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New comment by mcintyre1994 in "GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%"

mcintyre1994 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:24:50 +0000

I don’t think that’s true. OpenAI docs don’t have this price change. I assume they’d be the source for this post if it was true. The banner on OpenRouter for me says Gemini 3.7 discounted for a limited time, but if I click through that I get to this page: https://openrouter.ai/models?discount=true

That shows a bunch of models, including Sol, with a discount. None of them say how long it’s for, but I’d assume in all their cases it’s for a limited time as the banner said, and only on OpenRouter.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+"

mcintyre1994 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:21:22 +0000

That makes sense, though I wonder if Claude is a bit of an outlier there because they have the developer audience?

As an example, GLM document being committed to compatibility with OpenAI: https://docs.z.ai/guides/develop/openai/python

My uninformed guess would be that everyone except the frontier labs is probably motivated to do that too.

Similarly they document configuring Claude Code for their models, so I assume they implement Anthropic’s interface there too: https://docs.z.ai/devpack/tool/claude#manual-configuration

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+"

mcintyre1994 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 22:02:17 +0000

Dumb question but aren’t they all OpenAI API compliant? I thought that was pretty standard, eg I know Anthropic works with it. Also Claude Code can work with different models, they’re probably not using OpenRouter for that?

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"

mcintyre1994 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:12:45 +0000

In this case depriving US companies would be the point though, so that's not necessarily a disadvantage.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"

mcintyre1994 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:11:45 +0000

If you look at the distribution of their findings in the linked post, most of theirs are issues introduced a long time ago, almost all before 2006.

Complete speculation, but I wonder if they and Anthropic are scanning very different codebases and Anthropic's skew would be in the other direction.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"

mcintyre1994 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:06:17 +0000

I don't think this really works because the Chinese government is going to be incentivised to tip off the US companies to deny the US government those exploits. I guess maybe that's what the open source patch program here is about, making sure banning the models doesn't work because they can just report the exploits without the company running the model themselves.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript"

mcintyre1994 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:36:43 +0000

LiveView can send less data than a JSON API, and the client has less work to do.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript"

mcintyre1994 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 06:26:18 +0000

Something else that I think is interesting here is the new HTML streaming APIs in Chrome: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/declarative-partial-update...

These mean that you can for example have a websocket serve just the new HTML, and then let native browser code figure out inserting it into the DOM, without any dependency. I’m guessing things like LiveView could eventually migrate to this if it becomes standard, and eliminate more of their JS bundle.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"

mcintyre1994 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:30:23 +0000

Based on inspect element on their homepage, they probably are.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

mcintyre1994 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:08:55 +0000

This is about a German company that was going to make a renewable project in the US.

Germany itself has a huge offshore wind industry, which is probably how they have companies that planned to do the same in the US.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open"

mcintyre1994 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:54:30 +0000

It also might just not be much use for you, especially if you’ve been using tmux for a long time and have a set up you like.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open"

mcintyre1994 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:21:23 +0000

Mostly it’s the agents view, it’ll show the status of and let you quickly jump to all the agents you have running in any pane/tab.

It also has a default config that’s much easier to use than tmux, letting you use the mouse or simpler (IMO) keyboard shortcuts

Built in worktrees are nice too.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Zed DeltaDB"

mcintyre1994 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:35:26 +0000

The sort of company that would do those things is going to be mandating you to use their enterprise AI plan anyway, which already lets them read all your conversations if they want to.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation"

mcintyre1994 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:20:58 +0000

> filter for “offensive” content, and boost it or collate it into a newsletter/email blast for people of culture.

I think that's the main service that xAI provide for X.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Apple is getting this wrong"

mcintyre1994 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 06:52:26 +0000

I don’t really understand this, Apple obviously wants to force discovery and publishing stuff seems like it’d just widen the net there.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Octane – React's programming model, compiled"

mcintyre1994 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:38:32 +0000

Their llms.txt spells it all out: https://octanejs.dev/llms.txt

But it doesn't have the repeating yourself/over-emphasising that you sometimes see in LLM instructions when someone is trying to fight the model's default assumptions

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Octane – React’s programming model, compiled"

mcintyre1994 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:34:49 +0000

Which is ironic because the author works at OpenAI!

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Adding Go's Defer to the TypeScript Compiler"

mcintyre1994 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:50:09 +0000

JS has the using keyword for this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Seedance 2.5"

mcintyre1994 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 22:20:21 +0000

This seems extraordinarily good to me, compared to what I've seen before. Their washing machine advert example seems like it's as good as anything else on social media. I'm shocked by the quality and the coherence they're able to maintain, I assume it's really good at using those reference images they mention in their prompts. I think the only one that's noticeably bad is the concert hall, where the first few seconds show almost empty stalls and then toward the end it shows a full audience, and that audience also looks a bit off.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub"

mcintyre1994 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:03:52 +0000

The issue you’d have then is the CI might not be green after the 4th commit but it is after the 5th. A single PR will hide that, so you’d need a way to run the CI on the subset of commits you want to extract. It’s also much easier to isolate those blocking comments on the 5th commit if it’s in its own PR and not mixed with all the review comments on the other ones.

I don’t really see it as diverging much from the underlying git tool TBH - it’s still just git branches pointing at each other.