Hacker News: CryptoBanker

New comment by CryptoBanker in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

CryptoBanker — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 09:11:29 +0000

Irrelevant when such things are clearly the dream of Altman and his ilk.

New comment by CryptoBanker in "Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website"

CryptoBanker — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:20:17 +0000

There’s a difference between being interested in getting good at something and being good at something

New comment by CryptoBanker in "Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts"

CryptoBanker — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:59:52 +0000

I disagree. A missile without guidance is a rocket which definitely has its uses on the battlefield.

A missile without propulsion is at best a bomb which doesn't do much good without an aircraft to drop it from

New comment by CryptoBanker in "Ryugu asteroid samples contain all DNA and RNA building blocks"

CryptoBanker — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:49:40 +0000

The Redditors have arrived

New comment by CryptoBanker in "$96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor"

CryptoBanker — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:47:45 +0000

In the two test launches shown in the video, the "missile" doesn't fly straight nor does it demonstrate ability to be "guided" by the launcher towards any particular target.

It's also incredibly slow. There are children's rocket kits that fly significantly faster than this.

New comment by CryptoBanker in "DOJ to Allow Hiring of US Prosecutors Straight Out of Law School"

CryptoBanker — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:53:31 +0000

These kids won't be arguing before the Supreme Court though. They'll be taking the losses at the lower levels

New comment by CryptoBanker in "Big data on the cheapest MacBook"

CryptoBanker — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:07:35 +0000

> That c8i.4xlarge would cost you $246/mo at current spot pricing of $0.3425/hr, which is, what, 20% of the cost of that M1 Max MBP?

A 5 month ROI on a hardware investment would be excellent, so not sure what you're trying to say here?

New comment by CryptoBanker in "MacBook Neo"

CryptoBanker — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:17:15 +0000

They tricked you. $40/month over two years is still $960 - definitely still luxury.

New comment by CryptoBanker in "GPT‑5.3 Instant"

CryptoBanker — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:04:44 +0000

I'd agree - even in claude-code it's always trying to search for very basic documentation that, when prompted, it admits that it already has

New comment by CryptoBanker in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

CryptoBanker — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:33:58 +0000

> When I watch a movie, I don't care about the artist's life. I care about character life, that's very different.

I’m fairly certain the original comment was referring to instances where the artist is the character/primary subject.

New comment by CryptoBanker in "If AI makes human labor obsolete, who decides who gets to eat?"

CryptoBanker — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:01:24 +0000

The poor will realize that they can eat the rich

New comment by CryptoBanker in "Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%"

CryptoBanker — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:47:10 +0000

Also Contabo

New comment by CryptoBanker in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

CryptoBanker — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:20:21 +0000

Cursor also significantly upcharges compared to API pricing. Last I checked they were charging ~3X API prices for Anthropic models

New comment by CryptoBanker in "Claude Opus 4.6"

CryptoBanker — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:03:24 +0000

The 1M context is not available via subscription - only via API usage

New comment by CryptoBanker in "The Codex app illustrates the shift left of IDEs and coding GUIs"

CryptoBanker — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:24:18 +0000

It's called the "Yeet" skill in the app

New comment by CryptoBanker in "Qwen3-Coder-Next"

CryptoBanker — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:56:20 +0000

That’s not an Anthropic problem, that’s a problem with whomever you work for.

New comment by CryptoBanker in "xAI joins SpaceX"

CryptoBanker — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:51:38 +0000

xAI’s models are really not pioneering at all. They weren’t the first to do MoE. Not the first to do open weighting, not the first to have memory or multi-modal vision.

So no, I wouldn’t say Elon is a major player in the AI space. People use his models because they are cheap and are willing to undress people’s photos.

New comment by CryptoBanker in "Spotify won court order against Anna's Archive, taking down .org domain"

CryptoBanker — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 22:35:38 +0000

Perhaps worried about downloads being used for training music models

New comment by CryptoBanker in "The Kimwolf botnet is stalking your local network"

CryptoBanker — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 15:34:55 +0000

Well then you just have a very overpriced, extremely low power linux box that doesn't do what you want it to do

New comment by CryptoBanker in "Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups"

CryptoBanker — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 15:41:28 +0000

Helium likewise