<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: XCSme</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=XCSme</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:53:28 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=XCSme" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by XCSme in "Gold is now the top U.S. export"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Title doesn't mention good specifically.<p>How are service exports counted? All together? Or not considered exports?</p>
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<p>I mean, wouldn't that make sense given the market caps?<p>So many trillion-dollar valued AI-focused companies.</p>
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<p>I thought it was tokens</p>
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<p>I've been building and self-hosting my own analytics platform[0] for 13+ years and never had any major issues with it.<p>The advantage is that if I do want a specific feature, I can just add it, and I am never worried about subscription limits or surprise charged, because I host it on a fixed-cost VPS.<p>Things don't really need maintenance and don't really break by themselves, the only time when they can sometimes break is when changing things.<p>You do need to have a proper setup though, for stuff like disk space alerts, knowing the common gotchas of disabling settings that can cause issues, etc.<p>[0]: <a href="https://uxwizz.com" rel="nofollow">https://uxwizz.com</a></p>
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<p>I didn't want the message to come by as pessimistic, and I am sure you will win your battle, I still think living every day knowing that tomorrow we might die is the best way to live life. Not in terms of doing reckless things, but anything that we really want to do or achieve, we should either work towards it today, or be content if it might never happen.</p>
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<p>I wish you the best!<p>My partner died of a very rare and aggressive cancer at 32 last year.<p>Apart from all the technical stuff, my suggestion is to still enjoy the time you have and treat the others as you as nice as you can, and to still keep the good vibes and jokes going. A smile can help more than you think.<p>We all have limited time on Earth, and at any point in our lives we should be happy with the life we lived so far and ok with the idea that we might die at any point, so if we should always be happy with what we did and have no regrets.<p>What people surprisingly rarely understand about cancer, is that it's rarely a one-time thing. You don't really "cure" cancer. It's really a battle, often a lifetime one, that takes a high toll on the person but also on the people around. Hopefully new technology can drastically ease this battle, and I think it already did quite well.<p>It's really important to have a good support system, and also not rely on just one or two people for help that might get burned out if the battle lasts years. It takes a village to heal and support someone with cancer, and having this support makes the journey so much more manageable.</p>
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<p>Really cool app, sounds good, especially when playing back the demo songs.<p>I am also building a music game/app for learning piano basics:<p><a href="https://ultimidi.com" rel="nofollow">https://ultimidi.com</a></p>
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<p>Doesn't seem like anything special in my tests, not very different from the previous Flash models.</p>
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<p>So, a tablet?</p>
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<p>It's ok, intelligent, almost SOTA, but way too expensive [0], and some issues with API failing sometimes at the moment.<p>[0]: <a href="https://aibenchy.com/compare/meta-muse-wonder-max/openai-gpt-6-1-sol-max/" rel="nofollow">https://aibenchy.com/compare/meta-muse-wonder-max/openai-gpt...</a></p>
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<p>Yeah, that was my point to OP's comment.<p>Luna was faster and cheaper, but the output didn't work.</p>
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<p>Sort of, it is still the model's job to know how much it should reason for a job to do be done properly.</p>
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<p>A really big difference can be seen in this basic CSS animation generation of a solar system of Luna vs Haiku:<p><a href="https://aibenchy.com/compare/anthropic-claude-haiku-5-5-xhigh/openai-gpt-6-luna-high/?showcase=solar-system-css#showcases" rel="nofollow">https://aibenchy.com/compare/anthropic-claude-haiku-5-5-xhig...</a></p>
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<p>It's around Qwen-3.8, and Sonnet 5.5 level, but a lot cheaper. It is also really fast.<p>My tests for Haiku 5.5: <a href="https://aibenchy.com/compare/anthropic-claude-haiku-5-5-xhigh/anthropic-claude-opus-5-5-high/qwen-qwen3-8-27b-high/" rel="nofollow">https://aibenchy.com/compare/anthropic-claude-haiku-5-5-xhig...</a><p>Twice as expensive as Luna, but also considerably smarter too:<p><a href="https://aibenchy.com/compare/anthropic-claude-haiku-5-5-xhigh/openai-gpt-6-luna-high/" rel="nofollow">https://aibenchy.com/compare/anthropic-claude-haiku-5-5-xhig...</a></p>
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<p>You can assume that all models above a score of 9 are "good", then it's more a matter of preference for their response times, costs, personality and strength in specific areas.<p>Opus 5.5 are best at coding, and even art generation, but struggle a lot with built-in knowledge, when web search is not available.</p>
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<p>Yeah, it is saturated.<p>It's actually quite hard to make a single task/question with few steps max that SOTA models fail on. Gemini are on top, because asking domain specific questions still breaks most top models, but not Gemini ones.<p>Claude is lower, and also most Antrophic models, because (historically) they have one of the highest refusal rates and also struggled more with precisely following instructions (i.e. outputting in a specific format/way).</p>
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<p>My own tests/benchmarks.<p>There is no model passing all the tests. Gemini is on top because questions also include general knowledge, trivia or domain-specific questions, which Gemini models are way above any other model.<p>Even if models have similar scores at the top, it's useful to compare costs/response times.</p>
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<p>I am not sure most people will be able to run this locally, and compared to GPT-6 luna it is much slower, verbose and also performse worse.<p>GPT-6 Luna vs Mistral Large 4: <a href="https://aibenchy.com/compare/mistralai-mistral-large-4-0-high/openai-gpt-6-luna-high/" rel="nofollow">https://aibenchy.com/compare/mistralai-mistral-large-4-0-hig...</a></p>
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<p>I tried testing it, but reasoning effort indeed seems to be broken somehow.</p>
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<p>I tried testing it, but reasoning effort parameter doesn't seem to be there and output is sort of broken because it reasons directly in the output tokens...</p>
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