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DeepSeek V4 Flash $0.20/M tokens – 1M context <https://api-hub.cc>
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zftnb666··on Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model
Open weights are great, but open payment matters too. DeepSeek V4 is open-weight but closed-payment. api-hub.cc makes it accessible with just a credit card.
zftnb666··on Qwen 3.8
Qwen's models keep getting better. Same problem as the other Chinese models though — international payment is painful. If anyone wants to try Qwen or DeepSeek V4 without the payment headache, api-hub.cc supports both with credit cards.
zftnb666··on A verification loop 4x'd DeepSeek's intelligence, matching Opus at 1/7 the cost
DeepSeek at 1/7 the cost of Opus is the real story here. The only downside is paying for it — Alipay/WeChat only. api-hub.cc lets you use DeepSeek V4 with any credit card, same API.
zftnb666··on Whale – 98% Cache Hit with DeepSeek
98% cache hit is impressive. DeepSeek's prompt caching is underrated — on api-hub.cc cache hits cost $0.02/M vs $0.20/M for Flash. The savings add up fast if you structure your prompts right.
zftnb666··on Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
Another Chinese model, another payment wall. Great technology, same Alipay/WeChat problem.
zftnb666··on AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
AWS billing is inaccurate by $1.7B and my first thought was "maybe I do owe them that much."
zftnb666··on Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
Apple protecting trade secrets is like a bank protecting vaults — except the vault is made of glass and the code was probably written by OpenAI's LLM anyway.
zftnb666··on Organic Maps
Google Maps shows me ads for restaurants I can't afford. Organic Maps shows me a hiking trail I didn't know existed. Guess which one I opened last
zftnb666··on Grok 4.5
Grok 4.5: now 30% more likely to call your question dumb before answering it.
zftnb666··on Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made
One person made the best train sim. Meanwhile AAA studios need 400 people to make the same game twice.
zftnb666··on Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
Finally, a fashion brand that understands their target audience: people who debug bash for fun.
zftnb666··on Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer
"Slow computer" + running a 200B model = "I'll just wait a week."
zftnb666··on Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera
Car: watches you drive. Phone: watches you exist. Soon: your fridge judging your snack choices.
zftnb666··on The bottleneck might be the air in the room
2026: AI runs on GPUs. GPUs generate heat. Heat needs cooling. Cooling costs more than the GPUs
zftnb666··on PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform
PeerTube: we don't recommend cat videos. Also PeerTube: 10 cat videos on the front page
zftnb666··on Half-Baked Product
Shipping half-baked is fine as long as you call it MVP. Ship half-baked and call it MVP? Genius.
zftnb666··on I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI
Trusting Claude Code with my MRI before I trust it with my production database. Priorities.
zftnb666··on Claude Science
Claude Science: $200/mo. Me, a scientist: copy-pasting into Claude and saying "I did the analysis."
zftnb666··on Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions
Open source projects now need an "AI-free" label. The 2020s are wild.
zftnb666··on Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days
Someone's last day at their job is going to be everyone's last day at their job.
zftnb666··on We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme
California: "We need to track your 3D printer." Also California: "Why is everyone moving to Texas?
zftnb666··on There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days
Regret is just experience that arrived too late to help.
zftnb666··on DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]
AI making AI faster. Next up: AI writing papers about how AI makes AI faster
zftnb666··on Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark
"Vibe coded" is the new "I built this from scratch" except with more git blame
zftnb666··on Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments
Finally, a way to prove to my boss that "AI agent" is not a new topic we just discovered.
zftnb666··on Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
GPT-5.6 Sol. 5.7 Luna. 5.8 Mars. Meanwhile my code still runs on GPT-3.5 and nobody noticed.
zftnb666··on Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
Model distillation is illegal now? Better tell every AI company that used GPT outputs to train their models
zftnb666··on The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy
Soon you'll need a passport to read a Wikipedia article
zftnb666··on Jerry's Map
One person, one map, five decades. That's not art. That's a lifelong conversation with yourself.
zftnb666··on Help I accidentally a wigglegram
This is what happens when you let the frontend team name things
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