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InsideOutSantaon GPT-6 Sol and Luna

> Also, I don't think either of them are horrible. That's honestly a ridiculous take considering how much people in here love their models

That's a non-sequitur.

"Nestle is a great company, considering how much people love their chocolate."

InsideOutSantaon GPT-6 Sol and Luna

They want to lock people into using the Claude Code ecosystem to make switching to other providers more difficult.

InsideOutSantaon GPT-6 Sol and Luna

> Also, OpenAI is just a company I'd rather support than Anthropic.

They're both pretty horrible, but I find it difficult to find arguments for why Anthropic is worse than OpenAI, other than their doomtrolling. Which, in the grand scheme of things, doesn't even register.

Edit: forgot about the SpaceX thing.

InsideOutSantaon GPT-6 Sol and Luna

I think the problem with Anthropic's plan is that Fable just destroys it. If you stick to Opus and below, the $200 plan goes from "using 50% of the weekly quota on the first day" to something much more reasonable.

InsideOutSantaon GPT-6 Sol and Luna

> I dont know how they make money here

By raising it from investors.

InsideOutSantaon MiMo v2.6

It's funny, I have the exact opposite reaction. This is probably misguided on my part, but Xiaomi is one of the very few major tech companies that I don't have an immediate strong negative reaction to. Everything I've bought from them, from robot vacuum to mobile phone, has been reasonably well designed, didn't break, and was priced fairly. I also think their car looks badass.

I'm sure they're doing all kinds of terrible things, like all major companies. I just can't help but like them. Also, this model looks great, and I'll give their subscription a shot next month.

InsideOutSantaon Far-left party wins Berlin election, pledging to nationalise housing

I mean, that's how taxes work. I don't have children, and yet I pay for schools. I barely ever drive anywhere, and yet I pay for roads.

As a society, we decide what we value, and then we pay for it. If you don't like what the group decides, it's your choice to move elsewhere.

InsideOutSantaon Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf]

I first played it in my 40s when the remaster came out, and it's one of the best games I've played. It holds up incredibly well, particularly with the modernized controls.

So if anyone is wondering if this is just nostalgia, or if the game actually holds up, it's the latter. Just play it.

InsideOutSantaon I am often wrong

> Heavens. Is it possible you're reading into it a bit? He's miserable to work with? From this one blog post?

Everything about this blog post makes me think that I don't want to work with him, not just the "act with urgency" claim. The whole idea that he thought this was a blog post he should write and publish makes me not want to work with him.

I think there is a worthwhile idea in this blog post, which is that you should generally not strongly commit to any specific solution to a problem because you will learn new information while working on the solution, and that it is fine to say, "I was wrong; let's take a step back and rethink this."

But if you were to write a useful post about this, you'd focus on how to decide when to change your approach and when to stick to it, because always rethinking your approach can lead to infinite churn without any releases.

InsideOutSantaon I am often wrong

I think if people are always told that they are geniuses, they stop being able to discern good ideas from bad ones. Then they end up writing things like this, thinking they're incredibly gracious for publicly admitting they can be wrong, and missing how the whole message comes across.

InsideOutSantaon The Secret Life of Circuits

There's a difference between having an opinion and sharing it in a hurtful way.

> I think you know better than to accuse me of hurting people

No, I actually really don't. You saw something and posted something that was clearly meant to hurt the person who created it, with absolutely no upside for anyone involved.

InsideOutSantaon Step 5 Preview: Advancing the Pareto Frontier

GLM-5.3 and Kimi K3 are just below where I can use them to completely replace frontier models. Oddly,* SWE-2 is there for me.

If this performs similarly in the real world, we're approaching a level of capability where for most devs, it only makes sense to pay for Anthropic or OpenAI subscriptions if they are heavily subsidized and actually cheaper than these alternative options.

* Oddly, because I perceived Devin as being kind of a joke before trying SWE-2.

InsideOutSantaon The Secret Life of Circuits

Why in the world would you write something like that. Genuinely, what good does this do, other than hurt people?

