Hacker News: Primer81

New comment by Primer81 in "Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans"

Primer81 — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 17:26:06 +0000

My first thought as well. I personally don't find these types of "studies" very interesting, but I assume I'm not the target audience. For someone not well exposed to AI, it might be interesting.

New comment by Primer81 in "Crystal 1.22"

Primer81 — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:24:30 +0000

what does this language excel at in particular? havent heard of it before and didnt find a clear use case / mission statement on the webpage. unless I'm missing where to find it. just curious to learn more.

New comment by Primer81 in "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"

Primer81 — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 18:17:13 +0000

I call the API directly using a custom Open WebUI plugin (pipe function) I had Flash/Sonnet write/iterate on. I have a similar pipe function for Anthropic's API but even just Sonnet is prohibitively expensive for the same performance I get with Flash for pennies.

New comment by Primer81 in "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"

Primer81 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:43:54 +0000

I've been waiting for something like this article for a month. The other AI companies are being left in the dust. I rip about 200 million tokens at least a day and spend maybe $3 with deepseek flash v4.1 for self hosted related coding tasks for ~20 projects i work on / maintain in parallel. Its a daily driver for sure. not even worth considering anything else, but maybe a locally run model on my GPU at the moment.

New comment by Primer81 in "Feeling Sad about AI"

Primer81 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:39:56 +0000

This is exactly how I feel. I can roughly understand why people feel sad, but I cannot relate. I feel more capable than ever before and am simply excited. LLMs have been a great learned tool for me especially to venture into new programming domains in my personal projects.

New comment by Primer81 in "LLMs: Intelligence vs. Cost"

Primer81 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:52:37 +0000

to choose a model, you have to consider intelligence, price, and tokens per second. would be nice to see the 3 dimensional plot.

New comment by Primer81 in "A Man Who Saw Humanity from Two Billion Years Away"

Primer81 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:22:31 +0000

Love these kinds of stories. Reminds me of the novel series "Foundation" by Isaac Asimov.