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Just stop. Explaining why russia does have the motive to do stuff like this, is not a rant.
One being valid does not invalidate the other?
Re:Testing 12 different Zigbee temperature/humidity sensors on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @07:41AM (#49977042)
This looks like reasoning from an LLM
Re:Testing 12 different Zigbee temperature/humidity sensors on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @07:08AM (#49976803)
So because it could be incorrect, you'd rather not know at all?
Re:So you want to use OpenRouter? on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @07:07AM (#49710651)
Doesnt have to be all providers being bad, any unreliable providers still being routed to causes big issues.

2. Not saying they dont solve a problem, but if we can't rely on the providers being routed to, i don't really care if they provide a really nice api..

3. We are not talking about models, we are talking about providers of models. Openrouter does not route to models, it routes to providers.

What do you mean? Are you saying openrouter will not route to a provider that is up, versus one that is currently down?

Re:So you want to use OpenRouter? on Friday September 11, 2026 @09:13AM (#49657866)
1. Yes, but if i can't rely on openrouter to route to providers to give me the best price and the best uptime across a number of providers, and it instead gives me inconsistent results, then I will not use them.

2. As long as the apis use the openai spec, it should be fine? And what makes you say the providers are using different weights? The blogpost says the exact opposite?

3. Great example, if amazon does not lead me to good products, I will stop using it, and this is why I dislike amazon. There are so many crap products, and the search seems to try to push crap products instead of what i'm actually looking for at a good price.

You take a bunch of providers with not great uptime, put them in a pool and now you get great uptime - but it doesn't work if it's at the cost of shitty performance or failing toolcalls.

More like you found the exception to the rule..
Specifically for a terminal, i'd really prefer it to be open source. Primarily for security reasons, but also just so it's easier to avoid slop, in times like this with heavy LLM usage.

In general, lots of code equals lost of bugs.

Re:Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @04:31AM (#49358699)
Yes, there is a lot to unpack - and im sure very smart people has worked on these changes, so spotting what is and what is not peculiar ways to get around EU regulations is not easy.

Are you saying that this is not the case at all?

Re:Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @12:43PM (#49348419)
So how are they trying to circumvent the EU regulations this time?
Phasing like this immediately makes me wonder what google is lobbying for..
They also didn't/don't put a stop to the gambling sites, scams and non-scams, done with those lootboxes.

We have an epidemic of addiction to gambling in youth, where the arrow points at lootboxes as the gateway drug..

Re:Google Plans to Invest Up to $40B in Anthropic on Saturday April 25, 2026 @01:14AM (#47898833)
It amazes me how productive it's possible to be using AI, but I also has this nagging feeling that we are being reeled into being so reliant on this that when the price starts going up, we will simply eat the cost.

The math is pretty simple, and it's easy to justify still paying the price even if it goes up 10 fold, when compared to hirering more resources its still cheap.

So I guess having multiple players and competition in the market is the key?

Seems like a great analogy to me..
Not sure what to say, looks cool. One hit and then the ball kept rolling, very slowly, seemingly without any friction.

Sorry but can't wait until this whole AI situation finds a proper balance.

Re:xAI joins SpaceX on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @02:53AM (#46867898)
Whenever Elon Musk says free speech, I get the chills.
The premise of the project is he doesn't want to run code he doesn't know + in an insecure way, so having the setup step to install dependencies etc, done by an LLM seems like an odd choice. Like what part about the setup step is so fluffy and different per environment, that using an LLM for it makes sense?
Re:Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works? on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @05:57AM (#46703827)
Do you happen to have any information about which services and workflows they use?
Re:Eat Real Food on Thursday January 08, 2026 @07:51AM (#46540433)
"Eat real food" yet they seem to roll back regulation including but not limited to food safety?
Re:Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros on Friday December 05, 2025 @09:51AM (#46162057)
Ads. This is how you get ads in streaming services.
It has been asked in the ESTA for a long long time, afaik even before Trump.

But can we please remember that there is a huge huge difference between being asked to provide it optionally, to being required to provide it.

Re:Nano Banana Pro on Friday November 21, 2025 @05:10AM (#46003048)
"Sorry, I'm still learning to create images for you, so I can't do that yet. I can try to find one on the web though."
When you say easier to simply earn, I understand it as you think they do this to benefit their playerbase / users.

Yes, it says that they want a bigger cut of the sales when those items are sold. Not sad this hits the trading sites as that will also likely mean fewer will get scammed as they will stay in valves market, but saying valve is doing this for the users is crap, they do it for the profits, and maybe to stay under the radar of additional lawsuits regarding gambling laws around the world.

Nope, just no. When you make billions you have another kind of responsibility, you can't just brush that off as a problem with parenting.

I'm willing to bet a lot of the young people struggling with gambing addictions started with loot boxes like the ones valve make a ton of money on.

Why have they not sued him? Like isn't this slander?
Re:Why our website looks like an operating system on Friday September 12, 2025 @08:28AM (#45221398)
Trying to look at the changelog and the roadmap, and what a spectacularly shitty way this was made.

A progress bar that never seems to finish loading, and restarts whenever you go back to the page, and then suddenly after navigating around and going back to the same page, I get a slow loading html table without any progress indication.

What a great way to really piss off users.

Re:Magic Lantern Is Back on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @08:55AM (#45115145)
Cool! Am i the only one who has a really hard time finding what models are supported? It says on the frontpage that it's on the downloads page, but I can't seem to find anything? EDIT: It's on the builds page https://builds.magiclantern.fm
I came to the same conclusion after meeting old friends who had smoked a lot.
Re:Show HN: Monkeys.zip – 3000 Monkeys on Typewriters on Friday April 04, 2025 @07:46AM (#43580868)
Cool, but it's not great seeing a swastika when zooming out..
This is cool, but there is no way I would want to have our test suite rely on LLM's for every single run. It would however be really cool to use this during test recording, to lower the barrier for users, among other things.

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