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Re:Anthropic S-1
on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:43AM (#50244599)
Because the $100/m fee they're charging is only there because Chinese models will undercut them if they try to raise it further.
Re:Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @02:35PM (#49276752)
Because it works and they don’t charge a lot for it
Re:Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's
on Sunday August 09, 2026 @07:39PM (#49237434)
Collecting a bunch of covariates is never a substitute for recognizing that you can't force people to be taxi drivers for life.
Re:What's Under Your Feet in New York City?
on Sunday July 26, 2026 @10:54AM (#49058781)
Re:I burned all my tokens researching how to save tokens
on Sunday July 19, 2026 @10:12AM (#48968385)
This is like the "half of my marketing spend is wasted" quote. The complexity is finding out which half.
Re:AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data - $1.7 BILLION
on Friday July 17, 2026 @04:05PM (#48951725)
CSV files are widely known to be used by the most frugal companies so of course it is.
Re:Microsoft degrades functionality of perpetually-licensed offline pr...
on Saturday May 30, 2026 @11:34PM (#48342783)
That's why anything that goes against the long-established corporate culture aren't likely to stay around for long.
Re:Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage
on Monday May 25, 2026 @01:35PM (#48269450)
Someone tag Apple in this thread and shut them down please
Re:Google's AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fight...
on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @10:34PM (#48217137)
That's not shame, the LLM did not mope about for days before deciding to pick itself up again and go to work.
Re:Google Declaring War on the Web
on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @06:31PM (#48215176)
The web is going to become China, which is a collection of walled gardens
Re:We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag
on Monday May 18, 2026 @01:04PM (#48182322)
This is called proof of stake
Re:Why Has There Been So Little Progress on Alzheimer's Disease?
on Sunday April 26, 2026 @07:51AM (#47909582)
That’s not true. If you want to have a job at a prestigious institution then the research committees are pretty consistent in their biases.
Re:Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'
on Sunday April 12, 2026 @07:52PM (#47745815)
Driver support eats directly into driver development
Re:Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation
on Friday April 10, 2026 @02:08AM (#47714227)
It’s not illegal, just stupid because. Because plaintiffs can use this as evidence that they can police their own platforms
Re:Apple's New iPhone Update Is Restricting Internet Freedom in the UK
on Friday April 10, 2026 @01:33AM (#47714036)
Then you’ve never been to China
Re:Ask HN: How do you handle clients who don't pay on time?
on Saturday April 04, 2026 @10:41AM (#47639469)
If there’s no way to tell between a good customer and a bad customer who does the wrong thing then the difference doesn’t matter
Re:Judge finalizes order for Greenpeace to pay $345M in ND oil pipelin...
on Monday March 02, 2026 @11:52AM (#47220502)
Direct action is literally their policy
Re:How London cracked mobile phone coverage on the Underground
on Sunday January 18, 2026 @08:59AM (#46667843)
That directly goes against the earlier post where you said you lived in a particularly nice part of town
Re:Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch
on Thursday December 18, 2025 @05:32PM (#46319762)
TVs tend to incessantly ask for internet access, especially android ones.
Re:Steam Machine
on Thursday November 13, 2025 @04:01PM (#45920474)
Turns out the problem with mobile was windows all along!
Re:Computer science courses that don't exist, but should (2015)
on Thursday October 23, 2025 @11:16PM (#45690386)
Personally it felt quite natural once you start to work on real software projects.
Re:Computer science courses that don't exist, but should (2015)
on Thursday October 23, 2025 @11:16PM (#45690384)
That's the job of a (good) manager.
Re:Ask HN: Any advice on pivoting out of VC-backed tech?
on Sunday October 05, 2025 @05:52PM (#45485602)
Main Street sells pizza but VCs sell Ponzi schemes
Re:Earth was born dry until a cosmic collision made it a blue planet
on Saturday October 04, 2025 @08:04PM (#45477843)
The biggest assumption is that it assumes only a single path to intelligent life.
Re:US Cities Are Paying Too Much for New Transit Buses
on Friday September 26, 2025 @11:14PM (#45392977)
I disagree with the characterization of structural corruption. Every rationale actor will seek to capture all the benefits and pass on the risks. The real corruption is when decision makers know that they can’t be held responsible through corporate or political structures. See also [moral hazard](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard)
Re:iPhone Air
on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @11:31PM (#45192873)
If compute power is the deciding factor server vs edge discussion then we’d never have smartphones.
Re:Google to require developer verification to install and sideload An...
on Monday August 25, 2025 @06:59PM (#45020195)
I’m willing to sacrifice your rights if it means that there’s less incentive to steal my phone
Re:Google to require developer verification to install and sideload An...
on Monday August 25, 2025 @06:57PM (#45020177)
It’s not just Apple, lots of federal programs in US require a DUNS number.
Re:Show HN: MCP server for searching and downloading documents from An...
on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @05:59PM (#44515135)
Just give the AI something worse that would happen if it doesn’t call these functions.
Re:Google DeepMind Releases AlphaGenome
on Thursday June 26, 2025 @11:05PM (#44393379)
I can guarantee you that some smart person actually thinks that the opportunity size is measured as a fraction of the pharmaceutical industry market cap.