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Not universally. The author wants to live in a city, so of course they're not going to enjoy living in a suburb. It sounds like they'd be better off in an East-cost metropolis like New York instead.

There is a ridiculous irony to making such a hateful, intolerant comment about this, lol

My company IT forced us to upgrade to Tahoe :(

Once again, once you hit the high/xhigh level you're better off using Opus low/medium to get better results for around the same price. So I suppose the main point of this release is that you have a lower end than Opus low, which I suppose some people will like?

It's crazy that the top comment on HN these days is this kind of crackpot conspiracy thinking.

That's their API pricing. There's no way they actually paid $15M in compute. I'd say much more likely it's in the order of $1M.

> and learned of the general approach they were taking. Only after learning the secret to cracking the problem did they send the first prompt.

Do you have any evidence of this? They don't dispute the timeline, but they never said they knew what Levant/Buckmaster were doing.

I think this is stupid, for three reasons:

1. The researches didn't actually have the breakthroughs. In the Navier-Stokes case they didn't solve the full problem, in this case too they didn't actually have the solution, they were experimenting with the methods.

2. Different OpenAI employees have come to out to say the only reason they can't definitively say no is that for privacy reasons they can't go see whether they actually did get any data out of a given user.

3. In any case, nobody at any point has suggested that opted-out user data was used for training. The author of the new tweet explicitly said they only opted out in late June, which is well after any RL on Sol would've ended (AFAICT OpenAI used 5.6 sol for those solutions)

The tweet is from Asha Sharma, the leader of Xbox!

> It's also only referencing hardware sales. Not the Xbox division.

No??? You can quibble about the article, but you must've failed to read:

> The fourth quarter alone showed a sharper split. Xbox content and services revenue, which includes Game Pass, fell 10 percent in the quarter. Hardware revenue dropped 13 percent over the same three months

This is further bolstered by MS's own press release:

> XBOX content and services revenue decreased 10%

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/earnings/fy-2026-q4...

> and on 2025 Q4 don't include the Xbox Hardware division, only their content division

You said "I'm seeing an 11% increase in revenue from their 2025 Q4 report"

When the report says:

> Xbox content and services revenue increased 13% (up 12% in constant currency)

In fact, there's no 11% figure anywhere in the report, so I have to assume this is what you're referring to since MS didn't break out Xbox hardware anywhere in it.

This is laughably shoddy work, please don't waste my time.

You can search "Xbox revenue 2026" and one of the first results is this: https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/articles/xbox-revenue-f...

Note that I said "YoY", and the numbers you're citing are quarter to quarter (and on 2025 Q4 don't include the Xbox Hardware division, only their content division).

The points I've quoted come from the article, not the interview with the developer. I didn't go that far down because clearly the person taking the interview doesn't know what they're talking about.

> and the thing that is continuing to scale well or pretty well is inference

No, the models are just more intelligent. GPT 5.6 Sol can do more in fewer output tokens than any model from late 2025. Test-time compute isn't the only lever the labs have for scaling. This is among the two major things Ed has gotten laughably wrong in his technical predictions (that TTC was the last resort to make models better, and that synthetic data wouldn't help)

> Ed Zitron doesn't say that AI doesn't work, that its impact on the world will not increase

He's said variants of both of these things before! That's the point OP makes too, people say "He doesn't say that" or "But what about this" when he's said a million, sometimes contradictory things.

In the first paragraph:

> While videogames are as profitable as ever on paper

And the linked article is about revenue going up YoY, not profit. And then it says:

> It's remarkably dissonant with, say, the current 'Xbox reset' which has Microsoft cancelling games and looking to ax studios left and right

Xbox in their own earnings report said their revenues dropped by 7% YoY.

Yeah OK, I guess games journalist are as bad as they've ever been.

Huh? Qwen released the weights of 3.8 Max, the only difference is the vision capability is "closed": https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B

Xi has made it official policy, see his keynote speech at their World AI Conference last month:

> We should seize this rare, historic opportunity to encourage open source, openness, collaboration and sharing. [1]

People have pointed that this seemingly made Alibaba/Qwen turn around from closing their models (this was rumored after the shakeup early this year [2]) and release the weights for even the Max variant of their new models, which they previously did not.

1: http://english.scio.gov.cn/topnews/2026-07/18/content_118605...

2: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/4/qwen/

It's simple, they aren't subsidizing tokens at all.

You thought this helped your case??? My dude it literally says bacon flavored bits!

Brother I don't know what to tell you. Chick'n, Bac'n, Be'ef etc. are well-known vegan susbtitutes for the pun'd meats. Most of them explicitly say they're vegan on the box. That's not shrinkflation, you just didn't read the package.

> I think it's pretty reasonable to think that an extreme climate would cause extreme mortality.

No, it's not reasonable. They're using the same label, but there's no evidence showing that.

Easy enough to explain: they're benchmaxxing. Fable is intelligent but not benchmaxxed. Opus is less intelligent but benchmaxxed.

Huh? I went through the first ten messages in his thread and there's no praise there at all.

Photos of the food, at least in the US, started with "immigrant" restaurants. When Thai/Vietnamese/Chinese restaurants started opening up in areas without high concentrations of those people, they'd put photos in the menu so you could see what you were getting since that wouldn't be clear from the names or descriptions in the menu. A lot of these restaurants were cheap, which is why I think you associate it with low-quality restaurants.

You can't imagine someone getting excited about difficult problems as an engineer? And you can't imagine why there's creativity involved?

I don't know, it feels like you can't process the output of human creativity.

The higher margin is mostly coming from assembly costs, right? I can't imagine it comes from the actual cost of the battery being so much higher. I hope that once they start pushing these out and retool factories for them they can sell them more broadly.

It's not really a small percentage of users. All users will have trouble with the battery - eventually. My DS4s ran out of battery life in about three years of usage; I still have one of them that I use wired with my PC, but I absolutely cannot use it wireless. Likewise with my DS5s - one of them barely held a charge 2-3 years in. I'm sure with good battery management you can extend the lifespan to be closer to 5-6 years, like my M1 MBP from 2021 that still has a 9+h battery life (though down from 12 as I remember), but that only keeps them going for a little longer. It's just a fact of how Li-ion batteries work that they will lose their capacity eventually.

E: DS4 = DualShock 4, DS5 = DualSense; these are the standard PlayStation controllers for the PS4 and the PS5 respectively.

Yeah, I strongly remember getting Sonnet 3.5 with Aider to boostrap an (albeit basic) project and getting it to work. Especially vivid because I told my roommate at the time about it and he also tried it out and was also shocked. I'd put maybe $20 in credits into the API haha. Feels so quaint, it's almost a foregone conclusion with the current models and harnesses.

> How much React code you wrote 6-8 years ago will work perfectly and identically with today’s React toolchain?

Today's Elm toolchain is the Elm toolchain of 6 years ago!

I'm so happy I have something I can link to that clearly and patiently engages with all the people who concern troll about Wikipedia. It genuinely bothers me how the temperature of the conversation about wikipedia (even here on HN) has changed so much because of people who don't know anything, don't care to verify anything, but have an axe to grind.

> when Android Auto connects on my phone, it tends to stop me from using the maps app on the phone

This is on Google Maps. Nothing about Auto/CarPlay prevents this. Google just chose to do this.

I'm skeptical there actually is a difference. I've compared my iPad with the white point, brightness and color filters set for comfort and it's no worse for reading than a Kindle Paperwhite with the reading light on (which you usually want for higher contrast). I'd attribute more of that fun reading experience to it being a single-purpose device more than the quality of the screen.