Hacker News: irthomasthomashttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=irthomasthomasHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:55:48 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by irthomasthomas in "GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%"]]>Zenmux say the cache hit rate is 98% for the deepseek flash API. I don't know why, but performance is definitely worse using openrouter.

https://zenmux.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash

]]>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:19:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49345229irthomasthomashttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49345229https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49345229<![CDATA[New comment by irthomasthomas in "GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%"]]>Openrouter is going to cost you a lot more than the 5% fee, unless you lock the provider.

]]>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:02:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49345025irthomasthomashttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49345025https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49345025<![CDATA[New comment by irthomasthomas in "Europe's scorched landscapes seen from space after summer heatwaves"]]>I think you may have cause and affect reversed. It seems to me that fear of migrants grows proportional to the funding of far right parties.

]]>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:07:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313840irthomasthomashttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313840https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313840<![CDATA[New comment by irthomasthomas in "Qwen 3.8 27B"]]>Animation was not requested.

]]>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 08:07:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49308725irthomasthomashttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49308725https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49308725<![CDATA[New comment by irthomasthomas in "Qwen 3.8 27B"]]>Why don't qwen/alibaba host the model themselves? I was looking forward to trying it on their coding plan. Google are the same way with their Gemma models.

]]>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:15:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49300796irthomasthomashttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49300796https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49300796<![CDATA[New comment by irthomasthomas in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"]]>Have you seen the news about decrypting the hidden COT in U.S. models? [0] The decoded logs revealed instances where Claude memorized answers to test questions beforehand while making its final output look like it had derived the answer step-by-step—hiding the memorization from the user.

0: https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2608.09867?hl=en-GB

]]>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:37:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296480irthomasthomashttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296480https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49296480<![CDATA[New comment by irthomasthomas in "DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813"]]>That is more an indictment of AA than DS

]]>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:43:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49283624irthomasthomashttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49283624https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49283624<![CDATA[New comment by irthomasthomas in "DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813"]]>rumor is that is what Ilya has done at SSI.

]]>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:53:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49283299irthomasthomashttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49283299https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49283299<![CDATA[New comment by irthomasthomas in "DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813"]]>then what is the point of using operouter for this model? Just use the deepseek API and save the 5% fee on top of the better caching rate.

]]>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 05:50:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49282174irthomasthomashttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49282174https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49282174<![CDATA[New comment by irthomasthomas in "Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs"]]>But they don't perform the same test on other models as far as I could tell? So we don't lnow if this is peculiar to kimi models or not.

]]>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:17:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272764irthomasthomashttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272764https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49272764<![CDATA[New comment by irthomasthomas in "Apple is getting this wrong"]]>From: Che Chang Date: Feb 23, 2026, at 8:04 PM Subject: Re: Former Apple Employees at OpenAI Retaining Non-public, Confidential, and Proprietary Information To: Hi [Apple in-house legal counsel] and [Apple in-house legal counsel],

This guy from Weil claims to be representing you. For some reason, he is lying about speaking with me on the phone. I don't know who he is and we have never spoken.

I don't know what the point of his lie is, but could you please confirm if he is actually representing you, and if so, whether you have other counsel you can use. I don’t think interacting through him is appropriate given this behavior.

--- So, a lawyer emailed the wrong person. That's it. And they use that as a peg to hang their whole case on. I guess GPT 6 thought this was the real smoking gun!

]]>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:45:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49168927irthomasthomashttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49168927https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49168927<![CDATA[New comment by irthomasthomas in "Karpathy’s Pelican"]]>I think it's interesting to see them visibly struggling to improve. Claude pelicans aren't much better today than they where 18 months.

]]>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:19:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49147911irthomasthomashttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49147911https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49147911<![CDATA[New comment by irthomasthomas in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"]]>I guess expert+chatgpt beats chatgpt alone, so why not hire top experts to drive the search?

]]>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:07:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49133709irthomasthomashttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49133709https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49133709<![CDATA[New comment by irthomasthomas in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"]]>Why you think that?

]]>Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:07:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49133303irthomasthomashttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49133303https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49133303<![CDATA[New comment by irthomasthomas in "Big Food vs. the People"]]>"Senators don't have the luxury that a research scientist has of waiting for evidence." - 1977

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbFQc2kxm9c

FYI

obesity 1977 ~14% 2026 40%+

T2 Diabetes 1977 ~3% 2026 ~12%

]]>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:41:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49126314irthomasthomashttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49126314https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49126314<![CDATA[New comment by irthomasthomas in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis"]]>It can still generate a wrong reference and select the wrong verse.

]]>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:50:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124617irthomasthomashttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124617https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124617<![CDATA[New comment by irthomasthomas in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"]]>Two world wars and one world cup...

]]>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:04:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49115770irthomasthomashttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49115770https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49115770<![CDATA[New comment by irthomasthomas in "3D Pinball for Windows (1995)"]]>Does x help you avoid that deadspot in the middle, where the flaps cant reach?

]]>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:59:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111869irthomasthomashttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111869https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111869<![CDATA[New comment by irthomasthomas in "Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident"]]>But you can weigh up the evidence. A crime has been commited afterall.

]]>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:46:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111642irthomasthomashttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111642https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49111642<![CDATA[New comment by irthomasthomas in "Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents"]]>interesting... thanks.

]]>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:32:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49108568irthomasthomashttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49108568https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49108568