Hacker News: imachine1980_

New comment by imachine1980_ in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

imachine1980_ — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 16:50:08 +0000

if 100% of the money they spend is in inference priced by tokens (they don't say about subscriptions so i asume they lost money), yes they make money, but their expenses are way higher than inference alone. so they can make the gpu cost if they sell tokens but in reality this isnt the case, becouse they have to constaly train new models, subscription marketing, R&D, And overhead. antropic in general lost way less money than their competitors i will take this number in particular the projected break even but googling say Gross margin in this case is how much money they do whit the GPU " Gross Margins: Projected to swing from negative 94% last year to as much as 50% this year, and 77% by 2028. Projected Break-even: The company expects to be cash flow positive by 2027 or 2028. "

i will not be as bullish to say they will no colapse (0 idear how much real debt and commitments they have, if after the bubble pop spending fall shraply, or a new deepseek moment) but this sound like good trajectory (all things considered) i heavily doubt the 380 billions in valuation

"this is how much is spendeed in developers between $659 billion and $737 billion. The United States is the largest driver of this spending, accounting for more than half of the global total ($368.5 billion in 2024)" so is like saying that a 2% of all salaries of developers in the world will be absorbed as profit whit the current 33.3 ratio, quite high giving the amount of risk of the company.

New comment by imachine1980_ in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

imachine1980_ — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 04:37:41 +0000

From what I understand, they make money per-token billing. Not enough for how much it costs to train, not accounting for marketing, subscription services, and research for new models, but if they are used, they lose less money.

Finance 101 tldr explanation: The contribution margin (= price per token -variable cost per token ) this is positive

Profit (= contribution margin x cuantity- fix cost)

New comment by imachine1980_ in "After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't need to look like news"

imachine1980_ — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 22:21:30 +0000

I disagree, I know the opinion of WSJ, WP, FT or national like france24,DW, BBC, RT,AJ Or at least know is always opinion Base, the facts are selected in a subjecive way.

Is way harder to know how opinionated Wikipedia is, and everything make them sound like their opinion is only base on facts but isn't.

New comment by imachine1980_ in "OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss"

imachine1980_ — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:43:03 +0000

I believe regular people will not change from chatGPT if it has some ads. I know people who use "alternative" wrappers that have ads because they aren't tech savvy, and I agree with the OP that this could be a significant amount of money We aren't 700 million people that use it.

New comment by imachine1980_ in "Meta Ray-Ban Display"

imachine1980_ — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 01:33:11 +0000

this include the band which is also pushing the envelope of HCI mark writing clip https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxfmPX0hba7ulSVL2MyVaS60I0IPm-CQU...

New comment by imachine1980_ in "DeepSeek-v3.1"

imachine1980_ — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 20:49:45 +0000

I remember asking for quotes about the Spanish conquest of South America because I couldn't remember who said a specific thing. The GPT model started hallucinating quotes on the topic, while DeepSeek responded with, "I don't know a quote about that specific topic, but you might mean this other thing." or something like that then cited a real quote in the same topic, after acknowledging that it wasn't able to find the one I had read in an old book. i don't use it for coding, but for things that are more unique i feel is more precise.

New comment by imachine1980_ in "Starting game development in JavaScript with no experience"

imachine1980_ — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 02:49:47 +0000

Game like a short hike use rendering pipelines instead of accuracy in the models for example

New comment by imachine1980_ in "Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope"

imachine1980_ — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 00:01:18 +0000

It's not just porn, it's depictions of rape, from what I’ve read. So I don’t know if it’s really good for people to consume that kind of content. Real-life safe sex involves consent, which is obviously not the objective of this game. I believe this type of material can be genuinely harmful to our brains.

Even though I’m against using payment processing restrictions, I do believe we need laws to prohibit this kind of content. There’s data suggesting that it impacts real people's behavior during sex and shapes harmful social expectations.

New comment by imachine1980_ in "Meta says it won't sign Europe AI agreement"

imachine1980_ — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 02:18:46 +0000

Not really china make big policy bet a decade early and win the battle the put the whole government to buy this new tech before everyone else, forcing buses to be electric if you want the federal level thumbs up, or the lottery system for example.

So I disagree, probably Europe will be even more behind in ev if they doesn't push eu manufacturers to invest so heavily in the industry.

You can se for example than for legacy manufacturers the only ones in the top ten are Europeans being 3 out of 10 companies, not Japanese or Korean for example, and in Europe Volkswagen already overtake Tesla in sales Q1 for example and Audi isn't that much away also.

New comment by imachine1980_ in "Tesla sales drop for fifth month in a row in Europe"

imachine1980_ — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 23:00:32 +0000

Brand image is really important ev where already better in china than any other place in the world before Tesla but Tesla give the allure that the tech need to have mass appeal. That's why it was so successful as a company

New comment by imachine1980_ in "P-Hacking in Startups"

imachine1980_ — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 01:44:55 +0000

do you use any tool for this, or simply crunk up slightly the dial each day

New comment by imachine1980_ in "Building a WordPress MCP server for Claude"

imachine1980_ — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 04:26:11 +0000

You don't

New comment by imachine1980_ in "Show HN: Spark, An advanced 3D Gaussian Splatting renderer for Three.js"

imachine1980_ — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 12:48:25 +0000

What's the difference in this and and .obj render? Does gaussian produce a different format?

New comment by imachine1980_ in "Precious Plastic is in trouble"

imachine1980_ — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 01:46:10 +0000

You can tax plastic also that will more than move the demand you can even use this tax for plasma gasification making more expensive to use and less to reuse.

New comment by imachine1980_ in "How to post when no one is reading"

imachine1980_ — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 23:48:39 +0000

I personally believe that this doesn't hold, more and more competition outside of webpage, means that we check less and less pages each year, I feel ai could be a savior by destroying the whole internet by spaming SEO websited, and make small pages the only way to find something

New comment by imachine1980_ in "Social AI companions pose unacceptable risks to teens and children under 18"

imachine1980_ — Wed, 07 May 2025 18:04:49 +0000

its not, it like saying microtransaccions are bad, they are, they predate on you and if you get hookup as teen , you probably gona get addicted. https://automaton-media.com/en/news/almost-19-of-japanese-pe...

New comment by imachine1980_ in "Show HN: TextQuery – Query CSV, JSON, XLSX Files with SQL"

imachine1980_ — Mon, 05 May 2025 17:34:19 +0000

A few hours ago this would have been useful, I will probably give it a try in few days. On another note, I recommend clarifying in the heroes page that it's about a one-time purchase, because that's a really big plus.

New comment by imachine1980_ in "Internet shutdowns at record high in Africa as access 'weaponised'"

imachine1980_ — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 15:03:22 +0000

this literally happens in mexico, monterrey in 2022 during biggest drought in the century, public supply was shut down while coca-cola keep producing soft drink from that reservoir, they end-up give some percentage back after a protest.

https://www.jornada.com.mx/2022/08/06/estados/022n1est

New comment by imachine1980_ in "Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app"

imachine1980_ — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 13:52:54 +0000

I don't check the project deeply yet so I don't comment about it.

That's not true Dropbox was in the technical edge when it came, and old time ago, was barely possible, and the recurrent cost of the severs and operation cost is clearly not the same. And pay Foss GUIs are sad state of reality

New comment by imachine1980_ in "Bogus Software"

imachine1980_ — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 16:59:10 +0000

I would recommend windows x86 or Linux x86 or arm/riscv (emulator ) Linux mostly because you probably have hundreds of resources instead of couple of them whit the other platforms