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Article URL: https://techxplore.com/news/2025-04-ambisonics-algorithm-rich-virtual-soundscapes.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43741284

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Article URL: https://liorsinai.github.io/mathematics/2020/08/27/secant-mercator.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43741273

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Article URL: https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/sparsely-gated-mixture-of-experts-moe/

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Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/04/usaid-doge-children-starvation/682484/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43741223

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Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/3c3977cd-e503-4d71-aa3b-7b2f23591d55

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Article URL: http://www.alpcamapa.org/docs/Clout%20on%20%20Plate.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43741198

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Article URL: https://www.speedrun.com/news/k28oeo54-twitch-highlight-limit-speedruns-at-risk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43741195

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Article URL: https://sfstandard.com/2025/04/17/doge-neh-funding-cuts-sf/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43741191

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I'm a high school senior who spent the past few weeks simulating GPT behavior across long-form and iterative tasks. During that time, I discovered a persistent cache loop—where failed outputs would be reused, PDF render attempts caused silent token overloads, and session degradation worsened over time.

I documented this publicly with reproducible behavior and cleanup proposals: → https://github.com/sks38317/gpt-cache-optimization/releases/...

Highlights from the release: - Token flushing failure during long outputs (e.g., PDF export) - Recursive reuse of failed cache content - Session decay from unpurged content - Trigger-based cleanup logic proposal

Before publishing, I submitted a formal message to OpenAI Support. Here's part of what I wrote:

> “I’ve shared feedback and proposals related to GPT behavior and system design, including: > - Memory simulation via user-side prompts > - Cache-loop issues and PDF rendering instability > - A framework modeling Systemic Risk (SSR) and Social Instability Probability (SIP) > - RFIM-inspired logic for agent-level coordination > > I only ask whether any of it was ever reviewed or considered internally.”

Their response was polite but opaque:

> “Thanks for your thoughtful contribution. We regularly review feedback, > but cannot provide confirmation, reference codes, or tracking status.”

Shortly after, I began observing GPT responses subtly reflecting concepts from the release—loop suppression, content cleanup triggers, and reduced carryover behavior.

It might be coincidence. But if independent contributors are echoing system patterns before they appear—and getting silence in return—maybe that’s worth discussing.

If you’ve had feedback disappear into the void and return uncredited, you’re not alone.

*sks38317* (independent contributor, archiving the things that quietly reappear)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43741181

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Article URL: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/elon-musk-cuts-funding-for-internet-archive/ar-AA1DdVSe

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Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1k2b1v4/the_subjective_charms_of_objectivec/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43741107

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Article URL: https://sandyuraz.com/blogs/nine-rules/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43741103

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Article URL: https://hoverbear.org/blog/rust-state-machine-pattern/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43741051

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Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78nZ-JJNmzQ

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Article URL: https://www.sirket.io/

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If you know your web application will not need scale ever, then you don't need a distributed system.

However, learning distribtued system design is not that complicated unless you are an entry-level developer.

I guess people who tell others to not care about scalability for a software startup are probably marketers, hustlers, or financiers who consider product building as someone else's responsibility and are willing to discard failing products and hire developers for a new product. They typically try to fail quickly, discard companies, and start new ones. That's why these types love starting with agency businesses which don't require product development. You can learn a lot from them, but if you are a solo software entrepreneur, product development is your responsibility, and you should learn distributed system design before writing code or starting a business. You wouldn't hire entry-level engineers for your business, would you?

I think it's valuable to learn distributed system design and basic software engineering techniques like unit tests and documentation and functional programming and simplcity-oriented software design(rich hickey's simple made easy).

After you learn basic software engineering and distributed system design, you can reuse these design patterns over and over for the rest of your life and move quickly as a solo software entrepreneur.

It's a one-time cost that pays for the rest of your life. Design is cheap. Fixing a production system that has a fundamentally broken design that can't scale is very expensive. Solo software entrepreneurs should start with a solid distributed system design instead of trying to bolt scalability and solid software engineering practices onto production web applications. Many other online businesses suffered scalability issues so that you don't have to. You don't have to learn from your own mistakes when you can learn from other people's mistakes.

You can be a marketer or a hustler as a solo software entrepreneur once you learn distributed system design and basic software engineering.

Solo software entrepreneurs shouldn't try to copy marketers and financiers who have money to hire quality engineers.

I also recommend not using SaaS frameworks because the cost will snowball if you try to grow. AWS lambda isn't really free of infrastructure management. If you use SaaS, use ones that you can easily migrate away from. You don't want to be locked into specific vendors.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43741015

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Article URL: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adu1052

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43741013

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Article URL: https://jerf.org/iri/post/2025/go_layered_design/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43740992

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Article URL: https://thisisfranciswu.com/enterprise-ui-palette-generator/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43740951

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Article URL: https://boilingsteam.com/orange-pi-rv2-new-risc-v-board-review/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43740903

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