Hacker News: akutlay

New comment by akutlay in "Amazon Web Services – Four Years and Out"

akutlay — Sun, 24 May 2026 14:07:08 +0000

“Flexible” would work if Amazon prioritized moving people around when the priorities change instead of laying off and rehiring.

You can easily call the typical Japanese life-long employees as “flexible” or “generalist” but not an employee of a company with median tenure rate of 1-2 years. That’s fungible.

New comment by akutlay in "Using OR-Tools CP-SAT for Scheduling Problems"

akutlay — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:28:33 +0000

You may have tried this already but often times systems require things to be sticky (ex: to increase caching efficiency) and that usually helps solving large problems since most solvers accept "hints" or "warm starts". CP-SAT does a great job accepting hints and cuts down the search time significantly if the hint is good.

Using OR-Tools CP-SAT for Scheduling Problems

akutlay — Wed, 13 May 2026 11:02:57 +0000

Article URL: https://atalaykutlay.com/or-tools-cp-sat-for-scheduling-problems.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120351

Points: 87

# Comments: 28

New comment by akutlay in "Layoffs at Block"

akutlay — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:55:45 +0000

> and is admitting he didn't see the AI thing coming

You miss the point that this is not about AI in the first place

New comment by akutlay in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

akutlay — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:39:53 +0000

As long as HackerNews community keeps the quality of the conversation high (with or without AI), I don’t think many of us will question this too much

New comment by akutlay in "Grok Sexual Images Draw Rebuke, France Flags Content as Illegal"

akutlay — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 14:53:02 +0000

This was in fact flagged (though no indication on the title) yesterday, approximately 2 hours after it was on the second page.

New comment by akutlay in "Grok Sexual Images Draw Rebuke, France Flags Content as Illegal"

akutlay — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 22:36:45 +0000

Also see: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/it-...

New comment by akutlay in "Grok Sexual Images Draw Rebuke, France Flags Content as Illegal"

akutlay — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 22:35:05 +0000

It seems X's Grok became the first large LLM provider to weaken the content moderation rules. If people don't react enough, we will likely lose the first line of defense for keeping AI safe for anyone. Large providers need to act responsibly as the barrier of entry is practically 0.

Grok Sexual Images Draw Rebuke, France Flags Content as Illegal

akutlay — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 22:35:05 +0000

Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/grok-sexual-images-draw-rebuke-180354505.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46470317

Points: 58

# Comments: 94

New comment by akutlay in "Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?"

akutlay — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 23:37:17 +0000

Great list, thank you. The only thing to note is that whenever I imported a large list like this in the past, I always stopped checking my RSS reader after a while because the content wasn't interesting. I think finding RSS/adding it to a reader should happen organically over time.

New comment by akutlay in "iPhone Air"

akutlay — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 02:39:27 +0000

Yes but the name “Air” claims lightweight, not thin

Getting Started with Nvidia CuOpt

akutlay — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 18:55:56 +0000

Article URL: https://atalaykutlay.com/getting-started-with-cuopt.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44399299

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by akutlay in "My iPhone 8 Refuses to Die: Now It's a Solar-Powered Vision OCR Server"

akutlay — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 03:11:06 +0000

I would guess they do it because they want to minimize the chance that someone will install an unapproved app to someone’s phone and cause harm. I know it’s already pretty hard but Apple seems to be very particular when it comes to this.

New comment by akutlay in "Utah becomes first US state to ban fluoride in its water"

akutlay — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 18:46:48 +0000

It's not that they can't afford a $3 toothpaste, it is the environment they are in that makes it hard to prioritize things like this. It is the education and the overall life quality (or the lack there of) that causes this problem.

New comment by akutlay in "An investigation into egg prices"

akutlay — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 02:36:53 +0000

This seems to align with the article. The article states 3 to 5 percent decline after 2021. I see about the same in this graph.

New comment by akutlay in "GLP-1 drugs: An economic disruptor? (2024)"

akutlay — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 14:51:18 +0000

All the countries above US have less than 1M population and generally poor countries. Saying that obesity is not related to the underlying social problems in the US showing this data is ridiculous.

Writing a MILP Solver from Scratch Part 1 – Reading MPs

akutlay — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 18:13:44 +0000

Article URL: https://atalaykutlay.com/writing-a-milp-solver-reading-mps.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43003301

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by akutlay in "The Fannie and Freddie trade is back"

akutlay — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 13:21:31 +0000

Bloomberg may be the last company to be concerned about free information, thinking about their five digit annual fees for the terminal.

MySQL Ifnull Is Tricky

akutlay — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 21:11:34 +0000

Article URL: https://atalaykutlay.com/if-null-is-tricky.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42578960

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by akutlay in "Nvidia bets on robotics to drive future growth"

akutlay — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 17:12:01 +0000

I think AWS showed us that it could work for enterprises too.