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Same path as you. Went from $60 cursor plan (often exceeding it which costed more in API) to a limitless $100 codex plan where I basically say "read the markdown and implement the instructions". Deepseek also works quite well, surprisingly!

(FWIW Im mostly using python for OCR, LLM calls, data analysis..)

I'm pretty sure only a small fraction of grants gave this issue, and the cuts have meanwhile being very wide, without any sort of intelligent approach (I know ppl doing stuff like material science at nasa that now have nothing to do because they cut costs of various inputs, while the very expensive lab equipment is sitting there now unused)

I asked it to tweak the fonts/colors of a very very simple static page and it blew through $35 (which is a lot for me lol; it's 10 days of my monthly codex plan).

I managed to write one that at least didnt had the font and colors (using 4.5)

Yesterday, I prompted Fable to improve the frontend to make it look different from Claude style, gave detailed examples etc. 15 minutes and $32 dollars (!) later (used cursor lol) it gave me the shittiest more claudiest website ever, basically ignoring everything I asked

I created pages with Claude before and it's very very obvious when you see one. From the font choice to the color palette, and the style of the boxes. In fact if anyone has an effective prompt that says "please don't make this look like the average Claude page" please post it!

It's increasingly obvious that the only safeguard we got is open models and semi open ones like from China. Crazy world

Exactly.. a bit of a red flag for me..

How credible is this benchmark? does it correlated with others real world experience?

Holy F.. $3 .. once I'm done with my base cursor allocation, each nontrivial question costs $5 . And yes, I'm now switching to a mix of codex and ds4pro

Sorry that's confusing cash flow with profits, where things get amortized

I'm looking at Schwab (and saw a few others) and couldn't find anything: https://www.schwab.com/learn/story/primer-on-wash-sales

I would assume this is not an ETF but sth else?

Let me know if you find one! I'm at a loss. (And even then, if I switch I have to pay $$$ taxes on capital gains)

Same. Whenever I see a PE acquisition, I immediately shift my purchases (eg namecheap last year)

There's a Grok 4.20 at #10? Maybe they just skipped version numbers for the 420 luls (are we 15 or what? wtf)

What if we just inflate away the debt? Sure, ppl will hate dealing with very high inflation for a few years, and pensioners and whoever buys those trillions of debt will get screwed, but besides that we should be ok?

/s

Great! Was thinking about PP but because I only ran an order of magnitude fewer articles (under 1mm pages; by piggybacking on Dell's OCR) I relied on Arcanum ( https://www.arcanum.com/en/newspaper-segmentation/about/ ) which was cheap enough (but I think not cheap enough at your scale).

Cheers!

Looks cool, congrats!

I've also worked with this data, but only for research purposes:

https://www.finhist.com/bank-runs/episodes/13895.html https://www.finhist.com/bank-runs/index.html

Surprisingly, I found out that layout was the trickiest thing, as newspaper articles often had multiple layers of headers, spanned multiple columns, etc.

Do you have a preferred solution on that?

Hard to have any idea of what happened due to the FOW. There's some grainy footage (posted by Trump) of someone running past the SS checkpoint; where you can see some shots fired by the SS. Then Blitzer who says this person might have had multiple large guns, etc.

So, Thiel, Musk, and?

I'm sworn off from Musk-related products, and this will prob make cursor worse (switch to X's LLM for instance). So, any suggestions for switching? Codex; Claude Code? (I like my IDE and I like the freedom to choose a model, which is why I stuck with Cursor even when it felt more expensive)

Wow this is amazing. Did you write all those MD files by hand, or used an LLM for the simple stuff like extracting abstracts?

Found it interesting but would have been easier to see an example of how the html looks in the github page!

LMK if you finish it, sounds like something my daughter would enjoy!

That's a refreshing article. Easy to read and I learned a few things!

Another +1, it would be incredibly useful to play with this approach! (and fun)

I'm sure he didn't bought the WaPo to make a profit. More like to have an influence.

Please don't "both side" this. As much as there is corruption in any administration, R or D, the levels we are seeing now are completely unprecedent and blunt. EG: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/13/politics/trump-fundraise-emai... (from earlier this morning on the HN frontpage)

Wait, what does this imply for Cursor? I DGAF about xAI and will never use their Grok, but I did like Cursor more than the alternatives (even if I'm just running opus 4.6 most of the time).

But now he is poaching the two heads of engineering of a company that's trying to move very quickly, how is that going to affect their speed and success?

I used QGIS 2.x and 3.x a lot when making maps for research papers. But something that always stung was reproducibility. The python tooling was not there compared to what I could do with click-and-mouse, and there was no easy way to transfer my click-and-mouse sessions into an equivalent python script.

Is the situation unchanged? (Maybe a good use for Opus would be to write a wrapper for the python tooling?)

Sad/funny that your comment is at the bottom.

Workers on strike are classified as not employed, so yeah we should ignore that category