Hacker News: benterix

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

benterix — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 07:41:36 +0000

LOL. A thief accusing someone else of theft.

Also, I love their choice of words. Like "distillation against", "stealing proprietary technology" - it's all aimed at certain people.

New comment by benterix in "Ask HN: What are your favorite blogs not about AI?"

benterix — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:43:44 +0000

> People want to get spoon fed all information they need, especially since AI - no?

It's definitely true to some extent, but you can't generalize "people" to some uniform group, we have various needs.

New comment by benterix in "Qwen 3.8"

benterix — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:24:20 +0000

There is a lot of distrust against Google and Microsoft here, also when they opensource stuff, and Chromium and AOSP are great counterexamples.

New comment by benterix in "Qwen 3.8"

benterix — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:19:28 +0000

> human rights and all that rubbish

While I understand your point, please think a bit how you formulated the sentence above.

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

benterix — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:57:22 +0000

I heard this false justification already in 2007, in spite of many customers asking for it.

Incidentaly, smaller competitors solved this issue decades ago, while the big cloud decided it is more convenient never to implement it.

New comment by benterix in "GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday"

benterix — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:21:33 +0000

They clearly know it but have to pretend otherwise to keep the money flowing.

New comment by benterix in "Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter"

benterix — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 08:09:36 +0000

> I speak as I think and I type and as I speak, so I do uses em-dashes.

I'm sorry to break it to you but the sentence you just wrote doesn't contain any —s.

New comment by benterix in "Replacing Systemd with OpenRC in Debian"

benterix — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:50:28 +0000

Suppose someone wants to play this game, what's the point? Not to mention the fact that Gnome, even though is not a GNU project, literally means GNU Network Object Model Environment.

XCP-ng: A sovereign alterbative to VMware

benterix — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:51:32 +0000

Article URL: https://xcp-ng.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48716117

Points: 3

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2 Years After Broadcom Destroyed VMware: Where Did Everything Land? [video]

benterix — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:50:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpHsSaL-NJw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48716110

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by benterix in "Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model"

benterix — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:47:02 +0000

> Eventually the pricing should be more stable.

Why do you think so? This game can be played forever, you just need strong marketing and orgs gullible enough to pay a higher price for a minor upgrade.

New comment by benterix in "Texas Man Gets 30 Years in Prison for Transporting 'Anti-Government' Pamphlets"

benterix — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:52:12 +0000

> As it turns out, when someone (your wife) gets arrested and tells you to do "whatever you need to do" and "move whatever you need to move at the house", it is highly illegal to then proceed to do so.

If it was my wife, I'd probably do my best to save her.

New comment by benterix in "Dostoyevsky isn't difficult"

benterix — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:54:47 +0000

> Actually USSR pushed a lot of soft power and spent real money behind it. Especially the authors whose narratives didn't directly violate the narrative of the Party.

Do you have any sources for that? I'd like to read about it.

New comment by benterix in "The AI Hate Progression"

benterix — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 08:15:01 +0000

It would be nice but I have no illusions, it won't happen.

New comment by benterix in "The AI Hate Progression"

benterix — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 08:06:42 +0000

One of the problems is that the term itself got muddled to the point of becoming almost meaningless. It covers anything from pattern recognition, classification, to diffusion models. But the fact remains that many people have a love/hate relationship with LLMs.

New comment by benterix in "The AI Hate Progression"

benterix — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 08:03:41 +0000

> The per token costs are still dramatically subsidized. The major AI models are priced below cost especially when accounting for depreciation.

Not sure if we can confidently say that unless the first of these companies goes public.

New comment by benterix in "The AI Hate Progression"

benterix — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 08:02:16 +0000

OTOH... We know these plans are heavily subsidized, and we're happy to use them to the limits. At some point they will run out of investor money and will have to readjust. Do you think people using the existing plans will switch to per-API-call payments? Or, how many of them will?

Given enormous competition and good progress on the part of the Chinese and open models, I'd say let's enjoy the situation while it lasts. It's like chap Uber drives a decade ago subsidized by Saudi money. I have no sympathy neither for sama/amodei nor people who invest in their companies, and happy to use their resources in this crazy show where everybody pretends something and pushes their own agenda.

New comment by benterix in "NLnet announces funding for 67 more open-source projects"

benterix — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:45:17 +0000

Yeah LLMs/GenAI is the current hype but it's just a tiny fragment of the general landscape.

New comment by benterix in "US and Iran announce deal to end military operations"

benterix — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:08:40 +0000

> the US and its allies

Which allies?

New comment by benterix in "GPT-2: Too Dangerous To Release (2019)"

benterix — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:08:59 +0000

Well, you can start with this:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/11/musk-v-opena...