Hacker News: selcuka

New comment by selcuka in "Verisign .com Domain Name Registry Consumer Class Action"

selcuka — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 06:48:18 +0000

Sure, but remember that Verisign manages a total of 179 million domains. They also have less than 1,000 employees. Can they really have a salary cost of >$530K per employee? It's obviously the executive team that pockets most of that cost.

New comment by selcuka in "Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains"

selcuka — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 02:38:26 +0000

> Is there a directory of private equity acquisitions?

CrunchBase is usually accurate:

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/namecheap#financials

New comment by selcuka in "Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains"

selcuka — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 02:34:39 +0000

> But we are talking about saving 10$/year? That's less than 1$/mo.

I agree in principle, but businesses commonly own more than one domain name, so the costs add up.

New comment by selcuka in "If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?"

selcuka — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 01:12:34 +0000

https://docs.litellm.ai/docs/tutorials/claude_code_max_subsc...

New comment by selcuka in "DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017"

selcuka — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 15:40:14 +0000

Peasants don't pay for the subscription. The employer does.

New comment by selcuka in "Casio F-91W using Statecharts"

selcuka — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:10:48 +0000

Ollee watch [1] is compatible with F-105W:

> Tested: All Casio A168 and F-105W models that use module 3298 (manufactured since ~2012).

[1] https://www.olleewatch.com/shop/p/ollee-watch-one-kit-syp37

New comment by selcuka in "LFM2.5-24B-A2B: Built for fast on-device agents"

selcuka — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 01:41:58 +0000

Would you call Qwen 3.6 35B "similar size" with ~50% more parameters (both active and total) though? I believe what GP meant that if there was a Qwen 3.8 24B-A2B, it would roughly be as intelligent as this one.

New comment by selcuka in "Gemini 4 Argon"

selcuka — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 04:31:18 +0000

I'm not claiming that they do, but just to play the Devil's advocate:

Anthropic controls the full serving stack, so it can change precision, hardware, kernels and settings whenever it likes. Reducing the KV cache precision, for example, saves a lot of memory (and money). It may even be possible to quantise the model on-the-fly when loading it into memory. They don't necessarily have to upload a whole new model.

Even if they can't do the same on all platforms, we can't deterministically compare them anyway.

New comment by selcuka in "Gemini 4 Argon"

selcuka — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:53:16 +0000

What would that prove if we are testing whether they "are just secretly hamstringing the previous models" as GP claimed?

New comment by selcuka in "I guess I'm using WebP now?"

selcuka — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 11:29:54 +0000

Apparently Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra has a 200MP camera with a 16,320 × 12,240 pixel resolution. So in a few years phones might be able to take pictures which can't be converted to WebP.

New comment by selcuka in "I guess I'm using WebP now?"

selcuka — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 04:11:40 +0000

The fact that there is a size limit (16,383 x 16,383 pixels) is still annoying for some (rare) use cases.

New comment by selcuka in "Bot traffic from Yandex"

selcuka — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:10:52 +0000

Google bots definitely come disguised, to check whether the web site serves different content to non-Google user agents.

New comment by selcuka in "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?"

selcuka — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 06:41:29 +0000

https://www.racknerd.com/specials/

New comment by selcuka in "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?"

selcuka — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 06:25:37 +0000

It's even in the Urban Dictionary [1]:

> Linux ISO: A codeword for copyrighted material shared without permission, usually over P2P networks.

[1] http://linux-iso.urbanup.com/2782626

New comment by selcuka in "OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI"

selcuka — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 22:49:47 +0000

> why selling 1 high-efficiency AI chip when you can sell 10 low-efficiency GPU ?

Because you can't use the former for anything else? You will have to buy a new chip every time a new model is released.

Not to mention that it will be much more expensive.

New comment by selcuka in "Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades"

selcuka — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 22:47:53 +0000

There's an xkcd (1172) for that.

New comment by selcuka in "OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI"

selcuka — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 23:49:25 +0000

> AMD announced their acquisition of Taalas. That doesn't exactly inspire confidence that their frontier LLM will arrive as promised.

Why not? AMDs chip design experience and production capacity are magnitudes larger than a small startup. Assuming that they acquired Taalas for their technology, I don't see a reason why they couldn't.

New comment by selcuka in "OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI"

selcuka — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 23:43:29 +0000

Also "faster" indirectly means "more intelligent" with reasoning models.

For example, Opus 4.6 Max was somewhere between Opus 4.7 Medium and High in some benchmarks, but it was slower. If there was a way to run it 10x faster, the economics would be different.

New comment by selcuka in "Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades"

selcuka — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:42:11 +0000

I'm wondering how many automated tests this change broke.

Yes, I know it's not the example.com's fault, and it's a side effect of Hyrum's Law:

> This is not a service, avoid relying on it for testing and monitoring purposes.

Don't we all have a few fragile tests?

New comment by selcuka in "Celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney donated to him as a teenager"

selcuka — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 07:30:57 +0000

They can actually transplant a single liver to two people by splitting it [1].

> Approximately 1 in 10 donated livers can be divided into two segments or grafts (this is known as split liver). [...] By splitting the liver into two segments, the donated liver can be used to help two people waiting for a liver transplant.

[1] https://www.nhsbt.nhs.uk/organ-transplantation/liver/is-a-li...