Hacker News: chillfox

New comment by chillfox in "Did Anthropic ask for this?"

chillfox — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:35:27 +0000

Isn’t that just because people started doing chargebacks, and refunds are cheaper than chargebacks?

New comment by chillfox in "Did Anthropic ask for this?"

chillfox — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:33:33 +0000

Nobody who works at Anthropic is a good person.

Just look at any interview with Amodei, he gets super excited/happy every time he gets to talk about his tech making people unemployed.

The guy loves firing people not at his company.

Deliberately trying to cause mass poverty and starvation by firing as many people as possible and being excited about it is cartoon villain stuff.

Anyone who works at Anthropic is basically a henchman to a cartoon villain.

New comment by chillfox in "MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production"

chillfox — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:38:31 +0000

I got my mum onto Apple devices (mac and iPhone) over a decade ago, and support dropped sharply in the first 6 months. These days it's incredibly rare that she needs help with anything, and she does more on the computer than she ever did.

The mac has helped her improve here computer skills and confidence in a way that Windows never did.

New comment by chillfox in "Expanding Project Glasswing"

chillfox — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:24:32 +0000

Almost all the corporate security professionals I have dealt with have been tool runners with no more than Helpdesk level skills.

New comment by chillfox in "MAI-Code-1-Flash"

chillfox — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:09:09 +0000

You don’t have to limit yourself to the tiny models with the OpenCode Go plan, you can get a lot of usage from the bigger models if you keep the cache hot.

I am about 85% through my quota with 9 days left before refresh and have just used over 1B tokens, mostly DeepSeek V4 Pro, but also a little mimo 2.5 pro and kimi k2.6

New comment by chillfox in "'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut"

chillfox — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:06:48 +0000

And yet, Steam is on Linux.

If the Linux market is large enough for steam to support it, then it should be big enough for a movie store to support.

New comment by chillfox in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

chillfox — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:13:09 +0000

No, but the big open models are on the level of Sonnet 4.6, which is very good for most problems.

The people who are claiming Opus level capability does not have sufficiently complex problems to see the difference.

New comment by chillfox in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

chillfox — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:20:15 +0000

Where are these people?

I have never met any of these human copy/paste bots. Guess I am lucky.

New comment by chillfox in "Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99%"

chillfox — Wed, 27 May 2026 04:26:48 +0000

That makes some sense.

I mean, I am going to use the best I can afford. And at work that's Opus, but while work is happy to let me spend $50+/day, that's just not viable for personal hobby use, I need to keep that in the realm of a WOW/mmo subscription.

New comment by chillfox in "Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99%"

chillfox — Wed, 27 May 2026 03:00:25 +0000

Yeah, I really like and use DSv4Pro for personal projects, but I also use Opus all the time at work and they are definitively not at the same level.

I can only conclude that people who claim they are aren't doing anything close to the edge of what these models are capable of or any niche things.

I would say DSv4Pro is around the same level as Sonnet.

New comment by chillfox in "DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost"

chillfox — Wed, 27 May 2026 02:46:14 +0000

I use DeepSeek v4 Pro, at max thinking. It's comparable to Sonnet 4.6 on high thinking.

New comment by chillfox in "DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost"

chillfox — Mon, 25 May 2026 00:42:00 +0000

Depends upon the service and how the harness is built, Some of the services allow for very few cache keys, so you won't necessarily get any cache if you edit recent messages as the cache is not per message, but big blocks of everything up to a cache key.

This was actually surprising to me when I learned about it as I have never worked with (or built) any cache working like that before.

New comment by chillfox in "DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost"

chillfox — Mon, 25 May 2026 00:31:00 +0000

Nice,

I have got unlimited Claude Opus at work as well.

I was really having a hard time deciding between the Ollama and OpenCode plans for personal use, I couldn't really understand how much usage I would get with the Ollama plan, so in the end I went with OpenCode and I have never hit the limits despite using it most evenings and weekends for several hours.

New comment by chillfox in "DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost"

chillfox — Mon, 25 May 2026 00:13:56 +0000

I don't think there's any open models at the moment that can handle the more challenging stuff.

The things that I use Opus for at work is finding bugs in about ~200k lines of microservices and libraries in a niche language. So, we will get these bug reports that are missing context, can't easily be reproduced on our dev server, and are usually the result of something deep in multiple services/libraries combining with very custom configs. I can ask Opus (max thinking) to find what could cause the bug, and it usually nails it in a few hours (would take me 1-2 weeks to trace it myself). The end result will be like less than 10 lines of code to fix it, some tests to reproduce the bug and a nice report explaining it, so it can be checked in an hour or two.

New comment by chillfox in "DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost"

chillfox — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:35:03 +0000

I don't think any the agents breaks caching on every turn, but they might do things like current list of files, or available tools depending upon plan/build mode... or lots of other things that breaks caching multiple times during a session.

New comment by chillfox in "DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost"

chillfox — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:32:05 +0000

changing between plan/build mode in some agents will change the tools list, which breaks the cache.

New comment by chillfox in "DeepSeek reasonix, DeepSeek native coding agent with high caching and low cost"

chillfox — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:29:06 +0000

Deepseek v4 pro is definitely my preferred cheap model, it's very good, and I use it all the time for my personal projects (opencode go plan), but I also use Claude Opus all the time at work and Deepseek is not as good as that, but it does compete with Sonnet for capability, and beats it on price.

New comment by chillfox in "OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon"

chillfox — Thu, 21 May 2026 07:19:30 +0000

lol, they reduced the wait time drastically last year I think it's a few weeks now.

New comment by chillfox in "Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud (Resolved)"

chillfox — Wed, 20 May 2026 08:09:19 +0000

What kind of shitty soft delete can’t be undone a few weeks after?

Weekends and public holidays are a thing, plus it’s quite common for companies to shut down for 2 weeks over Christmas.

There’s a lot of opportunity for mistakes or malicious actions to happen at times that won’t be discovered for a while.

New comment by chillfox in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

chillfox — Wed, 20 May 2026 02:47:35 +0000

If my retirement money is going to end up invested in these companies, either directly when they IPO or indirectly through compute providers, then I would like to see some proof that they are capable of producing profits. "Trust me bro" just ain't gonna cut it.