For the price this is a pretty damn impressive model.

On the other hand I did get a chewing out from an older guy for having a conversation with friends on a train once, so some people take it perhaps a bit too serious.

For them there're far worse things than giving up some freedoms.

One can agree or disagree with this but Europe's actions are far more understandable if you see where they're coming from.

From what it's worth, the younger generation doesn't seem to see this the same way so whatever censure Europe introduces today will most likely be temporary.

Some update broke the OpenRouter integration and I haven't been able to fix the issue. I took a quick look at the code, hoping to narrow it down and it's pretty much exactly what you would expect, there's hidden configuration files everywhere and in general it's just a lot of code for what's effectively a for loop with Whatsapp integration (in my case :)).

Not to mention that their security model doesn't match my deployment (rootless and locked down Kubernetes container) so every Openclaw update seemed to introduce some "fix" for a security issue that broke something else to solve a problem I do not have in the first place :)

I've switched to https://github.com/nullclaw/nullclaw instead. Mostly because Zig seems very interesting so if I have to debug any issues with Nullclaw at least I'll be learning something new :)

There's probably a better source somewhere but this is the one I had at hand.

Anthropic is the outlier here, obviously they can limit their subscriptions as they want but it's a major disadvantage compared to their competitors.

OpenAI simply provides more value for the money at the moment.

Everyone involved would be better of with a lower (or negative) income tax instead of subsidies.

First we couldn't use our Claude subscription with anything but Claude code, then the limits seemed to change every week without any communication, then they banned a bunch of people (including some prominent names). Then they complain about the Chinese distilling using their API (which I'm partly sympathetic to but let's not pretend that Antrophic invented their training data from scratch).

Then there's this half-baked offer. I mean sure, it looks nice on paper but given how incredibly valuable opensource has been for them and given their budget it does seem a bit tight.

- Cybersecurity (you can't expect a non-technical person to read a skill)

- Token usage (without a flat fee subscription it'll become expensive very fast)

I understand that security is a hard problem to solve but having a single binary + containers should definitely help! I'll definitely keep an eye on this.

I work a lot with quants (who can program but are more focused on making money than on clean-code) and Opus 4.5 and Kimi 2.5 are extremely good at giving them architecture guidance. They tend to overcomplicate some things but the result is usually miles better than what they produced without LLMs.

I'm sure that there's still some people who try (and/or test their pet project) but it seems far less of an issue than on Reddit.

I'm quite happy that HN seems to stay mostly free of Musk (irrespective of positive/negative posts).

Nothing as frustrating as finding what seems to be an interesting and engaging discussion but then finding several key posts missing...

The quality of the output depends more on the underlying LLM. GLM 4.7 isn't going to beat Opus but Opus with an orchestra seems to be faster and perhaps marginally better than with a more linear approach.

Ofcourse this burns a lot of tokens but with a cheap subscription like z. ai or with a corporate budget does it really matter?

If your sign-up tier is so frustrating to use that you loss sales and you cannot fix it as a company, that doesn't inspire confidence in the rest of the infrastructure...

I grew up with the GameCube and spent many hours gaming on it but as the original hardware ages it's increasingly becoming more and more expensive to source (it's not unaffordable but you're paying for old stuff that's, unfortunately, likely to break soon-ish). Without projects like Dolphin it would become a very expensive hobby, somewhere in the next 5-10y.

I know that there's "official" solutions but the quality of the emulators that Nintendo produces unfortunately, tends to be subpar.

Dolphin is becoming so good that it's usually my goto benchmark for budget hardware (SBCs, lately the N100s, etc). Really cool to see that the team keeps pushing the boundaries of what's possible.

Europe has a weak tech sector and relatively high taxes and high regulations.

As an European I have to say, perhaps the American approach is better.

But he, feel free to tax that tech sector into oblivion. If Europe ever gets it's shit together, we would love to take over the crown.