Hacker News: VulgarExigency

New comment by VulgarExigency in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis"

VulgarExigency — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:43:59 +0000

But why would "we" want to attack them anyway?

New comment by VulgarExigency in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis"

VulgarExigency — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:06:43 +0000

And what is their nefarious plan after we get "addicted to cheap shit"?

New comment by VulgarExigency in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis"

VulgarExigency — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:19:29 +0000

They may reverse course in the future, but the current directive from the CPC is that Chinese AI labs should be open sourcing their models.

https://www.businessinsider.com/xi-jinping-open-source-ai-us...

New comment by VulgarExigency in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis"

VulgarExigency — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:09:53 +0000

I would bet that Deepseek API pricing is still more cost effective per token than the subscriptions. With the increase in quality Deepseek Flash just got (in my personal testing so far, it seems to have improved a lot at following instructions, and has become more proactive), there really isn’t anything that can match it in terms of cost effectiveness.

New comment by VulgarExigency in "What Even Are Microservices?"

VulgarExigency — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:23:22 +0000

> I draw the opposite conclusion here. In monoliths, someone else might want the code to stay in the codebase. I don't want to ask everyone about it. Everyone's responsibility is no-one's responsibility, and the code stays as is.

Then they can retrieve it from source control? Leaving dead code in the codebase because "someone else might want it" sounds like nonsense.

New comment by VulgarExigency in "Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470%"

VulgarExigency — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:29:52 +0000

That sounds like government intervention to me.

New comment by VulgarExigency in "Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470%"

VulgarExigency — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:25:39 +0000

It's not a failure, that's just how capitalism works.

New comment by VulgarExigency in "Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470%"

VulgarExigency — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:09:04 +0000

Seems to be working out better than leaving it up to the market

New comment by VulgarExigency in "Apple Is the King of AI and Nobody Knows It"

VulgarExigency — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:53:38 +0000

> Every historical technology wave ends the same way: the mainframe becomes the PC, the timeshare becomes the laptop, the cloud becomes the edge. The only people who ever argue otherwise are the people selling mainframes.

Perhaps AI serves also as an attempt to reverse course on this: raise prices on general-purpose computing hardware (excluding phones, which are increasingly locked down) so that it becomes again inaccessible to consumers.

New comment by VulgarExigency in "Bitchat is now on Radicle"

VulgarExigency — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 17:48:36 +0000

What the hell are Radicle and Tangled

New comment by VulgarExigency in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

VulgarExigency — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:29:58 +0000

Fair use? Anthropic does not own the copyright to the output of their LLMs. Fair use does not enter into it at all.

New comment by VulgarExigency in "What happened to TheNumbers.com"

VulgarExigency — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:29:40 +0000

They should sue Anthropic for this distillation attack

New comment by VulgarExigency in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

VulgarExigency — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:48:42 +0000

But distillation is not theft. They are paying for the usage of the API. It is also not copyright infringement, as AI companies do not hold the copyright for the output of their models.

New comment by VulgarExigency in "New Framework Desktop Option with AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 and 192GB Memory"

VulgarExigency — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:04:50 +0000

For those of us with feebler minds than you or him, the name is just full of qualifiers that make no sense.

New comment by VulgarExigency in "Code mode yields a 99.2% cost reduction in our systems"

VulgarExigency — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:53:59 +0000

Relevant Slavoj Zizek talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj4cxK-nOTw

New comment by VulgarExigency in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

VulgarExigency — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:20:18 +0000

The same people who say there is a Uyghur genocide are the ones who deny there is a Palestinian genocide. Guess which one there's video evidence of (a horrific, endless amount of evidence).

New comment by VulgarExigency in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

VulgarExigency — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:30:23 +0000

Why? Should we be held hostage to the whims of these companies and all the investors in the throes of AI psychosis, and let them do whatever the fuck they want, because if we don't then the economy will crash?

New comment by VulgarExigency in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

VulgarExigency — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:17:51 +0000

The model that is most optimized around token cost is, in fact, Chinese. DeepSeek is astoundingly cheap by default, but if you use it from Reasonix (the harness optimized around its cache), it becomes even cheaper.

New comment by VulgarExigency in "The Kimi K3 Moment"

VulgarExigency — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:25:28 +0000

In my opinion, for the vast majority of use cases, DeepSeek is still the most cost-effective model by a mile. $10 feels like it lasts forever.

New comment by VulgarExigency in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

VulgarExigency — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 23:46:44 +0000

I typed it. I'm afraid my biological neural network has been trained by reading too many chains-of-thought. I might have added an extra 0 by accident, I didn't double check, but that just makes it more AI-like, really.