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Petersipoion A/I shuts down

America has the most progressive tax system in the world. There is no other country where the ultra rich pay such percentage of the tax burden. Fuck off with this "Left in the US is center in Europe" bullshit. The EU wishes they were as left as us in a lot of areas.

edit: Because this is HN and a lot of you are learning this for the first time:

US: $60k salary leads to $50k take home pay, then a less than 10% sales tax

Denmark: $60k salary leads to $38k take home pay, then a 25% sales tax

All that money you're losing in Denmark is paying for you shittier healthcare.

Welcome to a small taste of being outside your echo chamber.

Petersipoion A/I shuts down

I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at. You seem to be saying the "free speech absolutists" getting upset about censorship in the EU is a bad thing. While, at the same time, saying them not getting upset about this is a bad thing.

In criticizing their inconsistencies, you are highlighting and simultaneously missing your own inconsistencies.

Petersipoion GPT-6 Astra on robot arms

The motivation is that they keep getting away with it. And they're going to keep getting away with it until society decides we're going to stop tolerating shit like that.

Petersipoion GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter

https://imgur.com/a/60GrJ0i

Did even better from the front. What's surprising is that it used the exact same colors as the simonw example, despite my prompt only being

> Generate an SVG of a ring-tailed lemur riding an electric scooter. Front view

GPT-6 Astra Extra High

Petersipoion Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns

Awesome. Let's all start using this on HN so we end up with a bunch of broken links in a few years

Petersipoion New type of dice guarantees no tie when deciding who goes first

Only the people who can't make eye contact with others interpreted your comment as hostile. Unfortunately, that describes a high number of people on this site.

Petersipoion New type of dice guarantees no tie when deciding who goes first

Only 70 years? If that's the case, why isn't it solved yet? Just rent 4,000 computers and have it done in less than a week.

Petersipoion New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal

How do you have better odds at a casino? Is the cut Kalshi takes so big that it makes the odds bad for both sides?

Petersipoion Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business

Just to make sure I'm understanding, you're saying that Google payed someone (presumably Trump), who then went and convinced a Clinton appointed judge who has ruled against Trump in the past to give the case to Google?

Is that actually what you think?

Petersipoion Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1

On the contrary, you and Anthropic are being disingenuous by pretending that a usage reduction is actually an increase. Especially when the 20x max plan isn't actually anywhere near 20x, as people have recently realized.

Petersipoion Iceland votes on whether to restart talks on joining EU

> Polls show the population regrets Brexit

57%?

Sorry, but a poll of 57% is a tossup. And could even swings the other way when you factor in closet brexiters/trumpers/etc in polls like these

Petersipoion Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

That is the point. It's a way to get the value of a service you don't like, while signaling to everyone that you're too virtuous to use the service you're getting value out of.

Petersipoion I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch

It reminds me of that "stone soup" story.

1. I can make turn a stone and water into a delicious soup

"17 year olds, learn to build an LLM from scratch"

2. This soup would be more delicious if we add a few carrots. Does anyone have carrots

"Increase your chance of success by getting a Masters degree"

3. How about potatoes?

"And get a PHD"

4. What about some salt?

"And publish some peer reviewed articles in {journals_list}

5. We should also add beef

"Now work in the industry for 10 years"

6. See, this soup is delicious, and I made it all with a stone

"See, you're rich, and it's all because you learned LLMs as a 17 year old"

Petersipoion Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive

Maybe you use AI differently than me

Petersipoion Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive

I ditched Claude Code $200/month a couple of months ago in favor of Codex $200/month. The value is night and day.

1. No 5 hour usage limit

2. Weekly usage gets reset CONSTANTLY. It's crazy. The longest I've ever seen it go without a reset is maybe 5 days?

3. I don't feel like OpenAI is constantly trying to fuck with me. Unlike Anthropic. I would way rather have Sol all day every data, consistently, than a slightly better Fable for like, 1 prompt every 5 hours, and only when Anthropic decides to not treat me like a cyber criminal. Believe in yourself as much as Claude believes your CRUD app is going to hack the pentagon.

4. Getting access to image generation, though I don't use it too much, is a nice perk compared to Anthropic.

edit: Should mention that I had like 4 banked manual resets as well. It feels like OpenAI wants me to use their product, whereas Anthropic wants my money while giving me a nerfed experience

Petersipoion The Instant team joins OpenAI

Friday night email? Are they ashamed to announce this or excited?

Petersipoion Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013)

The link given was to a blog post from the US army. Good try though.

Petersipoion Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013)

Why do you want the people risking their lives to protect your freedom to have worse artillery? I don't understand this thinking at all. If my country is going to shoot something, I want them to be able to control what actually gets hit. I swear, people take borderline religious stances on things to the point that they no longer make sense.

Petersipoion Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months

Nope. Apple wants to maximize profits. They clearly make more at lower prices. Source: the fact that they had lower prices until they were forced to increase them. They will be hoping to return to a more optimal price point as soon as they can.

Petersipoion Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

Good god. There is that hacker spirit. Who hurt you?

Petersipoion How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

Yes, Snapchat does this. Apps absolutely have the ability to know when a screenshot is taken.

Petersipoion How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

Not sure why you think anyone is suggesting that non-occluding watermarks are a gripe people have with X.

GP is saying that BS gets a pass where X would not for a user hostile action.

Petersipoion Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions

The amount that OpenAI resets their quotas is nuts. It's like, every 2 days I swear. Feels so fucking good. Whenever I think about switching my $200 plan back to Claude for a month I'm reminded that they still have a 5 hour usage limit, which feels so absurd now that I've used Codex for a couple of months.

Petersipoion CEO who fired 900 people on Zoom just before Christmas wants his job back

Sounds like we're in agreement that a layoff can be done just fine and humanely in a group setting over Zoom.

Petersipoion CEO who fired 900 people on Zoom just before Christmas wants his job back

There is nothing inhumane about announcing layoffs over Zoom though. Hell I'd prefer to be laid off in the least personal way possible because I'm a grown-ass adult who doesn't need my company to treat my like a child. Tell me and get it over with.

Petersipoion Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's

I consistently buy ground beef on sale for $5/pound. Looking at walmart.com right now, they are selling it for $6.44/pound. Maybe people think cooking is expensive because they, for some odd reason, are paying $5 for a half pound of ground beef.

Petersipoion Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's

I really want the "cooking is too expensive" crowd to show me where they're getting their cheap food. I would struggle to make a homemade burger cost as much as a McDonalds quarter pounder. Even if I used twice as much beef.

Petersipoion Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's

> not even a double digit percentage

That's actually crazy if that's as low as you dare guess. I would have easily guessed it was like, a fraction of a percent. 1 in 10 would be fucking nuts.

Petersipoion DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

I max out my $200/month Claude plan. You are obviously just not taking advantage of it to the same level as others. Which is fine. Don't pay for something you don't need. But I would definitely take a massive productivity hit if I had 1/20th the usage.