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New comment by mchusma in "Stripe to Buy OpenRouter for $7B"

mchusma — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:10:33 +0000

I was more skeptical of openrouter a year ago. Not hard to implement multiple models, but after getting burned multiple times (eg Google in particular) I see openrouter as serving a few key functions: (1) aggregating demand across neoclouds for performance etc (2) providing a great developer experience (3) easily switching models and normalizing the idiosyncratic nature of each. There are so many (good) model providers today this is more compelling now with 10+ solid model companies than a year ago when I thought it might be just 3.

So I have shifted load away from calling some models to openrouter.

New comment by mchusma in "Asus Bike Booster"

mchusma — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:49:39 +0000

I really think ebikes, and things like this, would have a much better reputation if they really only supported up to maybe 10 km/h or 6 mph. This is a normalish running/jogging pace. Basically, they helped up hills and when tired but were not "motorcycles-lite". At least around us, in an area with lots of kids, people want to have them but there are so many injuries and problems that sentiment is generally very negative. And I think all you need to "make biking easy" is low speed assist. You don't need support up to 20 mph for that.

New comment by mchusma in "Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk"

mchusma — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:38:52 +0000

I also had low energy but that was really mostly when I was losing weight, which made sense. As I slowed weight loss and reduced dose, energy improved.

New comment by mchusma in "Gemini 3.7 Flash"

mchusma — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:58:17 +0000

Maybe? But GLM just put itself on the pareto today again, so its up to 10. The theory was that there would be recursive self improvement in models, leading to a 1 or a handful of entities running away from the rest. But basically the opposite happened? Different teams, different hardware stacks. What do we make of this? (1) There must not really be any deep secrets/moats right now? (2) improving models is not something you can throw only intelligence at now?

New comment by mchusma in "Gemini 3.7 Flash"

mchusma — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 01:30:38 +0000

This is a solid release (at the intro pricing, the other pricing is dumb). I do think its a missed opportunity to really blow things out of the water and have this be another 1/2 off, but clearly they don't have the inference efficiency for it. Speed is good, the knowledge in google's models is solid for those usecases, price is reasonable (after 3.5/3.6 major missteps).

The intelligence index vs cost pareto frontier is crazy now, its basically a flat line with 9 people all at or right at the edge of the frontier along various parts of the graphs. Insanely competitive right now.

New comment by mchusma in "Gemini 3.7 Flash"

mchusma — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 01:11:58 +0000

I think in this case its a sign they are subsidizing usage, so it means that the only people left using it in Jan 2027 will be some enterprisy or orphaned workflows which should pay up or migrate off.

New comment by mchusma in "Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"

mchusma — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:28:45 +0000

Nice to see SpaceX on the model frontier! They have been chasing it for a while.

New comment by mchusma in "How Claude marks AI-generated content"

mchusma — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:28:44 +0000

Many good comments here. It’s somewhat common for me to voice record say a blog post of product updates, more like a ramble. Then have Claude clean it up. Then argue back and forth about certain things until it’s good, then make a final pass sometimes to change a few key words. This is incredibly different than pure ai text. Presumably it will show as ai generated here, even though I would argue it is not really. So I can’t use Claude for this usecase anymore.

I think the solution is assume everything is ai generated unless told otherwise and rely on authorship/brand as a sign of quality.

New comment by mchusma in "Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks"

mchusma — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:00:10 +0000

Cool! I wish there was a way to print boards for hobby purposes. What is the lowest price you would work with? Ballpark

New comment by mchusma in "New Orleans is testing Carbyne’s AI-powered Emergency Call Triage software"

mchusma — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:53:40 +0000

I genuinely think this is a good idea if implemented well and there is a human backup. I’ve had 911 not answer before. I’ve called for things that I wasn’t 100% sure are valid.

As long as implemented well.

New comment by mchusma in "Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2"

mchusma — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:22:58 +0000

Yes, that is the really compelling thing here IMO. Its a viable deepseek competitor for many people, and I missed that on the first pass.

New comment by mchusma in "Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2"

mchusma — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:50:22 +0000

This is a nice release and a solid improvement over Spark 1.1. It compares favorably with Grok 4.5. Not SOTA, but solid releases. I think they need to really get this more competitive with Deepseek V4 Flash / Luna pricing to move the needle.

New comment by mchusma in "Waymo – Dallas Open to All"

mchusma — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:29:29 +0000

I thought it was a typo, or strange url at first.

New comment by mchusma in "Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm"

mchusma — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 16:01:46 +0000

Curious why you support unions in general? It’s kind of like saying “I support governments” or “I support companies”.

New comment by mchusma in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis"

mchusma — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:41:12 +0000

If Luna hadn't price dropped yesterday it would have been a real blowout.

New comment by mchusma in "AI companies are shredding rare books"

mchusma — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:21:42 +0000

Yes part of the legal defense used to good effect is that they are copying one for one (not really making a copy but rather converting it). I agree with many in this thread that copyright reform is the best solution here. Shorter copyrights. Lose copyright if you stop using it (printing it), more clear digitization and preservation guidelines.

New comment by mchusma in "Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard"

mchusma — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:13:30 +0000

Gemini 3.1 pro is really good for knowledge tasks. Google has done well there. And image analysis with Gemini flash 3.6 is solid. It’s just anything coding or agentic they fall short.

New comment by mchusma in "Claude Opus 5"

mchusma — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:28:40 +0000

There is a expiring soon 50% boost to your usage limits, so I think its 2.7x not 4x what you are seeing right now. I think, but its convoluted :)

New comment by mchusma in "Private healthcare makes industries less innovative. It's time for change"

mchusma — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:03:06 +0000

Nothing is free. We want both low cost and high quality healthcare.

This means we need to have ways in incentivize innovation (AI diagnostics, robotic procedures, drug discovery, deeper R&D).

Free Markets (with government controls against monopoly) are generally better than governments at delivering cost and quality improvements, but healthcare in most countries is somewhere between “100% not a market” and “70% not a market” (the US). In many cases, governments also actively create and enforce monopolies (eg AMA or local hospitals in the US).

There are a million other things but part of what is required for markets to work is skin in the game, which the UK, Canada, and the US all do bad jobs of in their own ways.

Some say medicine has no elasticity. I don’t think that is true for 90% of spend (for gunshot wounds, maybe, but most spending is on chronic diseases where multiple providers and approaches are available and people could price shop).

I would like to see more countries experiment with more free market healthcare. It’s remarkably effective for many pieces of healthcare.

New comment by mchusma in "Launch HN: Unlayer (YC W22) – Add email and document builders to your app"

mchusma — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:55:05 +0000

My 2 cents, all these high level videos kind of suck, even the professional ones, when they don’t show the product. Even videos I produce for this purpose! I don’t think this is that bad. I’ve seen worse.