Hacker News: selimthegrim

New comment by selimthegrim in "Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks"

selimthegrim — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:50:28 +0000

whoa, my university!

New comment by selimthegrim in "I thought I knew how electrolysis worked [video]"

selimthegrim — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:30:30 +0000

The problems I was interested in led me to the techniques in the field. I guess the idea was data science, but might need to pivot into LLM or AI engineer.

New comment by selimthegrim in "PRC-linked influence operations are targeting AI debates in the US"

selimthegrim — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:28:59 +0000

You might want to read about before WWII

New comment by selimthegrim in "Policy on the AI Exponential"

selimthegrim — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:04:41 +0000

Indira Gandhi tried religious divide and rule way too many times - in Kashmir and West Bengal/Assam she got away with it while she was alive and it blew up later but Punjab was her Antietam.

New comment by selimthegrim in "I thought I knew how electrolysis worked [video]"

selimthegrim — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:27:16 +0000

Current 39 year old finishing their PhD in solid state theory who left a software engineering job to do so, feel free to ask any questions.

New comment by selimthegrim in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

selimthegrim — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:21:02 +0000

Yes, by extraction (Arbëreshë), although they are Catholic and speak Italian.

New comment by selimthegrim in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

selimthegrim — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:03:54 +0000

>Do you think that, if Ilhan Omar was Albanian, people would love her?

You do realize who a great deal of the "southern Italians" in certain parts of New York and New Orleans actually are, right? Or is your point solely about religion?

New comment by selimthegrim in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

selimthegrim — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:20:24 +0000

Apparently not in South Dakota.

New comment by selimthegrim in "Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints"

selimthegrim — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:49:59 +0000

My understanding is that is the expurgated version.

New comment by selimthegrim in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

selimthegrim — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:32:59 +0000

How does it do for 360 degree photos/Gaussian splatting type stuff

New comment by selimthegrim in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

selimthegrim — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:53:05 +0000

Have you asked some people of migration background lately?

New comment by selimthegrim in "Gaussian Point Splatting"

selimthegrim — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:20:03 +0000

This reminds me of Titanic: Adventure Out of Time

New comment by selimthegrim in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

selimthegrim — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:36:10 +0000

So what you’re telling me is that EY was the clearest thinking one out of all of them?

New comment by selimthegrim in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

selimthegrim — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:26:09 +0000

NPCs can’t appreciate that.

New comment by selimthegrim in "Show HN: I reverse-engineered the world maps of Test Drive III (1990 DOS game)"

selimthegrim — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:42:38 +0000

I was always fixated on trying to run over the chicken

New comment by selimthegrim in "Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording""

selimthegrim — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:15:50 +0000

Reject Larry Ellison, embrace ...?

New comment by selimthegrim in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

selimthegrim — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:59:08 +0000

It seems like the entirety of his experience of Oregon is within a 10 mile radius of Coos Bay.

New comment by selimthegrim in "WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants"

selimthegrim — Sun, 31 May 2026 20:50:51 +0000

> In both cases, republicans were the ones that wanted to enforce the civil rights laws.

Jeff Sessions in 1981 when he was the DA or ADA from Mobile, telling a judge in a lynching case of a black man that lynching wasn’t necessarily murder, doesn’t fill me with confidence about this take of yours.

New comment by selimthegrim in "Hormuz crisis side effect: a sharp rise in container shipping rates"

selimthegrim — Sat, 30 May 2026 21:03:06 +0000

Wasn’t Steve Bannon too?

New comment by selimthegrim in "WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants"

selimthegrim — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:13:48 +0000

So you don't consider yourself Bangladeshi anymore?