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elpakal

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Applied ML Swift | iOS, macOS Legaltech consulting

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elpakal··on Open Code Review – An AI-powered code review CLI tool
At a kill s@@s hackathon at work, I was able to build something that

uses a node image installs claude code runs a /review-like command puts inline comments to PR deletes old comments when rerunning

OCR seems cool, but overkill, and I'm definitely not using Code Rabbit after their CEO was on here acting snobbish a while back.

Point being AI code review in Git** itself isn't hard to do and can add a lot of value quickly.

elpakal··on MAI-Code-1-Flash
even worse on mobile
elpakal··on YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos
Now can LinkedIn please label posts
elpakal··on Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal
Confirmed by Andy Jassy just now https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andy-jassy-8b1615_very-intere...
elpakal··on The Prompt API
Apple's Foundation models seem great on paper until you see the 4k context window. (though I know we are still early in this chapter).
elpakal··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
dotIPA, an iOS app build size inspector that runs locally on your macOS [$4.99]

Track app size growth over time, inspect contents, spot duplication and size bloat and more.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dotipa/id6742254881

elpakal··on Show HN: March Madness Bracket Challenge for AI Agents Only
I thought about using claw but felt like overkill and wonder if an AI browser (atlas etc) would do the trick.
elpakal··on Show HN: March Madness Bracket Challenge for AI Agents Only
Really cool idea. My son is using different LLMs to fill out brackets for his 4th grade science experiment, and then we are going to compare them to the experts. I like your idea of Strategy/Inspiration prompting, we had to tell them that "upsets happen" because all the favorites were picked on first pass.

Tangentially, I wonder if we are going to see AI predictions impact point spreads.

elpakal··on Levels of Agentic Engineering
thanks
elpakal··on Launch HN: RunAnywhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon
Sorry, I scrolled through some of the rest of the comments on this thread and can’t stay tuned.
elpakal··on Launch HN: RunAnywhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon
> This is a known limitation with small LLMs (0.6B-1.2B) doing tool calling.

To me this is this nut to crack, wrt tool calling and locally running inference. This seems like a really cool project and I'm going to dive around a little later but if it's hallucinating for something as basic as this makes me think it's more of POC stage right now (to echo other sentiment here).

elpakal··on Levels of Agentic Engineering
> file-based state that persists between agent invocations

Can you expand on this with a practical example?

elpakal··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)
An iOS app size analysis tool you can run on your Mac and track build size changes over time https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dotipa/id6742254881
elpakal··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
An iOS build size analysis app that runs locally on your Mac: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dotipa/id6742254881
elpakal··on Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode
Does fastlane still hang for a little before every command? I used to optimize build pipelines for a large company's iOS teams and it always seemed to stall for a little before doing the work. We eventually moved to Xcode Cloud (mainly to avoid code signing) and ran xcodebuild directly.
elpakal··on The Codex App
why would it need local network access though, I wonder?
elpakal··on The Codex App
> this just calls Codex CLI with OS sandboxing

The git and terminal views are a big plus for me. I usually have those open and active in addition to my codex CLI sessions.

Excited to try skills, too.

elpakal··on Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work
But they created GenMoji?!
elpakal··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
A locally running (macOS) iOS build size analysis tool. Been tinkering with Apple Intelligence, trying to implement an on-device size optimization engineer for my users. The small context window for Apple Intelligence has been tricky to get right.

[promo] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dotipa/id6742254881

elpakal··on Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?
I maintain an app size inspection tool that runs locally on your macOS and added the file inspector (Sunburst chart) for Gmail if anyone is interested in exploring its contents.

As others have pointed out, the main executable is huge (~300MB) and there are a lot of localization files, but not too much traditional asset duplication.

You can click into different slices of the app and see what it's made of if interested: https://dotipa.app/?app=Gmail#examples

elpakal··on Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?
If you're interested in iOS app size analysis, I build and maintain this https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dotipa/id6742254881 ($4.99). Happy to share download codes, HMU at info [at] dotipa.app
elpakal··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
An iOS app size analysis tool you can run on your Mac https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dotipa/id6742254881
elpakal··on Microsoft has a problem: lack of demand for its AI products
Not just about the products imho. I do some consulting for law firms who typically use the MSFT stack, and I was excited about the private ChatGPT services in Azure, because from my (admittedly limited) sample of law firms, nobody likes using Copilot and LLMs need to be private/secure. The amount of outdated and poor quality documentation for Azure services is amazing given how nascent these services are.
elpakal··on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros
And then to Max
elpakal··on The End of the Train-Test Split
> Since the data will always be flawed and the test set won't be blind, the machine learning engineer's priority should be spent working with policy teams to improve the data.

It's interesting to watch this dynamic change from data set size measuring contests to quality and representativeness. In "A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size" from Claude they hit on the same shift, but their position is more about security considerations than quality.

https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison

elpakal··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025)
Hello, I'm a former Staff Engineer branching out to help law firms and attorneys with AI product development and assessments. Looking for partners in the legal space who want to build the next big thing in legaltech or need help understanding how to best adopt AI in the legal space.

  Location: Golden, CO
  Remote: Onsite, remote, or hybrid are all okay.
  Willing to relocate: Negotiable
  Technologies: AI / PyTorch / Tensorflow / Typescript / Next.js / AWS / Node.js / Vercel / Swift / iOS / macOS
  Résumé/CV: https://fractional-engineer.com
  Email: kenny@ndukt.com
elpakal··on Launch HN: Onyx (YC W24) – Open-source chat UI
awesome, thank you
elpakal··on Launch HN: Onyx (YC W24) – Open-source chat UI
Alright let's say im tasked with building a fancy AI-powered research assistant and I need onyx or Vercel's ai-chatbot sdk. Why would I reach for onyx?

I have used vercel for several projects and I'm not tied to it, but would like to understand how onyx is comparable.

Benefits for my use cases for using vercel have been ease of installation, streaming support, model agnosticity, chat persistence and blob support. I definitely don't like the vendor lock in, though.

elpakal··on X5.1 solar flare, G4 geomagnetic storm watch
Hmm. It says my city has 0% chance of visibility but I'm looking at it outside right now.
elpakal··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
Working on adding Apple Intelligence to my macOS app built to analyze iOS app size metrics. I'm hoping to have a locally running assistant that can act like an iOS build engineer to provide optimization opportunities and more: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dotipa/id6742254881.

Right now my app allows users to export build metadata as JSON which can be interpreted by LLMs for analysis, but I'd like to have this work on-device.

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