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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:55PM (#50344405)
Good luck with figuring out what it does and enforcing any safety switches and rules I guess...
Re:The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes on Saturday October 31, 2026 @11:25AM (#50317022)
I am not sure about UX, I was always afraid that I misstype one character and the money is lost. Or that's not the case?
Re:The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes on Friday October 30, 2026 @12:19PM (#50306107)
I don't know, whenever I have to send money to friends, it's free and transferred instantly (Tikkie).

Whener I tried to send Crypto, there were fees over fees, from wallets, transfer fees, etc., probably I was doing something wrong, but that was the most frictionless path

Re:The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes on Friday October 30, 2026 @10:43AM (#50304665)
Not saying this is the case, but the way this unfolded, and announcement reminded me of the crypto scams that were popular a few years ago (ponzy schemes), with the final rug-pull being "oh no, our platform was hacked, all your funds were lost, sorry!", i.e. "coscoin"[0][1] I know this is not the case here, but the way they announce the hack is funnily similar to how those fake platforms did their final announcement.

[0]: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9p6x5ylrzo

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-67586863

Re:The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes on Friday October 30, 2026 @10:39AM (#50304601)
I think crypto lead in 99% of cases just to bad actors and use-cases, I still have to encounter one real success story of someone using crypto successfully long-term or to pay for legit, legal stuff where a different method was not allowed due to unfair restrictions.
Re:Anthropic hacked to deliver remote access trojan on Friday October 30, 2026 @10:37AM (#50304564)
I am starting to have a hard time who is responsible for what. I no longer know what's the relationship between companies/products like Anthropic, Cursor, SpaceXAI, Copilot, etc.
> has actively hallucinated details

Gemini models always suffered from this. They were almost always best in terms of intelligence, but one of the worst to use in practice, because they have a lot of failure modes on simple tasks that simply give factually incorrect answers, or completely break and output gibberish.

Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @09:29PM (#50283390)
Oh, true, I forgot.

That's what happens when you announce the model 1 month before it is available...

Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @07:29PM (#50282411)
I thought Gemini 4 Argon is still not publicly released.
Re:Show HN: Ultimidi – piano learning web game on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @09:24AM (#50258889)
I have already fixed the metronome sound. Thanks for the idea, I would have never thought of it...

Still not sure if I like how it sounds, maybe I should just offer multiple options in the settings.

Re:GPT-6.1 Terra on Monday October 26, 2026 @06:52PM (#50252296)
It is fast, but more verbose (a lot more verbose than Sol at higher efforts)
Re:GPT-6.1 Terra on Monday October 26, 2026 @06:51PM (#50252287)
I don't understand, in my tests, on max effort, it's worse than 6.1 sol and 2x more expensive[0].

Used on medium seems to be the best use-case[1] and cheaper than 6.1 Sol.

[0]: https://aibenchy.com/compare/openai-gpt-6-1-sol-max/openai-g...

[1]: https://aibenchy.com/compare/openai-gpt-6-1-sol-medium/opena...

Re:GPT-6.1 Terra on Monday October 26, 2026 @05:25PM (#50251214)
Yeah, but shouldn't then all 4 tiers be released at once? So we get 6.1 for all Luna/Terra/Sol/Astra?
Re:Show HN: Ultimidi – piano learning web game on Monday October 26, 2026 @12:29PM (#50246563)
Hey, thanks, I will check your projects!

Interesting, I didn't think about the beat pitch stuff, I will fix it!

Re:Show HN: Ultimidi – piano learning web game on Monday October 26, 2026 @06:59AM (#50241837)
Note that you need to play the first 2 introductory levels before you have access to the minigames. Sound invaders is the mini-game I focused more on.

Show HN: Ultimidi – piano learning web game

https://game.ultimidi.com/

Hi HN,10 years ago, as my BsC final project I had the idea to make a quick game that used neural nets to detect notes played on a guitar, and I made a small mini-game to make use of that. I always wanted to improve on that idea, so last year I started making my own piano-learning game.You know how in most games you learn complex key combinations and sequences (i.e. Mortal Kombat fatalities),...

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Re:Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed on Saturday October 24, 2026 @06:25PM (#50226035)
Not only that, but even in SVG generation, the output looks VERY similar to the one from ChatGPT:

https://aibenchy.com/compare/moonshotai-kimi-k3-max/moonshot...

Re:Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed on Saturday October 24, 2026 @06:24PM (#50226018)
5% better than Kimi K3, still way behind GPT-6.1 Sol in terms of cost or performance:

https://aibenchy.com/compare/moonshotai-kimi-k3-max/moonshot...

Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:06AM (#50166676)
Also, a model like Haiku is better, faster and cheaper:

https://aibenchy.com/compare/anthropic-claude-haiku-5-5-high...

Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:03AM (#50166651)
I didn't include it because the use-case is different.

I can't trust models like V4.1 Flash to do stuff for me without supervision. Yes, they are good for coding and some API-only processing tasks, but not as a main agentic model like Opus 5.5 or GPT-6 Astra are, which can actually do things that function properly without much fidgeting or intervention.

Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @09:37AM (#50166227)
Why the downvotes, lol?

I do believe Claude Max 5x gives best quality/value at the moment out of all plans/providers.

Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @08:23AM (#50165284)
I recently got Claude Max 5x, after using ChatGPT Pro 20x for a while, and I find the Claude Max value really good. For $90/m, the weekly usage is great AND you get $100 of API credits per month too.
Re:MiniMax M3.1 Flash on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @07:30AM (#50164674)
That's so odd, for me it looks ok on Firefox/Brave both desktop and mobile: https://ibb.co/Xk4sCVDB
Re:MiniMax M3.1 Flash on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @07:17AM (#50164543)
Looks good to me?

What browser are u viewing it on?

https://aibenchy.com/compare/minimax-minimax-m3-1-flash-high...

Re:MiniMax M3.1 Flash on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @04:40AM (#50163047)
For example, the Solar System animation is missing planets:

https://aibenchy.com/compare/minimax-minimax-m3-1-flash-high...

Re:MiniMax M3.1 Flash on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @04:29AM (#50162966)
Dunno how their benchmark shows it to be competitive with Opus 5/Sol 5.6, it's quite far from those in my tests[0]...

[0]: https://aibenchy.com/compare/minimax-minimax-m3-1-flash-high...

Re:Gold is now the top U.S. export on Saturday October 17, 2026 @05:17PM (#50135232)
Title doesn't mention good specifically.

How are service exports counted? All together? Or not considered exports?

Re:Gold is now the top U.S. export on Saturday October 17, 2026 @05:01PM (#50135087)
I mean, wouldn't that make sense given the market caps?

So many trillion-dollar valued AI-focused companies.

Re:Gold is now the top U.S. export on Saturday October 17, 2026 @03:12PM (#50134104)
I thought it was tokens
Re:What I Self-Host on Thursday October 15, 2026 @05:51PM (#50110873)
I've been building and self-hosting my own analytics platform[0] for 13+ years and never had any major issues with it.

The advantage is that if I do want a specific feature, I can just add it, and I am never worried about subscription limits or surprise charged, because I host it on a fixed-cost VPS.

Things don't really need maintenance and don't really break by themselves, the only time when they can sometimes break is when changing things.

You do need to have a proper setup though, for stuff like disk space alerts, knowing the common gotchas of disabling settings that can cause issues, etc.

[0]: https://uxwizz.com

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