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New comment by ethanpil in "Antirez on X: I believe what Anthropic is doing is deeply wrong"

ethanpil — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:15:12 +0000

Another hot take from him in 2018 is "Many people I respect here, lately identified Facebook as the root of all the evil. I want to start this thread about why I disagree..."

https://x.com/antirez/status/965554123860008960

Antirez on X: I believe what Anthropic is doing is deeply wrong

ethanpil — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:13:06 +0000

https://xcancel.com/antirez/status/2064766429887352971

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48484606

Points: 46

# Comments: 5

New comment by ethanpil in "Claude Fable 5"

ethanpil — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:53:48 +0000

Per the "Availability" section of the page, seems like should come back to all plans eventually...

* From today through June 22, Fable 5 is included on Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans at no extra cost.

* On June 23, we’ll remove Fable 5 from those plans. Using it after that will require usage credits. If capacity allows, we’ll extend the included window.

* After this point—when sufficient capacity allows us to do so—we aim to restore Fable 5 as a standard part of subscription plans. We intend to do this as quickly as we can.

New comment by ethanpil in "Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model"

ethanpil — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:36:51 +0000

What's Google's business case for releasing open models? Don't get me wrong, I am grateful and appreciative of these releases. I'm trying to understand how it fits into their bigger picture as a for profit company? Are they not helping competitors build on the novel technology they have developed?

Is it simply goodwill and/or marketing? Or am I missing something strategic?

New comment by ethanpil in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

ethanpil — Sun, 31 May 2026 22:37:21 +0000

Anyone here remember the early days of WhatsApp, pre-Facebook, when it required an annual subscription fee of $1?

New comment by ethanpil in "Claude Opus 4.8"

ethanpil — Fri, 29 May 2026 01:27:12 +0000

Why not state that?

New comment by ethanpil in "Claude Opus 4.8"

ethanpil — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:13:03 +0000

The table comparing eval scores shows the following:

Agentic Terminal Coding (Terminal-Bench 2.1) Opus 4.8 74.6% GPT 5.5 78.2%

Then, when you scroll all the way down to the bottom Footnotes section it says

"Terminal-Bench 2.1: We reported scores for all models using the Terminus-2 public harness. GPT-5.5’s reported score with the Codex CLI harness is 83.4%."

New comment by ethanpil in "Qwen 3.7 Preview"

ethanpil — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:20:17 +0000

Can you share the GGUF for this specific success story? I'd like to try it for myself.

Chindogu: Weird and Useless Japanese Inventions

ethanpil — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:32:39 +0000

Article URL: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/weird-japanese-inventions/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48084315

Points: 81

# Comments: 22

The $400M Machine That Spawned the Most Coveted Toy

ethanpil — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:40:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/asml-lego-set-euv-machine-61dd93c6

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47853520

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

ClassicPress 2.7.0 Release Notes

ethanpil — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:44:13 +0000

Article URL: https://forums.classicpress.net/t/classicpress-2-7-0-release-notes/6512

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47523697

Points: 11

# Comments: 2

Origin of the Abbreviation i18n

ethanpil — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:14:36 +0000

Article URL: http://www.i18nguy.com/origini18n.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47225632

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Even the Mars Rover Uses Zip Ties (2021)

ethanpil — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:41:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thedrive.com/tech/39426/even-the-mars-rover-has-zip-ties

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47142673

Points: 16

# Comments: 10

It's Time for LLM Connection Strings

ethanpil — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:34:38 +0000

Article URL: https://danlevy.net/llm-connection-strings/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46904843

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

NotepadNext – Cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++

ethanpil — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:19:38 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46530246

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

An Interview with the Creators of Ipv4.games

ethanpil — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 04:17:08 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.apnic.net/2026/01/06/an-interview-with-the-creators-of-ipv4-games/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46508674

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ethanpil in "I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in hours"

ethanpil — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 01:58:44 +0000

  >  It took two initial prompts and a few tiny follow-ups. GPT-5.2 running in Codex CLI ran uninterrupted for several hours, burned through 1,464,295 input tokens, 97,122,176 cached input tokens and 625,563 output tokens and ended up producing 9,000 lines of fully tested JavaScript across 43 commits.

Using a random LLM cost calculator, this amounts to $28.31... pretty reasonable for functional output.

I am now confident that within 5-10 years (most/all?) junior & mid and many senior dev positions are going to drop out enormously.

Source: https://www.llm-prices.com/#it=1464295&cit=97123000&ot=62556...

ClassicPress Version 2.6.0 is Out

ethanpil — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 23:30:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.classicpress.net/classicpress-version-2-6-0-is-out/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46225553

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Built a LangChain App for a Startup, Here's What Mattered

ethanpil — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 22:30:27 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/LangChain/comments/1pgyc1t/built_a_langchain_app_for_a_startup_heres_what/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46211620

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ethanpil in "Kea DHCP: Modern, open source DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 server"

ethanpil — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 14:01:22 +0000

What's the use case for this?

Hacker News: ethanpil

New comment by ethanpil in "Antirez on X: I believe what Anthropic is doing is *deeply* wrong"

Antirez on X: I believe what Anthropic is doing is *deeply* wrong

New comment by ethanpil in "Claude Fable 5"

New comment by ethanpil in "Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model"

New comment by ethanpil in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

New comment by ethanpil in "Claude Opus 4.8"

New comment by ethanpil in "Claude Opus 4.8"

New comment by ethanpil in "Qwen 3.7 Preview"

Chindogu: Weird and Useless Japanese Inventions

The $400M Machine That Spawned the Most Coveted Toy

ClassicPress 2.7.0 Release Notes

Origin of the Abbreviation i18n

Even the Mars Rover Uses Zip Ties (2021)

It's Time for LLM Connection Strings

NotepadNext – Cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++

An Interview with the Creators of Ipv4.games

New comment by ethanpil in "I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in hours"

ClassicPress Version 2.6.0 is Out

Built a LangChain App for a Startup, Here's What Mattered

New comment by ethanpil in "Kea DHCP: Modern, open source DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 server"

New comment by ethanpil in "Antirez on X: I believe what Anthropic is doing is deeply wrong"

Antirez on X: I believe what Anthropic is doing is deeply wrong