Hacker News: selcuka

New comment by selcuka in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

selcuka — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:34:03 +0000

> I typically seek employment

Your username does not check out.

New comment by selcuka in "Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model"

selcuka — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:08:08 +0000

> Lying about model capability is right now the lingua franca of the cloud AI business model

Lying about your lab's capabilities != Lying about model capability

Exaggerating the capabilities of a new model that you've actually trained in press bulletins can be called marketing. Merging two models and claiming that you trained a new model is plain lazy.

New comment by selcuka in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

selcuka — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:09:38 +0000

I got sent a 6-page spec document with a footnote that says "this spec was created with AI, so it may have nonsensical sections. Feel free to fix them."

New comment by selcuka in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

selcuka — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:02:02 +0000

> Is it the end result that matters, or the process of creating it?

I think this comment misses the point. Let's forget about AI and assume that there are three developers: A, B, and C. Now, A is supposed to make a PR, but instead they describe it to B, and B writes the code. C reviews the PR and gives feedback. A passes the feedback and the responses between B and C.

As you see, this is not easy for either B or C, and A is totally useless in this scenario. When you replace B with an LLM that doesn't get tired or bored, only C complains about the process.

New comment by selcuka in "MiMo Code is now released and open-source"

selcuka — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:20:59 +0000

Your reply doesn't answer the question: What is their motivation for any of it?

New comment by selcuka in "Lines of code got a better publicist"

selcuka — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:08:02 +0000

HN is probably astroturfed, but it is also one of those places where a lot of actual subject experts frequent. I don't find it unusual that a new model gets instantly posted here. It is also not unexpected that the most recently released model is the best model.

New comment by selcuka in "Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public"

selcuka — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:53:17 +0000

If you look at the milestones it's a small subset of AWS features, but yeah, the estimate is still off.

New comment by selcuka in "Claude Fable 5"

selcuka — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:25:51 +0000

> Does Anthropic even employ biologists?

They do, and they are still actively hiring.

https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5066977008 https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5239733008

New comment by selcuka in "Claude Fable 5"

selcuka — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:52:02 +0000

It is already disclosed [1]:

> I have not accepted payments from LLM vendors, but I am frequently invited to preview new LLM products and features from organizations that include OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and Mistral, often under NDA or subject to an embargo. This often also includes free API credits and invitations to events.

[1] https://simonwillison.net/about/

New comment by selcuka in "macOS Container Machines"

selcuka — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:09:20 +0000

So this is Darwin/BSD Subsystem for Linux 2.

New comment by selcuka in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

selcuka — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:30:45 +0000

I made a domain name finder to find domain names for my countless side projects (many of which I've never even started):

https://smartdomainfinder.com/

It uses an LLM to generate domain name alternatives that are relevant to your keywords, then checks whether any of those alternatives (in several TLDs) are available to be registered.

Warning: It's still a bit glitchy as I haven't fixed all the issues yet. It uses LLMs, but it's not a vibe-coded app itself. If it seems to be stuck while finding domain names, just refresh the page.

New comment by selcuka in "Show HN: Mercek – A Desktop IDE for AWS ECS"

selcuka — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:15:44 +0000

Define "one". If AWS is a single service, then this tool does 1/100 things.

New comment by selcuka in "Show HN: Mercek – A Desktop IDE for AWS ECS"

selcuka — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:13:24 +0000

> it's sitting at 30.5 Mb of memory usage

Tauri uses the webview provided by the OS instead of bundling a full Chrome installation. The downside is that it may not look the same on all platforms.

New comment by selcuka in "Show HN: Mercek – A Desktop IDE for AWS ECS"

selcuka — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:05:53 +0000

Fun fact: The word "lens" comes from "lentil" (because of the shape).

"Mercek" means lens in Turkish, and similarly it comes from the Turkish word "mercimek" (which means lentil).

New comment by selcuka in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

selcuka — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:17:34 +0000

> And not just American but any outside company.

Would you call that "hostility to the West"? Sounds like an attempt to protect their own interests.

New comment by selcuka in "Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai"

selcuka — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:14:20 +0000

My pet peeve: Whenever I type

    MyModel.obj

and wait when working on a Django project, Copilot completes it with

    MyModel.objects.all().delete()

New comment by selcuka in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

selcuka — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:35:41 +0000

Sure, but LLMs are inherently lossy. There is no guaranteed way for the second AI to extract the original prompt from the text.

New comment by selcuka in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

selcuka — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:29:42 +0000

Some people send LLM generated replies in Slack chats! Now there's that.

New comment by selcuka in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

selcuka — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:26:45 +0000

I'm pretty sure "rude" in this context means "brief and to the point", not insulting. Otherwise you can be rude with an LLM as well.

Most people I know are happy to receive a focused email rather than an LLM-enhanced, 6 paragraph wall of text.

New comment by selcuka in "1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices"

selcuka — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:38:23 +0000

It's an 8B model. Consider it a proof-of-concept.