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New comment by michaelbuckbee in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

michaelbuckbee — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:59:20 +0000

I was curious just how much of a difference there was, so ran a quick eval comparing them and fwiw DeepSeek is considerably slower but much much ~5x cheaper than Haiku and fwiw ~35x cheaper than Claude Opus 4.7.

https://07ytscmybx.evvl.io/

New comment by michaelbuckbee in "Time to talk about my writerdeck"

michaelbuckbee — Sat, 23 May 2026 20:53:37 +0000

It it reminds me of a lot of friends who wanted to "start blogging" and their first step was writing a new static site system from scratch.

New comment by michaelbuckbee in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

michaelbuckbee — Fri, 22 May 2026 21:07:44 +0000

I was trying to get a better sense of the time cost quality matrix of these, so I threw together a quick eval of Sonnet 4.6, Mistral's dev model, and Opus 4.7 (figuring it's what you'd use if you were on Max).

The results for a function implementation and test of levenshtein distance in js are pretty similar but Mistral is 30x cheaper than Opus 4.7 and 4x faster than Sonnet 4.6.

https://5m6qnuhyde.evvl.io/

New comment by michaelbuckbee in "Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)"

michaelbuckbee — Fri, 22 May 2026 11:12:39 +0000

My plan was to just see if anyone wanted to actually use it first. That if I couldn't give it away I'd not invest the time in selling or open sourcing it.

I'd sort of designed it for my own needs first and hadn't thought too far beyond that.

New comment by michaelbuckbee in "The death of the brick and mortar toy store"

michaelbuckbee — Fri, 22 May 2026 11:10:32 +0000

I'd be curious to know if you consider a Lego store a "toy store". There's one that opened in my city fairly recently and is in an area of smaller boutique shops (kind of like what you described).

New comment by michaelbuckbee in "Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)"

michaelbuckbee — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:29:45 +0000

I made a B2C AI app that's fully local (and free) to do AI based contextual file renaming.

So if you give it a bunch of screenshots it will try and intelligently name them based upon what is in the screenshot. Same for videos, PDFs, etc.

But to your point I haven't even tried charging money as it feels like something Apple is just going to bake in as a feature.

https://finalfinalreallyfinaluntitleddocumentv3.com/

New comment by michaelbuckbee in "Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades"

michaelbuckbee — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:38:21 +0000

That's fair and fwiw something I'm in firm agreement with you, but also just not what I took from your comment.

New comment by michaelbuckbee in "Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results"

michaelbuckbee — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:36:33 +0000

Search ads do seem like the one ad type that kind of flips that though. Where it's not based on some general set of interests, but literally the thing you're searching for at that moment.

New comment by michaelbuckbee in "Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades"

michaelbuckbee — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:28:30 +0000

All of the cradle-to-grave studies I've seen about greenhouse gas emissions for renewables versus coal/oil still indicate massive improvements.

This government meta study of 3,000 such studies puts PV solar at roughly 20x less emissions than coal.

https://docs.nrel.gov/docs/fy21osti/80580.pdf

New comment by michaelbuckbee in "Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?"

michaelbuckbee — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:01:08 +0000

I took this a different way which was that to google railway is their customer and out of a variety of professional and security considerations want the communications to come from their customer and not them.

New comment by michaelbuckbee in "New accessibility features powered by Apple Intelligence"

michaelbuckbee — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:37:36 +0000

Something that the Overcast podcast player does (and probably others) is silence removal, which in some ways is even better than the raw speedup.

New comment by michaelbuckbee in "I don't think AI will make your processes go faster"

michaelbuckbee — Sun, 17 May 2026 12:55:06 +0000

Exactly. The larger the organization the less percentage time devs actually are doing dev work and the less direct benefit there is from AI assisted coding tools.

New comment by michaelbuckbee in "Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter"

michaelbuckbee — Sun, 17 May 2026 12:49:54 +0000

Slightly different slice into this a very similar situation (local vs OpenRouter AI inference).

But in _every_ metric other than privacy it was better to run via OpenRouter than a local model, and not by a small amount.

Direct link to the comparison charts:

https://sendcheckit.com/blog/ai-powered-subject-line-alterna...

New comment by michaelbuckbee in "OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens"

michaelbuckbee — Sun, 17 May 2026 11:56:48 +0000

This sounds an awful lot like the early how to get on to the internet highway classes that existed. I don't think the classes had a lot of worth in the strict educational sense of like "here's how you do X Y & Z" but... We're I think much more effective at saying, you know, "X Y & Z are now possible."

It does take time and a little skill to know the edges of the AI tools. What's reasonable? What's not? What's likely to hallucinate? You could get something in the rough bounds of trust.

I can see a class helping with that.

New comment by michaelbuckbee in "Claude AI recovers an 11 yrs old BTC wallet holding 400k USD"

michaelbuckbee — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:33:20 +0000

The relevancy here is that he's denied the git history, versioning, branches, implicit documentation that even bad source control practices would have given him.

New comment by michaelbuckbee in "Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude"

michaelbuckbee — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:14:34 +0000

I have a friend that just picked up a new consulting job resurrecting an ancient Windows desktop application. No source control, no tests. And it's spread out over a dozen different folders with names like "_old", "_new" and "dates". Claude's doing a tremendous job in getting him to grips with what is actually happening in the application, what's relevant, what's not, what's different. I think it's literally saving him days and days at work.

New comment by michaelbuckbee in "What the Hell Was Going on with Cigarette Ads in the 70s? (2024)"

michaelbuckbee — Thu, 14 May 2026 09:44:07 +0000

Old person here. I think it's really hard to convey the extent to which smoke literally permeated everything. It's not just the immediate air quality aspects of it, but there was just a residue on all the surfaces, every cushion and fabric held onto the stuff.

I can recall the week that no-smoking indoors at restaurants/bars passed and it was literally shocking to walk into a place and not have it be hazy. It really felt weird.

Anyway, air quality + quality of life was much worse. Sometimes the future does get better.

New comment by michaelbuckbee in "OpenClaw had a rough week"

michaelbuckbee — Fri, 08 May 2026 09:54:30 +0000

To be clear, I tried to install it and it was a shitshow.

New comment by michaelbuckbee in "OurCar: What I learned making an app for my family"

michaelbuckbee — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:09:09 +0000

For years the family joke has been that when we take a family picture we need to take 5 because I will inevitably have my eyes closed in the first 4.

So I made an IOS app just for us that does face detection and won't take the actual photo until all of the detected faces have their eyes open.

New comment by michaelbuckbee in "OpenClaw Had a Rough Week"

michaelbuckbee — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:05:24 +0000

I know a few people that are more or less prototyping little agents with it that monitor stuff for them and make some kind of discernment/decision about alerting them.

Nothing mission critical in any sense of it.