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mmmattton Best LLM for every budget, updated daily

I do, 3-4$ a month of deep seek is enough for my usage

He obviously meant the title of the HN post? Why not straight up say that the article title is different and avoid the passive aggressiveness.

mmmattton Elevators

I live in a 20 stories building with only two elevators, 4 3-bedrooms apartments per floor. And I don’t think I ever had to wait more than a couple minutes.

mmmattton AttoChess, a complete, playable chess program for 16-bit x86 DOS in 278 bytes

Kind of crazy to put “Complete” in the post’s title then.

mmmattton New York City to to ban deceptive subscription practices

The mandate stipulates that they can get minimum wage, I wouldn’t call that a “regular” wage, and certainly not a livable one.

mmmattton 98% isn't much

Yeah but as long as they’re not public services, the business can just decide to not serve these clients. There’s no recourse possible for these clients.

mmmattton A global workspace in language models

I tried o3, 5.3 instant and 5.5 high and they all found it instantly with search disabled.

mmmattton Who are the fire-tamers?

Traiteur does mean caterer in France, but the way the word is constructed also implies “someone who treats”, to treat is traiter and traitement is treatment, so it’s weird that only traiteur lost that meaning.

mmmattton 22-year-old Mozart's handwritten notebook unearthed in 'major discovery'

It was also played live for Fête de la musique in Paris last Sunday.

mmmattton GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2

If it’s a market, wouldn’t the incentive be to lie about knowing and thus to keep the hallucinations?

mmmattton Waymo says can't avoid bike lanes because riders want to be dropped off in them

Or you know, stop somewhere else ?

mmmattton Audiophiles can't distinguish audio sent through copper, banana or mud

My 500$ KEF Q150 setup sound like the band is here when I close my eyes. The sound will be shaped more by the acoustics of the room than by the actual speakers anyway.

mmmattton Audiophiles can't distinguish audio sent through copper, banana or mud

The experiment compared .wav files directly ripped from the cd to these same files played through copper/banana/mud.

So yes, the “good” audio is good.

mmmattton Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?

This still isn’t true for Twitter like platforms like the ones OP mentioned, you see only posts from people you follow, in chronological order. If it’s not on by default, you can very easily turn it on from the main screen, and from my experience it never reverts.