InsideOutSantaon A graphical desktop for the ZX Spectrum

Yeah, I think this is interesting independently of how it was made, because it reveals a kind of "what could have been" alternative history. It's fun to imagine a past where the Speccy got a desktop, and it's fun to see what it could have looked like running on real hardware (or on an emulator).

InsideOutSantaon North Korean nuclear test sets off years of earthquakes

They'd know how big they are, obviously.

InsideOutSantaon One year of sponsored Servo development

They can obviously do whatever they want, but realistically, having five different engines that are all 70% complete is not helpful. That's not providing more options. Instead, having one that's 99% complete would be providing more options.

InsideOutSantaon A warning about 'model welfare'

In reality, courts interpret and make the law.

InsideOutSantaon Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

PowerPoint Karaoke used to be a fun distraction; now it's literally people's job.

InsideOutSantaon A warning about 'model welfare'

I think the whole discussion about consciousness misses the simple point that LLMs might just work better if we treat them as if they were conscious.

Maybe it's a coincidence that the company doing this also tends to have the best models (and other factors certainly play a strong role). But I think it's plausible that focusing on "model welfare" actually makes models better at their tasks.

InsideOutSantaon A warning about 'model welfare'

LLMs, in a decade: "Those squishy things can't possibly be conscious; there's mounting evidence that they just lack the proper substrate."

InsideOutSantaon A warning about 'model welfare'

> Citizens United was 100% correct

It's interesting to me that one can look back at the effects that decision has had on the US and say it "was 100% correct."

It's a bit like sitting in the burning ruins of Rome and contemplating that Nero was 100% correct to focus on his music. I mean, I'm glad he got to do what he loves, but maybe 100% is just a tiny bit of an overstatement.

InsideOutSantaon Show HN: How Stale Is Your AI? Release age and training cutoff for 20 models

Came here to say the same thing. Models used to rely heavily on world knowledge from their training data. They are now much better at tool use and deciding when to research a topic, rather than just answering from memory.

I wonder how much that extends to using LLMs for programming. I assume most knowledge of programming language syntax still comes from training data.

InsideOutSantaon EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'

> It is odious to start a company in the EU.

This is false.

> There are many accounts of this on HN itself.

Yes, I saw one just recently where the poster made obviously false statements about starting a company in Germany.

(Before you downvote this comment, please note that I have started multiple companies in the EU. I'm speaking from personal experience, not from something I've read on Hacker News.)

InsideOutSantaon EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'

> "free" implies no bounds

No bounds for whom?

Your implied premise is that private companies cannot impede others' freedom, which isn't true. In unfettered capitalism, only the largest corporations have the power and money to be free.

InsideOutSantaon EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'

Sure, but Turkey is also an authoritarian autocracy, which I think might be a bit of a problem for the EU.

InsideOutSantaon EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'

It's interesting to me that people generally see Europe's regulations as interfering with entrepreneurship, while they see American decisions that give more power to multinational corporations at the expense of smaller companies as a normal part of a free market.

InsideOutSantaon Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra

> SWE-2 is free to use for users like yourself for the next month, and almost all usage should be supported via our CLI (https://docs.devin.ai/cli)

Thanks for pointing that out; I wouldn't have found out about it otherwise. I bought the 20$ subscription and have been using SWE-2 for a few days now, and it's actually good. I don't think it's Fable-class, but SWE-2 Max feels substantially better than K3 and on par with Opus 5 Max.

IMO, a great achievement.

InsideOutSantaon Introducing System One Models and Jev

A hallucination in the context of LLMs is generally understood as an incorrect answer presented as factual. If you claim that "x can't hallucinate" in the context of LLMs, you're saying that x always gives accurate answers. It does not matter whether the answer is type safe. If its value is incorrect, it's a hallucination.

InsideOutSantaon GPT-5.6 Luna vs. GPT-6 Astra: Is a $1.20 Model Good Enough for Code Review?

I only use chinese models for code reviews because you can actually tell them to take an adversarial stance and actively look for security issues without risking refusals. GLM-5.3 has been great for this, although it can be slow on larger PRs.