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calmwormon OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?

“Black October” sounds a lot like Red Scare.

calmwormon OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why?

Clearly potentially profitable. Not clearly profitable.

calmwormon DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models

“AGI” has been achieved - but only as a growth hype buzzword.

calmwormon Apple: Switch to Safari (From Chrome)

Well, I tried... I keep multiple tabs open for daily work. Safari just blanks them out seemingly at will. The tab still has the title of the site in it, but the page is blank, the url bar is blank, no option to refresh. It's just gone, like I opened a brand new tab. Maybe I'll try again in another year.

calmwormon New Apple TV 4K

Filling iOS with ads?

calmwormon OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI

Help those of us who don’t fully comprehend it - explain. Share some sources and materials for the rest of us to gain a better understanding of the dangers.

calmwormon AI is now capable of developing its own inference hardware

What is “getting LLMs to prompt other LLMs” if not a prompt?

calmwormon Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model

Profit. Always.

calmwormon Barcodes are about to go extinct

The trajectory of this is heavily optimized packaging design, isn’t it? Which overshoots simple codes integrated with any design.

calmwormon Ask HN: What are you reading?

Lonesome Dove has been mentioned many times in this thread. Was it recently revealed/brought up on a tech blog or is this some sort of AI-related “what should I read” convergence? Not at all a criticism, but curiosity.

I just finally finished “The Ferryman” (Justin Cronin), and “Vera, or Faith” (Shteyngart). I have “Reverse Centaur” (Doctorow) open and “Rainbow’s End” (Vernor Vinge) on deck.

calmwormon Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?

> To be fair

Opening with “to be fair” doesn’t make a straw man fair.

calmwormon Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?

Yes.

calmwormon Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?

What do you propose other than “lol” and sarcasm?

Society at large has tools and systems in place to better deal with a violent person, student or otherwise.

calmwormon Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA

I wasn’t referencing anything specific, but a general response to how/why many companies can’t or won’t do business in the United States.

calmwormon I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots

No worries. :)

calmwormon I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots

Follow the thread all the way up for the full context.

calmwormon I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots

I don’t. Please see original comment.

calmwormon LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'

And Michael Scott declares bankruptcy. Newsworthy?

calmwormon I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots

Your assumption I’m watching is invalid.

calmwormon I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots

I have zero expectations of any business. If they have an expectation to be paid then they need to offer something of value. Their costs to operate are not my concern.

calmwormon The worst spam emails: iLands AI agent hustle

Block domain, report spam. It’s a tiny yet satisfying action each day.

calmwormon I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots

The moment the cost went from free to more-than-free is “when that happened.” I’m not willing to participate.

calmwormon I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots

Corporate greed ≠ inflation

calmwormon I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots

I don’t use YouTube at all but I can still answer - Because $16 will become $20, $30, $50 … and then they will begin to show ads again anyway.

calmwormon I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots

Is this a typo? 20 min ad?! I don’t use YouTube.

calmwormon I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots

Reddit may be the most manipulated social media there is.

calmwormon Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO

Well, open it…

calmwormon Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default

And when that developer copies and pastes useful code snippets from the internet into this product you’ve commissioned them to create? Also not copyrightable?

calmwormon Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default

> If your entire product is LLM generated you sure as hell have no right to place any license on there

Something you’ve created from nothing because of the tool you’ve used to create it should not be allowed to be licensed?

calmwormon Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default

It’s just a question meant for discussion. It’s already been decided AI generated art can not be copyrighted. Curious about the future of AI generated software, code, etc… and what having an Anthropic watermark on it will mean at that time.