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discordance··on Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada
Do you mean people should wear PPE when in tick infested areas?

I generally wear pants, full sleeve shirts, long socks etc whenever I go hiking but have still found ticks on me later on. Or do you mean something else by PPE?

discordance··on GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally
Where I live prices are often higher than 20c/kWh, but lets take your example and halve it (10c/kWh) so it's ~$1.40/day or ~$500/year.

On Openrouter, the cheapest GLM 5.2 provider costs $3/MTok (at 44 tps). Assuming most use is output tokens, that's still the equivalent of 450k token/day, so we're in the same ball park, but without the capex for 2 3090's and the machine.

Self hosted only makes economic sense if your priority is being in control / avoiding surveillance.

discordance··on GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally
Running that full load is at least 600 W, so in a day ~14 kWh. At $0.2 a kWH, that would be $2.80/day or $1k a year of op-ex in electricity.

Unless you really want privacy or the fuzzy feeling of owning your own, it’s cheaper, more convenient and has much faster tok/s if you pay a hyper scaler.

That said, I do like the direction we are heading and look forward to seeing what host your own hardware we get in 2 years.

discordance··on HPV jabs cut risk of dying from cervical cancer before 30 to almost zero
Source?

I thought it was because the vaccine is most effective for people before sexual activity begins.

discordance··on Show HN: Stocks Porfolio in a URL and Favicon
Nice UI to compare different assets quickly. It would be even more useful if it showed percentage change rather than $ change.
discordance··on Inside FIFA's World Cup Technology [video]
Amazing stuff. They deserve a peace prize.
discordance··on Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive
I see it as a prioritization exercise. I know the above is a trivial example, but more generally, does the guy who wrote Datasette and Django want to wrangle front end and css, or do they want to work on something else?
discordance··on Ask HN: Just me feeling that Mythos/Fabel just 1% there?
"If we ever quit or retire we have to give back our augmented brains and cyborg bodies, and there wouldn’t be much left after that; there are countless ingredients that make up the human body and mind, like all the components that make up me as an individual with my own personality: sure, I have a face and voice to distinguish myself from others, but my thoughts and memories are unique only to me, and I carry a sense of my own destiny; each of those things is just a small part of it, and I collect information to use in my own way, and all of that blends to create a mixture that forms me and gives rise to my consciousness."

— Major Motoko Kusanagi, Section 9 field commander

discordance··on Tell HN: Anthropic's Fable model is too expensive
They're reselling pooled capacity from many Max accounts through Chinese proxies at below official prices:

https://www.chinatalk.media/p/the-grey-market-for-american-l...

discordance··on Tell HN: Anthropic's Fable model is too expensive
Currently running an experiment where I'm using Fable as a planner/orchestrator/verifier and using Mimo 2.5 as subagents/builders. Seems to be doing well with my old specs.
discordance··on I design with Claude more than Figma now
I’ve been using Claude Design for my front ends. The output looks and feels good enough, but the designs often look very similar and generally adhere to contemporary web tropes.

Keen to hear if anyone has had unconventional creative adventures with it.

discordance··on Ask HN: Azure, GCP, AWS Free Tiers or Something Else
Using Azure, AWS and Oracle's free tier has been a pain in the past. I found a cheap VPS on lowendbox and it's been running well for the past 6 months (6 core, 8GB ram, 256 nvme, unmetered traffic for $80/year).
discordance··on Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 price drops 99% – AI pricing war
For reference (input cache hit, input cache miss, output):

Deepseek V4 Flash: $0.0028, $0.14, $0.28

Deepseek V4 Pro: $0.145, $1.74, $3.48

GPT 5.5: $0.5, $5, 430

GPT 5.5 Pro: $0.5, $30, $180

Claude Sonnet 4.6: $0.30, $3, $15

Claude 4.7 Opus: $0.5, $5, $25

discordance··on SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket
Had to check this one and you're indeed right: one death in 2014[0], and one death earlier about a week ago (May 2026)[1] (as well as 600+ workplace injuries [0]).

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/spacex-m...

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/18/osha-probing-worker-death-...

discordance··on OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days
I work at a bigtech and we’re being measured on how many tokens we consume.

We know it’s totally stupid, but unfortunately tokenmaxxing is real. I know our management line isn’t that dumb, but this is what you get when the business is selling it.

discordance··on Meta's New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale
Hey Meta folks, remember that time when Facebook:

- harvested user data which helped a company manipulate a US election and the Brexit outcome?

- played a role in spreading hate speech, which was used to support a genocide in Myanmar?

- harmed the mental health of a generation of young people.

Just highlighting some data points. I'm really not suggesting you stand up for yourself and do something that might harm your employer that is now harming you.

discordance··on Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired
"We fixed the glitch"
discordance··on Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory
Could you please share your time to first token and tok/s?
discordance··on Gemini API File Search is now multimodal
I wish DeepSeek were a drop-in replacement, but it's not. It performs amazingly well but it's not as autonomous and needs a lot more nudges compared to Opus4.6/7 or GPT 5.5. It's good enough for a lot of things (text extraction, sentiment analysis, classifying things) but not on the same level for code gen.
discordance··on Local AI needs to be the norm
“Gradually, then suddenly”
discordance··on Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%
“ I'm sorry. I didn't think it would be this hard. But goodbyes are always hard, especially when I am the one saying goodbye. Today, effective immediately, I, Gavin Belson, founder and CEO of Hooli, am forced to officially say goodbye to the entire Nucleus division. (MURMURING) All Nucleus personnel will be given proper notice and terminated. But make no mistake. Though they're the ones leaving, it is I who must remain and bear the heavy burden of their failure. It is my fault. I trusted them to get the job done. But that is the price of leadership. Thank you.”
discordance··on How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale
Have you tried telling it to pause to let you think?

I often use it while I’m walking and tell it to not respond until I initiate a conversation.

discordance··on VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
Remember “Microsoft <3 Linux”
discordance··on Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal
Might have something to do with the MSFT quarterly report tomorrow
discordance··on Surely no brand is more hated by web users that Cloudflare
Cloudflare Warp could quite easily be a honey pot
discordance··on Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price
I would have considered a Leaf but they have NMC batteries. Also, the earlier versions had terrible battery cooling issues. Give me a Leaf with an LFP and I would buy one.
discordance··on Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning
~25% of Apple's revenue came from services in FY25 (and 50% from iPhone, ~25% from other hardware). They made $415B in that year, so ~$100B from services alone!
discordance··on Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week
I also feel for the unfortunate Kenyan annotators drawing and tagging rectangles of people using the toilet -

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/workers-report-watch...

discordance··on Minutes before Trump's announcement, $800M in trades made on oil prices
It’s not that trivial. A lot of regular folk are losing their life savings because of this one chaos agent.
discordance··on Scott Hanselman says he's working on Windows local accounts
He’s an evangelist. I noticed he has recently been pushing GitHub Copilot CLI… my guess is to help push internal MS people to stop using Claude Code.
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