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cactusplant7374··on Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
Because engineers are lusting for 1000 tokens per second. You can only achieve something like that with OpenAI.
cactusplant7374··on OpenAI annualised revenues $20B less than previously signalled
The link doesn't work.
cactusplant7374··on ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
I think your argument would be stronger if you claimed introspection is only a feature of humans.
cactusplant7374··on ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
I have used a simple feedback loop to generate AI art: 1) the initial prompt 2) ask for criticism of the generated image 3) apply those changes and generate another image 4) repeat the criticism / fix cycle again

Isn't that somewhat introspective?

cactusplant7374··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
Ultrafast uses 6x the usage. They probably realize that people will complain if the plan limits are too low. In any case, the TCO of the newer chips is supposedly lower. Hopefully everyone is on ultrafast eventually.
cactusplant7374··on OpenAI (2015)
The biggest donor is Elon Musk.
cactusplant7374··on Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
Was he paid to review the paper? His praise reads very unauthentic.

> After reviewing the pre-print, Feng Zhang, one of the pioneers of CRISPR genome editing and a professor at MIT and the Broad Institute said:

> This is an exciting example of how AI agents can contribute to biological discovery. The identification of RNA-repeat arrays associated with reverse transcriptases is genuinely intriguing and merits further investigation. I hope this work encourages more scientists to explore how AI can support their research.

cactusplant7374··on Mexican student creates an acoustic fire extinguisher to put out fire in seconds
> Ángela Karime Venegas Hernández is 16 years old and has an idea no one else had.

Hate to be a downer, but this has been done before.

https://acoustics.org/pressroom/httpdocs/150th/Plaks.html

cactusplant7374··on Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
And HN users are being used as part of these attacks?
cactusplant7374··on Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
This isn't about you personally. There is a public interest here.
cactusplant7374··on Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
I can't control their behavior nor can you. But if you don't want to respond to the substance of my comment then perhaps you shouldn't respond?
cactusplant7374··on Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
It tells us that the moderators of HN support copyright infringement and DDOS attacks. They are actively moderating this forum and choosing to do nothing.
cactusplant7374··on Ask HN: Are others seeing Google's reCAPTCHA rejecting Firefox users?
It is telling that HN moderators allow links to archive.is/today
cactusplant7374··on GoldenEye 007 native port after the N64 decompilation reached 100%
It 404s now. DMCA?
cactusplant7374··on Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
Codex has 20+ million users. They are doing much better than Cursor.
cactusplant7374··on CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO
What company fired them? I don't see that in the repo but maybe I missed it.
cactusplant7374··on OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell
It is incredibly cheap now. What sectors are you thinking of?
cactusplant7374··on OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users
2AM CST
cactusplant7374··on OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users
There are no off-peak hours. I have received the model overloaded error that cancels my current goal during the early hours of the morning.
cactusplant7374··on OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)
Codex has 20 million users and growing. There is a possibility that they take a huge chunk of the coding agent market share.
cactusplant7374··on OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)
OpenAI has a free tier. I'm guessing a lot of people never need to upgrade. Not the case for me but I can see the average person only needing to run a few prompts every day.
cactusplant7374··on Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive
Dario said in an interview that they originally wanted to be an enterprise only company.
cactusplant7374··on Rural Village in Spain Is Welcoming Digital Nomads with Open Arms
In Cuenca, EC you have a lot of retirees and a few digital nomads. Most people don’t make a big move to spend more money than they would in their home country. So they frequent all of the same small local businesses and markets as the locals. No one learns Spanish so some money funnels into interpreters and facilitators. I ended up spending a lot of money on restaurants started by immigrants because I don’t like Ecuadorian cuisine that much. All of this to say that the money is distributed more than one might think.
cactusplant7374··on What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x
I'm working on emulators with AOT and JIT.
cactusplant7374··on What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x
Yes, with a few exceptions. It's much easier now that the five hour limit has been removed from codex.
cactusplant7374··on What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x
One of my projects has an estimate of 3,000+ hours. It seems accurate. It has spent months working on it.
cactusplant7374··on The August 17 outage
Probably managing and mentoring. I has a boss that wanted to code and be CTO. Just horrible.
cactusplant7374··on Norway Should Buy OpenAI
The US government would never allow a sale. Frontier intelligence given away? It is the ASML story all over again. I would hope we have learned our lesson.
cactusplant7374··on Buy Your Friends Batteries
Not everything needs to be optimized. Probably only rich people would engage in such a scheme anyway.
cactusplant7374··on Show HN: Eve Software Factory
I'm asking this earnestly: What is the value proposition of Vercel when AI agents can create a Dockerfile and deploy a project in minutes?
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