Hacker News: davikr

New comment by davikr in "An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce"

davikr — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:16:43 +0000

Yes, if you're going to be using it for the next 10 years, it is worth going for the more expensive Littman if you can. However, I've heard that there are decent Chinese clones, and honestly I've used those $1 stethoscopes in isolation units and they're not terrible for basic pulmonary auscultation.

New comment by davikr in "AI's Economics Don't Make Sense"

davikr — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:36:17 +0000

For all we know, there could be 10 people paying for a ChatGPT subscription and not using it enough to subsidize 1 power user _and_ still have money left for profit.

New comment by davikr in "Claude Code removed from Anthropic's Pro plan"

davikr — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:44:48 +0000

It is left unsaid, but throughput is also terrible.

New comment by davikr in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

davikr — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:53:58 +0000

It definitely lost the characteristic slop look.

It's not just one thing – it's another thing

davikr — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 03:03:21 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/20/ai-writing-its-not-just-this-its-that-barrons/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47844005

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Working hurts less than procrastinating, we fear the twinge of starting (2011)

davikr — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:19:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/9o3QBg2xJXcRCxGjS/working-hurts-less-than-procrastinating-we-fear-the-twinge

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815696

Points: 14

# Comments: 2

New comment by davikr in "Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs"

davikr — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 23:22:14 +0000

Some say margins could be up to 90% on API inference. The house always wins?

SDL bans AI-written commits

davikr — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:40:43 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/issues/15350

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47790791

Points: 132

# Comments: 138

New comment by davikr in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

davikr — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:45:13 +0000

regular Pi or oh-my-pi?

Automatic removal of junk instructions through state tracking (2018)

davikr — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 23:34:46 +0000

Article URL: https://usualsuspect.re/article/automatic-removal-of-junk-instructions-through-state-tracking

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47644640

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

R2R: Navigating Divergent Reasoning with Small-Large Model Token Routing (2025)

davikr — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:08:43 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21600

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47639686

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Anthropic struggling with Chinese competition, its own safety obsession

davikr — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:15:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/28/miss_anthropic_not_those_who/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47635674

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by davikr in "A $20/month user costs OpenAI $65 in compute. AI video is a money furnace"

davikr — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 23:25:43 +0000

That might be the calculus. Well, I'll be glad to leech off whoever's offering the most amount of tokens, with the best models, for the cheapest price, and then they'll get some of my money and hopefully some bigger customers.

New comment by davikr in "A $20/month user costs OpenAI $65 in compute. AI video is a money furnace"

davikr — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:08:27 +0000

A $20/month Codex user probably costs thousands of dollars in compute (for multiple providers). I think they just want to weather it over until compute is eventually cheap enough, has to be, otherwise it'll always be unsustainable.