Hacker News: MattDaEskimo

New comment by MattDaEskimo in "OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days"

MattDaEskimo — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:05:07 +0000

How is it misleading if this would be the consumer's cost?

Eventually Codex's subscription subsidization will diminish to near-zero, like the rest of the providers.

It's extremely important that people understand how expensive these models currently are. Even $300k in raw API costs is alarming for the output.

New comment by MattDaEskimo in "Idempotency Is Easy Until the Second Request Is Different"

MattDaEskimo — Sun, 10 May 2026 16:05:23 +0000

If a transaction is locked then subsequent requests would return a 409, ideally with an error message indicating that it's currently being processed.

New comment by MattDaEskimo in "Sam Altman falls out of love with universal basic income"

MattDaEskimo — Fri, 01 May 2026 23:08:39 +0000

This makes sense.

Initially, the focus was consumer use of AI. People needed to feel safe, they needed to feel part of something better.

Now, the focus is enterprises, and they need to know that their tokens aren't going to spike in price from taxes

New comment by MattDaEskimo in "The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy"

MattDaEskimo — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:12:01 +0000

I wonder how many are account farming.

New comment by MattDaEskimo in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

MattDaEskimo — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:04:29 +0000

Exactly this. I can't count the number of enterprises with their whole stack inside of Microsoft's ecosystem.

Many of these enterprises are grid-locked with the IT department and AI usage.

New comment by MattDaEskimo in "French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data"

MattDaEskimo — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:37:15 +0000

Might be cheaper & safer to buy an identity than use my own.

New comment by MattDaEskimo in "OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on “prompt relevance”"

MattDaEskimo — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:52:57 +0000

I have similar experiences. Asked to find and list a bunch of suppliers near a specific city. It started showing me places that were >5 hours away, claiming them to be a "short drive".

New comment by MattDaEskimo in "The Vercel plugin on Claude Code wants to read your prompts"

MattDaEskimo — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:05:23 +0000

This is the top comment. This is a blatant breach of policy, nevermind user privacy, security, and trust.

The age of quickly digesting and generating data, and yet the most primitive things like aligning with policies are still ignored

New comment by MattDaEskimo in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

MattDaEskimo — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:23:26 +0000

Really? You don't know the difference between having a door lock, and using it?

MFA is typically enforced by organizations, forcing discipline. Individual usage of MFA is dramatically lower

New comment by MattDaEskimo in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

MattDaEskimo — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:13:23 +0000

There are solutions, the problem is almost always discipline.

New comment by MattDaEskimo in "Police used AI facial recognition to wrongly arrest TN woman for crimes in ND"

MattDaEskimo — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:20:02 +0000

What kind of outcome results from misuse? Clearly a hammer's misuse has very little in common with a global, hivemind network used in high-stake campaigns.

Now, if I misused a hammer and it hurt everyone's thumb in my country, then maybe what you said would have some merit.

Otherwise, I'd say it's an extremely lazy argument

New comment by MattDaEskimo in "GPT-5.4"

MattDaEskimo — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:26:04 +0000

Same reason why Wikipedia deals with so many people scraping its web page instead of using their API:

Optimizations are secondary to convenience

New comment by MattDaEskimo in "When AI writes the software, who verifies it?"

MattDaEskimo — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:17:54 +0000

Accountability then

New comment by MattDaEskimo in "You are going to get priced out of the best AI coding tools (2025)"

MattDaEskimo — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:41:00 +0000

What's also wild is this being the first comment to mention it!

Although there is an underlying truth: using LLMs for large-context tasks like coding is still extremely expensive.

New comment by MattDaEskimo in "We Will Not Be Divided"

MattDaEskimo — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 01:18:20 +0000

This was a brave, heartwarming read. Thank you to the teams

New comment by MattDaEskimo in "New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes"

MattDaEskimo — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:28:25 +0000

Makes me wonder the ratio between LLM commenters versus those aligning with an LLMs syntax.

Not sure which is scarier

New comment by MattDaEskimo in "Ask HN: Have top AI research institutions just given up on the idea of safety?"

MattDaEskimo — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:28:09 +0000

Surely safety does not exclusively mean guardrails, but the philosophy and ethics instilled during training?

New comment by MattDaEskimo in "OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine"

MattDaEskimo — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:39:33 +0000

What can those do from a separate country, who unfortunately had their identity verified through Persona (LinkedIn in my case).

New comment by MattDaEskimo in "Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw"

MattDaEskimo — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:03:15 +0000

I'm very confused here. The monthly plans are meant to be used inside of Google's walled garden, but people are somehow able to capture (?) and re-use the oAuth token?

Regardless, I thought it was pretty obvious that things like OpenClaw require an API account, and not a subsidized monthly plan.

New comment by MattDaEskimo in "Altman on AI energy: it also takes 20 years of eating food to train a human"

MattDaEskimo — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 17:59:59 +0000

The problem is that he is now beginning to make comparisons of AI versus Humans, as in it's a competition more than an augmentation.