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New comment by selcuka in "Many Let's Encrypt renewals had errors today"

selcuka — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 07:14:36 +0000

> If you're one of the few early adopters of short-lived (6-day) certs you should renew at 3 days

Apparently certificates are becoming OCSP-only with a TTL.

New comment by selcuka in "Many Let's Encrypt renewals had errors today"

selcuka — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 07:11:10 +0000

> If I'm required to renew it 30 days before the expiration date then the expiration date is a lie, isn't it?

Many countries won't let you enter if your passport expires less than 6 months after your planned departure date. Basically the effective validity of a passport is 0.5 years less than the period you pay for.

New comment by selcuka in "The founder of Craigslist has given away half a billion dollars"

selcuka — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 02:17:06 +0000

> the expected value of an act that happens at an unspecified time in the future is zero

It doesn't have to be an unspecified time. Imagine you make $100K and want to donate $50K of that every year. One might say "well, I will bank that money instead, buy a property for $250K, then donate the rental income forever". You now have a specific time in the future (almost, depending on how property prices fluctuate in the next 5 years).

New comment by selcuka in ".gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git"

selcuka — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:36:56 +0000

> you just want to see that the file changed

I check the diff for uv.lock (Python counterpart of package-lock.json) every time I merge a PR. It is important to know which direct or transient dependencies have been updated. We don't blindly bump all dependencies to the latest versions (you shouldn't either).

New comment by selcuka in "The UK's Teen Social Media Ban Is Political Theater, Not Child Safety Policy"

selcuka — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:56:48 +0000

No, it applies to Aeolun. That was my original point. You asked me my personal opinion and changed the goal post when I replied.

Also yes, that's how online forums work. I'm surprised that you haven't figured it out yourself even though you self-inserted into a critique of the social media ban that doesn't involve you.

New comment by selcuka in "GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands"

selcuka — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:53:22 +0000

> It's well-known that all commercial models are based on stolen content.

Does that mean that Chinese models are the "Robin Hood"s of the AI era?

New comment by selcuka in "GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands"

selcuka — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:51:49 +0000

One example is not the same as "most LLMs". My experience is the same with most LLMs. Especially the smaller ones are English oriented (probably makes sense given the size constraints).

New comment by selcuka in "The UK's Teen Social Media Ban Is Political Theater, Not Child Safety Policy"

selcuka — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:02:39 +0000

Again, it's not a black or white issue. There is no universal constant threshold where it suddenly becomes viable. If you ask my personal opinion, I would say:

- If it's not even 10% effective, don't waste any resources. Replace it with another method.

- If it's 10% - 50% effective, improve it.

- If it's >50% effective, it's probably fine, leave it.

My point it that there can be many other shades of grey here. It's not fair to lump all opponents of the current implementation into the same basket.

New comment by selcuka in "The UK's Teen Social Media Ban Is Political Theater, Not Child Safety Policy"

selcuka — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:58:15 +0000

Over time those who are underage and have existing accounts will grow up.

New comment by selcuka in "The UK's Teen Social Media Ban Is Political Theater, Not Child Safety Policy"

selcuka — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:56:16 +0000

> Psychologists call this black or white thinking

The same can be told for your thinking. You (and several other posters) lumped several arguments into the same Nirvana fallacy [1]:

1. It's not 100% effective

2. It's only 50% effective

3. It is not even 10% effective

These are very different from each other. The first one may actually mean what you described (either something works perfectly or it's useless) but the others must be discussed separately.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy

New comment by selcuka in "The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation"

selcuka — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 06:03:29 +0000

To be fair it is possible that the developer enabled a special "unroll all loops, no matter what" optimisation flag during compilation.

I agree it would be stupid for a compiler to even support such a flag, but those were the 1980s/90s.

New comment by selcuka in "The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation"

selcuka — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 06:00:57 +0000

There is no indication that the compiler that produced the code was Microsoft's. Actually the article hints otherwise ("[...] whatever compiler was used to compile this code").

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