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Nick Vlku - Hey, I am working on something new. Stay tuned! nick at backplanes.com
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nickv··on iPhone Duo
Just want to check, do you mean American pricing? It starts at $1999 not $2999, which is surprisingly competitive with the Fold 8. (Of course, Samsung discounts the shit of the Fold in ways Apple never does).
nickv··on Zohran and the Short Link
This is an unhelpful comment. What socialist policies has he enacted? (I live here btw)
nickv··on Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+
Yea, I totally get why they want to be in this space (especially if you see transaction volume becoming more agentic), but why buy it? Why not do what Cloudflare or Vercel or AWS, etc did and just build your own?

Stripe already has killer APIs and knows how to build API infrastructure at Extreme scale, it still has developer cred after all these years, they are already Kings of multiplexing to different sources -- so why not just build your own LLM gateway?

My only guesses are: they want to buy the traffic instead of trying to organically grow it (but I feel like Stripe would get the volume anyway because of name rec), they want to buy the revenue and think they can dramatically reduce COGs because of efficiencies, buying the relationships with the frontier labs (who all dogfood their LLMs in pseudo-private on OR), or... something else?

That's the part I'm confused about.

nickv··on America's Big Cities Are Rapidly Losing Kids
As somebody who grew up in NYC, I am so grateful I did when I speak to people who grew up elsewhere. By the age of 15, I had infinite freedom, especially since all my HS friends came from all 5 boroughs. I'd go see movies with friends in Brooklyn, go to their apartments on the Upper West Side, hang out at museums or parks -- meanwhile my suburban friends were at the mercy of their parents driving them places.

I love seeing how resilient NYC kids are, like the 8 year old who folds his own stroller or the 7 year olds who are pros at the subway. This independence is both terrifying (for parents) and inspiring (it preps them early in life).

My first year at Cornell, I remember every freshman kind of losing their mind with the freedom of being away from home (getting super drunk, not controlling themselves, never self-selecting to "stay in, not go out, for the night") --- except for the New Yorkers who would constantly think, "What's the big deal?"

The hard part of raising kids in the city is it's extremely expensive. But my wife and I are pretty focused on, hell or high water, on making it work in Brooklyn - so we'll see how it goes.

nickv··on Patreon laying off 20% of staff
How does adding $200k back to payroll help pay for 96 employee salaries (plus benefits which tend to be an invisible 25-30% on top of salaries)?
nickv··on Patreon laying off 20% of staff
citation needed
nickv··on I built a page that tells you what AI model your laptop can run
Me too. I have the same spec model (M5 Max with 125gb of ram) and it reports as 32gb.
nickv··on Anthropic runs large-scale code migrations with Claude Code
Dude, just give up and admit you misread the point in the most negative bad faith way possible.
nickv··on Show HN: E-- – A language you dial between English and Python
Ooo this is cool. It reminds me of AppleScript. Did you guys use that as inspiration for this?
nickv··on Fable 5 is Back
Stock value?
nickv··on Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5
I bet you that nothing changed with how Fable 5 is run.

"Anthropic has agreed to proactively detect and address security risks associated with the models" LOL, this was already happening.

This clown car administration just keeps making shit up and then backpedalling in a way that just leaves everything worse.

nickv··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
Sounds like myrmidon would have gleefully bought a Volkswagon Bug in 1941.
nickv··on Om Malik has died
Mods, we should have a black bar for this.

He was a deeply influential person, who also was amazingly talented and a wonderful human being. The trifecta!

I sadly never met him, but even typing the word “was” above made me have the deepest sigh.

nickv··on Amazon Seller Reveals Rare Glimpse of Shadow Bribery Market
https://archive.ph/hioIm
nickv··on Show HN: LookAway, a Mac break reminder that knows when not to interrupt
I think this is totally a fair way to do this. I know HN sometimes grumbles about this type of pricing, but totally get it. You’re not taking anything away, you’re just charging for new features after 1 year they paid. They don’t lose access.

