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New comment by egeozcan in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"

egeozcan — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:34:19 +0000

My son and we as his parents really love Bluey, but it's impossible to buy a DVD set here in Germany, with German dub, because Disney distributes it exclusively through their plus platform.

There are many more examples like these. Very sad state of affairs.

New comment by egeozcan in "AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog"

egeozcan — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:51:39 +0000

People hate the false effort signaling. Photos require effort and skill to take, and while it's perhaps less than an oil painting, it's still something.

If you push AI-generated content to make stuff look fancy, it's a bad idea. If you generate stuff to communicate more clearly, I don't see a problem.

New comment by egeozcan in "Karpathy’s Pelican"

egeozcan — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:31:41 +0000

Black mirror is the dark version of simpsons with a bit of xkcd.

New comment by egeozcan in "More German than many Germans"

egeozcan — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:26:00 +0000

Came to Germany to do an MBA at 2009, plan was to go back to Turkey after 5 years. Still there (well currently temporarily in south Turkey for vacation).

Germans are very nice, Germany is very nice, and I applied to be German finally last year after getting the 30th "come on be German already" letter (I'm lazy af). They told me (us, together with my wife) that they need 30 months to process the application, lol.

There are many things to complain about, many things to love, lots of tolerance, AfD is scary (very similar to AKP, the party that made me leave Turkey in the first place) but these days I think more positive. I'm trying to be one of those people who try to keep things going for everyone. Adlerian stuff :)

I think staying here was one of the best decisions of my life. Here's to the next 17 years in this land of the meckerei with love.

New comment by egeozcan in "Devtools must be open source"

egeozcan — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:11:21 +0000

The thing that made me pull the plug on claude subscription was that I couldn't use pi.

I can use codex on pi, deepseek on pi, I use them on different tasks and let them review each other.

Tell deepseek flash anything you want changed and a minute later it's there.

Forget vibe coding, I'm vibe-using the thing and having so much fun.

New comment by egeozcan in "Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale"

egeozcan — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:41:00 +0000

> One vCPU means nothing, which chip? which SIMD? what RAM speed? what storage? what latency?

Don't forget: When will all of this change?

New comment by egeozcan in "The US is not a democracy but an oligarchy, study concludes (2014)"

egeozcan — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:15:20 +0000

To complete the circle: The definition of working is vastly different among humans, and that's why we have (or trying to have) democracy.

New comment by egeozcan in "Karpathy’s Pelican"

egeozcan — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 17:59:38 +0000

Training impossibilities aside, how would you even make an optimization loop for "fun"?

New comment by egeozcan in "Karpathy’s Pelican"

egeozcan — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 17:57:11 +0000

> They just have the creative instincts of a 50 year old accountant

That's oddly specific and it'd really hurt my cousins feelings :)

New comment by egeozcan in "Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built"

egeozcan — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 10:59:43 +0000

Let's accept that engineering has 2 different uses and that's okay. If I tell people that I'm a civil engineer with nothing to show for it, it'd be as big of a problem like pretending to be an MD. For software engineering, however, you'd just be at the start of your career.

I think it's fine.

New comment by egeozcan in "Hamburg's Stadtpark: A Park Built to Be Used"

egeozcan — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 11:48:24 +0000

Yeah thanks for the response! We actually didn't consider Harburg exactly because of the bad reputation, but thanks to your comment we'll have another look. Cheers!

New comment by egeozcan in "DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update"

egeozcan — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:31:20 +0000

Every time I want to have fun coding something with natural language processing, I use deepseek flash. It's just incredible for the price. I have a fairly popular app with 400 users that uses DeepSeek in the background and it still didn't hit even 50 bucks of usage in a month.

New comment by egeozcan in "Hamburg's Stadtpark: A Park Built to Be Used"

egeozcan — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:03:55 +0000

For a family of three (2 adults, both working full time + a 3 year-old), are there places to live that doesn't require us to sell our kidneys to pay rent and are reasonable in terms of commute + services?

New comment by egeozcan in "Hamburg's Stadtpark: A Park Built to Be Used"

egeozcan — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:01:09 +0000

We're living in Hesse and every time we make the long trip to go to Hamburg the Stadtpark is where we spend most of our time. You'll think I'm exaggerating but honestly, we're thinking of moving to Hamburg and the Stadtpark is the biggest reason.

Hamburg is a wonderful city, there's also that :)

New comment by egeozcan in "Show HN: Bullshit Detector – agent skills that fact-check videos and articles"

egeozcan — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:52:16 +0000

That was an exceptionally fun to read slop :) Cool idea in any case!

New comment by egeozcan in "Choose DuckDB rather than SQLite"

egeozcan — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:29:37 +0000

TL;DR: SQLite was doing OLAP work it was never built for (and it was okay at it, I must add), and the perf. ceiling moves two orders of magnitude when you use something that's more fit for the purpose (DuckDB in this case).

TLDRTL;DR: If everything you do is column-store territory, use a column-store.

New comment by egeozcan in "Show HN: Bullshit Detector – agent skills that fact-check videos and articles"

egeozcan — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:18:47 +0000

Can someone please use this skill against the claims in its own repo?

New comment by egeozcan in "Hubble: Open-source notetaking app for you and your agents"

egeozcan — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 03:15:30 +0000

I think it looks high quality. Perhaps it needs a way for those mini-html apps to store data? Also some additional docs and clear marketing that differentiates it from Obsidian would be cool as well.

New comment by egeozcan in "Hubble: Open-source notetaking app for you and your agents"

egeozcan — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 02:56:54 +0000

I also have one I developed according to my use: https://github.com/egeozcan/mahpastes

It has a rest api and a cli tool, and also the possibility to make headless deployments, and it can sync clips without a sync server. It can serve folders/tags and optionally expose a read or read/write api for JSON files on the same level. It supports lua plugins, and I have a fal.ai plugin to generate/edit images already in the repo (some other examples there).

It has a lot of features so maybe it's better if I just link to the docs: https://egeozcan.github.io/mahpastes/

New comment by egeozcan in "Kimi Linear: An Expressive, Efficient Attention Architecture (2025)"

egeozcan — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:02:36 +0000

> It's clearly a forcible, aggressive, non-consensual attempt to take something

Distillers are not taking anything, they are just making their model learn from better ones - isn't that the whole AI training doesn't violate IP argument?

They just aren't using the tool in compliance with the terms of service. Anthropic could ban them or take them to court maybe. Not an attack still.