Hacker News: selcuka

New comment by selcuka in "Finger: the 1971 social network that never died"

selcuka — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:00:27 +0000

> in the old days if you didn't provide a domain name, the finger command would default to hitting `localhost`.

It still does (at least on my MacBook):

    $ finger myusername
    Login: myusername ...
    ...
    No Mail.
    No Plan.

New comment by selcuka in "fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent."

selcuka — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:38:20 +0000

Another cause of coding harness inflation is that every model provider release their own coding agent, optimised for their models.

New comment by selcuka in "Norway should buy OpenAI"

selcuka — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:26:07 +0000

> why are ai companies shredding books instead of using Anna's archive?

I'm pretty sure they've already consumed everything on Anna's Archive, The Pirate Bay etc., and they are now buying books to fill the gaps and to legally launder the corpus they already had. It has little to do with ethics (one could also question the ethics of buying rare, second-hand books and then destroying them).

New comment by selcuka in "Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things"

selcuka — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 06:46:44 +0000

The author tested in on an M5 laptop too:

> It feels pretty slow on both the M5 Mac and the DGX Spark.

New comment by selcuka in "The AI Credit Resale Economy"

selcuka — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 05:38:14 +0000

> It's also unclear wherever the subscription price is the real cost, or the API.

Define cost: Is it only the inference cost to the provider, or do you also consider training costs as well?

If it's the latter, how would you estimate the number of total tokens that will be sold for the current model (so that we can calculate marginal cost)?

New comment by selcuka in "Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS"

selcuka — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 09:20:56 +0000

> vi editor [...] you had to exit it

I didn't know that was possible.

New comment by selcuka in "Choose Boring Technology (2015)"

selcuka — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 01:20:41 +0000

NodeJS is just an example that must have seemed reasonable to the author at the time this blog post was written (11 years ago). Obviously it may no longer apply.

Also the definitions of "unknown" and "boring" are always up to you. If you have a bunch of experienced `bun` developers in your company you may consider it as the boring tech.

New comment by selcuka in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

selcuka — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 01:12:10 +0000

I'm confused. Your example contradicts your point. How is it a good filter for fraud if it can be aced by only studying for 3 weeks?

New comment by selcuka in "How Claude marks AI-generated content"

selcuka — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:15:12 +0000

But the source codes of those web apps will also be watermarked. /s

New comment by selcuka in "Claude will watermark AI-generated text and images"

selcuka — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:11:00 +0000

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49250109

New comment by selcuka in "Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows"

selcuka — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:13:36 +0000

> Nginx’s real strength was being able to proxy and cache HTTP using that same mechanism

Fun fact: Igor Sysoev originally wrote mod_accel [1], an acceleration and reverse-proxy caching module for Apache before he made nginx.

I remember using that module in the mid-2000s as a load balancer (and to offload SSL encryption/decryption as it was a CPU-expensive operation).

[1] http://sysoev.ru/en/apache_modules.html

New comment by selcuka in "Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)"

selcuka — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:30:59 +0000

That URL works for me. It must be an issue on your end.

New comment by selcuka in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

selcuka — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:42:20 +0000

It gave the correct answers to both questions for me:

> Bruce Lee was born in San Francisco, California, USA on November 27, 1940.

> Bruce Lee's father was a Chinese opera singer

That being said, this is not a good test. It is a language model (a very small one), not an encyclopedia.

ChatJimmy interface is just a tech demo. Without tool calling functionality we can't expect it to be factually correct.

New comment by selcuka in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

selcuka — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:05:12 +0000

It's a quantised 8B model (Llama 3.1 8B to be exact).

[1] https://taalas.com/the-path-to-ubiquitous-ai/

New comment by selcuka in "AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon"

selcuka — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:08:13 +0000

Their PoC chips are big, but then it's ridiculously fast (have you seen chatjimmy.ai?). Also they must be holding a bunch of patents.

New comment by selcuka in "FFmpeg 9.0"

selcuka — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:52:03 +0000

No wonder both drug dealers and software developers call their customers "users".

New comment by selcuka in "ZX Spectrum System Tour: Sound"

selcuka — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 07:05:20 +0000

> I'm not sure where to find the game itself these days

Here you go:

https://torinak.com/qaop/play/chronos

New comment by selcuka in "Show HN: Run an 80B Qwen in 4.3 GB of RAM on a Mac, and a 35B on an iPhone"

selcuka — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 06:20:49 +0000

I'm pretty sure one can rent a GPU for a few minutes with the electricity cost of leaving an M5 overnight.

New comment by selcuka in "LLMs reward expertise"

selcuka — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 05:42:26 +0000

> The little apps i made here and there before AI are being outdone by a bunch of drunk people on a whim!

Yes, but the premise of the article is you should be able to outdo a bunch of drunk people with your 30 years experience, if you use AI too.

New comment by selcuka in "ZX Spectrum System Tour: Sound"

selcuka — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:05:20 +0000

I could never understand what it said when I played that game back in time, but today I learned that it was "Meteor Alert! Meteor Alert!"

Quicksilva later improved their speech engine. QS Chess, for example, clearly said "This is the Chess Player".