<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: boc</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=boc</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:35:22 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=boc" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by boc in "OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>OTOH, using the best is a competitive advantage when time = money. It's like giving your engineers a slow laptop because it's cheaper. It may be cheaper but not worth the cost.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:33:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486947</link><dc:creator>boc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486947</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by boc in "Claude Fable 5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah same here, Fable on "high" is producing substantially better results than Open 4.8 on xhigh for me and my actual real-world evals today. It "feels" smarter and doesn't use nearly as many tokens running in circles. As a result I've been able to run two large refactors today without hitting the context limit danger zones - it's more expensive but also more efficient. It's been able to find some bugs that Opus missed. Pretty impressive stuff.</p>
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<p>Yeah idk what people are talking about- it's not marketing. This thing is substantially better than opus 4.8/gpt5.5 from what I'm seeing today.</p>
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<p>American society has higher wages than almost any other developed nation [1], so it's objectively incorrect to say the US doesn't have good wages. It chooses to make you pay for private childcare and healthcare, both of which are high-quality but stupid expensive. It's a tradeoff like anything else a nation/society creates and prioritizes.<p>No idea how that connects to the idea that Mistral or DeepSeek are somehow the "good guys" though?<p>[1]<a href="https://www.oecd.org/en/data/indicators/average-annual-wages.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.oecd.org/en/data/indicators/average-annual-wages...</a></p>
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<p>Just dropping-in to say that I love this idea. Sadly not a full-stack engineer but will follow your progress!</p>
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<p>The amount of actual, hard cash revenue these companies are making is a different ballgame from the dot-com bubble.</p>
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<p>I see this take, but it's actually helpful to talk to an LLM in human terms; after all, it's how they are trained.<p>If you keep talking to it like it's a rock, it'll run your queries through a different posture and you might get worse outcomes. Worse if you yell at it, it's now in a conflict resolution mode instead of pure utility mode.<p>I think we can be intelligent enough to know we're talking to a pile of fancy rocks with electric currents running through it, AND still understand that the best performance comes from talking to those rocks nicely.</p>
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<p>"It's the thought that counts"</p>
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<p>It's pretty easy to de-orbit satellites or space-based stations. An SM-3 could smoke the ISS pretty easily, and they cost like 10M and we have thousands around the oceans.</p>
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<p>Because it's like 1000x more efficient to move stuff on water vs land, so industrial cities clustered around ports and rivers since it's way easier to move stuff around.</p>
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<p>They sell "real" apple juice in the US. It's just called apple cider and you can find it at any supermarket.<p>"Apple cider is raw, unfiltered, and often unpasteurized apple juice, resulting in a cloudy, dark appearance and rich, tart flavor. Apple juice is filtered to remove pulp, pasteurized for a longer shelf life, and often sweeter. Cider is usually seasonal and refrigerated, whereas juice is shelf-stable"<p>Europeans consistently visit a gas station and conclude this must be all there is to eat in America.</p>
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<p>The GX and LX models specifically! Built off the LC platform.</p>
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<p>Iranians are not Arabs and thousands of them got gunned down earlier this year protesting the regime. "America bad" doesn't change the fact that the Iranian people deserve a better future.</p>
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<p>One reason I love my mid-00s Lexus SUV. All the luxury features you want, but clean instrument cluster with no driving assistance tech to break or get in the way. Great visual clarity on the road, 300K miles on original drivetrain without issues, and a beast in the snow/inclement weather. Only downside is mileage, but I legit wouldn't trade it for a new car.</p>
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<p>Highway driving is a bit different from complex city conditions. Just look at the difference between the telsa robotaxi performance vs Waymo. Only one of them is truly FSD.</p>
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<p>I'm reading the same thread as you and seeing the same complaints, yes. Personally, I'm willing to giving the benefit of the doubt to a company that has demonstrated they will stand up for human rights principles at the expense of their bottom line, vs immediately jumping to a "they are stealing money in plain sight" conclusion from a bizarre bug that was not widely known or reported.<p>But that's just me. Vote with your dollars; I've voted with mine.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/aaaah" rel="nofollow">https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/aaaah</a></p>
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<p>Iranian drones have done nothing to prevent the US and Israel dropping gravity bombs en-mass over their capital right now. JDAMs and unguided munitions are still far cheaper for the explosion size than any drone today. That's not the situation in the Ukraine war on either side.<p>The US has used one-way "drones" since the 80s or earlier. The entire Gulf War in the early 90s featured a ton of tomahawk cruise missiles. The only real change is that the new shaheeds are way cheaper, slower, and smaller, but can be spammed in larger numbers.</p>
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<p>It simply snows a lot more in Tahoe from a SWE standpoint. Utah gets similar "inches" of snow, but fractions of the moisture, which if you've ever built a snowman you know the difference between the heavy thick stuff and the powder that doesn't clump. Utah gets the powder, Tahoe gets the sludge (and a ton of it).</p>
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<p>I'd love for you to come along with me on a ski mountaineering trip to the eastern Sierra. It's a mountain range larger than Switzerland with basically one interstate highway to access and no roads that cross through in the winter. Very few year-round towns, and nearly zero services outside of those towns. This ain't the alps - there are no huts, no gondolas, no nothing. If you want to access it, you have to walk/ski your way there. That often means long drives (50-100+ miles), camping in your car, and bringing everything you need to survive with you.<p>I love the confidence with which you give your answer though! Europeans famously underestimate the American West, which is why they often get into serious trouble (or die[1]) at alarming rates out here.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Valley_Germans" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Valley_Germans</a></p>
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