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Re:Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI? by epolanski on Saturday June 06, 2026 @04:49AM (#48422824)
Open weight models remove most of the issues you list and require relatively affordable hardware like a MBP with 128gb of ram or even less.

Deepseek v4 flash is by any means comparable to SOTA from 6 months ago. It's more than good enough for AI-assisted coding and there are no reasons to believe that one year from now or so, they won't be even better and faster.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI? by fragmede on Saturday June 06, 2026 @05:03AM (#48422920)
128 GiB MacBook Pro is like $8k! Thankfully, you can run local models on a $1,000 Pixel 10 Pro, which is still a lot, but slightly less insane.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI? by y0eswddl on Saturday June 06, 2026 @08:27AM (#48424364)
open weight models are released by the same companies who's revenue would be threatened by open weights - they won't continue to undercut themselves by releases free models once that happens.
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