Hacker News: selcuka

New comment by selcuka in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

selcuka — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:11:09 +0000

> Nice list! I'd say the SQLite with WAL is the biggest money saver mentioned.

Funny you said that. I migrated an old, Django web site to a slightly more modern architecture (docker compose with uvicorn instead of bare metal uWSGI) the other day, and while doing that I noticed that it doesn't need PostgreSQL at all. The old server had it already installed, so it was the lazy choice.

I just dumped all data and loaded it into an SQLite database with WAL and it's much easier to maintain and back up now.

New comment by selcuka in "Microsoft PhotoDNA scanning problem"

selcuka — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:48:46 +0000

If that doesn't work, they'll fingerprint your thoughts.

Oh well, Philip K Dick enters the chat again. With Solar Lottery this time.

New comment by selcuka in "Microsoft PhotoDNA scanning problem"

selcuka — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:44:07 +0000

> That sounds like straight up scammer behavior. "

Microsoft reached out to the police department, then the person went to the local police department to verify who they were. I don't see how this could be a scam.

New comment by selcuka in "Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter"

selcuka — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:59:06 +0000

Ignoring the training costs, the marginal cost for inference is pretty low for providers. They are estimated to break even or better with their $20/month subscriptions.

That being said, they can't stop launching new models, so training is not a one time task. Therefore one might argue that it is part of the marginal cost.

New comment by selcuka in "Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter"

selcuka — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:47:15 +0000

> At work Claude Code has turned into an absolute dog.

Could it be related to this?: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660925

New comment by selcuka in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

selcuka — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:22:37 +0000

> it can even be free. You either give us backdoor to all your users or you rot in jail.

It is already a thing, at least in UK and AU [1]:

> Both countries now claim the right to secretly compel tech companies and individual technologists, including network administrators, sysadmins, and open source developers – to re-engineer software and hardware under their control, so that it can be used to spy on their users. Engineers can be penalized for refusing to comply with fines and prison; in Australia, even counseling a technologist to oppose these orders is a crime.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/new-fight-online-priva...

New comment by selcuka in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

selcuka — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:24:58 +0000

That could work if Claude Code made the code changes, but if you made them and only asked Claude to commit them, how does it know "why" you made those changes? Does it have access to your bug tracking system, for example?

New comment by selcuka in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

selcuka — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:05:27 +0000

You speak like you and I discussed this before, and you remember where the original goalposts were.

Many analysts suggested that the attack was a smoke-and-mirrors, and the actual goal has always been financial. Similar to the tariffs story. According to that opinion the outcome of the attempt is irrelevant. Regardless of whether the regime have changed or not, the goal is still achieved.

New comment by selcuka in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

selcuka — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:08:59 +0000

Not sure, but any event, positive or negative, will benefit those who know the exact timing in advance.

New comment by selcuka in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

selcuka — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:49:03 +0000

> For what reason would they attack a single school?

Couldn't it be to terrorise the other side while still being able to claim that it was a mistake? Remember that the school was hit by three distinct strikes.

New comment by selcuka in "OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019)"

selcuka — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:24:32 +0000

It was a 1.5B parameter model. It was still impressive for 2019, but yeah, it was nothing to worry about.

New comment by selcuka in "A whole boss fight in 256 bytes"

selcuka — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:57:32 +0000

Here's a 13-byte demo that runs on Chrome browsers:

    chrome://dino

New comment by selcuka in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

selcuka — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:21:06 +0000

Some might argue that the US's (or the POTUS's) objective was simply to disrupt the financial markets.

New comment by selcuka in "USD Purchasing Power in Real Time Since 2000"

selcuka — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:33:57 +0000

The Federal Reserve's Real Broad Dollar Index (RTWEXBGS) is 113.51 as of February. Not saying it would crash losing all of that 13.51 excess overnight, but it's still overvalued against foreign currencies.

New comment by selcuka in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

selcuka — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:25:54 +0000

> It takes billions of dollars of hardware to train a SOTA LLM and it's increasing all the time.

True, but it's also true that the returns from throwing money to the problem are diminishing. Unless one of those big players invents a new, propriatery paradigm, the gap between a SOTA model and an open model that runs on consumer hardware will narrow in the next 5 years.

New comment by selcuka in "Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed"

selcuka — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:11:01 +0000

So you installed a text editor and wanted to edit /etc/hosts. Should the OS permit you to save your changes or not?

Now what should happen if the text editor decides to modify /etc/hosts without your knowledge?

New comment by selcuka in "StepFun 3.5 Flash is #1 cost-effective model for OpenClaw tasks (300 battles)"

selcuka — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 05:39:43 +0000

Reminded me of the XKCD [1] that points out the problem with average scores.

[1] https://xkcd.com/937/

New comment by selcuka in "We intercepted the White House app's network traffic"

selcuka — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:45:19 +0000

In general you can't without patching the app itself, statically or at runtime using something like Frida.

New comment by selcuka in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

selcuka — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 05:53:17 +0000

This is even worse. My Claude Code instance can theoretically write the same code as your instance for a similar prompt. Why should one of us be able to have the copyright?

New comment by selcuka in "OkCupid gave 3M dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says"

selcuka — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 05:11:20 +0000

No, they are different entities. Having the same founder does not mean much in this context. You signed a contract with 23andme, not Regeneron Pharmaceuticals.