(It’s like back when we had Photoshop 5 and then Photoshop 6 came out).

As long as you mention that security updates will be free, I think this is a good plan. It’s how you get indie devs paid to keep working on products.

nickv··on Steam Machine launches today
The thing I'm most excited about here (other than Yay! Valve!) is that this will bleed towards making projects like Bazzite even better.
nickv··on Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI
Yikes. I see Justin posted this, and I'm sure he can't say much - but this is an absolutely insane story.

Google has gone from encouraging 20% time (to create amazing projects like this) to firing people for doing it.

There seems to be some true maliciousness going on at Google. You have this, you have the open source Gemini CLI getting replaced with a shittier closed source Antigravity CLI, etc... etc... What is going on there?

nickv··on GLM 5.2 vs. Opus
Or...

you go to OpenRouter and pay

$0.98 / $3.08per 1M for GLM 5.2 vs $5 / $25per 1M for Opus.

GLM 5.2 gives you OPTIONALITY so you can run it locally, but you can still just pay somebody for it.

nickv··on We Liked Remote Work. Then We Looked at the Data.
https://archive.ph/T4II2
nickv··on Show HN: Spotlight shows what your Claude Code/Codex are doing
Seth, Neil and I will be around all day to answer questions if you have any. Please let us know!
nickv··on Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over AI risks
I get the sentiment but Obama won his second term in 2012 (12 years ago) and the last Democratic governor was in 1998 (28 years ago!)

Florida hasn't been purple in a long time.

nickv··on Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over AI risks
This one is tricky, because FL/DeSantis is running against Trump on this position. Trump is the biggest booster of data center build-outs and AI supremacy. A Trump-friendly judge might hurt the odds of this lawsuit succeeding.
nickv··on Ember.js 7.0
Isn't tanstack the new hotness now? Or is it Vite? Or is it htmx?
nickv··on It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12
You have definitely not. Go ahead, try taking a screenshot of a movie playing on Netflix on your pixel right now.
nickv··on Let's talk about EU Sovereignty (2025)
There's literally an entire section in the Treaty of the EU on the exact criteria to leave the EU. A country has literally _left_ the EU. Nobody is being held hostage to stay in the EU.

"Despite their citizens having opposed going in there." Can you point to a vote to invoke Article 50 that was not honored by the EU? Can you point to a country getting admission into the EU without a vote from their people?

nickv··on Let's talk about EU Sovereignty (2025)
I typically don't have to worry about somebody "sneaking and selling my body for their profit" without me, at least, being aware of it.
nickv··on Let's talk about EU Sovereignty (2025)
And Minitel, they had networked computers in people's homes in the 80s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel.
nickv··on Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026
People use the Gemini CLI? What poor souls...
nickv··on New York to tax luxury second homes in NYC
Because wealth is also distributed in a very lumpy way across the city.

154 residents of NYC own 33% of the entire wealth of the city... notice I didn't say 1%, I said top 154. They are not contributing 33% of the tax income to the city.

So yes, the ultra rich pay "less taxes" if you look at how much of the resident wealth they control.

Also, property taxes are significantly lower than appraised value and the richer you get the bigger the disparity. That Ken Griffin’s $238M penthouse pied-a-terre? It's assessed value is $9M. So yea, he's paying like $150k/yr in property taxes.

And finally, it is a known fact that sales tax definitely hits poor people harder (re: "everyone pays sale tax equally"). What you want to look at is what percentage of a person's post taxincome vs sales tax paid, because if you make like $60k/yr you're probably close to 60% of all post tax income paying some form of sales tax (you buy with all the money you make). If you have $2B, your percentage of "tax paid as sales tax" is significantly lower, because you don't typically spend a billion dollars the same way you spend $60k.

nickv··on New York to tax luxury second homes in NYC
You're right, when I think of a place that has an overabundance of 2 floor single family homes, I think of Manhattan.
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