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Re:Eden AI – European Alternative to OpenRouter on Sunday April 26, 2026 @07:21AM (#47909396)
But OpenRouter also costs 5.5%: https://openrouter.ai/pricing
Maybe the principal investigator Jonathan Mayer [1] should have read his own paper [2] about dark patterns. From the abstract "There is a rapidly growing literature on dark patterns [...] that researchers deem problematic" [2].

This research looks like a dark pattern to me.

[1] https://privacystudy.cs.princeton.edu/ [2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3411764.3445610

Re:The Decline of Heroku on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @04:00AM (#26789403)
I can recommend CapRover as a Heroku alternative: https://caprover.com
Re:Was German unification inevitable? on Saturday March 20, 2021 @02:49PM (#26525134)
Not in the trillions, but more like "25-40 billion euros or $31-50 billion" https://www.dw.com/en/how-kohl-and-gorbachev-sealed-the-deal...

Helmut Kohl negotiated a very good deal. Money was not an issue for Germany but speed and total withdrawl of the Russian troops. Germany would have paid much more. A year later and it might be too late for the reunification (Gorbachev was kicked out of the Kremlin).

Re:Ask HN: Learning NoSQL, papers and books on Sunday October 08, 2017 @10:13AM (#15428267)
Study the new SAP systems like SAP HANA, SAP S/4HANA, or SAP Fiori. SAP moved from R/2 -> R/3 -> SAP ERP -> SAP S/4HANA. It is always easier to jump on the new wave than try to compete with experts with decades of experience in a system.
Re:Why I'm Planning to Kill W3Schools on Saturday September 21, 2013 @02:21PM (#6423877)
Even though I use Firefox, the site says that my browser is not supported and I should download e.g. Firefox http://codepupil.com/not-supported.html
Earth class mail had exactly the same idea 2004 and got 21.4M funding [1]. A documentary from 2008 about them: http://www.hulu.com/start-up-junkies . They later fired the founder and changed from B2C to B2B [2]: “As many a tech startup has discovered, though, a great idea doesn't always make a good business. Digitizing all that paper proved hugely expensive, and Earth Class Mail couldn't make its business pay.” [1] http://www.crunchbase.com/company/earthclassmail [2] http://blog.oregonlive.com/siliconforest/2011/01/earth_class...