiarizes the title, mention the paradox, and neither mention mandelbrot nor cite the original paper anywhere!?<p><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ion-Andronache/post/What_are_the_methods_of_measuring_the_length_of_a_statistical_self-similar_fractal/attachment/59d62e2bc49f478072e9ee15/AS%3A273572499525635%401442236174573/download/howLongIsTheCoastOfBritain.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ion-Andronache/post/Wha...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 02:09:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47760438</link><dc:creator>sota_pop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47760438</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47760438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sota_pop in "Ask HN: How do you handle clients who don't pay on time?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In what industry do you work?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:37:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47644253</link><dc:creator>sota_pop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47644253</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47644253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sota_pop in "From zero to a RAG system: successes and failures"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nice writeup. I’m curious why you went with chromadb and not pgvector. I haven’t built a rag system myself, but I’ve always understood the initial doc parsing to be a major challenge alone, so kudos there!<p>Additionally, I also thought it was customary to store a pointer to the source in the same row as the vector (i.e. vector+ doc path + page#/paragraph/etc.) OR just store the original text chunk (though based on your disk reqs doesn’t sound like it would have been feasible).<p>Glad you’re having good results! Maybe you’ve inspired me to finally try out a similar setup myself!</p>
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<p>Very much this, it’s all the technical rigour, code debt, and none of controls/reversibility.<p>At least when I report fraud to credit card or my bank, they can stop or undo/chargeback a transaction.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:51:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47496772</link><dc:creator>sota_pop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47496772</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47496772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sota_pop in "The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I really hope this is a TiST reference.</p>
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<p>Or actually good (for smartphones…): radial drag so my thumb can slide ergonomically. Have the entire phone UI/UX have a left/right hand setting.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:01:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478242</link><dc:creator>sota_pop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478242</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sota_pop in "The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Single pushbutton: roll to set volume to random number.<p>> clean, concise, single button</p>
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<p>An org Microsoft’s size doesn’t do ANYTHING without 2 or 3 focus groups and an executive retreat.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 03:47:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47463788</link><dc:creator>sota_pop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47463788</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47463788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sota_pop in "Astral to Join OpenAI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> uvex init my_new_slop_project —-describe “make me the bestest saas that will make $1M ARR per day”
—-disable_thinking
—-disable_slop_scaffolded_feature<p>> uvex add other_slop_project —-disable_peddled_package_recommendations<p>> implicitly phoning home your project, all source code, its metadata, and inferring whether your idea/use-case is worth steamrolling with their own version.<p>This is the future of “development”. Congrats to the team.</p>
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<p>Is this whole concept essentially a fundamental misunderstanding of the difference between "encryption" and "encoding"? I don't mean to be pedantic and don't want to make assumptions due to my respect for the source, but I don't understand how you can meaningfully manipulate the data that has been _actually_ encrypted? Doesn't the ability to accurately manipulate it imply that you have some understanding of its underlying meaning? The article is light on algorithmic details:<p>> "...a mathematical transformation, sort of like the Fourier transform. It encrypts data using a quantum-computer-proof algorithm..."<p>I am assuming there is some deep learning at play here i.e. it is manipulating the data within the latent space. If this is true, then would the embedding process really be considered "encryption"? You could argue it is security through obscurity (in the sense that the latent space basis is arbitrary/learned), but it feels like two different things to me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:02:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47370573</link><dc:creator>sota_pop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47370573</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47370573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sota_pop in "Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is it really oss death if SO many projects are created and shared by individuals that indie dev seems commonplace?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 13:37:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47060784</link><dc:creator>sota_pop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47060784</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47060784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sota_pop in "Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This reminds me of a gag voting simulation website from the early 2000s when BushJr was running for president against Al Gore. The (maybe flash?) game simulated voting, but when you tried to click, the buttons would “run away” from the cursor, or change size to avoid being clicked… dark patterns… always fun to “play against”.<p>More recently though, I must say, YouTube has really jumped the shark in terms of perfecting their dark patterns/algo stickiness. I can’t even go to the site without immediately forgetting my original intent.</p>
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<p>I feel I could write a long response to every comment in this thread as notekeeping is something I consider critical.
Knowing when to commit to “The capital-N Notebook” is something I’ve struggled with as well. What has been effective for me is to scribble daily on a marker/chalk/dry erase board and then transpose the final thought into “The Notebook” at the end of each day. This lets me format, err, mull, etc. and the final (sic clean) notebook still has enough granularity to retrace my thoughts in the med-to-long term.</p>
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<p>But this is the way of computer science at large for the last 15-20 years… most new CS students I’ve encountered have spent so much time grinding algorithms and OS classes that they don’t have life experience or awareness to build anything that doesn’t solve the problems of other CS practitioners.<p>The problem is two-fold… abstract thinking begets more abstract thinking, and the common advice to young, aspiring entrepreneurs of “scratch your own itch” ie dogfooding has gone wrong in a big way.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 05:05:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843779</link><dc:creator>sota_pop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843779</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sota_pop in "A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Slopacolypse
Really… <i>REALLY</i> not looking forward to getting this word spammed at me the next 6-12 months… even less so seeing the actual manifestation.<p>> TLDR
This should be at the start?<p>I actually have been thinking of trying out ClaudeCode/OpenCode over this past week… can anyone provide experience, tips, tricks, ref docs?<p>My normal workflow is using Free-tier ChatGPT to help me interrogate or plan my solution/ approach or to understand some docs/syntax/best practice of which I’m not familiar. then doing the implementation myself.</p>
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<p>This concept comes up a lot, especially on this site. I am sometimes surprised how seldomly it is mentioned by this name:
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikigai" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikigai</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:08:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46697769</link><dc:creator>sota_pop</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46697769</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46697769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by sota_pop in "Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 visa requests"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To use anecdotes of specific influencers or even to cultural short/med-term memes misses the OP’s fundamental point in saying<p>> “this is the future of culture”.<p>The point is that the future of “culture” is increasingly decentralized; that the ability or more aptly, the opportunity, to accumulate “cultural influence” will tend towards higher entropy as a direct repercussion to the proliferation of the means to accumulate it.<p>Put differently, as the hardware and software used to record, store, and share content become more widely accessible, anyone with the access and motivation to use the tools truly has the opportunity to become famous.</p>
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<p>What an incredible read.</p>
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<p>I always thought it should be called “ComputING Science” as opposed to “ComputER Science”.</p>
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