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* GitHub: https://github.com/ronsor

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* Projects: https://gpu.st - https://sakura2d.org

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* NetOps: I run AS211233. Try me: `ping6 2a0a:6040:8e00::1`.

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ronsor··on Hacking SimCity 2000 saved games
Minecraft is the exception that proves the rule, if you ask me
ronsor··on Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?
VHS has an effective resolution of ~240p anyway.
ronsor··on Special Projects (2016)
> Authors: Ilya Sutskever, Dario Amodei, Sam Altman

Only one remains at OpenAI.

ronsor··on Once Claude can measure something, it can make it faster
Anthropic is trying so hard to "crack down" on distillation that they're ruining their own product. I do not know why.
ronsor··on GPT-6 Sol and Luna
They already stopped. That's why the service quality declined.
ronsor··on GPT-6 Sol and Luna
Including this one, yes.

But the reason people say "Claude can't compete" is because Claude Opus has been going downhill since 4.7, and many have found Opus 5 intolerable. Fable is much better, but also much more expensive than OpenAI's offerings.

ronsor··on Americans' Drinking Remains at Record Low: Gallup Poll
"Drinking" in isolation refers to alcohol in idiomatic American English.
ronsor··on An update on Wayback Machine access
Reddit has no excuses for the anonymous old.reddit.com removal; they're simply greedy.

On the other hand, the Internet Archive is a non-profit offering a free public resource.

ronsor··on German companies rely almost exclusively on AI models and services from the USA
How much of the current valuation is due to Google's resources and support, though?

"Sell company now and it's worth more a decade later" is the entire point; acquisitions are an investment and the investment is supposed to appreciate.

ronsor··on SDR–; open source SDR with a patchable signal graph, Rust DSP, web UI
I think if we're going that deep about latency, you really ought to stay away from traditional x86 (and ARM64!) platforms entirely.

SMM firmware can interrupt any time for whatever reason, meaning even a plain, unoptimized assembly program can have unpredictable latency.

ronsor··on Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout
> Sneakerbots killed it for everyone

Ultimately I think artificial scarcity/limited production for products offered online is a futile and erroneous venture. The bots exist because the product is valuable. The product is valuable because it's artificially limited.

ronsor··on Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too
Yes, I think this is the main issue. I don't care what policies the AI labs have or enforce, but they need to stop acting like ToS violations are an international crisis demanding intervention instead of a boring civil dispute at most.
ronsor··on Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too
ZDR is shorthand for a more specified agreement of "we don't do anything other than generate your output tokens", so no.

Besides, true ZDR is usually offered by third-parties with deals to host OpenAI models, such as Amazon (AWS Bedrock) and Microsoft (Azure).

ronsor··on Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too
Almost every serious customer is already using ZDR where nothing is retained at all, instead of "anonymized" data.
ronsor··on Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too
"Bioweapon" information is not useful without a lab for synthesis.

Someone with that lab could almost certainly figure out how do something stupid or destructive on their own, or bypass model safeguards somehow.

ronsor··on Show HN: Godot and Rust based multiplexer (terminal panes and more)
Oh, apparently that came in Godot 4.5. Good to know.
ronsor··on ElevenLabs Music v2.5
That often costs a fair bit of money for an indie game that won't make any.
ronsor··on Show HN: Godot and Rust based multiplexer (terminal panes and more)
Just try to remember accessibility concerns.
ronsor··on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
They're right when it makes business sense, which is also about cost and why Shopify didn't do it before.
ronsor··on South Park creators rename show 'South America'
America News*
ronsor··on Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished
I stand corrected. They apparently ignored copyright too (in retrospect, using existing screenplays made sense for the early industry).
ronsor··on iPhone Duo
I still don't get the fanfare over folding phones. They tend to be more fragile, and if I really need a larger screen, I'd much rather use a laptop or tablet.
ronsor··on Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished
Hollywood was created by ignoring (Edison) patents, not copyright.

On the other hand, Disney's success is largely owed to public domain adaptations, and for a century, it did its best to shrink the public domain and expand copyright.

ronsor··on This Month in Ladybird – August 2026
> unnecessary load

In some situations it's the only way to get a decent download speed.

ronsor··on Tell HN: OpenAI brings back 5 hour limit for plus and business standard users
You can check https://hyper.charm.land/v1/models for the complete list.
ronsor··on AI models ran real businesses: They sent $12,431 in fake invoices, lost $3,200
Still not enough fraud
ronsor··on AI models ran real businesses: They sent $12,431 in fake invoices, lost $3,200
That's been all technology since forever.

"Computer says no."

ronsor··on AI models ran real businesses: They sent $12,431 in fake invoices, lost $3,200
Well GPT-6 wasn't involved in this mess.
ronsor··on Tell HN: OpenAI brings back 5 hour limit for plus and business standard users
Hyper gives $12.50 worth of usage every 24 hours, totaling $375 per month. It resets at the same time regardless of when you start, unlike the 5 hour limits on other providers. Yes, it's only $20/month. It's also insanely fast; I've never gotten 75+ tokens/sec on K3 from any other provider.
ronsor··on Tell HN: OpenAI brings back 5 hour limit for plus and business standard users
First of all, it still has the 5 hour limits, which is what this thread is about and what I think what most in this thread want to avoid.

Second, the offerings are subject to change at random. They advertised $60 of usage for $10/month (knowing most users wouldn't reach that). This was consistently the case up until early August, when the per-model "usage multipliers" started taking over. Some models give $15 of usage per month, others $30, still others remain at $60, and apparently one at $100 now?[0] Either way, I don't want to expend the mental effort to track which model is the best deal for capability and usage.

Right now I use Hyper[1] for $20/month and give $100/month to OpenAI. Not OpenAI's biggest fan, but the value is good right now, and that's what matters.

[0] https://opencode.ai/docs/go/

[1] https://hyper.charm.land

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