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bogdanon GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price

No? They charge 5.5% (I believe) on every top-up. Which is the equivalent of charging you 5.5% on every request.

bogdanon GLM Built Its Own Inference Infrastructure

> Maybe my post sounded harsher than I intended

Appreciate the clarification. For me it was the "F" in "WTF" that tipped me. Other than that, it's more than fair for you to not know what GLM is. Things are moving so fast that I would be surprised if anyone can keep track of it all. Cheers, have a grand day!

bogdanon How GLM built its own inference infrastructure

I don't get the outrage. Do you post this kind of stuff on every topic on hackernews that you are not knowledgeable about?

bogdanon Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout

And gaviota is best for wide feet. They are really comfy

bogdanon How the Chorleywood Bread Process transformed British bread

Brits will pop up like snails in the rain to defend this god awful bread. They'll explain to you for the 15th time that it was a necessity back in the day, or how it's cheaper or faster to make or whatever reason they come up with in the moment. Fellow Brits, we know this, it's ok, it's 2026 the ration times are over. It's time to move on or accept reality.

bogdanon 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]

A nutritionist, a dermatologist, a plumber could all say the same about many of the things we do or don't do day to day. There's only so many free "5 minutes" people have in a day.

bogdanon How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs

The tv license is a bad example and it's in many ways better than in Germany or France. In the UK you can declare you do not watch any national tv and you forego the tax. No such luxury in Germany where as far as I know you can't avoid it. In France it's funded through vat and of course it's priced in so everyone pays anyway.

bogdanon GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%

Is there actually a difference in cache rates between OR and official API? I have a preset set up on OR so that I only send traffic to deepseek. The preset is important otherwise you will send traffic to different providers but if you weren't doing this already then what can I say, water is wet, of course cache rates will be awful. I get about 70% cache hit rate with the preset which is appropriate for what I'm doing. I haven't used the official API though.

bogdanon Incident with Github.com

> Their employee base in Washington has almost no american born engineers.

First of all, I highly doubt it. Second, how would you even know that?

bogdanon Pixel Watch 5

The ii plural is for Latin words. Alexas is perfectly fine in English. And so is octopuses, where you probably first heard about it. No need to over complicate things.

bogdanon Tech leaders say AI means less work – staff say they work up to 90 hours a week

Makes one think about the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_Amnesia_effect

bogdanon AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon

You probably haven't met a determined goat yet.

bogdanon Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI

Yes. They have done so in the past and according to open ai they have lied with certain details. This article portrays Apple quite differently

OpenAI hits back at Apple over ‘oddly personal’ trade secrets fight - https://www.ft.com/content/7da4af42-178d-431a-91db-7e82eecc9... via @FT

bogdanon Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences

I've been last year and none of the 4+ Tabelog-rated sushi places I've been to had it. It was quite common in grocery stores though; sashimi grade was cheap and plentiful.

bogdanon Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470%

There's barely any media in 8k. There's so many ppi you can squeeze before your eye can't tell the difference anymore.

bogdanon Advertise in ChatGPT

You're giving Sam too much credit. I think he had no idea that competition would catch up so fast and they got caught with their pants down.

bogdanon Kimi Work

Powerusers be damned.

bogdanon Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65T on opaque AI funding

I'll link to this comment as a rebuttal https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48984531

bogdanon Kimi Work

It's worthless until it isn't.

bogdanon Shinjuku Station in 3D

Probably. They count journeys involving Shinjuku as an interchange as two separate, independent journeys.

bogdanon Frame – Linux X server in Assembly

Try running `tile` as a wm. I imagine it's not fully compliant to support dwm.

bogdanon Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence

To be fair the stock market is a big one

bogdanon Codex Micro

We need to bring back the 'turbo' button.[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_button#Purpose

bogdanon Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here

Am I missing something? I get 100 bullets per month unless I subscribe? There are so many alternatives that are free. I'm using Capacities right now which seems way more feature rich and I haven't hit any limits on the free plan.

bogdanon Precursor

Why worry? Just send them a photo of your ID and you'll be fine. /s

bogdanon Nintendo announces new product revisions in Europe with replaceable batteries

> they just didn't care enough

Of course there are extra costs. The parts and the extra assembly isn't free and it does add up.

bogdanon What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)

Entities

bogdanon ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2

Source? Or is it "trust me bro"?

bogdanon Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model

Ultra expensive

bogdanon Cloudflare launched self-managed OAuth for all

You're right. Crazy how we ended with so many different implementations.