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HDBaseTon OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)

Because he is an egomaniac. It is clearly a low effort method for farming upvotes. Majority of the time he's clutching at straws to find "dupes" with 3 comments threads.

HDBaseTon OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)

Yeah, it's not even close.

$20/m = appox API $700/m

$100/m = appox API $3,500/m

$200/m = appox API $14,000/m

[0] https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....

HDBaseTon Oceans hit highest temperature on record

I will kill myself the day I can no longer drive an internal combustion engine.

I don't really see any purpose if we have to be confined to computer enabled cars with built in surveillance with no resemblance of quality, control or freedom.

HDBaseTon Oceans hit highest temperature on record

Building data centers relies on immense manufacturing. The GPUs, systems, cooling, batteries, etc don't come from no where. They have strict replacement schedules too.

HDBaseTon LinkedIn Has Accidentally Become a Dating Site

It is advertised as a necessary evil; "everyone needs one for employment"

I recently deleted my LinkedIn. It is just used to data mine information from you. I think the site is generally pretty useless, even without all the privacy concerns.

HDBaseTon Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)

solitude =/= loneliness

HDBaseTon Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)

That seems like some gatekeeping egoistical hi-ground.

I refuse to believe the average person here is any more intelligent than the average person on the street.

HDBaseTon Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)

If you watch the news, you'd think the sky is falling.

TOOL - Vicarious

"Eye on the TV, 'cause tragedy thrills me

Whatever flavor it happens to be like

Killed by the husband, drowned by the ocean

Shot by his own son, she used the poison in his tea

Then kissed him goodbye, that's my kind of story

It's no fun 'til someone dies

Don't look at me like I am a monster

Frown out your one face, but with the other

Stare like a junkie into the TV

Stare like a zombie while the mother holds her child

Watches him die, hands to the sky, crying

"Why, oh, why?"

'Cause I need to watch things die

From a distance

Vicariously, I live while the whole world dies"

HDBaseTon AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint

You've moved the goal posts there.

"Why would anyone install a random app"

"Why would anyone use a phone to make a purchase"

Globally, more than half of all eCommerce purchases are made on a phone or tablet.

HDBaseTon AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint

What?

HDBaseTon How do payments work in the US, China, and Brazil?

Square fees are absurd.

I refuse to do business with businesses operating Square terminals.

HDBaseTon Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

How exactly does Claude not support AGENTS.md?

I can ask Claude to review AGENTS.md and it will read it. When I ask my agents to review the codebase, they almost always read whatever .md files exist.

HDBaseTon OpenRouter is joining Stripe

Gemini Flash 3.7 is already "technically" 50% off everywhere until January 2027.

HDBaseTon OpenRouter is joining Stripe

What other routers exist that are good in your experience?

HDBaseTon OpenRouter is joining Stripe

What exactly does this mean? You can verify the pricing differences from their official API vs. OpenRouter.

If you have some grand conspiracy, you should be able to validate it. Yes, on occasion, OpenAI has offered Discounts on their API.

HDBaseTon Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study

You can believe whatever you want, but the facts are pretty clear.

It's not the entire reason, but when America pays 2-3x more for the same drug, it can blow out.

Reading the source I attached helps. "In 2022, U.S. prices across all drugs (brands and generics) were nearly 2.78 times as high as prices in the comparison countries. U.S. prices for brand drugs were at least 3.22 times as high as prices in the comparison countries, even after adjustments for estimated U.S. rebates."

HDBaseTon Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers

Parking lots don't generate heat, they just don't absorb it.

HDBaseTon Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers

Who is the arbiter of the fact checking algorithm? If we use AI can we really trust the outputs are hallucinated?

HDBaseTon Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study

Because the US buys medicine at absurd pricing. Something that should cost dollars, costs hundreds. [0]

[0] https://aspe.hhs.gov/reports/comparing-prescription-drugs

HDBaseTon Cerebras CS-4

It is worth mentioning, the OpenRouter demand isn't static though. It has increased week on week since early 2026.

HDBaseTon Cerebras CS-4

That's precisely what he is saying, there is diminishing returns (or optimization left on the table).

HDBaseTon Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months

Have you ever used a computer?

HDBaseTon Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months

A Windows 11 machine with 8GB of memory is borderline unusable.

We can go in circles about how developers need to optimize their applications, etc but truth of the matter is that 8GB is considered pretty low for a lot of "average" use cases. MacOS is an exception to the rule and even 8GB on MacOS is limited with multiple Electron apps.

HDBaseTon Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months

Not every single post of yours has to be a link to your "blog".

HDBaseTon Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months

They are, I have some in my system. They are fairly common in Australia.

HDBaseTon GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%

DigitalOcean does inference, has good uptime and offers ZDR. They are not an AI first/inference first company. They have been serving cloud products for almost 2 decades.

Batch API is a bit harder, not many models/providers support Batch. It primarily is only the Gemini/ChatGPT/Claude models that do. DigitalOcean does support a 50% discount on Batch API via them directly, not listed on OpenRouter.

[1] https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/inference/how-to/use-...

HDBaseTon Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things

OpenCode is decent. I'm unfamiliar with Cline, what does the Cline CLI do better than OpenCode?

HDBaseTon Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots

Dupe? or manipulate ai chatbots to have favorable views of Israel?

HDBaseTon How to disable or avoid intrusive AI

This is unfortunately common among the Mac crowd.

HDBaseTon GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released

You aren't being "shadow banned".

I concur with your conclusion, Qwen 3.8 has exceptional Vision Capabilities. The other commenter mentioned "I thought Qwen 3.8 didn't have Vision", it does, just not on the open weights version, only via official API.